General

I just tried OmniWeb 4.1.1sp3 and it won’t let me connect to my server’s admin page because it can’t validate the certificate (which is from Plesk.com). Mozilla & other browsers will give a warning but still let me connect.

The Default Folder 1.6.1 update fixed the print center crash.

I find that my G4 is a lot less stable with 10.2, although my iBook (which is running a much leaner system) seems OK.

Every time I restart, DragThing crashes, although I can launch it manually. I sent a bug report to the author – he said he found the bug and will release an update shortly.

Much worse, Print Center always crashes when I select Add Printer. I suspect FaxSTF, although the problem still occurs after I deleted its printer plugin & the other pieces of it.

Support for the First Amendment has eroded significantly since Sept. 11, and nearly half of Americans now think the constitutional amendment on free speech goes too far in the rights it guarantees, says a poll released Thursday.

The sentiment that the First Amendment goes too far was already on the rise before the terrorist attacks a year ago, doubling to about 40 percent from 2000 to 2001.

The new poll found that 49 percent think the First Amendment goes too far.

“Many Americans view these fundamental freedoms as possible obstacles in the war on terrorism,” said Ken Paulson, executive director of the First Amendment Center, based in Arlington, Va., which commissioned the survey. Almost half also said the media has been too aggressive in asking the government questions about the war on terrorism.

The center, which also has offices in Nashville, asked the University of Connecticut’s Center for Survey Research and Analysis to measure views about the First Amendment.

The poll of 1,000 adults was taken from June 12 to July 5, and has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

The researchers said they designed this year’s survey, in part, to test the “public’s willingness to tolerate restrictions on the First Amendment liberties during what they perceive to be wartime.”

They found that 48 percent of respondents agreed the government should have the freedom to monitor religious groups in the interest of national security — even if that means infringing upon the religious freedom of the group’s members. Forty-two percent said the government should have more authority to monitor Muslims.

The survey also found a dip in the number of people who think newspapers should freely criticize the U.S. military about its strategy and performance. Fifty-seven percent were supportive this year, compared with 69 percent in 2001.

This is really scary! Anyone who will give up freedom for some imagined sense of security deserves neither

I signed up for a .Mac account, but only for the first year at $49 – I most likely won’t renew when it costs $99. I downloaded .Mac slide show, Backup 1.2, and Virex.

I created a slide show that other .Mac members can subscribe to as their screen saver under username mike3k. It’s mostly pictues of “cody”.

Backup 1.2 works with my external QPS Que FireWire CDRW. It doesn’t recognize my internal DVD-RAM. I tried to do a backup, which it estimated at one CD. After 3 CDs, I aborted the backup. Backup then crashed, and whenever I ran it, it would crash. Rebooting cured that.

I find that DragThing 4.3.1 crashes every time at startup when it’s launched from login items. When I relaunch it manually, it doesn’t crash.

I’m now using the pinstripe theme in Mozilla 1.1. It’s the most attractive theme I’ve seen, although I wish the toolbar buttons were a bit smaller.

I just love Inside Carbon – in multiprocessing services under MPRemoteCall it says “See MPRemoteProcedure for more information” – and there ISN’T anything about it!

It looks like every place I’m calling Open Transport from a MP thread, I need to be using a remote procedure call to run under 9 without crashing. Under X, it seems like pretty much anything will work in a thread.

It looks like “Open in Classic” no longer works. I set that option for a Carbonized CFM application, and it still opened natively. Has anyone else seen this?

BounceWeb is still having problems with MySQL & suffering DOS attacks. I’ve moved the database for MacMegasite to mc-development.com, which is also hosted at BounceWeb, but running on a different server. Right now BounceWeb’s forum, which depends on MySQL, is down but MacMegasite is working. I may do the same with WorldBeatPlanet, but I don’t think the server has enough bandwidth to host SQL databases for two different sites.

I’m now using my LinkSys router again. I’ve flashed it to 1.42.7 (it was previously running 1.42.6 firmware) and turned off the MTU limit in the filter screen, and so far I haven’t lost the connection. I found that the VPN client on my ThinkPad wouldn’t work if I have the Airport Base Station working as a router, but it does work if the base station acts as a bridge, with the BEFSR41 working as a router.