Congratulations to everybody who’s participated in the Mozilla project on their 10 year anniversary. Even the smallest contributors have been necessary to get us to this point. There’s an old saying in the industry that it takes 10 years to really get something right, and Firefox 3, due imminently, seems to re-enforce that rule...
Read more →Sure enough, after three years of trouble-free server operation, the day after we deactivate a RAID mirror to make room for drive expansion, the drive dies. If you sent us important mail between 3/26 at 10:00EDT and 3/27 at 02:00EDT, please resend. If there’s a silver lining here, we’ll be trying to build a...
Read more →When Blu-Ray wasn’t ready to ship, they shipped a Blu-Ray that wasn’t ready, to ship. That strategy seems to have worked. Now, the finished version of Blu-Ray, aka Profile 2, is now available on the PS3. The notable difference is that it’s Internet-enabled. There are, of course, all kinds of conspiracy theories about what...
Read more →I recently bought a new hard drive for my MacBook Pro and used the extra space to install Fedora 8. However, I found myself not booting into it too often as I have some apps on OSX which are too tied into my workflow. So, I’ve decided to take the opposite approach for now....
Read more →Now that Visa is a Public Company it needs to take responsibility for the harm it creates. The antiquated system of trading credit card numbers is only something that seems reasonable in a pre-1978 world, one without public key cryptography. A modern credit card authorization scheme should look something like this: Merchant requests transaction...
Read more →From the chuckle department: With Comcast High Speed Internet with PowerBoost, you’ll be able to get maximum enjoyment of the FairTax Internet Seminar without the headaches of dial-up or slower DSL. Call 404-COMCAST to get Comcast High-Speed Internet for just $19.95 per month for six months. With Comcast’s recent problems with blocking clients’ Internet...
Read more →Quoting in whole from the ValleyFiber page: ValleyFiber is a new initiative by ValleyNet to help towns organize themselves to create and use town-wide fiber-optic networks to offer residents, organizations, municipal government, and businesses high-speed Internet, telephone, and television access without burdening taxpayers. ECFiberNet is the first group of towns that ValleyFiber is working...
Read more →This is good news for fans of RPM-based systems: Two separate consolidations are underway. rpmfusion will be created by the merging of livna, freshrpms, and dribble. rpmrepo will be formed by the merger of the former rpmforge (dag and dries anyway), atrpms, and CentOS Extras. Both will use either RHEL + EPEL or Fedora...
Read more →All of these companies can cancel your eBay auction.
Read more →I got a comment on myspace with the text: LOL you gotta see the new pics on her profile. and a link to: http://profile.myspace.com.index.cfm.fuseaction.user.viewprofile.friendid.518729090.cn/ which is a domain in china, registered thusly. It looks like the standard MySpace login page. Because MySpace is retarded and throws up login pages all the time at you,...
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