Peng’s links for Sunday, 22 Mar

As much as I tried to stay on top of my feeds this week I still end up with 25 items in my ToBlog folder. Luckily I’m going to cull out some of the older ones as well as a few things that aren’t so post-worthy at this point. But I have a great (OT) vid to share with y’all at the end.

• ArsTechnica: Get it done with GNOME Do 0.8. A very nice story on how much easier Gnome Do makes using GNOME-based GNU/Linux distros. Thanks to Peter Stuifzand over on the Do Google Group for letting me know about it.
• Jonathan Ernst: HP refunds 520$ for unused software. There was just now way I wasn’t going to share this story.
• Jon Beebe: Top 10 Reasons I’ll Never Use Ubuntu. Yes, it’s from a Linux guy, but it’s a great tongue-in-cheek list.
• Srinivasa Ragavan: Announcing ‘Anjal’- the new mail for netbooks. If you use a netbook you should definitely check out Anjal for your email client.
• Stefano Forenza: Chinese MID deploying Ubuntu by default. Speaking of netbooks, I may have to find a way to get one of these. Not only do they run my fav OS, but they’re pretty darned inexpensive as well.
• Stefano Forenze: New wallpapers for Jaunty. Don’t hold your breath. I’m liking how some of them look, although I know they won’t be everyone’s cup of espresso.
• Wouter Verhelst: Dealing with apt’s GPG signing stuff — the right way. If you use third party sources for installing and updating your GNU/Linux you know about adding GPG signing keys. Wouter has instructions for adding them in a way that doesn’t inject a security flaw, and that defeats the purpose of importing a GPG key in the first place.
• Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo: Is ext4 unsafe? The next update to Ubuntu will add support for ext4 partitions, and lately people have been talking about security concerns with ext4. Luckily Jose has info to set your mind at ease.
• Josselin Mouette: Which logo for the main GNOME menu in Debian? I could have skipped this post from Friday, but the “swirl foot” icons are so cute I may have to grab them for my own system.
• Isabelle Duchatelle: Ubuntuforums nuts and bolts. Isabelle has some very handy Ubuntu Forums links you may want to bookmark, as well as some rather nice numbers for what’s going on at UF)
• Tom Dryer: How-to Install Google Earth 5 on Ubuntu. The latest update for GE brings some really nice new features. Tom gives us a very quick and easy way to install this new version, as well as some troubleshooting info.
• Joe Barker: Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) – My Thoughts So far. Joe’s been playing with late alpha of Ubuntu 9.04 and is kind enough to let us know how it’s behaving on his system. Remember, no matter how well (or unwell) any software runs on a person’s system, Your Milage May Vary, simply because their hardware, software and particular configuration is bound to be different from yours. But so far Joe’s pretty happy with it, although I’m hearing that those of us on the Mac4Lin dev team are unhappy about yet more bloody changes to things that are affecting our software. Yet again. Grrr.
• Guillaume Desmottes: Good GNOME news. We’re just about to see a beta release of Ubuntu 9.04 and that means there is an update coming down the pike for GNOME. And as a matter of fact it came out on Wednesday. Guillaume has the best post that I’ve seen with info on what’s new in this update, next to the release notes, that is. Hell, just looking at the improvements for users makes me want to snag the beta for Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackelope” just so I can play with it sooner!
  

I had a few other links I was going to share with y’all, but I think that’s enough for a weekend. If you’re in need of a good laugh (and some of your NCAA brackets may be in the toilet by now from what I’m hearing), check out this vid. As much as I try not to laugh at what happens to the poor feline I just can’t help myself.

