Month: June 2004

coalition of the willing set to revolutionise plugins

No, I’m not talking about W. & Co, I’m talking a different coalition, comprised of the following companies and organisations: a) Adobe b) Apple c) Macromedia d) The Mozilla Foundation e) Opera f) Sun Microsystems These six entities have embarked on a project to create more open, scriptable plugins. This is a huge win for … Continue reading “coalition of the willing set to revolutionise plugins”

No, I’m not talking about W. & Co, I’m talking a different coalition, comprised of the following companies and organisations:

a) Adobe
b) Apple
c) Macromedia
d) The Mozilla Foundation
e) Opera
f) Sun Microsystems

These six entities have embarked on a project to create more open, scriptable plugins. This is a huge win for end users everywhere, who will finally get open, supported plugins compatible with their favourite browser, whatever that happens to be.

Conspicuously missing from this coalition of the willing are Microsoft and Real (think “axis of evil” 😉 ), which should come as no surprise to anyone. They’re not about to embark upon the path of creating open software, released under so-called ‘viral’ licenses.

new $50 bill set to debut september 28th

Accoring to CNNmoney, the new $50 bill is set to debut this September 28th. It actually looks rather cool, and the CNNmoney article has good pictures at a decent resolution. It’s worth taking a look at.

Accoring to CNNmoney, the new $50 bill is set to debut this September 28th. It actually looks rather cool, and the CNNmoney article has good pictures at a decent resolution. It’s worth taking a look at.

firefox localisations

Benjamin Smedberg has posted on netscape.public.mozilla.l10n regarding how localisation is going to work for Firefox 1.0. Hopefully this should allay a lot of the concerns that people have been having about the current state of localisation in Firefox. Rest assured, localisation is a priority and is not something that the Firefox development team intends to … Continue reading “firefox localisations”

Benjamin Smedberg has posted on netscape.public.mozilla.l10n regarding how localisation is going to work for Firefox 1.0. Hopefully this should allay a lot of the concerns that people have been having about the current state of localisation in Firefox. Rest assured, localisation is a priority and is not something that the Firefox development team intends to overlook.

Feel free to discuss things here, but if you want Benjamin to read your responses, you should reply to him in the newsgroup itself. There is already a lot of discussion taking place in the newsgroup, and if you’re at all interested in the localisation process, I strongly suggest that you check it out.

firefox bugdays — we need help!

Blake Ross is planning on running Firefox-specifc Bugdays in the near future. If you’ve been triaging Firefox bugs for some time now, and feel confident that you can do a good job of triaging without much hand-holding, please get in touch with him so that he knows that you’re on board. Hopefully we can get … Continue reading “firefox bugdays — we need help!”

Blake Ross is planning on running Firefox-specifc Bugdays in the near future. If you’ve been triaging Firefox bugs for some time now, and feel confident that you can do a good job of triaging without much hand-holding, please get in touch with him so that he knows that you’re on board. Hopefully we can get Firefox Bugdays started up soon.

silly court rulings on IP addresses

What do you get when you take technical issues to court when the judges know nothing about internet standards? Silly rulings. A court in New Jersey has issued a temporary restraining order allowing a company to take its IP address with them when they move hosts. Anyone who knows the first thing about IP allocations … Continue reading “silly court rulings on IP addresses”

What do you get when you take technical issues to court when the judges know nothing about internet standards? Silly rulings.

A court in New Jersey has issued a temporary restraining order allowing a company to take its IP address with them when they move hosts. Anyone who knows the first thing about IP allocations and DNS knows that this is a ridiculous ruling, and violates ARIN policies and well established practices. In fact, the RFC for IPv6 explicitly states that relocatable IPs are not permitted.

visual studio 2005 beta 1

It looks like Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 has been released. I’m sure that a lot of MozillaZine readers who create optimised builds would be interested to know this, and possibly experiement with the new compiler and see what new creations they can make. 🙂 New in this version are Express editions of the product, … Continue reading “visual studio 2005 beta 1”

It looks like Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 has been released. I’m sure that a lot of MozillaZine readers who create optimised builds would be interested to know this, and possibly experiement with the new compiler and see what new creations they can make. 🙂

New in this version are Express editions of the product, one for each programming language that Visual Studio covers.

fahrenheit 9/11

I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend and I came out rather impressed with what Moore had done. I was expecting baseless propaganda, and was pleasantly surprised to see that much of the movie was grounded in facts. Having said this, I would certainly not rely on this movie as the gospel truth. I’d highly … Continue reading “fahrenheit 9/11”

I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 over the weekend and I came out rather impressed with what Moore had done. I was expecting baseless propaganda, and was pleasantly surprised to see that much of the movie was grounded in facts. Having said this, I would certainly not rely on this movie as the gospel truth.

