Thursday, March 11, 2010

Y!M pager server

is down for Y!M 6.5 and prior versions:

( http://mediocre-ninja.blogspot.com/2009/06/pidgin-ym-connection.html )

Compatible clients such as Pidgin and Kopete suffers, too. But if you upgrade to the recent versions, it should be fine.

For pidgin (on Ubuntu), you need to upgrade pidgin-data to 2.5.7+ to work with new Y!M protocol.

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Cyber Station experience

Some experience with Windows when consulting for a few Cyber Station sites.

A. PARTITION HDD


B. REPLACE IE ON XP

by FireFox or Chrome.

1/ Download Firefox/Chrome and some plugins (JRE, FlashPlayer, IETab)

2/ Install Flash Player

3/ Install JRE

4/ Install Firefox/Chrome

5/ Launch Firefox/Chrome, install IETab and configure it

6/ Restart Firefox/Chrome, customize it (homepage, download, more plugins)

7/ Hide IE icon from desktop

8/ Change IE icon in QuickLaunch bar to launch Firefox (but still use IE picture)

9/ (rename the icon title to "Browser" and) Copy that "fake" icon to Desktop

Done ! Bye bye IE 6 :-)


Recently tested:
* Firefox 2.0.20 + FlashPlayer 10.0.22 + JRE 1.6.0_07 ( + IETab 1.3)
* Firefox 3.5.2 + FlashPlayer 10.0.45 + JRE 1.6.0_15 ( + IETab 1.5)
* Chrome 4.x + FlashPlayer 10.0.45 + JRE 1.6.0_15 ( + IETab for Chrome)