Mike Morgan's Blog
Corvallis, Oregon
 | Mike Morgan talks about his work for Mozilla, Oregon State University, and the Open Source Lab. You'll also find the usual thoughts on movies, music, society and literature. |
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| Keywords: | open source, oregon state university, mozilla, firefox, thunderbird, osl, osu, corvallis |
| Updated: | June 20th, 2008 at 9:56 PM |
| Added: | August 31st, 2005 |
| Post Clicks: | 203 |
| Site URL: | http://morgamic.com/ |
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Recent Posts
You might know about some of the more glamorous Firefox 3 security features, but behind the scenes Firefox is protecting you from malicious extensions and plugins through its blocklisting service. Depicted below is a diagram of how Firefox talks to its blocklist service. This is how it works: Every day Firefox downloads an XML document from our blocklist service. This tells Firefox if there are...filed under: firefox
posted on Mike Morgan's Blog in Corvallis - 6/20 - 9:56 PM - [3 clicks]
Using Webgrind and Xdebug, you to tack on ?XDEBUG_PROFILE=true to any URL and view profiling information for that particular URL instantly. One of the main criticisms of profiling PHP applications has been how difficult it is to manage different kcachegrind or wincachegrind windows — assuming you're a pro at pointing them to your Xdebug output directory and all that good stuff. I am...posted on Mike Morgan's Blog in Corvallis - 6/12 - 11:26 AM
Party is almost over. But, to be fair, Steve Nash will be a weaker defender because of the rule change.
posted on Mike Morgan's Blog in Corvallis - 5/29 - 11:11 AM
In April MySQL Workbench 5.0.x reached GA status. I had a chance to try it and wow — it rocks. It's super-easy to use and I'll just copy its feature list: Cairo based diagramming canvas which allows output to different targets such as OpenGL, Win32, X11, Quartz, PostScript, PDF etc visual representation of tables, views, stored procedure/functions and foreign keys live database and...
posted on Mike Morgan's Blog in Corvallis - 5/28 - 2:41 AM - [3 clicks]
Okay, Brent Barry got fouled. It doesn't matter. It'd take more than 10 fingers to count how many times the Spurs' got ridiculous calls or no-calls. In fact, if you take into account just 3 flops (two by Oberto, one by Bowen) you negate 7 Spurs points and add 6 Lakers fast break points. Lakers should have won by 20, it was close because of the referees in the first place. Phil Jackson was right...posted on Mike Morgan's Blog in Corvallis - 5/28 - 12:11 AM
Clinton is wrong about 1992 SUVs plunge toward 'endangered' list Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings — from the "find something else to bitch about" department...
posted on Mike Morgan's Blog in Corvallis - 5/24 - 1:41 PM
I wasn't really surprised when I read the comments on a simple news ticker post on CNN. But it got me to thinking (instead of sleeping) about common arguments made against Barack Obama. Ready? Ok, go. Obama can't beat McCain, so let Hillary go even though she lost the primary in delegates and popular vote. So why have a primary then? Why not just have 6 or 7 old guys in a room pick...
