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Minefield (aka Firefox 3 Beta Nightly Build)

Posted by ryan on Tue, 04/29/2008 - 07:49 in

I suppose I'm a glutton for punishment because for the last few weeks I've been running the Firefox 3 beta (v5). Under heavy load it was quite unstable (6+ tabs including Gmail, Gcal, etc). So I started using the *nightly snapshots* (aka Minefield), which for potentially explosive software is much more stable than b5.

BTW, the improved look and performance of v3, even in beta form, make it obvious this is going to be a significant upgrade for Firefox.

The Internet: Still a little of that Wild West feel

Posted by colin on Sun, 05/06/2007 - 11:01 in

When you see movies set in the wild west, you always see the traveling salesman, the schister doctor, the small carnivals, and so on.  And one thing you might see as you get into more developed t

Disasters and News

Posted by colin on Tue, 04/17/2007 - 07:37 in

Can someone point me in the right direction to an article or study that describes how the relationship between traditional media and consumers is changing?  For example, which resource do people

google does it again (MyMaps)

Posted by ryan on Thu, 04/05/2007 - 09:11 in

Stupid Google just keeps pumping out the dope shiat. Now you can take their maps site and create your own maps (a feature I've been wanting for a while).

2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary

Posted by ryan on Fri, 03/30/2007 - 07:55 in

Here's a very thorough run-down of the major server operating system and their potential exploits:

OmniNerd - Articles: 2006 Operating System Vulnerability Summary