Over the past few days there been some interesting news and outrage about Windows Vista’s Boot Up sound. I first learned of this outrage via CyberNet News, Vista Will Not Let You Disable the Startup Sound: “Microsoft may not give me the option to disable the startup sound in Windows Vista though. Why would they do such a thing? Robert Scoble had the pleasure of talking with Steve Ball, program manager for the Windows Audio Video Excellence team, who gave a reason for this decision: “A short, brief, positive confirmation that your machine is now conscious and ready to react….
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According to CyberNet News, Mozilla has released the 2nd Release Candidate (RC) for Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 (quite the release name). As it is stands now and this could likely will change, the official release of Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 is scheduled for Wednesday, August 30th. CyberNet also indicates a possible release date for the final version of Firefox 2.0 on October 24th. However, they don’t declare where they got this piece of information as the Mozilla Developer’s Calendar only goes up to Firefox 2.0 RC1 on September 19th (and even that is subject to change). More information to come…
CyberNet News take a look at Dell’s Homepage from 1996. I do love the author’s closing thoughts, Looking back really makes you appreciate the 3GHz machines that we can buy now at the 233MHz prices from back then! The price/technology difference is incredible. I remember back in 1994 I upgraded my then desktop (the thing literally was the size of a small desk) computer from 1 to 2 MB of video RAM and 4 MB to 8 MB main RAM. The video upgrade wasn’t too bad about $25, but the main RAM for those 4 MB cost me $256!!! All…
From CyberNet Tech News. Simple yet effective, in many ways similar to what Bank of America has done for their online site with SiteKey.
Someone has come up with a clever way to promote Firefox. Just follow the link: http://www.ie7.com/
FF 2.0 Beta 2 has been delayed yet again, this time to August 30th. No official word as to what is causing the delays although rumor has it, may have something to do with the ‘Visual Refresh’. Here the latest release schedule per the Mozilla Developers Calendar: August 30th – Beta 2 UPDATED September 19th – Release Candidate 1 TBA – Release Candidate 2 TBA – Release Candidate 3 TBA – FINAL RELEASE In my State of the Fox entry from last week I pointed out a couple comments from Mike Schroepfer about the FF 2.0 release schedule: “He says…
NewsForge recently (August 4th) did an interview with Mozilla Corp.’s Vice President of Engineering, Mike Schroepfer. The bulk of the interview they talk about JavaScript, security as well as better migration for Linux users who got Firefox packaged with their Linux distribution. In regards to JavaScript, Firefox 2.0 will ship with the new and improved JavaScript 1.7, which is the first upgrade in nearly 6 years (sorta like IE). Further, transitioning to Firefox 2.0 should go much smoother compared to what many of us went through when we went from 1.0.7 to 1.5 last December. Many of us experienced the…
In about two weeks Mozilla will release an update for Firefox. Version 1.5.0.7 is addressing some possible security issues and any known regressions. Now, hopefully this update will go smoother than the 1.5.0.5 update did when Mozilla pulled a ‘Microsoft’. In this instance a ‘Microsoft’ is causing a problem with fixing another problem, which they quickly fixed with the 1.5.0.6 release. At this time there are no planned updates for Thunderbird which will remain at the current 1.5.0.5 version. More information on the Firefox 1.5.0.7 Planing Page
Bad news.,there seems to be one pesky bug (and is big one) that won’t go away. The burrito-overflow bug (Cannot eat 10 burritos in 2 hours without vomiting) is a pesky one. Okay, so the developers are were just trying to break the tension with a little fun. There is a serious bug though it has to do with the rendering. This however has knocked the current release schedule totally out-of-whack with all the major milestones being pushed back a week. There is some good news though, if everything goes as planned (which thus far it hasn’t) FF 2.0 is…
Shortly after the release of Firefox 1.5.0.5, users discovered one of the new security fixes created a new problem. Bug 346167 was created on July 27th due to the Windows MediaPlayer plugin stopped working on certain sites. This bug fix is the Firefox 1.5.0.6 release. If your Firefox did not auto-updated to the new version, you can obtain the download by selecting from the Help Menu, ‘Check for Updates…‘ or you can get the update here.