Saddly, there is no information about the releases almost a day after they have been out on http://mozillaeurope.org/en/... I wrote a note this morning but I imagine they are submerged.
Some of you may have noticed overall network slowness. One of our sites was hosting large video files that were being heavily accessed. This caused slowness for a portion of our network, and additionally impacted the performance of some of our mail servers.
We've disabled the site as of approximately 10am PDT. The problems began sometime during the early morning, though it's unclear exactly when.
Everything should be back to normal now. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Happy DreamHost Networking Team!
--- The preceding was a Downtime announcement, sent 2004-06-02 10:51:26.
You are receiving it via email because it is level 5 and your account is set to get announcements of that level via email.
You can change that by visiting our web panel's announcement area at: https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tab=status&subtab=ann ounce
Thank you for taking the time to read this announcement,
Download a ButTorrent client. I'd recommend Azureus
Open this URL (as listed on the download link in the post)
I frequently get 200kbps to 300kbps from a BitTorrent feed instead of ~100kbps for the best ISOs mirrors. And I contribute my miserable bandwidth for others to enjoy Mandrake:)
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the integrated Mozilla App-Suite mail component. Our goal is to leverage much of the existing functionality of that product to produce a stand-alone mail application that is simple and extensible. The Thunderbird Mail Product page has more information.
Owing to the maturity of the foundational code of the app-suite, Thunderbird is very usable; however, it is considered a Preview Release, and as such is assumed to have defects. To help find the defects, the developers happily receive user feedback (via comments in the Mozilla Thunderbird Support forum kindly hosted by MozillaZine, or via bugs filed in Bugzilla.) Please carefully read these release notes before filing any bugs in Bugzilla.
The focus of this fifth milestone release was on stability and bug fixing. This milestone is based on the recently released Mozilla 1.6 Application suite. Read the Thunderbird Roadmap about the goals of this release. While there is much more work yet to do, the developers are excited about recent progress and are anxious to share their latest efforts with the community. Enjoy!
This document covers the following topics for the Thunderbird 0.5 milestone release:
What's New
Here are the highlights for this Thunderbird release:
* New Features
We now support the notion of multiple identities per mail account. This makes it easy to have several email addresses which end up going into the same account. Read More about how to hook this up.
Thunderbird 0.5 includes Secure Password Authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for POP3 and SMTP.
Option to turn on the Mozilla 1.x style folder columns in Thunderbird (Tools / Options / Advanced / General Settings).
A new Palm Sync Address book conduit is now available for 0.5. You can now do a one way sync, PC -> Palm or Palm -> PC, by changing the hot sync conduit setup. We now prevent duplicate cards in Thunderbird address books when syncing with Palm categories. Numerous improvements with the initial sync.
A new, improved version of the offline extension is now available for 0.5. Please read the installation notes in this document about how to first uninstall old extensions.
Improved Spell Checker including a new US dictionary.
Ability to paste names or addresses from a spreadsheet directly into the addressing widget of a new compose window.
Improved profile migration from Netscape 4.x.
* Recently Fixed Bugs
If a new message arrives while you are reading a message, we no longer scroll the message body back to the top.
When saving an IMAP attachment, we no longer re-download the attachment from the server.
Saving an attachment now brings up a standalone progress window.
Copying a message to a Sent Folder now shows progress in the progress window.
When saving or opening an attachment, the progress dialog now reports accurate progress information.
We now mark IMAP messages read in a folder if they are deleted or moved to another folder. This fixes incorrect unread counts when checking folders other than the Inbox for new messages.
LDAP searches now honor the directory search filter property.
Ability to paste a single cell of data from Microsoft Excel into the compose window body.
Problems with IMAP folders three levels deep not showing up when you are not using the IMAP subscription model.
Tools / Options / Attachments / Attachment Folder setting is now remembered.
Linux builds no longer crash when viewing HTML messages requiring a JAVA plugin.
Improved handling of apple double encoded attachments from OSX clients.
