My view of the world and anything that might interest me.
And I quote
Within 24 hours of the official launch on Tuesday, there were over 2 million people using Firefox 2, and we were seeing a peak rate of more than 30 downloads per second from our website.
I love it to see IE and in particularly IE7 being beaten and I cannot wait for the day that Firefox is used on more user desktops than IE (wishfull thinking on my part, I know)
Update: Christopher Blizzard said it a lot better than me …
The blogging software I use, WordPress, has just been upgraded to version 2.0.5 and I have followed their lead and upgraded my site also. If you find anything broken then please let me know.
I am in search of a new hosting evironment which basically must offer the following:
If you know of any hosting company that provide this and does not change and arm and a leg the please leave a comment or contact me.
I totally forgot to say something about the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) yesterday. There is a lot of great things in it and go and download your copy.
Also earlier this week Ubuntu walk away with the award for the best Linux distribution. Congrat to Mark and all the guys and gals that have worked on Ubuntu. Wish I could have joined them later next month at Googleplex for the next Ubuntu summit.
Now onto Festy Fawn (Ubuntu 7.04) 🙂
Update: It is Feisty and not Festy
I see that IBM South Africa has just opened a Linux competency centre. Since I will be moving to IBM 1 Dec this is of great interest to me. I am a big Linux and Ubuntu fan and user so the more big corporates gets involved in spreading Linux the better.
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Just took the plunge and installed Firefox 2 (actually upgraded from 1.5.0.7) and it seemed to go well. A couple of extensions that I use do not work with version 2 like the following:
This is my first observations and I will post more later about my experiences.
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My SA passport expires in February 2007 and it is probably time to get the ball rolling to get it renewed. Having heard and read about other peoples experiences renewing one’s passport, I am not looking forward to this.
At least I have some spare photos lying around so I do not have to go and have my picture taken.
Any good advice will be appreciated on making this process as painless as possible.
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I use Performancing plugin for Firefox as the main tool to do my blogging and have seen that they just launched a Performancing Partners Advertising network. To the right you will see that I have enabled it to see what it is all about.
At the same time I have enabled their metrics facility … lets see how good it is.
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After reading about IBM’s use and involvement in Second Life on Andy Piper’s blog, I decided that I should also give it a try and see what all the fuss is about.
Maybe it is my bandwidth (384kb/s ADSL), but I find it extremely slow. It will take me a while to find my way around it but have only spend a couple of minutes on it.
Time will tell whether I will stay.
Technorati Tags: IBM, Second Life, ADSL