First the unofficial Korean Mozilla site in July, and now long obsolete versions of the Korean Mozilla (not Firefox) and Korean Thunderbird builds. I doubt anyone was infected, nor was that likely the intent, especially given the old, neither stable nor current, version numbers, but one thing is clear. Someone out there really doesn't like Koreans.
I'm using the Debian 3.1 version on Ubuntu right now and have to admit it's a pretty snappy browser. It renders Slashdot nicely. I may keep playing with it, but I'm not sure I'll switch from Firefox with Deer Park coming out soon.
It is very snappy. My system feels fast for the first time in a long while. Firefox 1.0.x has serious performance problems on Linux that do not occur on Windows, supposedly fixed in 1.5. But if I want a supported 1.5 package for Ubuntu, I'll probably need to wait 3-7 months.
I encountered minor dependency problems installing the new Opera on the Ubuntu Breezy preview release, but you can't really blame Opera for that. And the menu font was very tiny, but that's customizable. Still looking for a theme I like. It includes a nice theme browser where I can preview hundreds of themes that don't look right.
It's unlikely that I'll give up Firefox in the foreseeable future, but I'll be using Opera a lot more now. I noticed that it still masquerades as IE6, messing up browser/OS stats, so I can only guess if its market share will be big enough to justify thoroughly testing all my websites in it.
I feel kind of bad for Opera. That the browser is now free is an indication that the company realizes it can no longer sell its flagship product. You know, for money. That's got to hurt.
In our case, even the guy (third party) who registered it for the company many years before I started working here was unsuccessful in renewing it. They don't believe he is who he says he is.
We'll probably put up a similar page. It wouldn't be the first time we've put up anonymous websites educating the public about someone that tried to screw us. Luckily we don't keep all our eggs in one basket. It was one of our least popular sites, despite it being our name.
Watching over our domains wasn't ever my job, and blame isn't really a concern at this point. We just want our domain. We've been trying to renew it for months, and now it's expired and they won't even sell it to us. Additionally, because the domain name is our business name, and they know it, and they're using our brand recognition for advertising profit at our expense (the ad page says "Copyright Network Solutions, LLC"), they seem to be in violation of at least the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, and perhaps other laws.
I attribute it more to incompetence than malice. They had it locked so we couldn't transfer it. Backordering hasn't worked. Their last response was to use their "make a certified offer" and offer enough to make them want to switch it back. The root of the problem was that the original developer of the site registered the domain several years ago, forgot the login password, changed his home address and phone number, and changed his email address. This is just enough to break all of Network Solutions' procedures for verifying that it's our domain. We've been fighting with them a couple months, calling several times a week. It should be bloody obvious to them that it's our domain. If it wasn't, it's already expired so they could just sell it to us. If they don't let us buy it back, we'll file a UDRP complaint, which'll cost us a couple thousand $ more.
Our business name is "ICW International" and they stole icwinternational.com from us by refusing to let us pay to renew it, even before it expired. Now it's still under their ownership, but they've turned it into ads. Their phone support has refused to help us. They'll give it back for several hundred $, but they've cost us a great deal more over their rotten, criminal business practices.
I'm still pretty new to drive shopping, but I'm thinking of the Barracuda 7200.7 at 200gb or less, and 7200.8 at 250gb or less, according to statistics and reviews from storagereview.com (registration required).
On a mirrored RAID, having them out of sync can be better, at least in theory, if probably not in practice. There's no easy way for software to know where an SATA drive is in its rotation, but if you request the same block at the same time from both drives, one of them will respond first, and it will be sooner on average than if both drives were in sync.
I personally trust WD more than I trust Maxtor, but all manufacturers have bad years and bad models. This year I only trust Seagate, on only certain specific models.
SATA doesn't seem more expensive. For SATA and PATA versions of the same drive model, the price is usually always the same, or PATA is a bit more. It can actually cost more to produce PATA drives. If PATA is ever cheaper, it's only because retailers want to get rid of them. SATA costs about $0.45/gb for 250gb drives, a little less if you don't care about the brand name, or a little more if you want a RAID controller to go with it.
MTBF is the failure rate of drives that are neither defective or worn out. If I had to guess, it's an estimate of the lowest point on the failure rate bathtub curve, maybe around 2 years into the life of the drive. Defective drives usually fail within 1-2 years, and the rest start to wear out after 3-5 years.
People like a book they can carry around, and read without squinting at a blurry, flickering monitor. On a computer, people would rather read a good article than a good book, and most information is found via search engine. If not for the above, if people actually wanted to read eBooks, they would change their minds quickly after a DRM prevents them from taking their eBooks with them when they get a new computer or laptop, or after the developer of their favorite third party eBook reader is arrested under the DMCA.
I'm no expert, but I look forward to mostly buying 2 platter drives from now on. Early failures seem to double when you add a third platter, and 5 platters is just scary. You can get 250gb SATA 2 platter Seagate drives for about $110 each, which seem to have a great record for reliability so far. But when I need real SCSI reliability I'll just get a real SCSI. The warranty for most SATA drives may be 5 years, but usually it's void if you put it in a server.
Pretty much every software company has a stock chart that grows to a peak in 2000, then falls. Except Microsoft fell only a little ways and flattened. Most of their competitors simply crashed. Compare Microsoft to VA Software, the owners of Slashdot.
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Isn't their top priority supposed to be fighting crime?