New features in OpenOffice.org 1.1rc over OpenOffice.org beta2 release * a "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error information * new command line parameter -start to automatically start a presentation after the document is loaded * ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single user installations * support for drawing objects in headers and footers * an example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format * support for MS Excel 95 and older form controls * UNO python bridge - python is now a first class language for creating UNO components for OpenOffice.org * built in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian * built in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), German and Russian * integrated Bitstream Vera fonts * improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring
OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC Features 2003-07-11 Enhanced file format support
* PDF (Portable Document Format) export * Support for mailing a document as PDF. * DocBook/XML import/export. * XHTML export. * Support for exporting as a flat XML file. * Support for Macromedia Flash (SWF) export. * Support for mobile device formats like AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word and Pocket Excel. * Example xslt based filter for Office 2003 XML documents
Accessibility
* Support for full keyboard navigation and control * Support for tracking system colour scheme and theme settings * Support for accessibility in the help system and documents * Initial support for Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility APIs
Internationalization CTL, vertical and bidirectional writing
* Support for vertical writing within text documents, text frames and graphic objects * Support for vertical writing in spreadsheet cells (the direction is individualy selectable) * Support for input, display and editing of scripts using Complex Text Layout (CTL) * Support for RTL layout and text in the OpenOffice.org GUI * Support for BiDi-writing in OpenOffice.org documents * Support for using either Arabic or Hindi numerals * The RTL vs. LTR default text direction is automaticly selected based on locale
Other Internationalization enhancements
* Support for various 8-bit Arabic and Hebrew text encodings / code pages. * Support for the KOI8_U encoding. * New CTL options tab in language options dialog. * Rescue mode support for BiDi/CTL with X11 fonts. * S
It's amazing how an ignorant writer can fail to inform
He need to know the difference between a DOMAIN (.co) and a SUBDOMAIN (.uk.co).
The SUBDOMAIN.uk.co was wiped, which in turn has 8000+ holders of *.uk.co 3rd LEVEL SUBDOMAINS hanging dry. How can the registrar be held responsible for a domain registrant's sale of such 8000 subdomains ? More importantly, why did they care in the first place ?
This has been going on for several years, those interested may babelfish it here: http://www.colext.org/article.php?sid=316&m ode=nes ted&order=1
As more people turn to the web for the "real" story, and truth, let's hope 9/11 lessons were learned. One thing I noticed is all major news stations offering live video are now charging for it.
Hopefully it's going to make it easier on the servers and better distribute the load. Of course, there's always someone asking for trouble...
If you have information, before posting it here, make sure you can handle the hits:|
I attended a demo/conference about this this weekend and there was WiFi access in the room. I connected to the same (external, public ils.seconix.com) server as the presenter's and we were visible to see each other's presence/config, while he was chatting with another GnomeMeeting user using video (both of them on Mandrake Linux). I was using Netmeeting under Windows 2000 pro.
It's my understanding that GnomeMeeting is originally for PC to PC text/audio/video conferencing, compatible with H.323 clients (like Windows Netmeeting ), but has been extended for PC to phone calls. GnomeMeeting however didn't seem to have the following features Netmeeting has:
remote whiteboard
remote desktop control
I also like all the configuration options, though somewhat too advanced for beginners.
In spite of all the talk about how hard using GnnuPG is, I have always managed to train our customers in 30 minutes to 2hrs time to use it for basic encryption/decryption/signing of information. The installation was the most difficult part and thanks to people like Gustavo Valconcelos, it's getting easier by the day
Now, I DID buy PGP 7.1.1 at promo price. I had a support issue last monday and I've been waiting since then.
Meanwhile, everyone can download and freely use both commercially and personally WinPT+GnuPG from several mirrors, of which I offered my personal space, here.
It'll be interesting to see how this develops, particularly in the other languages, of which GnuPG + WinPT already support many.
Speaking of SPAM filters... I use SpamNet with very good results. Unfortunately I'm stuck with OL2000 for now, so this is the closest I found to what I wanted.
RFC = Request for Comments , not necessarily always established standards, but mostly proposed standards.
You could include references in your inmensely constructive comments. Of course for a technology to be useful to anyone, RFCs are required reading. Where is the RFC you mention (PGP in XML) ?
*All* the people that *complained* did click on "Download" which is where the problem is. The download page is very crowded and confusing. I wrote "past the home page".
And sorry if for you everyone that uses the other 2 links to download on the same page are stupid. I think your question is: "How many people do we care about enough to make this easier ?".
And why do they have to type a domain name *at all* ? Never mind that Mozilla.com is also a dead end. Another 5 minutes to explain why it's not a.com (and what a.org is).
Re:Yeah, MS is thinking about OS...
on
Halloween VII
·
· Score: 1
Did you realize you understood it anyways ? Ah, this is one of those days...
I am a very fond fan of all Mozillities, but I can't get over the fact that whenever I suggest this as a replacement to IE, users start having problems at the HOME PAGE of the "project". Mozilla.org IS a project, NOT a product, and certainly not as easy to install as IE. So far the few crashes of IE make up for Moz's inabilities (like displaying the Geotrust seal - and yes, it's important when you sell those and your customer wonders why you advised on using Moz).