Peng’s links for Thursday, 4 December

• Stefano Forenza: Has Torvalds finally won? The father of Linux once said that he’d have won if Microsoft ever makes an app for Linux. Some people might say that the availability of a beta version of Moonlight, GNU/Linux port of Silverlight, means Torvalds got his win. But Stefano isn’t so sure.
• Jono Bacon: Governments And Free Content Policies. The current website for president-elect Obama used to protect their content with a traditional copyright. But not anymore. Jono has the details, if not the scoop.
• xkcd: xkcd store. You love reading the strips. You may even have some of them on your fridge or the wall of your cubical. Now you can slap it on your clothes. If you order by the 12th you’ll get it by Chrismukkuh Eve if you’re in the States. If you’re in the EU they’ll try to get it to you in time, but you need to order soon.
• TualatriX: Ubuntu Tweak became Brothersoft Editor’s Picks! Congrats to the gang at Ububntu Tweaks for their latest, and very well deserved, honor. And he says the next version “will come soon.”
• Uwe Hermann: Playing Starcraft on Linux using Wine. I wasn’t sure how big a deal this is until I mentioned it to a Windows-loving roomie and big-time gamer, and he was impressed. That tells me that I need to post a link to the story, especially since it’s a tutorial.
• Dr. Horrible News: DVD Launch on Amazon! Earlier this year we had the joy of enjoying a three-part video written specifically and produced for the web by Joss Whedon and company. The DVD is finally coming on the 19th of December, and it will include “Commentary! The Musical!” I can’t wait. Amazon also has a behind-the-scenes clip you can watch for free. Now if we could only buy a CD or tracks without having to go through iTunes. Do I need to have Jayne Cobb have a talk with Joss about it?
• Biella Coleman: FLOSS Manuals. I’m going to cheat here and tell you that Beilla has a very short post about an easy way to get manuals for a wide range of free and open source programs. You definitely want to go get the links from her. And my little blurb about her post is longer than her post is, but she’s got the links you want.
• Nick Ali: Linux Basics Classes at Micro Center. If you need a nice introductory course to using GNU/Linux you better get to MicroCenter and reserve a seat. Nick’s got the date and links.
• MJ Ray: Do Your Shop Photos Leak? Do you take pictures with a digital camera and then post them online? You may be sharing more information than you realize.
• Mozilla Developer News: Firefox 2.0.0.18 users to be offered a free upgrade! Firefox 2.x will soon reach the end of it’s support, and the Mozilla devs are giving users one more chance to use their upgrade mechanism to get Firefox 3 without having to manually download and install it. Although this is one user who is damned sorry to see Firefox 2 reach the end of its security updates, and I can’t promise it won’t be used from time to time. The interface is still better than Firefox 3’s because it doesn’t need remove-ons just to keep the default behavior that Firefox users have been using for so long. And Firefox 3.1 is going to bring the need for even more remove-ons. Sometimes I hate Mozilla devs with the heat of a thousand nuns because of some of the add-ons they fold into the base product. What the hell happened to using add-ons to add new behaviors rather than removing them?

Peng’s links for Thursday, 20 November

• John Goerzen: Web Design Companies That Understand Technology. How many sites have you seen with lists of what you should use in order to see the site as designed? Note to web designers: If I have to have a specific web browser, fonts, etc. to see a site you designed, you did a crappy job and should have to pay us.
• MJ Ray: How to Check Web Shops for Basic Security. With all the stories of identity theft coming after someone bought something on, or provided personal information to, a web site, MJ has a list of things you should do to make sure your information will be secure. This article should be required reading for anyone using a web browser, regardless of which web browser they use or why.
• Jono Bacon: On Feedback. Most tech developers love getting feedback from the user community. It’s not always pretty, but it is vital if you want to create a program users will want to keep using.
• DesktopLinux: “Moonlight” ready to shine. Are you ready to try the Linux port of Microsoft’s hopeful Flash killer? Not only is it getting close (devs say it will be here “very, very soon”), the devs are already working on Moonlight 2.0. Personally I’ll check it out, but I still hate sites that make me add a new plugin just to enjoy their content, especially since Flash has been around for so long and is already embracing the Linux community. Microsoft’s Silverlight? Only thanks to third party programmers, which is not the same.
• Jono Bacon: Announcing the Ubuntu Hall Of Fame. We’ve got some rock stars in the Ubuntu community. To find out who you have to read Jono’s post.
• Mackenzie Morgan: Tis Better to Dup Than to Convolute. I’ve gone to report some bugs and found some very similar bugs already reported. Should I report the bug again or not? Mackenzie gives some most excellent guidance on the matter. And yes, if you’re using software and find a bug please don’t assume someone’s already reported it. It’s better to end up with a duplicate bug than to leave an issue unreported. Never filed a bug before? It’s not so hard.

Paul Mummer posted a quote that I had to mark to post, even if it wasn’t so germane to that last link.

With shallow users, everything is a bug.

