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MozillaZine Celebrates 5th Anniversary
An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine, the Mozilla news and advocacy site, is five years old today. They've got a fifth anniversary section, containing a message from their founder, a chronology (which makes a pretty good Mozilla timeline generally), some trivia (who's bright idea was Music to Code By?!) and an acknowledgements page. I think it's amazing that a free site like this has provided such a great service to the open-source community for half a decade. Cheers!"
Fuck all y'all hetero non-niggas. GNAA is here to stay. w00t!
Wer zu Lebzeit gut auf Erden
wird nach dem Tod ein Engel werden
den Blick gen Himmel fragst Du dann
warum man sie nicht sehen kann
Erst wenn die Wolken schlafen gehen
kann man uns am Himmel sehen
wir haben Angst und sind allein
Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein
Sie leben hinterm Sonnenschein
getrennt von uns unendlich weit
sie muessen sich an Sterne krallen (ganz fest)
damit sie nicht vom Himmel fallen
Erst wenn die Wolken schlafen gehen
kann man uns am Himmel sehen
wir haben Angst und sind allein
Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein
Erst wenn die Wolken schlafen gehen
kann man uns am Himmel sehen
wir haben Angst und sind allein
Gott weiss ich will kein Engel sein
Frist!
Wonder what I should bring as a present to the party.... Lets see, 5th anniversary... Thats paper or wood gifts right?
Business \Busi"ness\, n.;
A scam in which all people involved perceive as beneficial...
chris sucks. toastche 4 eva!
fifth anniversary post!
Cheers!
There was a Reported shortage of Godzilla heads at Spencers this week. Now I understand!
whats mozillazine is it a fansite ? and why is it frontpage news ?, are we going to have one for google,yahoo cnn
Hey, it's an excuse to do another shot. I don't mind.
5 years = 1.5778463 x 10^20 picoseconds. I love Google's calculator.
I meta-mod all positive moderation Unfair, because it's abuse of the system.
It has come to my attention that you completely inhale the pastes in crust. Read on for more about this fascinating topic.
The world went into shock a few weeks ago when goatse.info reported the results of a study which concluded that inhaling paste is a very dangerous pastime, one that no one is advised to take up. Eventually, everyone adapted to the new state of affairs and began inhaling other things. Almost everyone, that is. But not you! According to my records, you still inhale paste!
Why?! What the fuck is wrong with you?!
You moron, you idiot, you imbecile, you gay nigger ! Arg! You make me so fucking sick! FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.
They're not singing that awful song, "Every walking the dinosaur" ;-)
;-)
5 years, small number of donations and it has become the corner stone of the Mozilla advocacy and users groups. 2 years, $40billion in the bank and Microsoft is still trying to creat that "community atmosphere". Maybe we should bottle some "community atmosphere" from Mozilla and sell it to Microsoft
"The difference between pornography and erotica is the lighting" - Woody Allen
It took them five years to do it, but they've come up with the best web browser known to man: with daylight second, and Opera third.
Here's hoping that the next five years sees the same committed focus to Firebird as has been poured into Mozilla.
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Matthew Gardiner
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF -8&q=5+years+in+picoseconds&btnG=Google+Search
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
It is official; Netcraft confirms: Mozilla is dying
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Mozilla community when IDC confirmed that Mozilla market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all web browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Mozilla has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Mozilla is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Mozilla's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Mozilla faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Mozilla because Mozilla is dying. Things are looking very bad for Mozilla. As many of us are already aware, Mozilla continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Netscape 7 is the most endangered of them all, having lost 100% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant firing of all 50 Netscape developers by AOL only serves to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Mozilla is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Mozilla.org leader Mitchell Baker states that there are 7000 users of Mozilla. How many users of Firebird are there? Let's see. The number of Mozilla versus Firebird posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Firebird users. Camino posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Firebird posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Camino. A recent article put Netscape 7 at about 80 percent of the Mozilla market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Netscape 7 users. This is consistent with the number of Netscape 7 usenet posts.
Netscape went out of business and will probably be taken over by AOL who sell another troubled browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Mozilla has steadily declined in market share. Mozilla is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Mozilla is to survive at all it will be among browser dilettante dabblers. Mozilla continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Mozilla is dead.
Fact: Mozilla is dying
We are talking about a party for Godzilla types here: No Flamable Gifts!