Yes, I consider finding the right download link and grandma-friendly instructions a pre-req to any IE squashing mass-effort. The home page is a huge improvement but past that point, the faint-of-heart won't feel at home. A wizard-Os-detecting download page would sure help a lot. The FAQ is still on 1.0!
I also happen to be very interested in OpenPGP, and Enigmail seems a step in the right direction. But the problems I mention for mozilla.org combined with the fact that enigmail.mozdev.org can't behave under IE are enough to loose my audience.
*I can put up with it*, but don't ask the same to somebody comfy with IE/Outlook.
#1 thing you can't do with Mozilla (mail): drag and drop emails/attachments.
Yeah, MS is thinking about OS...
on
Halloween VII
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
... but mostly incorporating ideas and concepts into their OS. Maybe sometimes OS projects should also pay attention to succesful companies (from marketing, not technical point of view).
Remember a lie repeated 1000 times can become truth;)
Slashdot Mirror
One way to keep updated about Mozilla releases and developments in many different areas is by subscribing to one of the developer mailing lists:. html
... I wrote a note this morning but I imagine they are submerged.
http://www.mozilla.org/community/developer-forums
MozillaZine.org also does a good job of summarizing the development, but it's almost always 2-3 days late.
For the true cutting-edge lizard in you, there's always the feedhouse:
http://feedhouse.mozillazine.org/
And of course it has RSS feeds.
For those of you wanting to know when specific bugs have been fixed, I find the "edge" websites to be most simple to read (although not thorough):
The Rumbling Edge (for Thunderbird):
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/rumblingedge/
The Burning Edge:
http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/
Saddly, there is no information about the releases almost a day after they have been out on http://mozillaeurope.org/en/
Enjoy!
Wrong. Firefox 0.9 is no longer in the "Technology Previews".
Hello Dreamhost Customers,
n ounce
Some of you may have noticed overall network slowness. One of our sites was hosting large video files that were being heavily accessed. This caused slowness for a portion of our network, and additionally impacted the performance of some of our mail servers.
We've disabled the site as of approximately 10am PDT. The problems began sometime during the early morning, though it's unclear exactly when.
Everything should be back to normal now. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
Happy DreamHost Networking Team!
---
The preceding was a Downtime announcement, sent 2004-06-02 10:51:26.
You are receiving it via email because it is level 5 and your account is set to get announcements of that level via email.
You can change that by visiting our web panel's announcement area at: https://panel.dreamhost.com/?tab=status&subtab=an
Thank you for taking the time to read this announcement,
The Happy DreamHost Announcement Team
- Download a ButTorrent client. I'd recommend Azureus
- Open this URL (as listed on the download link in the post)
I frequently get 200kbps to 300kbps from a BitTorrent feed instead of ~100kbps for the best ISOs mirrors. And I contribute my miserable bandwidth for others to enjoy MandrakeThe measured UBEs over a 3 moth period were 172,887 - only for their top-25 most spammed employees!
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5
Release Notes
Mozilla Thunderbird is a redesign of the integrated Mozilla App-Suite mail component. Our goal is to leverage much of the existing functionality of that product to produce a stand-alone mail application that is simple and extensible. The Thunderbird Mail Product page has more information.
Owing to the maturity of the foundational code of the app-suite, Thunderbird is very usable; however, it is considered a Preview Release, and as such is assumed to have defects. To help find the defects, the developers happily receive user feedback (via comments in the Mozilla Thunderbird Support forum kindly hosted by MozillaZine, or via bugs filed in Bugzilla.) Please carefully read these release notes before filing any bugs in Bugzilla.
The focus of this fifth milestone release was on stability and bug fixing. This milestone is based on the recently released Mozilla 1.6 Application suite. Read the Thunderbird Roadmap about the goals of this release. While there is much more work yet to do, the developers are excited about recent progress and are anxious to share their latest efforts with the community. Enjoy!
This document covers the following topics for the Thunderbird 0.5 milestone release:
What's New
Here are the highlights for this Thunderbird release:
* New Features
We now support the notion of multiple identities per mail account. This makes it easy to have several email addresses which end up going into the same account. Read More about how to hook this up.
Thunderbird 0.5 includes Secure Password Authentication using a new cross-platform NTLM authentication mechanism for POP3 and SMTP.
Option to turn on the Mozilla 1.x style folder columns in Thunderbird (Tools / Options / Advanced / General Settings).
A new Palm Sync Address book conduit is now available for 0.5. You can now do a one way sync, PC -> Palm or Palm -> PC, by changing the hot sync conduit setup. We now prevent duplicate cards in Thunderbird address books when syncing with Palm categories. Numerous improvements with the initial sync.
