Blagged

Why are you scanning my downloads for viruses?  And what are you using to scan them?  My guess would be that it’s not using some sort of internal antivirus since it’s not constantly downloading definition files.  So that would lead me to believe that it’s somehow hooking in to the antivirus I’ve got installed on my system.  My next question is: what’s the point?  Antivirus software performs on-access scanning, so won’t it scan that file itself when it’s done downloading anyways?  And at the very least, it will scan the file when I try to run it.  So why does Firefox need to be scanning it as well?  Fortunately there’s a way to turn it off so that you don’t get that 10 second lag at the end of each download.

• In Firefox, type about:config into the address bar and hit enter
• Type browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone into the Filter box
• Double click the browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone item that shows up in the list to set it’s Value to false

The conference finals got underway last night, but game one of the Western Conference finals last night was less than stellar.  To say that Dallas is tired out from beating Anaheim and San Jose earlier in the playoffs is an understatement.  And what’s with that goal by Holmstrom being allowed when he was clearly in the crease while screening Turco?  How’s he supposed to make the save when he’s being screened and shoved into his own net?  That’s all for now, I’m no hockey critic so if I offended anyone, post it in the comments.

I received word from this fellow that the RSS feed for my new domain was broken in Google Reader.  It seems that Google Reader is a little bit slow to update it’s cache for new feeds, but it’s now up to date and the feed for blagged.ca should now work.  I had to remove the feed from my list of Google Reader subscriptions and re-add it, but after that it seemed to work fine.  If anyone’s still having trouble with my RSS feed and Google Reader, post a comment.

Since people have actually started to visit my blog, I decided it was time to have a real domain name, instead of using a dynamic DNS one that expires every two months. I had originally wanted a domain that was my last name, but alas, it’s taken on any top level domain that I would actually want to use. After much debate and some help from this guy I decided on blagged.ca and registered it! The old domain, kfl.gotdns.com, will be up for a bit, but will eventually be taken down. Make sure to update your bookmarks and feeds, and I’ll do my best to post often enough to actually make it worth a visit or two.

So I sit down this morning and check my Gmail, as per usual, and I find the May newsletter for Mozy (the software that I use to back up my home computer) sitting in my inbox.  The subject of the newsletter is “[Mozy] May Newsletter – Mac Launch & Canada Vacation”.  The “Mac Launch” part I get, because they’ve just released v1.0 of their app for Mac’s, but what’s with the “Canada Vacation” part?  It looks like a blog post that somehow got copied and pasted into the newsletter.  See the image below and you’ll probably be wondering the same thing.