As a new punk you won't know diddly-squat about your sexual duties, so here are a few practical tips: to avoid AIDS, learn to suck dick. In fact, learn it so well you can do deep throat and he'll forget all about your ass. The trick is relaxation, not easy at first, to be sure, when you feel the whole thing is absolutely disgusting, but for your own good, you need to learn to relax using any technique that works for you. In order to avoid gagging, wait til your stomach is empty (11/2 hrs after meals), so there's nothing to barf. If you do throw up, do it on the floor and not him! Train yourself gradually. Meditate, say mantras, anything that gets you to relax. Stop thinking of the dick as an invading foreign object; if you can get over that perception, you'll be OK. Try to take deep breaths whenever you can and breathe through your nose. Practice holding your breath like a swimmer. If he fucks your skull so hard you think you're about to pass out from asphyxiation, you should grab his legs and signal your distress. Most likely he'll be about to come and won't let up, but it'll be over real soon.
The first few times you get fucked in the ass, it hurts bigtime. If you have to get fucked in the ass, again try to relax as much as possible and get him to slow down. It will hurt less, and if it keeps happening you will get used to it and it won't hurt at all. Be sure to use some kind of greasy stuff (vaseline, hair cream, etc.) as a lubricant, and a condom if at all possible. If you are hooked up, your jocker will usually try to minimize any pain that might be involved. After all, he wants to keep your resentment and complaints to a minimum.
A dick up your ass may well physically stimulate your prostate gland, and you may experience that as pleasurable. You may even get a hard-on while being fucked, just as a physical reaction. And some punks will find the sexual experience arousing. Many guys have some homosexual feelings even though they are basically straight. You don't have to put a label on yourself just because you have a variety of feelings.
Punks sometimes agree to switch out with each other or "take turns" sexually, since this is about the only way you can take a penetrative role instead of a passive one. As a punk you come under a lot of pressure to act less masculine, and you will naturally resent this pressure inside and feel a strong need to act in masculine ways whenever you can get away with it. This need can make the urge to experience what a lot of people call "the male role" in sex very powerful. It is an understandable compensation, a way of proving to yourself that you're still a man, so if you do it, don't feel guilty about it. If you want to take turns with another punk, it is best to clear it with your jockers first. The jocks usually don't object since they know the other punk is not a rival for them.
Breaking away
When your "man" treats you bad and you want to get out of the situation, it's a tricky situation, but it's not hopeless. Maybe he's dissatisfied too and is willing to let you go, in which case you are back to square two. If he wants to keep you, he may get violent to do so. You can check in to p.c. and get transferred as one way out. Another way is to let other jockers know that you want to switch and encourage one of them to make a deal with your current jock to take you over. He may buy out your contract, so to speak. Sometimes if he wants you badly enough he'll fight your current daddy in order to get you.
A punk who successfully breaks away from his jocker and becomes independent is called a "renegade." There are also some independent punks who never hook up. Unless such punks have learned to fight well, they usually end up with another jocker.
SUCK MY HUGE BLACK COCK!
From the timeline:
;)
MozillaZine asks its readers to pay the site's hosting fees. Much to our surprise, you do.
Not a lot of confidence in their reader base..
http://almostsmart.com
Anyway, the point is, these days the majority of us - geekdom, that is - use Mozilla or a Mozilla-derived browser (Galeon and Phoenix/Firebird). Mozillazine deserves a lot of credit for keeping the fan base alive during the long, dark period of time when it wasn't really clear that Mozilla was ever going to succeed. Thanks, Mozillazine, for giving me hope and keeping me and a lot of other hopeful users fed with info and inspired to stay involved and keep the project going.
5 years.. i guess its about time mozilla went the way of other communist projects ie Stalins purge's, pol pot's zero year, mao's great leap etc. Burn in hell mozilla.
The war with islam is a war on the beast
The war on terror is a war for peace
people that actually give a shit. Everybody knows Microsoft is here to make their cash pile larger at any cost.
The Mozilla folks are here to make sure we have a good browser that runs on what we choose to run it on.
Blogging because I can...
Unfortunately Mozilla still has the crappiest splash screen ever.
Has anyone gotten any of the plugins for Mozilla to work at all with Linux kernel 2.6.0x? I have posted bugs and such, with no response. Flash and java plugins don't work. It would seem that I'm the only one.
Does anyone know where to get the nightly builds with AA fonts support compiled in? For Redhat 9. It would take 50 years for my system to compile from source.
Namaste
http://images.ogrish.com/2003/305/305_2.jpg
then with a slashdotting?
Hi! I make Firefox Plug-ins. Check 'em out @ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-mp3-podcaster/
I've been using Mozilla for about 5 years......and happy with it for most of that time. I have used it exclusively for about the last 4 years. I still have no use for 'local folders' in the email client....what are they for? Now looking forward to Firebird and Thunderbird!
Karma? Sorry, i don't believe in superstition. http://talk.thinkingmatters.org.nz
Mod parent down, Score: -1, Sicko.
I don't see a * by your username...