A new, improved version of the offline extension is now available for 0.5. Please read the installation notes in this document about how to first uninstall old extensions.
Improved Spell Checker including a new US dictionary.
Ability to paste names or addresses from a spreadsheet directly into the addressing widget of a new compose window.
Improved profile migration from Netscape 4.x.
* Recently Fixed Bugs
If a new message arrives while you are reading a message, we no longer scroll the message body back to the top.
When saving an IMAP attachment, we no longer re-download the attachment from the server.
Saving an attachment now brings up a standalone progress window.
Copying a message to a Sent Folder now shows progress in the progress window.
When saving or opening an attachment, the progress dialog now reports accurate progress information.
We now mark IMAP messages read in a folder if they are deleted or moved to another folder. This fixes incorrect unread counts when checking folders other than the Inbox for new messages.
LDAP searches now honor the directory search filter property.
Ability to paste a single cell of data from Microsoft Excel into the compose window body.
Problems with IMAP folders three levels deep not showing up when you are not using the IMAP subscription model.
Tools / Options / Attachments / Attachment Folder setting is now remembered.
Linux builds no longer crash when viewing HTML messages requiring a JAVA plugin.
Improved handling of apple double encoded attachments from OSX clients.
No more
Also check Email Alchemy.
Windows Downloads:
://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/ OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz .gz /stab le/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
http://www.binarycode.org/openoffice/s table/1.1rc/ OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
http://www.ibibl io.org/pub/packages/openoffice/sta ble/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
ftp:// ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/openoffice/stable/1.1rc/ OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
http://openoffic e.mirrors.pair.com/stable/1.1rc/OO o_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
ftp://openofficeor g.secsup.org/pub/software/openof fice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
ftp://mirrors.umbc.edu/pub/editors/openoffice/st ab le/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_Win32Intel_install.zip
Linux Downloads:
http://www.binarycode.org/openoffice/s table/1.1rc/ OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
http://www.ib iblio.org/pub/packages/openoffice/sta ble/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
ftp
http://openof fice.mirrors.pair.com/stable/1.1rc/OO o_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz
ftp://openoffic eorg.secsup.org/pub/software/openof fice/stable/1.1rc/OOo_1.1rc_LinuxIntel_install.tar
ftp://mirrors.umbc.edu/pub/editors/openoffice
MacOSX Downloads:
http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo- osx_download s.html#download
New features in OpenOffice.org 1.1rc over OpenOffice.org beta2 release
* a "talkback" style crash reporter to collect stacktrace and error information
* new command line parameter -start to automatically start a presentation after the document is loaded
* ability to update existing OpenOffice.org 1.0.x single user installations
* support for drawing objects in headers and footers
* an example XSLT filter for Office 2003 XML format
* support for MS Excel 95 and older form controls
* UNO python bridge - python is now a first class language for creating UNO components for OpenOffice.org
* built in spell checking dictionaries for English (UK) and Italian
* built in hyphenation support for Danish, English (UK), German and Russian
* integrated Bitstream Vera fonts
* improved spelling suggestions using n-gram scoring
OpenOffice.org 1.1 RC Features
2003-07-11
Enhanced file format support
* PDF (Portable Document Format) export
* Support for mailing a document as PDF.
* DocBook/XML import/export.
* XHTML export.
* Support for exporting as a flat XML file.
* Support for Macromedia Flash (SWF) export.
* Support for mobile device formats like AportisDoc (Palm), Pocket Word and Pocket Excel.
* Example xslt based filter for Office 2003 XML documents
Accessibility
* Support for full keyboard navigation and control
* Support for tracking system colour scheme and theme settings
* Support for accessibility in the help system and documents
* Initial support for Assistive Technologies via Java accessibility APIs
Internationalization
CTL, vertical and bidirectional writing
* Support for vertical writing within text documents, text frames and graphic objects
* Support for vertical writing in spreadsheet cells (the direction is individualy selectable)
* Support for input, display and editing of scripts using Complex Text Layout (CTL)
* Support for RTL layout and text in the OpenOffice.org GUI
* Support for BiDi-writing in OpenOffice.org documents
* Support for using either Arabic or Hindi numerals
* The RTL vs. LTR default text direction is automaticly selected based on locale
Other Internationalization enhancements
* Support for various 8-bit Arabic and Hebrew text encodings / code pages.
* Support for the KOI8_U encoding.
* New CTL options tab in language options dialog.
* Rescue mode support for BiDi/CTL with X11 fonts.
* S
You're absolutely right. I missed a domain level there. :)
However, registrar = www.nic.co and registrant = the company behing uk.co.
UniAndes is *not* an agent, it's the registrar itself.
