Want to be more secure online? Stop using Adobe Acrobat reader to open PDF documents in your browser. That's what F-Secure virus hunter Mikko Hypponen, the closest thing to a rock star holding court at the RSA security conference, is advocating.

Ditching Adobe Acrobat Reader will greatly reduce your chances of getting your PC infected by a drive-by download, says the pony-tailed Hypponen, who was recently profiled in Vanity Fair. "That's my advice," says Hypponen, "I don't expect a Christmas card from Adobe."

The bad guys are increasingly using security flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader browser plugins to open a backdoor to your hard drive. These instructions get implanted when you visit a tainted website. The next time you use Adobe Reader, a very tiny poisoned PDF from the bad guys also opens and installs the backdoor that may allow them to take over your computer.

from USA today – however I fully support that claim I use FoxitReader

I don't know that I would call myself a successful published, BUT!! I did get published in 2600 magazine. I have been a long time subscriber and was bored one day and felt like writing. Published up some code to hack up a robots.txt file its fancy I will give you that, no more cut and paste! I think my dosbox code was cooler.

anywhoo go get a copy of the Spring 2600 magazine and I will sign it for you.

“‘TIS EASTER SUNDAY and it seems Microsoft is commemorating the resurrection with a little resurrecting of its own, dragging us away from our chocolate egg hunt with snooze, er, news that its talks with Yahoo are back on again.”

Source: The Inquirer

did I just read that the resurrection of christ was compared to microsoft and yahoo…

Create a user.js file in your Profile directory for firefox (%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\) Dump this following code into that file.

//Speed Tweaks FF3
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true);
user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000);
user_pref("content.maxtextrun", 8191);
user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5);
user_pref("content.notify.interval", 500000);
user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true);
user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 250000);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48);
user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 32);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 20);
user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 20);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.firstrequest", true);
user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);
user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8);
user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 100);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive", true);
user_pref("network.http.keep-alive.timeout", 600);
user_pref("network.http.request.max-start-delay", 10);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheExpiration", 3600);
user_pref("network.dnsCacheEntries", 1000);
user_pref("browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers", 3);
//set following to false if you find that FireFox is slow to maximize from the tray.
user_pref("config.trim_on_minimize", true);
//security tweeks
user_pref("browser.cache.disk_cache_ssl", false);
user_pref("browser.microsummary.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.microsummary.updateGenerators", false);
//memory cache  Physical RAM Memory Cache (in KB)
//32 MB 2048
//64 MB 4096
//128 MB 6144
//256 MB 10240
//512 MB 14336
//1 GB 18432
//2 GB 24576
//4 GB 30720
//8 GB and up 32768
user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 18432);

Got this code from a post on DSLReports page, copy here for my own notes.