Archives for: "March 2008"

openSUSE 10.3 on a Toshiba SatellitePro 6000 (upgrade)

A mere five months after the release of SuSE 10.3 I finally got round to upgrading my aging laptop. Of course, I was still on 10.1, so I'd already waited ten months before that :) I downloaded the main ISO and the extras one, and booted off the CD.… more »

IE8 Beta 1 - A Review

Product Review: Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Microsoft released the first Beta for Internet Explorer 8 the other day, so I downloaded it and installed it on a virtual machine so I could test it out. This post records my first impressions, even if it took… more »

Fixing Jack's formmail.php for register_globals = off

For many years now, I've used various versions of Jack's FormMail.php to handle simple form submissions on various websites, mostly 'contact us' forms. The script has gotten a little more sophisticated with time, but it's still one of the simpler ways o… more »