The Mozilla organization announces the 1.0 version of their Thunderbird email client has shipped. I’ve been using Thunderbird for a few months on my Windows machines and have enjoyed the ease of use, spam filtering and security.
Archive | December, 2004
Red Hat: Truth Happens
Red Hat responds to their competitor’s claims with “Truth Happens:”
“First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”
– Mohandas GandhiDecember 6, 2004. Just another day at Red Hat.
The open source software model continues to make better software faster, just as it has for years. New people figure this out every day.
Some wonder why Red Hat doesn’t spend more time defending ourselves. Refuting their “facts” with our “facts.” Fighting to see who can buzz loudest.
Our feeling? We’ll continue to bring choice to our customers. We’ll continue to make better software faster, that scales and is surrounded by a powerful ecosystem of hardware and applications. Software that is priced fairly, and backed by quality service you can trust.
The evidence speaks for itself.
Check out the site for lots of interesting facts.
Eric Meyer: S5: Simple Standards-based Slide Show System
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report points out It takes a train to laugh.”… check out Eric Meyer’s Simple Standards-based Slide Show System, which lets you turn a single page into an unlimited number of virtual “slides,” complete with Back and Next buttons and a self-generating navigational drop-down menu.” What a slick deisgn! An entire slide show with navigation, CSS for design, display and print and cross-browser compatibility. Really cool!
One of these things is not like the other…
Paul McNett’s Weblog asks “Which Of These Articles Is Doing It’s Own Thing?
Can you pick out the article that just doesn’t seem to fit?
Here’s the link to the eWeek page:
http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1738,1252525,00.asp?kc=ewnws120204dtx1k0000599“
Is Microsoft Clueless About Fixing IE?
A marvelous rant from InfoWorld: Application development: Microsoft remains clueless about fixing IE. “Amazing. Article after blog after newsgroup message on why an increasing spike in the population graph is switching from Internet Explorer to Firefox or some other Web wanderer. All easily summarized like so (picture me shouting at the great Northwest): Because with Firefox we don’t need to worry about some nameless virgin’s virus experiment eating our hard disks like a pile of wet sushi. We just want to click on an icon and get a Web browser, not a menagerie of problems, exploits, downloadable patches, and reboots. For systems administrators, we can add user support calls at the end as well.”
Finally, Microsoft patches IE for non-XP systems
IE SP1 patched today. Garrett Fitzgerald blogs “Microsoft today released a patch for the recent IFRAME exploit that was used on some ad-serving sites recently. If you use IE and haven’t updated to Windows XP SP2, you want to go to Windows Update and grab this patch ASAP. ”
In other words, if you are one of the 300 million not running Windows XP, this patch is for you.
Microsoft to offer blogging tool in MSN Spaces
MSN Spaces Blogging Tool Ready to Roll. Microsoft Watch from Mary Jo Foley reports “MSN has been beta testing its blogging service in Japan since August. According to our sources, MSN will give MSN Spaces a red-carpet rollout later this week.”
It will be interesting to see Microsoft’s… innovations.
Update your Java runtimes to avoid security problems!
Sun: 1.9 million downloads of Java fix. InfoWorld: Top News reports “Sun Microsystems on Tuesday said there have been 1.9 million downloads of an upgraded version of J2SE to correct a possible security vulnerability in the JVM, although there have been no attacks reported based on the problem.”
Get those boxes patched!