We’ve all seen our fair share of stupid law suits, but this one has to be the best. It seems Dylan Jayne who lives in Pennsylvania is suing Google because their name (along with the Philadelphia 76er’s) are similar to his Social Security Number. He claims that flipping his SSN number upside down, and scrambling it around you will see the similarity. Oh but wait it gets even better…Jayne has hand-written his civil complaint against Google. I am guessing he couldn’t find a lawyer willing to take his idiotic case much less against a major corporation such as Google. But…
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The next milestone, (still an Alpha) release of Firefox 3.0 is now out. Here’s what’s new with this release (via the release notes): Basic and unpolished UI for starring and tagging pages has been added, as well as a richer Location Bar autocomplete algorithm that matches against page title (see Places UI Plan for more details) Prompt for remembering passwords is no longer a modal dialog Built in malware protection (which you can test here) Basic and unpolished UI for indicating richer website identity information has been added Support for web-based protocol handlers, though it doesn’t work in all situations…
From Asa Dotzler (Director of Community Development, Mozilla Corp.) Blog: Click for image larger picture
In late July there was a lot of talk about Thunderbird’s Future as Mozilla was looking at options to split off or even possible drop Thunderbird. The future is looking a lot brighter now for Thunderbird. Mitchell Baker has announced… The result is that Mozilla is launching a new effort to improve email and internet communications. We will increase our investment and focus on our current email client — Thunderbird — and on innovations in the email and communications areas. We are doing so by creating a new organization with this as its sole focus and committing resources to this…
Fx 2.0.0.7 is a Fire Drill (Security) release to address the QuickTime Vulnerability. Currently it has not been pushed out to the ‘GetFirefox‘ page or into the auto updates yet. The GetFirefox page update should be happening later today and the auto-updates are usually within the the next couple days (or some times even the same day). Meanwhile below are links the en-US version of Firefox 2.0.0.7 via Mozilla Download which connects to various download mirrors. Please note: on the download page for the Win32 build, the picture in step 1 shows Firefox Setup 2.0.0.6.exe, but the download is for…
In late July there was a lot of talk about Thunderbird’s Future as Mozilla was looking at options to split off or even possible drop Thunderbird. The future is looking a lot brighter now for Thunderbird. Mitchell Baker has announced… The result is that Mozilla is launching a new effort to improve email and internet communications. We will increase our investment and focus on our current email client — Thunderbird — and on innovations in the email and communications areas. We are doing so by creating a new organization with this as its sole focus and committing resources to this…
Here’s an overview of this week’s Update Meeting: Fx 2.0.0.7 – Fire Drill (Security) release to address the QuickTime Vulnerability. Should be out later today or on Tuesday 09/18 Fx 2.0.0.8 – All prior landings on the Fx 2.0.0.7 branch have been moved the 2.0.0.8 branch. Triage on-going Tentative code freeze 9/21 Release scheduled for 10/4 Fx 1.5.0.12 to 2.0.0.6 Major Update – Newer version shipped last Wednesday (09/12) TBird 2.0.0.7 – No Report TBird 1.5.0.13 – No Report TBird Major Update (TBird 1.5.0.12 > 2.0.0.6) – No Report TBird 3 – No Report Fx3 – Continued triage on Places…
According to the Firefox:2.0.0.7:Test Plan, Fx 2.0.0.7 is going to be a security fix. This release will address the QuickTime Vulnerability announced last week and could be out later today. All other prior landings on the 2.0.0.7 branch have been moved to the 2.0.0.8 branch. Fx 2.0.0.8 is currently tentatively scheduled for an early October release. More news to come….
It started simple enough…I was looking for a nice background texture for another website I was building. Went to my usual source, Absolute Background Textures Archive to see what I could fine. This site is actually part of a larger grouping of sites known as GRSites.com and has been providing free textured backgrounds since 1997. They offer a whole lot more than just free textured backgrounds. One of the several new services they now offer is a logo maker. In a matter of few minutes I had made a new logo for the Al Net Solutions storefront and main site….
It seems Microsoft (M$) pushed (as in not telling/notifying anyone) a ‘stealth’ update of the Windows Update. This happened back on August 23rd or in my case (any many others running XP) July 30th. Further even if you told M$ you didn’t want their stinkin’ updates, you got updated. To see if your Windows Updates files were secretly updated find your windows/system32 folder and look for these files and see if they were updated to version 7.0.6000.381 (right click on the file, select properties then click the versions tab): Vista: wuapi.dll wuapp.exe wuauclt.exe wuaueng.dll wucltux.dll wudriver.dll wups.dll wups2.dll wuwebv.dll XP:…