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Allow Non-admin Users to Update Firefox

Posted at December 15, 2007 12:06 pm | In Software | By: Ben Woodruff

We recently noticed a problem where Firefox would prompt users (who are not administrators on their workstations) to update to the latest version (ie, from 2.0.0.8 to 2.0.0.9). If they tried to complete the update however, it would fail, giving the error “Software Update Failed”.

We decided the best solution was to come up with a way to let users update Firefox themselves, without being made local admins. The reason we wanted them to be able to do this is that IT doesn’t get around to everyone’s workstation often enough to keep up with the latest version of Firefox, and we felt that it was important for them to have that (for security reasons). (more…)

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Tags: Active Directory, Administration, Firefox, Hacking, Networking, Security, Software, Web Browsers

Rewriting URLs with Apache

Posted at October 14, 2007 7:18 pm | In Networking | By: Ben Woodruff

As some of you have probably noticed I use Wordpress to manage this site.

Which is great, I like it, and my friend Jordan (hyper123.net) has a system that automatically updates it for me. Sweet. All is well, right?

Well… it was until today. The problem is that Wordpress works, and makes URLs “pretty” by rewriting them (which it does by putting a .htaccess file in your root install directory).

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Tags: Apache, Blogging, Hacking, Networking