Peng’s links for Friday, 7 November

• Emanuele Gentili: nUbuntu 8.10 Alpha Release is out. nUbuntu is an Ubuntu-based security distro, and if you’re willing to help test it you can snag the alpha.
• Northsider: Ubuntu Logo. Firefox fans have been putting the logo everywhere, including in the middle of some oats in Oregon, but a user of the Ubuntu Forums has stumbled across a pic of the Ubuntu logo in an unexpected place.
• Steven Harms: Creative open sources their driver. Creative Labs has released the source code for their X-Fi driver under the GNU GPLv2. Good on ya, Creative!
• Mike Hommey: Another tool to mount virtual disk images. There’s a new tool for mounting virtual disks, but the news isn’t as good as you might think.
• Behdad Esfahbod: Improving Login Time, Part 2: gnome-settings-daemon fixed. The GNOME devs are working on getting the boot time down and they’ve posted a progress report. Warning: A lot of the post is technospeak so you may end up asking if any of the post is food.
• Ara Pulido: Are you running Hardy? Join us in a new testing day! Not everyone is upgrading to Ubuntu Intrepid since Hardy is a long-term support (LTS) release. If you’re one sticking with Hardy there’s an Ubuntu Testing Day on Monday and the devs would love you to join them in testing some new ISO images.
• Linux-Watch.com: Microsoft breaks HotMail for Linux users? Linux users are having trouble using and creating new HotMail accounts. Could Microsoft be showing it’s noncompetitive side again?
• Dustin Kirkland: VP-Elect Joe Biden is responsible for Open Source Email Encryption? We all know that Al Gore supposedly invented the Interweb, and it looks like the Obama campaign used Ubuntu (which I meant to blog a while back), but it looks like Senator Biden actually had a hand in getting open source encryption tools in widespread use.
• John Goerzen: Search for Backup Tools. A member of Planet Debian takes an other shot at looking for backup software. If you’re looking for some you should read his post, which provides some nice info on the options available. And while you’re at his blog you should definitely read his post about “memorable moments.”
• Vincent Tunru: Ubuntu from your flash drive – easier than ever before. If you find yourself wanting to use a flash drive for carrying around your documents you may also want to put your preferred OS on it as well. You may not always be able to use it (you can’t boot from it on computers at the Boston Public Library, for example) but it will be very handy for those times when you can use it.
• LinuxDevices.com: Voting-machine firm sued for GPL violations. Those silly folks over at PES (a subsidiary of Diebold) have been sued for including the Ghostscript Postscript interpreter without complying with the terms of the GPL. Woops!

An Intrepid update

Using the intrepid-proposed repository, I’ve finally managed to get not only WINE and my video card working properly under Intrepid (thanks in part to updates to not only the Nvidia 96 legacy drivers but also jockey, which is the new front end for managing drivers), they also put out an update to gnome-pilot that let me properly sync my PDA again. I had been having to kill gpilot-applet and gpilotd not only to be able to sync my PDA but also after syncing to keep gpilotd from going crazy with my CPU.

Have a good weekend, everyone!

OpenOffice.org 3 is here!

OpenOffice.org, the open source productivity suite that keeps many of us from having to shell out so much dough for Microsoft Office (or have to run it under WINE) released version 3 of their software on Monday. I would have blogged it sooner (before Wednesday) but I had been having some issues with the spreadsheet component in the beta versions, but once I got the final version everything works like a champ.

The changes are obvious even from the moment the splash screen pops up, and there are also a new start screen, new icons, and a boatload of improvements. Among them are

• A new slider tool for zooming in the Writer word processor. Writer also has multi-page display when editing, better multilingual support, improved notes and can even handle editing wiki documents for the Wide Wide World of Web.
• The Calc spreadsheet can now handle up to 1024 columns per sheet, and it also has a new equation solver and new collaboration tools.
• Draw accepts poster-size graphics up to 3 square meters.
• The Impress presentation editor finally supports multiple monitors, making it an even better replacement for PowerPoint.
• Chart has cleaner looking graphics by default, and the requests from power users have been granted with some of their most demanded features being included.
• The built-in PDF exporter now supports PDF/A and has even more user-selectable options.

I’ve been using Writer to work on some software documentation and it’s even easier to use than the previous version, and while I hadn’t been able to work on a spreadsheet while beta testing OOo3 I can now say that it was definitely worth waiting for, not just in the better graphics but also in just plain being easier to use.

OSX users can rejoice in finally having OpenOffice.org as a native program, without having to run it in a compatibility mode. With Microsoft admitting that MS Office/Mac isn’t nearly as nice as it is for Windows users they may find they’re losing even more market share to the FOSS upstarts.

There are even more extensions available than version 2 had and I’m looking forward to taking some time to see what new and improved goodies are available.

