A new release of Mozilla Firebird is out! I’ve been using the XFT/GTK2 builds available elsewhere for the past week or so and I’m well impressed by stability recently. The one major bug I found, (as did everyone else it seems), was the auto-complete bug, and that’s certainly been fixed. I’m rushing out the door, but search my blog for ‘xft’ to find the download site for those nice looking nightly builds.
Monthly Archives: July 2003
Have You Seen My Job?
Tim posts yet another good read on his blog. This time on a subject dear to all of us in one shape or form. Congrats on the new job too Tim!
Tab cleanup and other notes
Horribly busy in work these days. More articles I’ll read when I have time.
- Shirky: A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy
- McNealy Weighs In on Linux, Unix, Sun – Compares Linux to Napster – Linux is copyright theft? That’s what SCO would have you believe I suppose.
- Gadgetopia – ‘nother weblog but with some stuff I hadn’t seen elsewhere.
On another note, I managed to boot my PC at home again. The hardrive died on it just after I got back from Chicago, but I’ve managed to recover most of the files off it. I’m now using an almost 10 year old Quantam 51/4” drive. It doesn’t boot unless I add root=/dev/hdb1 to the end of the LILO command line.. *ggrrr* It’ll suffice for WordPress development however!
BlogShares – why hoard?
I’m obviously missing something here, or maybe it’s in the docs but I didn’t read that paragraph. Why do people hoard shares of a particular blog on BlogShares?
Is it to show support for that site? Is it a longterm investment? (that could be one possible answer, if you expect a site to be linked to heavily it’s going to increase in value.)
My blog has a few investors who are in for the long haul. I recently sold all my stock in my blog and made a tidy profit, but if there’s no liquidity, then it’s just paper money (ok, never mind the fact that it’s all virtual money anyway..)
If you check my Blogshares profile you’ll see I have a few shares in davespicks.com. Why do I keep them? Dave’s a nice guy, and gave me shares in his site. Share dealing hasn’t been very liquid though so I’ve held on to them in the belief that someone else will sell and I can buy a few more shares at a cut down price.
Huh. Greed. As simple as that!
AOL Bloggers?
Dave wants feedback and reviews from AOL bloggers. No doubt the reviews will come rolling in, but I doubt scripting.com is at the top of the average AOL user’s bookmarks page.
BreakingNews.ie: Eiffel Tower is on fire
A Career in IT?
Kevin has compiled notes from the battlefield.
Go on! Pay up, ya thieves!
SCO is giving the “tainted” Linux users out there a way to clean up their filthy ways via a licensing program that will begin in the coming weeks.
After dolling out threats of legal action, SCO has called on enterprise Linux users to come forward and pay for code the company claims to own. The legal zealots at SCO reckon Linux has grown up too fast by nicking technology such as support for large SMP systems from its copyrighted Unix code. SCO plans to start calling Linux customers this week, asking them to pay up or face the consequences.
An Gramadóir
If you have an interest in the Irish language, beidh suim agat san clar seo. An Gramadóir will check your grammar and style. Kevin says, [it’s] the first grammar and style checker for the Irish language. In fact, to the best of my knowledge, this is the first such package for any minority language.
Dutch Breeze – Robocop 3 remix
The remix of the old Dutch Breeze/Robocop 3 tune on RKO is fabulous! Well worth a listen if you remember the original demo soundtrack!