tail -f ZS64.log

If you have trouble with Flash segfaulting in Linux Firefox-3.5.2 (the symptom is a browser hang), I fixed that by downgrading Flash from Flash10 to Flash9. Of course Flash9 is full of security holes. In combination with the Flashblocker Firefox extension and only activating it on trusted sites it seems like a reasonable approach. Of course for all we know the newest Flash10 is full of security problems, too.

Telnet too complicated? Just add bgpbotz to your AIM friends list, and ask Merit’s routeviews server anything about their world view. The poor thing has a second personality answering to Jabber’s bgpbotz@jabber.merit.edu.

I have to admit that I didn’t follow developments too closely for the last couple of years, but I was rather surprised today to find that Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 6 to 8 support downloadable TrueType fonts in a compatible and useful manner.

Slashdot post, linked Slate article, nice overview page.

A couple of things that are buried in the pages linked above, but which helped me to get up to speed:

• CSS rules:

<style>
@font-face {
    font-family: "testing";
    src: url("output.ttf") format("truetype");
}
</style>
<!--[if IE]>
    <style>
    @font-face {
        font-family: "testing";
        src: url("output.eot");
    }
    </style>
<![endif]-->
<div style="font-family: testing">
Hello, Multiple Browser World!
</div>

• Fonts available free of charge or under free licenses
• Utility to convert TTF into EOT files (should be available as a FreeBSD port as www/ttf2eot shortly)

Now I just need to quickly build a WordPress and a MediaWiki template, and we’re all set