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Mozilla Rolls Out Firefox 3.6 RC, Nears Final 145

Posted by Soulskill from the onwards-and-upwards dept.
CWmike writes "Mozilla has shipped a release candidate build of Firefox 3.6 that, barring problems, will become the final, finished version of the upgrade. Firefox 3.6 RC1, which followed a run of betas that started in early November, features nearly 100 bug fixes from the fifth beta that Mozilla issued Dec. 17. The fixes resolved numerous crash bugs, including one that brought down the browser when it was steered to Yahoo's front page. Another fix removed a small amount of code owned by Microsoft from Firefox. The code was pointed out by a Mozilla contributor, and after digging, another developer found the original Microsoft license agreement. 'Amusingly enough, it's actually really permissive. Really the only part that's problematic is the agreement to "include the copyright notice ... on your product label and as a part of the sign-on message for your software product,"' wrote Kyle Huey on Mozilla's Bugzilla. Even so, others working on the bug said the code needed to be replaced with Mozilla's own."
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NASA To Cryogenically Freeze Satellite Mirrors 47

Posted by Soulskill from the ain't-it-cool dept.
coondoggie writes "NASA said it will soon move some of the larger (46 lb) mirror segments of its future James Webb Space Telescope into a cryogenic test facility that will freeze the mirrors to -414 degrees Fahrenheit (~25 K). Specifically, NASA will freeze six of the 18 Webb telescope mirror segments at the X-ray and Cryogenic Facility, or XRCF, at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, in a test to ensure the critical mirrors can withstand the extreme space environments. All 18 segments will eventually be tested at the site. The test chamber takes approximately five days to cool a mirror segment to cryogenic temperatures."

Comment Generate the xml feed locally (Score 1) 87

by lanalyst (#16438281) Attached to: Free Podcasting Hosts?
Part of putting a new episode up is adding a new item to the rss feed and uploading that also. You should be doing this locally - no service provider will do it for you.

When I started a podcast project last year, I used FeedForAll to manually generate the feed. I had no special access to the site, so I downloaded new episodes to get the mp3 tag info (time, length), added the episodes and uploaded the update.

Since then, I've written a quick perl script that runs every hour and grabs all the information including downloading the mp3 and checking the tags. I'd automate the whole thing but there is some massaging of descriptions that wouldn't work.

Check out cpan.org - feedburner seems to be the lastest thing and there's a perl module to integrate with it. One thing - I didn't see a lot of support there for the itunes namespace extensions.

Comment Alternatively, you can test out Fedora Core 3 ppc (Score 1) 368

by Gunz (#11174762) Attached to: Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Reviewed
It amazes me the amount of "Free software" users that use Mac OSX. I dont think they are about Free Software or they wouldnt be running it. Its about "Not Windows" for those people, it just happens to run some free software. Mac OS X is propriatary. For those of us who do want to run Linux on their ppc, there is yellowdog (covered in article above) or Fedora for ppc. Colin Charles has covered the install process at http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.ht ml And the release announcement: http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fc3.relnotes and the .iso files are downloadable from: http://fedoraproject.org/fedorappc/FC-3/ Its not perfect yet, but it is getting very close.
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Journal Journal: XML the saviour of humanity.

Journal by Gunz
Still working on this online shop. After spending a weekend trying to get the CMD working, i was satisified with booting it and having the daemons run in a chrooted environment. Now, im writing a big fat data file conversion into XML. This will then be converted into insert statements for MySQL. This document will then be fetched by the webserver and inserted into the running database, you feel my joy dont you ? All this automation and no windows. Although I am learning XML reading and writi
It's funny. Laugh.

Journal Journal: Single again.

Journal by Gunz
My pathetic life, as it seems is taking a change, tracey is outside sleeping on the lounge. I'm not sure what i wanted out of this relationship, i dont know even if its worked out for her. I know it has made me a bit of a slob and now I dont organise anything. Could this be why she is angry, because I dont do anything, whenever I try she tells me not to. This is not good for me. I have to formulate a plan. I dont know what it is yet, but it needs to be done. I'll make a plan.. I will.. ju
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Journal Journal: Another day, another dance

Journal by Gunz
I sit here thinking in the dead of night what has been acheived today. Looking at my calender, well, I did get what i had planned, which wasnt very much. Problem is, that I help people at work, and my job is put by the layside. Failing to plan is planning to fail.. So the board at work says, which is kinda what I am doing. I dont set aside time for people to bug me. Well, I do have some new ideas, and im going to let them out of the box as they appear.
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Journal Journal: Sunday Avo

Journal by Gunz
After a late night, had some friends over, had to go on the callout the other day, I dont remember if i posted about it, but God it was painful. I have to go to work in the morning to finish up a job. Probably bring a box back onsite. Need to get. 10.1.5 update for clients 10.1.4 update. Need to get straight and crossover cable need to talk to radford about the ballsup with the macs. God damn, why cant people check whats going on, does the 350 have an Airport slot. No. Why send me out on a
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Journal Journal: Early morning

Journal by Gunz
Egats its early, I return to work today, starting slowly with onsite work, then moving back into the swing of things. The mail server isnt responding this morning, i dont know why.. I called them and surprise surprise nobody can tell me, they arnt even in yet. Just another reason why i should run LDAP and postfix.
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Journal Journal: Why i started this journal

Journal by Gunz
Well, I started this journal because my life sux pretty much right now, and what a better method others to learn than from my mistakes. I cant write grammer, i can't write code. I feel as though my life has been a waste. I am going to the gym now, and Im trying to get things organised in my life. I am thinking of quitting uni, because im not going too well. Anyways, keep you posted.

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