You can read the official release announcement, release notes and a guide to all the new features, and you can download the latest version for yourself.

Tombuntu has info on how to install it in Ubuntu Hardy and Intrepid, but it won’t be available by default in Ubuntu Intrepid. Granted, if you follow Tom’s innstructions you’ll still have to create launchers for OOo 3, but if you uninstall the older version of OpenOffice.org (Tom shows you how) you can install the Desktop Integraton package included in the installer and it will create menu items for you.

Peng’s links for Saturday, 20 September

• DesktopLinux.com: Ubuntu to fund Linux development. Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Ubuntu parent (and Free Software Day 2008 sponsor) Canonical has hired a team of designers to make Linux the most usable operating system in the world.
• Markus Thielman: Flash 10 RC2 for Ubuntu Hardy. Adobe has updated Flash 20 to a second release candidate (aka version 10.0.10.12) with a bunch of new features and bug fixes, and Markus was kind enough to package it and make it available the updated flashplungin-nonfreebeta his PPA. Being in his PPA means that if you’ve added his PPA to your software sources list you’ll get the update in your next upgrade cycle. (Markus’ post was written on Tuesday and I didn’t have it flagged properly for my last links post. My bad.)
• Nick Bauermeister: How to set up Compiz Fusion 0.7.4. With Compiz Fusion’s  update to 0.7.4 earlier this year (available with Ubuntu Hardy) came some new goodies you can play with. Nick once again has an updated post for how to Desktop Effects to get some really cool effects, like using the Desktop Cube and setting up transparencies, as well as making your cube into an aquarium with the Atlantis plugin. Alas, I believe the Desktop Sphere comes in a new version of CF but he still has some great settings. If you are a Linux user and use Compiz Fusion Nick’s post should be bookmarked, whether you usually bookmark pages or not.
• Scott Ritchie: “Native Ports” are not better. Many people love to rant about how using programs like WINE to run apps is bad and how devs should simply port their favorite app/game/whatever to Linux. Scott, being a pretty smart guy, gives the rant a reality check and points out that properly bringing an app to work nativity in Linux is a ton of work.
• Wine HQ News: Wine 1.1.5 Released. Speaking of WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator), the WINE devs have rolled out yet another update, with “substantial JavaScript implementation” a quite a bit more. If you have WINE HQ on your repository list you should have gotten the update this morning. If you don’t, what are you waiting for?
• Alan Pope: No competition. Have you seen the Microsoft ads with Jerry Seinfeld? They’ve been replaced by ads that take aim squarely at Apple’s “I’m a Mac” ads. But those ads remind Alan of something that happened to him at a pub not to long ago.
• Ed Bott: Apple continues to deceive users. You may remember Nanci’s post from March about Apple trying to shove Safari down the throats of Windows users who have installed iTunes and the ruckus Apple got for doing it. It looks like they’re doing it again, and this time they’re not even respecting the user’s decisions on what not to install. Thanks to Asa Dotzler for bringing the matter to my attention.
• Marius Nestor: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6 Screenshot Tour. When I wrote about Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha 6 being released yesterday I didn’t know about this, but the good people at Softpedia have once again put together a snapshot tour of how the Ibex is coming along. I would have added this to yesterday’s post but I wanted to make sure all of our readers got this update. Thanks again to sharks from the Ubuntu Forums for letting me know this latest tour was available.

Before I hit the Publish button on this post I wanted to join Matthew Helmke in urging everyone in the United States who are eligible to vote but haven’t yet registered, check out this very comprehensive list of info on voter registration in the USA. Being a republic, the voters here don’t actually make the decisions, we elect people who will make them for us. Do you really want someone else to pick who’s going to make decisions that affect so many areas of your life, especially with the current economic crisis? If you’re a convicted felon you may want to see if you’re eligible to vote again. Some states, including Virginia and Florida, have decided that some felons are eligible to vote again. You may be able to vote again, too, so check with your local Registrar of Voters to see if you are.

