Trying Ubuntu Very Soon!

Over the weekend while I was at my local Wal Mart (aka Evil Empire) store I stopped in the electronics department and noticed they had some 80 GB internal hard drives on clearance. I decided since they still had a few left and this is not something that is going to go flying off the shelf, I would wait until this weekend. Last night I found an even better deal. I was asking some Questions about installing Ubuntu on the CyberNet Forum. Later that evening I got a message from one my friends over there offering to send to me…

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Weekly Update 2007-05-07

Here is what happening since last week: Fx 1.5.0.12 & 2.0.0.4 – A bug in Windows NT 4.0 build of Fx 2.0.0.4 RC1 was discovered last week. This will require a re-spin of RC2 which in turn is going to delay the final release of Fx 1.5.0.12 & 2.0.0.4 builds. Since they are having to do a re-spin on RC2, they will also take that time to correct four other bugs which have come up while testing RC1. The new RC2 build should be ready on Tuesday. Betas have been pushed back until May 15th now. Fx 3/Gecko 1.9 Alpha…

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Issues with Drop-Downs Fixed

It appears WordPress has fixed the issue with the drop-downs I am using for the Archives and Tags selection. The archives should now default to ‘Select Month’ while the Tags one should default to ‘Select Category’. If they are still displaying something else for you do a force reload (CTRL+F5) and that should correct this.

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Mitchell Baker at CeBIT Australia 2007

A couple short (about a minute and half each) video clips from an interview with Michell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler (CEO) of Mozilla. She discusses various topics including a couple dealing with Microsoft, Internet Exploiter…err I mean Explorer as well as doing away with the “perceptions” of open-source. Sorry, I am not able to embed these clips into this post so you will have to visit the link below to watch them. Note: There are two clips the second clip will load/start automatically once the first one is completed.. News Source: ZDNet Australia

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Thunderbird 1.5 Support Ending Soon

Mozilla’s support policy is an older version (in this case 1.5) of an application will (normally) be support for six months after the release of the new version. However there are exceptions, take for instance Firefox 1.5. Given this rule, support should have ended back on April 24th. However the final build (1.5.0.12) was not ready as anticipated so support will officially end when 1.5.0.12 is released on or around May 22nd. On April 18th, Thunderbird 2 was released which means support for Thunderbird 1.5 will end on October 18th. Keep in mind TBird 1.5.0.12 will be released the same…

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Dell + Ubuntu & OpenOffice.org

Over the past few weeks I been following the news that Dell is now offering on some new systems with Ubuntu (Linux) and OpenOffice.org instead of Windows Vista and Office 2007. Today I came across the article Microsoft you had a good run over at One Post At a Time: It seems Microsoft & Windows had a good run for last possible 20 years but as always change happens and seems its Microsoft time to say we give up Microsoft Windows Vista have been latest problem for Microsoft as so many people have said bad things about it – software…

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Fx & TBird 1.5 Support Ending Soon

Mozilla’s support policy is an older version (in this case 1.5) of an application will (normally) be support for six months after the release of the new version. However there are exceptions, take for instance Firefox 1.5. Given this rule, support should have ended back on April 24th. However the final build (1.5.0.12) was not ready as anticipated so support will officially end when 1.5.0.12 is released on or around May 22nd. On April 18th, Thunderbird 2 was released which means support for Thunderbird 1.5 will end on October 18th. Keep in mind TBird 1.5.0.12 will be released the same…

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Weekly Update 2007-04-30

Okay, so this is a day late. I had the rare event of having a three-day weekend this past weekend so I kept thinking today was Monday. Anyway here is the latest from this week’s Weekly Update meeting: Fx 1.5.0.12/2.0.0.4 – Code freeze was last Friday (04/27). RC1 should be out Tuesday (05/01) morning. Estimated Release: May 22nd. REMINDER: Fx 1.5.0.X users 1.5.0.12 is the last update and end of support for this version Thunderbird 2 – Released April 18th. ~1 Million Downloads within first six days! Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 – Alpha 4 released on April 27th. Alpha 5 should…

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Let the Celebration Begin!

Tuesday, May 1st will mark the One Year Anniversary of the beginning of the Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog! I can not believe it has already been a year! Yep, started out over at Blogger but would later move over to WordPress (see New Blog Home). Here’s the post that started it all: A Blog is Born! In all honesty I was not sure if the blog would be a success, but judging by these stats (from September 6th to present) I would say it has: Posts^: 391 Comments: 631 Views: 170,000+ Most Views in One Day: 3,050 Subscribers*: 79 Spam…

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Blog Improvements

The folks over at WordPress have once again added a nice feature. This time they have added Clouds and Drop Downs for the categories. While I am not much one for tag clouds (the bigger the tag the more popular it is) I do like the new drop down option. One of the reason I had “cleaned-up” the tag list a couple months ago was because of how much space it took up on the sidebar. But now they have been place in to a nice little drop down menu. Even better the archives are now in a drop down…

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