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Just this morning I downloaded a utility that replaced the default battery monitor display for Mac OS X.

SlimBatteryMonitor is the name of this simple app. Instead of horizontally displaying the battery icon, it displays it in several more ways that in effect consumes less space on the menu bar.

Download it here.

While sitting in front of my computer, something came to my thoughts.

“Why are people insisting on pirating the software if it is expensive, instead of getting the free alternatives?”

I came up with a scenario, and I am discussing it below.
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Yesterday (Philippine Time), Apple rolled out updates for two of its software, Mac OS X ad Safari.

Security update 2008-002 was made available through direct download or by Software Update to users of Mac OS X. Most of the modifications fix buffer overflows that may lead to arbitrary code execution on unpatched systems. Details can be found here.

Safari 3.1 is made available through direct download and Software Update as well. Cross-site scripting issues were addressed through the update. Details can be found here.

Do you know that Firefox has this hidden configuration page where you can modify almost every setting available?

1. Open up Firefox, and in the address bar, type in about:config.
2. In the filter text box, type in network.http.
3. Locate network.http.pipelining and double click it. The value will change from false to true.
4. Locate network.http.proxy.pipelining and double click it. A dialog box will open. Input a numeric value (30 8 will suffice). Click on OK to close the dialog box.
5. Restart Firefox.

Now, you will notice that pages would load faster.

Early today I posted about creating a Linux disc service. I’ve already created a page related to my experiment.

It is located here: http://techiehenry.com/getthedisk