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Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released
KonijnenBunny writes "May 3rd sees the release of the 0.6 version of Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail and newsgroup client, featuring improved junk-mail controls and a new brand identity, including a new Firefox-style icon.
I switched from some murky client which didn't exactly have a bright outlook regarding spam to Thunderbird a while back and was not dissapointed. Grab this latest version at Mozilla.org." Mac OS X users can also enjoy the new Pinstripe theme, which matches the previous theme of the same name applied to Firefox.
I just dropped my neighbours WinXP Toshiba Notebook on my desk to install his E-Mail and wanted to go for Thunderbird anyways. That's what I call timing! Thanks folks!
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PS: 1st post?
Will this be the last major change in the "branding" of thunderfoxbird?
All this talk by the mozilla people about "branding" makes me cry. I hear way too much of this from UE people at IBM... enough to drive a guy mad, I tell you...
(not to mention, how many times can you change the look and feel -- errrrrr branding, sorry -- of a product before people start looking elsewhere? Or get lost?
If there is any hope for a standards-compliant World Wide Web, it lies in the website developers. Yes, that means you! Users are not going to witch to a standards-compiliant browser if they don't need to. Managers are not going to want to support standards if their users wont switch. And certainly Microsoft is not going to change IE. It's up to you, web developers: You have the
power to change things.
If you work on a for-profit site, make every reasonable attempt to resist your manager's urging to violate the standard in favor of IE. Do whatever you can get away with without being fired! At the very least, validate your HTML and test on standards-compliant browsers. Try to win your boss over away from the "we're a Microsoft Partner" way of thinking! Show him that everytime you violate the standard to appease IE, you are taking money out of your pocket and giving it to Microsoft, and are moving one step closer to a Microsoft-only Internet, complete with Microsoft-only viruses and trojans.
If you work on a not-for-profit website or if you're the boss, then you have no excuse. Don't make any consessions for IE. In fact, turn IE users away at the door. Put up some links for them to get with the program and download a standards-compliant browser. The more popular your site is, the more effective it will be if you refuse to serve IE. Microsoft wants an IE-only web, so lets give them a web that blacklists IE. As users start to ditch IE (and they will if they want to see your site), we'll see a snobwall-effect: More people will use standards-compliant browsers, and more sites will have to shape up and support them.
We can't wait for the users to suddenly switch to standards-compliant browsers. Likewise we can't wait for web site managers to get a clue. It's up to you, developers. You who are in the trenches every day, creating tomorrow's websites. You have the power to make the World Wide Web--and in effect, the entire Internet--standards compliant once again!
A cute girl calls me and wants to go out on a date (Thursday, wish me luck!). I got a place to stay in the US for a couple of months on my next trip. My favourite newsreader goes to 0.6, as if the 0.5 nightlies weren't stable enough. Pinch me, please!
sucks to be you, you posted a minute too late and I got the call. 9:51 vs 9:52, I win.
Ha, I beat you by a minute, you Anonymous Coward you.
/. saying for being a hypocrite. I dont know I guess it could go something like this:
Hey do ya think that could be some kind of
"Isn't that a little bit like the Anonymous Coward calling the Anonymous Coward an Anonymous Coward?"
Lame you say? oh well.
haha I was posting "as you" with the same content because I wanted to assume your identity.... I guess I beat you at being you.
You are trully beaten in this hall of mirrors.
You can try and explain it to someone else, but it won't make sense, or it will look like you are trolling yourself.
you have no evidence, I win muhahaha
Trying to dissect The failure 0f of FreeBSD Usenet
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International Rescue
Written by Fuzzbox and Liam Sternberg
There's danger on the way
But you won't need to play
There's just another life to save
A daring crime so bold
To steal a nation's gold
The force is launced to catch them cold
5...4...3...2...1...
Thunderbirds are go!
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue...
They're off the beaten track
Preparing for attack
Blinding flashes, don't look back...
The clock is ticking down
Save them, save them, 'fore they drown
5...4...3...2...1...
Thunderbirds are go!
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue...
F.A.B. you're coming through
They need your help, no one else can do
Taken, gagged and tied
Who's captured them and why?
Send a message to the sky
(Help, help, can anybody hear me?)
5...4...3...2...1...
Thunderbirds are go!
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue...
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue
Calling, International Rescue...
5...4...3...2...1...Zero!
Flamebait?? WTF, lemme guess, because I'm using a Mircosoft product?
Sorry for expressing an opinon. I love Thunderbird, just stating why I'm not using it.
Josh
You son of a bitch using the oldest trick in the book. The olde whoring the faster post by means of the veil of indistinguishability provided when two anonymous cowards have the same dumb idea at the same time.
Kudos to you my friend, a greater duelist have I never met. Unless of course you're some completely different Anonymous Coward, or worse still, me!
Woah, trippy. Maybe I should go to bed, its like 2am where I am and this post is beginning to sound like Fight Club.
Where can I get this Thuderbird application?!!!
I want to experience the improovements!!!