One of the most beautiful aspects of OS X is the support for system wide proxy settings. Configure a proxy in the system preferences, and just about everything uses it automagically. Unforunately, Firefox (and Thunderbird, or so I hear), doesn’t make use of this functionality, meaning you have to configure your proxy twice.
The solution to [...]
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Automagic Proxy Settings in Firefox
The Value of Open Source Software
The original creator of Ruby on Rails didn’t believe in the necessity of RoR being threadsafe. Josh disagreed, and took things into his own hands.
http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/8/16/josh-peek-officially-joins-the-rails-core
The world (or at least Rails developers) is a better place because of it.
Getting Crypto Into Mail
UPDATE 3-Feb-2009: GPGMail for Leopard is out of beta and now includes a handy script for installing the bundle. You can use that in place of the sub-steps in Step 4.
I’ve been using encrypted email on Windows for a coupla years new, courtesy of Thunderbird and the wonderful Enigmail. Moving to the world of Mac, [...]