Annoying Windows Update restart popup

I was working away on my PC today and was getting bugged by the Windows Update restart reminder, having been bitten by its restart in the past I wanted it to leave me alone. I had stacks of SSH sessions open, web sites and files, it was not the time for a reboot and I didn’t …

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IE8, Standards Mode

IE8 (Due out later this year), will render in “Standards Mode” by default. Web developers of pages that work nicely in IE7 and nothing else can request IE8 to use IE7’s mode via the “http header/meta tag approach”. Hopefully this move will enable much better cross browser and developers of troubled sites will invest the …

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