Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC2 was released today. If you are already running some variant of 1.5, then Firefox should already have prompted you to restart your browser to install the update (at least it does on Windows, not sure about Linux or Mac OS). If not, get it here.
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This is a little old, but interesting still since the old FBSD site was looking a little dated.
A new website has been launched. We hope you find the new design easier to navigate. The site was implemented by Emily Boyd as part of Google’s Summer of Code program. A copy of the old site for comparison purposes is archived here. Please post your comments and suggestions about the new site to the freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org list.
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I just thought I would post this screenshot from WoW. It’s a shot of my human female rogue from a couple of days ago. Yes, her name is Idlemaam. What can I say? I’m a southern boy. Maam is just befitting of a lady. She was in Goldshire in a house I think. I went into a bedroom, and there were four children in the room. One was in the fireplace. Clearly this is a just a small goof in the AI, but I got a kick out of it.
It’s about flippin’ time!!
OS X has native PDF support. OpenOffice has navtive PDF support. KDE has native PDF support, so what’s taken MS so damn long…
The PDF support will be built into Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Publisher, OneNote, Visio, and InfoPath! I love how well this new functionality will work in combination with the new Open XML formats in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. We’ve really heard the feedback that sharing documents across multiple platforms and long term archiving are really important. People now have a couple options here, with the existing support for HTML and RTF, and now the new support for Open XML formats and PDF!
This really all comes down to the basic theme of content sharing. We realize that this is a really important scenario, and that’s why we’re making the move to default XML formats that are fully documented. Now we’ve moved to the files being in open, redistributable, and archivable formats; and we can focus more of our innovations around ways to act on those formats. This is true on the client and the server.
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Okay, there’s this new brand of crack rock I’m addicted to and it’s called World of Warcraft, or WoW. I’ve actually heard of relationships breaking up over WoW and Everquest, another MMORPG, and now I know why. Several friends of mine are playing it. One of my friends, eyedropp3r, told me I could trade in my PS2 + games at my local EB store, so I wouldn’t have to actually pay for the game. Taking his advice, I traded my PS2 + games, and got about $162 in store credit. I bought WoW and pre-ordered Quake 4. The ‘kid’ at EB said that I could pre-order Quake 4 for a $9 reservation fee, or I could just pre-purchase the game for full price. I figured I would just pre-purchase it, so that when it comes out I’m guaranteed a copy of the game and I wouldn’t have to shell out $40 in a couple of months to procure the game. Anyway, I figured since I’ve got $162 in credit, what the hell, go ahead and pay the full fee.
Anyhoo, WoW is flippin’ amazing. I’ve been playing it off and on for about a week now. My current player is a Level 10 Night Elf Rogue. Some of you won’t know what the hell that is without visiting the WoW site or actually playing the game yourself. The game is so good that I’ve been pricing a new AMD Athlon64 + new SLI mobo + new PCI-E video card to replace my current AthlonXP 3200 + Asus GeforceFX 5200. It’s a sickness, I know.
If you aren’t married or have a serious girlfriend and you have A LOT of time to kill, I suggest getting WoW.
These are certainly fun, especially if you have a dual display system or a very large 23″ or bigger monitor.
Firefox 1.0.7 is a security and stability release.
- Fix for a potential buffer overflow vulnerability when loading a hostname with all soft-hyphens
- Fix to prevent URLs passed from external programs from being parsed by the shell (Linux only)
- Fix to prevent a crash when loading a Proxy Auto-Config (PAC) script that uses an “eval” statement
- Fix to restore InstallTrigger.getVersion() for Extension authors
- and more!
I personally have been using Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 (Deer Park). It’s badass. I like the way you can force clicked popup windows into a new tab.
Apple does it again, all in one week too!
First off, they release the new iPod nano, a new tiny version of the iPod. Available in a 2GB and 4GB model, the iPod nano can store up to 500 songs or 1000 songs respectively.
Now with Podcasting!
New stuff includes:
- Browse, subscribe to, and listen to podcasts
Podcasts are downloadable radio-style audio shows delivered by the iTunes Music Store or over the Internet. - Watch music videos
You can purchase and download some videos as part of an album or other offer from the iTunes Music Store. You can watch them in iTunes or in full screen mode.
More at http://www.apple.com/itunes/.
Download iTunes from http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.
Jimmy Wales announced today that Yahoo! has ordered 23 HP servers for the Wikimedia Foundation. The three database servers are model DL 385, and will come with dual Athlons, 8GB of RAM, and 6x 146GB 15K RPM drives each. They will also provide rackspace and bandwidth. The announcement comes four months after Google’s announcement of support, and two months after Yahoo’s own. Google has not yet made their intentions clear. You can read more about the specifications of what will soon be a 100+ server cluster at the Wikimedia Servers wiki article.
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