Number 27: 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer'
Number 12: 'Xena: Warrior Princess'
Xena better than Buffy? Both sci-fi?
1.1.5 has been out for a week now.
Only old builds get infected. Moz 1.7.6 and TB 1.0.2.
Of course, unlike Windows it won't get far since MOST users are smart enough to not be running as root.
:)
And as we all know nobody installs Linux software as root.
If you're talking about mozilla.or.kr, the Mozilla Foundation does not own or control that site.
First the unofficial Korean Mozilla site in July, and now long obsolete versions of the Korean Mozilla (not Firefox) and Korean Thunderbird builds. I doubt anyone was infected, nor was that likely the intent, especially given the old, neither stable nor current, version numbers, but one thing is clear. Someone out there really doesn't like Koreans.
I encountered minor dependency problems installing the new Opera on the Ubuntu Breezy preview release, but you can't really blame Opera for that. And the menu font was very tiny, but that's customizable. Still looking for a theme I like. It includes a nice theme browser where I can preview hundreds of themes that don't look right.
It's unlikely that I'll give up Firefox in the foreseeable future, but I'll be using Opera a lot more now. I noticed that it still masquerades as IE6, messing up browser/OS stats, so I can only guess if its market share will be big enough to justify thoroughly testing all my websites in it.
You can always make a $29 donation.
I sort of want to snark all over this poor guy for using a shady registrar and getting shafted
So which registrar(s) do you trust?
People already rip rental DVD's. I can't imagine the problem getting much worse with traded DVD's.
In our case, even the guy (third party) who registered it for the company many years before I started working here was unsuccessful in renewing it. They don't believe he is who he says he is.
We'll probably put up a similar page. It wouldn't be the first time we've put up anonymous websites educating the public about someone that tried to screw us. Luckily we don't keep all our eggs in one basket. It was one of our least popular sites, despite it being our name.
Watching over our domains wasn't ever my job, and blame isn't really a concern at this point. We just want our domain. We've been trying to renew it for months, and now it's expired and they won't even sell it to us. Additionally, because the domain name is our business name, and they know it, and they're using our brand recognition for advertising profit at our expense (the ad page says "Copyright Network Solutions, LLC"), they seem to be in violation of at least the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, and perhaps other laws.
I attribute it more to incompetence than malice. They had it locked so we couldn't transfer it. Backordering hasn't worked. Their last response was to use their "make a certified offer" and offer enough to make them want to switch it back. The root of the problem was that the original developer of the site registered the domain several years ago, forgot the login password, changed his home address and phone number, and changed his email address. This is just enough to break all of Network Solutions' procedures for verifying that it's our domain. We've been fighting with them a couple months, calling several times a week. It should be bloody obvious to them that it's our domain. If it wasn't, it's already expired so they could just sell it to us. If they don't let us buy it back, we'll file a UDRP complaint, which'll cost us a couple thousand $ more.
Our business name is "ICW International" and they stole icwinternational.com from us by refusing to let us pay to renew it, even before it expired. Now it's still under their ownership, but they've turned it into ads. Their phone support has refused to help us. They'll give it back for several hundred $, but they've cost us a great deal more over their rotten, criminal business practices.
I'm still pretty new to drive shopping, but I'm thinking of the Barracuda 7200.7 at 200gb or less, and 7200.8 at 250gb or less, according to statistics and reviews from storagereview.com (registration required).
Not sure why this was modded interesting instead of funny.
On a mirrored RAID, having them out of sync can be better, at least in theory, if probably not in practice. There's no easy way for software to know where an SATA drive is in its rotation, but if you request the same block at the same time from both drives, one of them will respond first, and it will be sooner on average than if both drives were in sync.
I personally trust WD more than I trust Maxtor, but all manufacturers have bad years and bad models. This year I only trust Seagate, on only certain specific models.
SATA doesn't seem more expensive. For SATA and PATA versions of the same drive model, the price is usually always the same, or PATA is a bit more. It can actually cost more to produce PATA drives. If PATA is ever cheaper, it's only because retailers want to get rid of them. SATA costs about $0.45/gb for 250gb drives, a little less if you don't care about the brand name, or a little more if you want a RAID controller to go with it.
MTBF is the failure rate of drives that are neither defective or worn out. If I had to guess, it's an estimate of the lowest point on the failure rate bathtub curve, maybe around 2 years into the life of the drive. Defective drives usually fail within 1-2 years, and the rest start to wear out after 3-5 years.
People like a book they can carry around, and read without squinting at a blurry, flickering monitor.
On a computer, people would rather read a good article than a good book, and most information is found via search engine.
If not for the above, if people actually wanted to read eBooks, they would change their minds quickly after a DRM prevents them from taking their eBooks with them when they get a new computer or laptop, or after the developer of their favorite third party eBook reader is arrested under the DMCA.
I'm no expert, but I look forward to mostly buying 2 platter drives from now on. Early failures seem to double when you add a third platter, and 5 platters is just scary. You can get 250gb SATA 2 platter Seagate drives for about $110 each, which seem to have a great record for reliability so far. But when I need real SCSI reliability I'll just get a real SCSI. The warranty for most SATA drives may be 5 years, but usually it's void if you put it in a server.
Pretty much every software company has a stock chart that grows to a peak in 2000, then falls. Except Microsoft fell only a little ways and flattened. Most of their competitors simply crashed. Compare Microsoft to VA Software, the owners of Slashdot.