[UPDATED] Peng’s links for Friday, 22 August

[Updated to include an update for WINE. -Peng]

• muted articulation. I found this blog while checking the August 2008 Desktop Screenshot Thread and there are some great articles on it, especially one about timelapsed backgrounds in GNOME and his post on browser quirks. This blog belongs in your RSS reader, and I’m hoping we’ll get him on at least the Ubuntu Weblogs planet soon. Btw, if you’re looking for some ideas on things you can do to freshen up your desktop you should try to take the time to go through this month’s desktop screenie thread, and as many months as you can. I’ve gotten some nice ideas from those threads. It does take some time every day to get caught up (we’re up to 92 pages as of this writing) but it’s always worth the time to me. My only real problem is that I’ve got a lot more wallpapers for my rotation after getting some of the ones used on other people’s desktops. They’re that nice.
• Jonathan DiCarlo: Tabbing Through the Tabs and More Questions (and No Answers) about Tabs. Jono has some nice info on using tabs in Firefox, especially moving from tab to tab. I’m not sure if his ideas will be incorporated into Firefox, but if not I hope it becomes an extension. It would sure make moving between tabs easier, especially when I have several tabs open on a single site, which happens a lot more often for some of us than you may realize.
• Gervase Markham: Two Ways To Become a Beta Tester. A short but simple post showing the difference between how Microsoft and Mozilla, and for that matter most of the open source community, looks at beta testing.
• DesktopLinux.com: Linux to gain anti-virus software. McAfee is wanting to protect “Linux-based laptops and MIDs (mobile Internet devices) from ’security challenges.’” Does this mean programs like Clam AntiVirus are crap? Or does it simply mean that McAfee sees the growing popularity of Linux and figures people will get around to start writing Linux malware sooner or later and wants to start cashing in on it now? (For the record, Linux users don’t really need anti-virus software at this point because it’s so difficult to write and spread that kind of malware on the Linux platform.)
• Launchpad News: Launchpad 2.1.8: Bugzilla and Trac plugins now available, plus karma for commits. Launchpad, the bug tracking software from Canonical (parent company of the Ubuntu Linux distribution) just gets better and better. The plugins for Bugzilla and Trac make it even easier to link upstream bugs, thus getting fixes where they belong faster.
• Kevin DuBois: Tips for spawning GUI’s from the Command Line. Some people love the command line, some people prefer Gui’s (graphical user interfaces). But did you know there’s a way to start a program from the command line without having to tie up a Terminal window while it runs? I didn’t either. I’m going to have to remember Kevin’s info for later use.
• Aaron Leventhal: Firefox and OS X’s VoiceOver … Reading the Magic 8 Ball. OSX has some nice accessibility tools like their VoiceOver screen reader. Unfortunately they’re proprietary tools and it’s just not that easy for other programs to use them. But the Mozilla devs are bound and determined to find a way to make things easier to use for people with disabilities.
• andrewsomething/Ubuntu Forums: Contributing to Intrepid. While I really wish this has been posted to a blog on Planet Ubuntu rather than as a topic on the UF, this is a must read for anyone wanting to help get the next version of Ubuntu ready to ship in October. No programming knowledge, let alone experience, required, just the willingness to install and run Intrepid and help report bugs. Intrepid is still in development and may cause major breakage at any point, so it should not be run on your primary computer, but if you have a second computer you can run it on we’d love to have you help test it.
• WINE HQ News: WINE 1.1.3 Released. I know, another new version of WINE? You betcha, and there are a number of improvements, including “many installer fixes” and “tweaks for better PulseAudio support.” It’s not available in the Ubuntu repos yet, but this may be one of those programs you get directly so you can keep up with updates. Update Sat 23 Aug 8:00: When I checked for updates this am I saw wine_1.1.3~winehq0~ubuntu~8.04-0ubuntu1 presented to me as an update. I believe it’s in hardy-proposed, but I couldn’t confirm that. It should be available to all Ubuntu Hardy users before too long.
• Miia Ranta: If I really knew how to code… A member of Planet Ubuntu shares her wish list. You’ve got to love her emote at the bottom of her post. One of these day I may have to join her in that emote. [Get your mind out of the gutters. It's not that kind of emote. lol]
• Lydia Pintscher: Nerrivik released. You’re thinking “WHAT released???”, but Nerrivik is the code name for the first beta of Amarok 2.0, the next version of the KDE media player I use on my GNOME box, even though it means I have to install some KDE libraries. Amarok used to be my primary media player until I discovered MPD/Sonata. Check out the screenshot that Lydia posts, then go read the release notes. (Her link takes you through Digg, mine gets you there directly. No offense, Lydia.)

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Peng’s links for Saturday, 26 July

Finally I’m able to blog again. I had spied some great links I wanted to pass along in the last few days and I’m finally able to post them.

