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Slashback: Australia, Nomenclature, Books
Please, no more name changing. suqur writes "As a follow-up to many stories previously posted, News.com reports that the recently renamed Mozilla Firebird browser (previously known as Phoenix) has finally given up on its new name, and relinquished the name. The new names for the Mozilla Firebird and Mozilla Thunderbird will be Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Mail, respectively. Looks like they're right back where they started, eh?"
Whatever the name, Mozilla is still only almost perfect: GeekLife.com writes "An old Mozilla exploit continues to crash almost any version/flavor of Mozilla with just 5 lines of plain HTML code (no JavaScript, ActiveX, etc.). If you're very brave, you can test/crash your Mozilla by going here.
It's important to report fairly on issues like this, or people will come to think of the Open Source journals as biased, uninformative, irresponsible propaganda machines, which will greatly harm any legitimate cause that the OS folks are promoting."
Books to download, at varying prices. Scott Pendergrast writes "We're working here at Fictionwise to convince publishers to release Neal Stephenson's works as eBooks. Recently his Cryptonomicon work finally became available in Secure Microsoft and Palm Reader formats (yes, the irony of this title being sold in an encrypted format is not missed ;-)
To encourage sales of this title, which hopefully will result in more of his works becoming ebooks, we're offering a 50% micropay rebate on it (so we're actually losing a bit on each sale)."
If you like your books free and non-fiction, though, mindpixel writes "I am not lying. The National Academies Press which was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States, has more than 2,500 free, searchable, high quality books online. Some random examples:
- The Genomic Revolution: Unveiling the Unity of Life
- Strange Matters: Undiscovered Ideas at the Frontiers of Space and Time
- Who Goes There?: Authentication Through the Lens of Privacy
- Microbial Threats to Health: Emergence, Detection, and Response"
This ought to be tax-deductable, too! ThreeToe writes "Recently the RIAA settled a lawsuit with four college students; one of them was Daniel Peng of Princeton University. Daniel is accepting donations to help pay his $15,000 settlement fee along with related legal fees. You can send money via paypal by clicking here. Remember that Daniel simply wrote an MP3 search engine; he didn't distribute MP3s himself. Those who share my belief that this lawsuit was wrong-headed should make a statement by assisting Daniel."
As I recall, Daniel Peng wrote a file indexing engine.
It's flexible
It's lighweight
It's Stable
It's Got the support of Apple Computers Inc
It's got decent fonts
It also a universal fileviewer/manager
You can even run a terminal emulator at the bottom of it.
It's basically Internet Explorer for linux, but without the bugs and spyware!
Konqueror, the cause of the Dinosaur's extinction
And, it dosen't crash on the crash mozilla page either!
Avalible in all good linux distros, MacOS X, *BSD and even experimentally on Windows!
- Bummer!
- Browser Bitch-Slap
- Clearly this is on purpose
- Re: I've got a better fix
- Those who reject the future (especially liked this one)
- Come on... (this one's particularly pathetic)
- Done! (obviously a 12-year old)
- Download the patch (hahaha, very funny!!)
- MSIE Crash'd
- Opera and Mozilla not affected (he's telling us how it is)
And so on. You get the idea. Yet for example this is modded as flamebait.The story generated 995 comments... with probably one hundred times the number of page views, and ergo, of ads served. Ahhhh... not that I'm implying anything, of course.
There's disclosure, there's sponsored childish flamebait and then there's 'selective disclosure', which is an interesting type of 'journalism' that the Slashdot editors like to practice.
I'm planning to write a couple more chapters in the next couple weeks, and intend to complete it by the end of the year.
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