As of today Google finally supports searching over SSL. Expectedly, you can use it via https://www.google.com/. Firefox’s built-in search capabilities still use the unencrypted search, though. To remedy this I built an OpenSearch plug-in which makes Firefox use the HTTPS-based search: Install Google Secure Search Plug-In (Read more about Google’s SSL Search here)
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Google SSL Search Plug-In For Firefox
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010Stop Facebook From Tracking You On Third-Party Sites
Thursday, May 20th, 2010If you are using Firefox with the Adblock Plus add-on, it is quite easy to stop Facebook from tracking you on third-party sites via its Facebook Connect program or by other means. Just add these four rules to Adblock Plus: ||facebook.com$third-party ||facebook.net$domain=~facebook.com,third-party ||fbcdn.com$domain=~facebook.com,third-party ||fbcdn.net$domain=~facebook.com,third-party (Mathias Baert was so nice to set up an Adblock Plus [...]
Updated Logitech MX1000 Configuration
Sunday, January 15th, 2006XOrg 6.9 and later come with a new evdev driver. Configurations using the old evdev protocol hack no longer work. So here’s an updated version of my old MX1000 configuration: Build a udev rule to give the mouse device a static name: I’m using ACTION=="add", \ KERNEL=="event*", \ SUBSYSTEM=="input", \ SYSFS{manufacturer}=="Logitech", \ SYSFS{product}=="USB Receiver", \ [...]
Logitech MX1000 Configuration
Sunday, April 3rd, 2005I’ve had to buy a new mouse, this time I got me a Logitech MX1000 (my first Logitech mouse ever). The Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer I’ve used on my G5 got broken, it lost about two out of ten of clicks on the left button. I’m not completely satisfied with the MX1000. It’s too heavy and [...]
Tilt Wheel Mouse
Tuesday, March 1st, 2005Now that I finally got the kernel’s evdev driver running on my machine, I managed to get my tilt-wheel mouse working. Mouse section from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Protocol" "evdev" Option "Dev Name" "*Microsoft IntelliMouse*" Option "Buttons" "9" Option "ZAxisMapping" "8 9 6 7" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" EndSection [...]
