Avner Acquisition Sub, Inc. is the name of the Adobe subsidiary that will be merged with Macromedia according to the Securities and Exchange Commission filings from the original Adobe – Macromedia aquistion anouncement.
Seems to be a wise move on Avner Acquisition’s part – their soon-to-be colleagues could probably help ‘em out with a website.
;-)
I’ve whined about this before. Each time I use the web interface to acess my email account Firefox presents a Security Error: Domain Name Mismatch warning. The warning occurs because the secure URL I connect to is within my andrewlucking.com domain while the security certificate is issued to Dreamhost, my hosting provider.
Now, technically Firefox is entirely correct in advising me of the issue. What irks me is that I have no way of storing the fact that I am aware of the mismatch and no longer need my browser to bring it to my attention each time I check my mail. Obviously the ideal way to avoid the warning is to correct the problem that is being identified – obtain a SSL certificate for my webmail domain. Realistically though the expense involved does not make it practical. So, after searching for a quick fix and reading through some mildly entertaining flame wars I did what one does in this day and age of the extensible web browser: I built a Firefox extension.
The Remember Mismatched Domains extension for Firefox adds a “Don’t warn me about this certificate for this domain again’ checkbox to the Domain Mismatch warning window. When selected the domain name and security certificate domain pair is stored in a Firefox preference and the security error dialogue will be bypassed on subsequent visits.
Before trying out this extension I would recommend you read the discussion of a similar entry in the Thunderbird bugzilla database:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228684
In particular this entry from Nelson Bolyard struck me as particularly insightful.
The 0.1 beta version of Remember Mismatched Domains can be installed from here:
remember-mismatch.xpi
It’s a beta and could use some testing in different environments. The comments section would be a good place to let me know of any issues or drop me an email.
update: just uploaded version 0.4. Details on the changes here.
update: Now at version 0.5. Which adds support for Thunderbird. Details here.
A bunch of sanding still to do, but the seats are installed in the cockpit. Man are they huge! I realize the seat backs will take a good chunk out of the seat depth but they are going to be a great spot for sleeping under the stars.
Before installing the sole in the cockpit I glued a few battens to it’s bottom for stiffening and had planned to do the same with the seats. Unfortunately it slipped my mind and only dawned on me as I was sitting back with a “job well done” reward. Oops. Luckily I can still access the underside of the seats, though I’m not sure they’re required after all.
I’ve also done a bunch of work below deck – building shelving and backs for the benches.
A couple of photos have been added to the photoviewer gallery too (they’re at the end so hit the ‘prev’ button if you want to skip to ‘em quicker).
So many reasons to keep an eye on the Adobe blogs launched last week.
Obviously it’s great to see Adobe open up this line of communication. One of the main concerns Macromedia developers have expressed in regards to the pending acquisition is the (apparent) contrast between the two companies when it comes to fostering community interaction. This move would seem to indicate that Adobe is moving closer to the Macromedia end of the spectrum.
It will also be interesting to watch the Adobe bloggers gain their “sea legs” (blog legs?) as the inevitable ’slip ups’ are made, controversies flare and (most importantly) insight is shared. So far it would seem things bode well (check the comments in this post on John Nack’s blog for an indication of the “culture shift”).
In another post John (who is the product manager for Photoshop) also throws some props to the Flash Player guys.
It would seem that in a way an unofficial amalgamation has begun.
These should help clear things up.
A couple of weeks ago I was a little unclear on how the security restrictions have changed in Flash Player 8. Earlier today Mike Chambers pointed to a couple of new whitepapers detailing security in the Flash Player.
Flash Player 8 Security
Flash Player 8 Security-Related APIs
