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Delete .NET 3.5 add-on from Firefox

29/01/2009 – 17:56

The ass-hats at Microsoft decided to make the recent .NET 3.5 update silently install an add-on (plugin) in Firefox. No option to not install, and no option to uninstall in Firefox or anywhere else.
Luckily it’s easy to remove:
1. Regedit
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions
3. Delete {20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}
4. Restart Firefox
Bastards.

By mojo | Posted in Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Too stupid for their own good

16/01/2009 – 23:01

The BBC Have Your Say forums are an almost unending source of distress for any half way sane observer, but occasionally I feel moved to comment. Today’s question: Would you like to see calorie counts on menus?
The responses are predictable; “no” to the nanny state, telling us what to eat, where we can pollute everyone [...]

By mojo | Posted in idiots, politics | Comments (0)

You say you want a revolution

08/01/2009 – 16:43

I’ve been thinking about why Britain has so many social problems, and so little social cohesion. I think the root of it is that there isn’t really any such thing as “Britishness”.
For many countries, the their modern identity has been defined by some revolutionary event. The French had their revolution that defined the principals of [...]

By mojo | Posted in politics | Comments (0)

Protecting yourself from UK surveillance

05/01/2009 – 21:11

Recent moves by the police to step up hacking people’s PCs (/. article, original Times Online article) and a recent forum thread got me thinking about ways to defend myself against the snooping that the UK seems to love so much.
A quick overview of what we are up against. In the UK the following is [...]

By mojo | Posted in law, networking, privacy, security | Comments (0)
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