It's amazing how an ignorant writer can fail to inform
.uk.co was wiped, which in turn has 8000+ holders of *.uk.co 3rd LEVEL SUBDOMAINS hanging dry. How can the registrar be held responsible for a domain registrant's sale of such 8000 subdomains ? More importantly, why did they care in the first place ?
m ode=nes ted&order=1
He need to know the difference between a DOMAIN (.co) and a SUBDOMAIN (.uk.co).
The SUBDOMAIN
This has been going on for several years, those interested may babelfish it here:
http://www.colext.org/article.php?sid=316&
As more people turn to the web for the "real" story, and truth, let's hope 9/11 lessons were learned. One thing I noticed is all major news stations offering live video are now charging for it.
Hopefully it's going to make it easier on the servers and better distribute the load. Of course, there's always someone asking for trouble...
If you have information, before posting it here, make sure you can handle the hits :|
I attended a demo/conference about this this weekend and there was WiFi access in the room. I connected to the same (external, public ils.seconix.com) server as the presenter's and we were visible to see each other's presence/config, while he was chatting with another GnomeMeeting user using video (both of them on Mandrake Linux). I was using Netmeeting under Windows 2000 pro.
It's my understanding that GnomeMeeting is originally for PC to PC text/audio/video conferencing, compatible with H.323 clients (like Windows Netmeeting ), but has been extended for PC to phone calls. GnomeMeeting however didn't seem to have the following features Netmeeting has:
I also like all the configuration options, though somewhat too advanced for beginners.
Cheers,
F.
FE49 C6C0 C5B1 8BAE 1BF2 2D27 EC06 A810 6B4E 6B69
In spite of all the talk about how hard using GnnuPG is, I have always managed to train our customers in 30 minutes to 2hrs time to use it for basic encryption/decryption/signing of information. The installation was the most difficult part and thanks to people like Gustavo Valconcelos, it's getting easier by the day
Now, I DID buy PGP 7.1.1 at promo price. I had a support issue last monday and I've been waiting since then.
Meanwhile, everyone can download and freely use both commercially and personally WinPT+GnuPG from several mirrors, of which I offered my personal space, here.
It'll be interesting to see how this develops, particularly in the other languages, of which GnuPG + WinPT already support many.
Cheers,
F.
Cheers,
F.
Speaking of SPAM filters... I use SpamNet with very good results. Unfortunately I'm stuck with OL2000 for now, so this is the closest I found to what I wanted.
Perhaps also an "intruder meter" with an indicator of the direction and distance from which the intruding signal comes ?
RFC = Request for Comments , not necessarily always established standards, but mostly proposed standards.
You could include references in your inmensely constructive comments. Of course for a technology to be useful to anyone, RFCs are required reading. Where is the RFC you mention (PGP in XML) ?
Just when I thought I was finally able to explain PKI and OpenPGP to my friends and customers, this comes out...
;)
I hope it's for the best, not just another buzzword.
After all, I can see OpenPGP encrypted files + dettached signatures encapsulated in XML sooner that this finishes being "approved".
I assure you, I see it! It's red, and has yellow dots.. ah well...
*All* the people that *complained* did click on "Download" which is where the problem is. The download page is very crowded and confusing. I wrote "past the home page".
.com (and what a .org is).
And sorry if for you everyone that uses the other 2 links to download on the same page are stupid. I think your question is: "How many people do we care about enough to make this easier ?".
And why do they have to type a domain name *at all* ? Never mind that Mozilla.com is also a dead end. Another 5 minutes to explain why it's not a
Did you realize you understood it anyways ?
Ah, this is one of those days...
Yes, I consider finding the right download link and grandma-friendly instructions a pre-req to any IE squashing mass-effort. The home page is a huge improvement but past that point, the faint-of-heart won't feel at home. A wizard-Os-detecting download page would sure help a lot. The FAQ is still on 1.0!
I also happen to be very interested in OpenPGP, and Enigmail seems a step in the right direction. But the problems I mention for mozilla.org combined with the fact that enigmail.mozdev.org can't behave under IE are enough to loose my audience.
*I can put up with it*, but don't ask the same to somebody comfy with IE/Outlook.
#1 thing you can't do with Mozilla (mail): drag and drop emails/attachments.
... but mostly incorporating ideas and concepts into their OS. Maybe sometimes OS projects should also pay attention to succesful companies (from marketing, not technical point of view).
;)
Remember a lie repeated 1000 times can become truth
Hi there, We recently started a similar effort in Montreal, QC, Canada. A small journal of our progress and press-watch is up here.
...another way to get 4096 free AOL hours!