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Submission + - SeaMonkey 2.1 Released (seamonkey-project.org)

Submitted by aodash on Friday June 10, 2011 @06:10PM

aodash writes: "The SeaMonkey project is proud to present SeaMonkey 2.1: The new major release of the all-in-one Internet suite is available for download now! Building on the same Mozilla platform as Firefox 4, it delivers the latest developments in web technologies such as HTML5, hardware acceleration and improved JavaScript speed."

Additionally, KaiRo put forward a proposal (http://home.kairo.at/blog/2011-06/weekly_status_report_w22_2011) which would allow the SeaMonkey dev process to mirror Firefox's beta/aurora/nightly development process.

Comment Re:VirtualBox seems alive & well (Score 1) 235

by aodash on Thursday February 10, 2011 @04:56PM (#35166374) Attached to: Post-Oracle Purchase, How Is Sun's Software Doing?

SGE (now Oracle Grid Engine), Dead (closed and no longer free).

Comment kfreebsd kernel too (Score 2) 283

by aodash on Thursday December 16, 2010 @07:01PM (#34581308) Attached to: Debian 6.0 To Feature a Completely Free Kernel

Not just Linux, they yanked it out of the kfreebsd kernel too, which is causing problems because you can't just install a firmware-kfreebsd package - yet. I think they were a bit premature pulling the trigger on the kfreebsd kernel. Check out: http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/12/msg00046.html and http://bugs.debian.org//cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=594940

Comment Hopefully... (Score 2, Insightful) 271

by aodash on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @06:30PM (#32023048) Attached to: HP To Buy Palm For $1.2 Billion

HP won't pull an Oracle - ruin Palm the way Oracle has ruined Sun.

Why Computers Suck At Math 626

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday October 31, 2009 @08:16AM from the must-be-lit-majors dept.

antdude writes "This TechRadar article explains why computers suck at math, and how simple calculations can be a matter of life and death, like in the case of a Patriot defense system failing to take down a Scud missile attack: 'The calculation of where to look for confirmation of an incoming missile requires knowledge of the system time, which is stored as the number of 0.1-second ticks since the system was started up. Unfortunately, 0.1 seconds cannot be expressed accurately as a binary number, so when it's shoehorned into a 24-bit register — as used in the Patriot system — it's out by a tiny amount. But all these tiny amounts add up. At the time of the missile attack, the system had been running for about 100 hours, or 3,600,000 ticks to be more specific. Multiplying this count by the tiny error led to a total error of 0.3433 seconds, during which time the Scud missile would cover 687m. The radar looked in the wrong place to receive a confirmation and saw no target. Accordingly no missile was launched to intercept the incoming Scud — and 28 people paid with their lives.'"

Mozilla Releases SeaMonkey 2.0 185

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 29, 2009 @02:48PM from the little-people-in-fishbowls dept.

binarybum writes "Often forgotten, but the independent open source spirit lives strong in the once Mozilla project — now SeaMonkey. Version 2.0 is finally out and rivals Firefox with similar features but integrated email with a small footprint." The Register has a short piece on the 2.0 release, which mentions that SeaMonkey is now based on Firefox 3.5.4. Stephen Shankland lists some of the features in a handy bullet-point style, too. I'm using the new release right now; it's crashed once — but only once — in several hours of use.

Submission + - SeaMonkey 2.0 released (seamonkey-project.org) 2

Submitted by aodash on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @04:16PM

aodash writes: The SeaMonkey project at Mozilla is excited to release its completely refurbished next generation of the all-in one Internet suite today: SeaMonkey 2.0, now available for free download, melds the ideas behind Netscape Communicator with the modern platform of Firefox 3.5 to create one of the most compelling open source products for advanced Internet users.

The combination of an Internet browser, email & newsgroup client, HTML editor, IRC chat and web development tools, that has already established a wide user base in its previous incarnations, has been rebuilt on top of the modern Mozilla platform, featuring world-class add-on management among other things.

Comment Re:Opera Mini != spyware ? (Score 1) 110

by aodash on Wednesday November 29, 2006 @11:47PM (#17044486) Attached to: Opera Mini 3.0 Now Available

Fair enough - I had forget that the primary market for Opera Mini is cell phones (I don't even browse the web on mine) and not the Wi-Fi enabled PDA I was testing it on. As such I didn't see the point of proxying the connection, especially when I may or may not trust who is proxying it.

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