I’d highly recommend that everyone goes to see it and form their own opinions. It should come as no surprise that I support Kerry in his bid for the White House. Not because he’s such a great guy, or a wonderful candidate, but because the alternative is far worse.

This November, Americans get to choose between bad (Kerry) and worse (Bush). Hopefully they’ll go with the lesser evil. What America really needs is another Bill Clinton.

firefox 0.9.1 and thunderbird 0.7.1

Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 have been released! Both releases contain bugfixes for some of the biggest bugs in their 0.9 and 0.7 releases. You really should check them out. Unfortunately, the fix for what I think is a conversion blocker (bug 246078) didn’t make it into 0.9.1. I’m confident it’ll get fixed by Firefox … Continue reading “firefox 0.9.1 and thunderbird 0.7.1”

Firefox 0.9.1 and Thunderbird 0.7.1 have been released! Both releases contain bugfixes for some of the biggest bugs in their 0.9 and 0.7 releases. You really should check them out.

Unfortunately, the fix for what I think is a conversion blocker (bug 246078) didn’t make it into 0.9.1. I’m confident it’ll get fixed by Firefox 1.0 Beta, though.

we’ve moved to a new host

After wanting to move away from Network Solutions for a long time now, I’ve finally moved my ebrahim.org domain over to pair Networks. One of the things I get at pair that I never had before was a decent managed web hosting platform, with CGI, PHP, and other goodies. So now I’ve moved away from … Continue reading “we’ve moved to a new host”

After wanting to move away from Network Solutions for a long time now, I’ve finally moved my ebrahim.org domain over to pair Networks.

One of the things I get at pair that I never had before was a decent managed web hosting platform, with CGI, PHP, and other goodies. So now I’ve moved away from Blogger and set up Movable Type. While Blogger is great, it just doesn’t provide the same flexiblity as MT does, particularly when it comes to advanced features.

One of the best things about this new setup is that I can also create subdomains of ebrahim.org, which I wasn’t able to do before. I’m excited about this. I know most of you who have been with decent web hosting services have been able to do this for a long time now; but what can I say? NSI sucks.

The next step is to move my ebrahim.org registration away from NSI, probably to either Gandi or pairNIC.

In the meantime, enjoy the new MT-powered blog. Now you no longer need to register in order to comment with a name! The only one thing I wasn’t able to do was import comments from Blogger. If anyone knows of a good way to do this, please let me know.

Right now I’m still pretty much using the MT defaults, with a few minor additions and changes to the templates. Sooner or later the blog will get more pretty as I customise things further. Bear with me while that happens. 🙂

movable type or wordpress?

I now have a real web hosting account with pair.com, and am looking to move my blog there at some point in the very near future. However, I still haven’t decided whether to use Movable Type or WordPress. I’m looking for some input on this decision, and would really appreciate it if people could comment … Continue reading “movable type or wordpress?”

I now have a real web hosting account with pair.com, and am looking to move my blog there at some point in the very near future. However, I still haven’t decided whether to use Movable Type or WordPress.

I’m looking for some input on this decision, and would really appreciate it if people could comment about their experiences with either one or the other, and try and guide me here as to their relative merits.

I should note that I am not interested in hearing arguments about licensing issues. I’m already aware of them, and have decided that they don’t matter to me. I am however very interested in hearing your comments about technical merits, or feature comparisons. Right now I’m leaning towards MovableType 3.0, but that could change.

I should also note that I’m somewhat tempted to stick with Blogger, but the lack of RDF feeds and post categories is somewhat of a damper on that sentiment.