• Fabrizio Balliano: 10+2 things you’ll get with Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex”. We’re less than three months from the next version of Ubuntu, and we even have a third beta alpha that just came out (thanks for the correction, Mackenzie), but Fabrizio gives us some things to look forward to having when the Ibex hits in October.
• Edward Lee: Firefox 3.1 Restricts, Matches, Keywords. There will be new ways to limit what comes up in the Smart Location Bar. (Kudos to Ed for using that name for the bar rather than the name that so many of us hate.)
• Christer Edwards: OpenOffice Easter Egg and Joey Stanford: OpenOffice Credits. These two posts have some info on some fun Easter eggs in the open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org.
• Justin Dugger: Backgrounds for people with no talent. Justin praises the official background for Ubuntu Hardy (which I also love), but he also has a way for anyone to make a new desktop wallpaper, even if you aren’t artistically inclined.
• LinuxDevices.com: “Handheld recording studio” mixes with Linux. For all those who want to set up a demo recording studio in their place of abode, or even build a Linux-based rig for doing remote recording, Trinity Audio Group may have just the thing you’ve been looking for.
• Steven Rose: “Ultamatix: The New Automatix”. While some people hated the Automatix software source before it was shut down back in March, some people thought it’s closing was bad news. Someone’s come out with a replacement, although not everyone’s seeing this as good news. Personally I think there are already good ways to install just about anything in Ubuntu and if you can take the time to learn how to use them there’s very little software you won’t be able to use.
• Anat Narayanan: Microsoft joins Apache. You saw that right, Microsoft is now a sponsor of the Apache Software Foundation. I guess they’re really putting their bankbook their positive comments about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). And someone from Mozilla got thanked for helping educate Microsoft about why FOSS is such a good idea.

Microsoft patch cause major ‘net issues for users of ZoneAlarm firewalls

I usually don’t worry about news from Microsoft, but this morning I saw a note on mozillaZine that an update blocked Internet access for users of ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite. My roomie, who uses ZoneAlarm’s free firewall just got the latest updates for Windows XP and when he rebooted he was unable to access the Internet. I checked on Google News and saw some articles that states that a Microsoft security patch for Windows XP is the culprit. According to vnunet.com ZoneAlarm has a workaround to Microsoft’s Security update for Windows (KB951748).

My roomie ended up deleting ZoneAlarm and installing the Comodo free firewall, and for the first time ever just played an Ogg Vorbis file from my hard drive. ZoneAlarm never even let him see my shared directories, let alone play audio files from them. My other roomie hasn’t taken the update yet since they were doing a “download from hell” and now isn’t taking it at all yet.

I have to wonder how many other users will think it’s a ZoneAlarm issue and switch to another firewall. Granted, another solution for the issue is to use an operating system that doesn’t have to worry about firewalls, anti-virus or anti-spyware programs. I don’t know about OSX, but Ubuntu, like all Linux distros, is in the enviable position of not needing them (unless they make frequent use of something like IEs4Linux for browsing the ‘net) since the malware writers don’t even write for Linux. Yet.

Peng’s links for Thursday, 29 May

[Updated to include a link I missed. - Peng)

• jdrago_999/Ubuntu Forums: Reflections after 1 month of Ubuntu 8.04. I rarely post links to posts on the UF but this one is so nice I had to share it. The user in question has used Linux on servers for about a decade but had “never successfully made the leap to Linux on the Desktop.” I think that has now changed.
• Mary Colvid/Planet Mozilla: At last, a shot at Guinness World Record fame! Mozilla has a chance at setting a new world’s record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours on the day Firefox 3 is officially released. (Sorry, the date hasn’t been set yet.) I talked with Nanci and we decided we’re not going to pimp this event due to our issues with Firefox 3, but we definitely wanted to let you know it was on the horizon.
• David Thomas: Microsoft’s deceptive advertising, again. Microsoft is trying to show they’re now open source proponents, but when you look at what they’re offering you may find that you have to laugh at them.
• Tristan Nitot/Planet Mozilla: How Firefox 3 performance boost makes a difference in the real world. There have been numerous claims about how much faster Firefox 3 is, but Tristan that it’s not just hype. He even gives you a real life test case that you can try for yourself.
• Marc Hershberg/LA Dodgers.com: Relive the 1988 World Series. The Dodgers are releasing a seven disk box set of DVDs includes over 17 hours of footage from the Dodger’s championship run against the Oakland A’s, including footage from their NLCS battle against the Mets. This set will be a winner for all baseball fans, not just Dodger fans.