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Add-ons for New Version of Firefox 10

Add-ons for New Version of Firefox 10

Every time Firefox releases a major upgrade, we love it because it comes with lots of cool features. At the mean time, we hate it because lots of our favorite add-ons are not working with the new Firefox. Sometimes, the owners of the add-ons might be too busy, and it might take a while to release a compatible version. That’s why I put some of my favorite add-ons here. They are 100% compatible with the new Firefox, and I only modified...

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ZFS: Compression VS Deduplication (Dedup) in Simple English

ZFS: Compression VS Deduplication (Dedup) in Simple English

Many people are confused between the compression and deduplication because they are so similar. Both of them are designed to reduce the size of the data being stored in the storage. Let me explain the difference between them in simple English. 1. This is how your data looks like originally (Assuming only one unique file): 2. This is how your data look like after being stored in a ZFS pool with compression enabled. 3. This is how your...

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Top Reason Why You Should NOT Use Microsoft Exchange in Your Business

Top Reason Why You Should NOT Use Microsoft Exchange in Your Business

Today, I sent a message to a company through their contact page on their website. It is a standard contact page, i.e., you need to fill in your contact information and the details of your request, and they will follow up with you later. An hour later, I received a reply from them, saying that they would like more information from me. Therefore, I reply to their email. Few seconds later, I got the following: Delivery has failed to these...

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[Solved]Failed to enable the ‘dataready’ Accept Filter

[Solved]Failed to enable the ‘dataready’ Accept Filter

After I updated the Apache to 2.2.22 for my FreeBSD box today, I got a problem: #apachectl stop #apachectl start [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the 'dataready' Accept Filter If you search for Failed to enable the ‘dataready’ Accept Filter on Google, you probably will find a lot of posts about this solution, like the following: #kldload accf_http Or include the following in the boot loader...

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[PHP]imagecreatefrompng Error (After upgrading FreeBSD)

[PHP]imagecreatefrompng Error (After upgrading FreeBSD)

Today, I found that one of my PHP scripts stop working. After some investigations, I found that it was the function, imagecreatefrompng, which caused the problem. Interestingly, other similar functions such as imagecreatefromgif and imagecreatefromjpeg were completely working fine. The program stopped working when calling imagecreatefrompng only. Initially, I thought the problem was coming from the PHP side. Therefore, I tried to get...

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