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
ftp to:
ftp.mozilla.org/pub/nightly/latest-trunk
it is:
MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz
Reply to this post if you would like to visit goatse.cx.
... an honorary promotion to version 2.0. ;) /*hoping the mods are in good humor today.*/
I honestly think that these two apps can replace IE/OE on most people's home computers within 6 months. I try to evangelized Firebird with my friends and coworkers and it worked up until the new google toolbar for IE started blocking popups.. I still love it though. Love live the *bird.
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
"half an ounce in grams"
"1/4 ounce in grams"
http://pcblues.com - Digits and Wood
The MozillaFirebird icon looks like FryeGuy from Super Mario Bros. 2 IMO.
I was expecting boobies and I get something really sick.
Where's the sad smiley on this keyboard?
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
I've thought long and hard about the Internet phoenominon known as "Mozilla," or more frequently, "Open-Source Fascist Dinosaur - a name aptly deserved, taking into consideration the political philosophies of its filthy hippie developers and its inability to load even the simplest page before the sun goes supernova. During this thinking-period, which I like to call "the long thought," I have thunk up many thoughts, and I feel that these think-thoughts need to be shared.
Mozilla scares me. I often use Mozilla to browse through pornography late at night, and I often have a difficult time maintaining an erection. The thought of manipulating a Reptile-based browser to view naked females has left me caught in a situation where I can only climax if I envision The Lizard performing disgusting sexual acts upon these nude men... women on my screen.
Nightmares often occur after I pass out in my ergonomically-correct office chair - which I stole from Office Depot late at night - exhausted from the sexual fervor of masturbating my inch-long penis. These nightmares center around an unescapable arena, in which Roman females are cast upon the bloody sand, and left victim to a large creature known only as "The Lizard." Its code-bloated reptile penis repeatedly punctures their fragile sex organs until they split in half, and are then eaten.
I blame Mozilla for my unemployment, lack of a love life, and the constant backfiring from the 351 V8 in my primer-colored 1973 Ford Crown Victoria LTD. I also blame Mozilla for the lack of acceleration in my vehicle, much comparable to the overall lack of acceleration in the browser itself. I believe that Mozilla is in dire need of a rebuilt carburetor and a new set of shorty headers.
Unless massive improvements are made to the Mozilla code base and user interface, I can forsee the continual erosion of my personal life and the lives of all other Mozilla users.
Please, help.
nilson built Mozilla Firebird from today (September 1, 2003) and christened it the MozillaZine anniversary edition.
Check it out.
Note: this is a nightly, and happens to have some noticable bugs.
The parent isn't flamebait.. it's offtopic.. stupid nigger moderators.........
FUCK YOU!
Just as a curio, the linked page features as the second selection Wesley Willis - who sadly passed away just a little while ago on the 21st of August, aged 40. I also used to listen to Wesleys strange stream of conciousness punk rants while coding. I'll miss you, Wes.
-- YLFI
One god, one market, one truth, one consumer.
Oh my fucking god! I can't believe I got the first reply to the second post. This is truly the day I have always dreamed of. (Or the day of which I have always dreamed.)
Wesley Willis - Cut the Mullet.mp3
it has to be... the mods are smoking 5 dollar vials of crack browsing the forums with ie again...
is part of their grand plan. A while back Microsoft told an audience of MVP's that they would like to create the same sort of community development atmosphere as found in opensource projects. Later on they talked about expanding it to end users.
The fact remains, Microsoft cannot create that atmosphere because leadership has to come from the top. If the top acts in the "dog eat dog" manor, then what will their ISV's and end users do?
Ultimately, the ball is in Microsofts court. In terms of helping their bottom line, it is a great way of making themselves look good. If the plan did work then the feel good factor about Microsoft would increase, especially in the "decision making" area of businesses who can be easily blinded by PR stunts.
"The difference between pornography and erotica is the lighting" - Woody Allen
Seriously, kudos to Mozilla for having a spam filter that is better than any of the non confirmation spam-tools I've seen.
Pick the latest xft enabled Mozilla packages from this apt repository:o ads/apt/redha t-9-i386/RPMS.extras/
http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/downl
There you can also get the rpms of epiphany and galeon that're compatible with it.
The download manager lacks one thing though.
If power fails at 90% of a 700mb slackware cd, I have to start over. I dislike that.
Hmm, come to think of it, as I preview this, it didnt render the preview page well.
Actually, Firebird doesnt render slashdot very well.
I know I am gonna get moded down, but fix your html, rob !
Dan
There are also many unofficial builds optimised for different architectures. Some them include AA fonts. Go to the MozillaZine builds forum, and you will see peoplw discussing them.
#include "sig.h"
Obviously Mozz is HIGHER than ANY version o I Exploiter !!!.