If you are trying to retrieve the ‘value’ of a file input box via Javascript, and you are receiving C:fakepath within the returned value, it is time to blame Internet Explorer 8. The inclusion of C:\fakepath\ is a security feature of Internet Explorer 8, designed to prevent information regarding the file system structure being exposed [...]

The general update policy of Ubuntu states that application versions will be kept stable during each Ubuntu release other than in exceptional cases. Obviously security patches are still applied when available. This does mean however, with the recent release of Firefox 3.5 that Ubuntu users will have to wait until Ubuntu 9.10 until officially receiving [...]

Ubuntu 9.10, the user-friendly, free, Linux-based operating system, is to be released tomorrow (the 29th of October 2009). Canonical, Ubuntu’s corporate sponsor, states that Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, ‘puts the user at the heart of its new design’, and being an Ubuntu user myself for about three years and a Linux user for significantly [...]