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Archive of entries posted on December 2008

DocPreview – browser plug-in to view Microsoft Word documents in Safari

Posted by  on 25 December 2008, 6:45 pm

UPDATE: 7/21/2011 – DocPreview DOES NOT work with Safari 5.1 on OS X 10.6+. This is because the WebKit Plugin APIs it depended on are deprecated by Apple. This has broken a number of .webplugin extensions, including some of my favorites like the current (as of today) version of XML View. If you have upgraded [...]

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Change IP address via (ab)use of DHCP client id

Posted by  on 25 December 2008, 12:58 pm

Nowadays customers using cable modems tend to be re-assigned the same IP address once they get one. This is apparently done based on the client MAC address — unless that IP was already taken from the pool when the client connects, the DHCP server will tend to re-issue the old IP. Fairly nice, in that [...]

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Bad Google cookie kills Safari

Posted by  on 11 December 2008, 8:10 pm

03-10-2010: I believe this is fixed in latest Safari versions. The contents of this post remain for historical purposes only. In a bizarre case of digital food poisoning, I experienced a series of mysterious, persistent, reproducible crashes with Safari 3.2.1 this morning, traceable to a bad Google cookie. The symptoms Google has a nifty query [...]

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