I’m shocked. Here’s the story. What more can I say?
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Mozilla, Firefox, Linux, and GPL3
This article at ZDnet.co.uk on the forthcoming third version of the General Public License is quite interesting. It mentions that there is the spectre of licence-incompatible forks of various GPL licensed projects like the Linux kernel. Now, I humbly ask the greater Mozilla community some questions. What do we know about GPL3 that might be […]
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I hate LiveJournal for breaking Password Manager
LiveJournal breaks Firefox’s Password Manager, and therefore I hate it. It’s annoying as all hell. Why? This Bugzilla bug shows some detail. Basically, LJ and other sites don’t actually use your password, but an MD5 hash of it so it’s not sent over the net in cleartext, and manage this with some client-side JavaScripting to […]
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Bugzilla email address changed!
I have changed my email address in Bugzilla. For several years it’s been my MozillaNews.org address, with my handle of “jesus_X” (which I also use for IRC, if you ever stop by irc.mozilla.org), so people coulg CC me using that as an identifier. I have changed it now to route to my personal domain, burntelectrons.org. […]
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It’s time to put up or shut up.
There, I said it. I’ll say it more bluntly. We, as a community, whine too damn much and do too damn little. Hell, I admit that I was part of the whiners at times. The Mozilla Suite communty right now is sounding a lot like the Mac OS 9 community did a couple years ago […]
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Bandwidth costs money…
Yikes. Seems some of the stuff I had in Shared Media got linked from some pix site. In two days it burnt through 4.06GB in an hour. And another 3.31GB over the next day. It was my cache of Lindsey Lohan pictures. I’ve had to slap a password on them for now, because I’m less […]
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Pushy Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, Condoms, and other prosaic topics.
I’m really getting tired of these pushy Evangelical Christians shoving their version of Christianity down the throats of Americans. Every day I hear about how Government needs to start taking moral stances against television, movies, music, culture, etc.; how we need to put prayer back in schools; how we need statues of the Ten Commandments […]
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Help Identify These Heads!
Ok, my mother received these busts of an Indian man and woman many years ago as gifts. And after all these years, we’re interested in their origin. I’ve taken photos of the front and profile views of each one, and a shot of the maker’s mark stamp on the back bottom of each, and they’re […]
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On The Firefox Review Deficit
Mike Connor talks about the diminishing amount of time he can dedicate to reviewing Firefox patches. The thing is, this isn’t a new problem. I’m not bashing Mike at all, far from it. There have always been more patches than reviewers can handle, and some folks have noticed there’s the occasional reviewer MIA. Maybe an […]
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Save Enterprise!
Save Enterprise! This year, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga stepped back from running the daily operations and writing duties of Enterprise. They brought in the fantastically talented Manny Coto to run the show. Since then, the quality of Enterprise has skyrocketed. Season one had promise. Season two broke that promise. Season three finally had purpose, […]
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