Free and Open Source blogger with an attitude
Well, at last Mozilla Foundation released their Mozilla Firefox 1.0.5 browser. This minor release mostly focus in security fixes in javascript and plug a few memory leaks.
Download it at Mozilla.org
Watch out for Mozilla Firefox 1.1 (Deer Park) soon. It will feature the cache back button as recomended by W3C Foundation!
I’m waiting for Mozilla to provide their users with incremental Firefox update as they promised… (I only upgrade Mozilla Firefox after 2-3 minor releases)
WTF is ROTFL?
Ever wonder what those geeky acronym means? What about RTFM, SNAFU, IMHO and OTOH? Those acronym are popular on the geek world and for some people who are newbie, they are hard to decrypt.
Certainly there are places where you can refer those acronym, but generic English dictionary isn’t one of it.
Enter wtf, a geek acronym definition finder. You can download it from http://www.mu.org/~mux/wtf/. It can be handy to use if you came across those rather cryptic acronym while reading the newsgroup or while on IRC.
The wtf is made of bourne shell script and should be portable on platform that use it’s variant (bash, ksh, zsh, ash, etc). Installation is simple, just :
$ tar -zxvf wtf-20050505.tar.gz
$ cd wtf-20050505
$ chmod 555 wtf
$ su
password: <you entered your r00t password>
# install wtf /usr/bin
# install acronym /usr/share/misc/acronym
# exit
Hey, that’s unix! I want to run it on my own M$ Windows XP 32 b33t! I grow up with M$ products!
oops, maybe I forgot to mention that you could run it in any environment that offers bourne compatible shell. I suggest you install MinGW or CygWin on your Windows pc and proceed with the above installation step.
Here’s the screenshot of my Windows Desktop running wtf inside CygWin.
Fancy huh? Guess you dont have to STFW to find cryptic acronym anymore….
p/s: Greetz to El-Lotso for pointing out wtf to me
Ever wonder what’s favicon.ico is? favicon.ico is a small icon which appears on the left side of your browser address bar when you surf certain web page like this :
I found an interesting webpage which allow you to create favicon.ico online and put it in your webpage.
The website interface is easy to use. You just have to select which picture you would like to create the icon for and click “Generate favicon.ico”.
After that, you may want to download the generated favicon.ico, and upload it to your website. Then, to display the icon next to your webpage name, you need to include this line in between your <head> </head> tags :
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" >
Alternatively if you like, you could (offline) produce favicon.ico file from png files, provided that the png files dimension are multiples of 8.
First download this program png2ico. Then, you can create a png file (or use readily available gnome png icon hehe). Finally, you can run the png2ico program on the png files by typing :
png2ico favicon.ico tux.png
After that, you will find yourself having a Microsoft compatible icon file. Generated from PNG!
What? you don’t know what is PNG? It’s an image format similiar to GIF files. Well, you can always look here Portable Network Graphic.
For other instructions generating favicon.ico, please refer to : DumbWebProgrammer
Today, I finally got the time and guts to completely redesigned my blog using css. Well the result of the work is satisfactory for me, considering it’s the first time I use css completely to redesign a website.
I have reorganize my fellow bloggers’ links into alphabetical order. Manage to fix the “CSS Tooltips” bug, now it works in Internet Exploer! I reduce the extensive decorative graphics and slim down the css files to bare minimum.
You can say that I’m satisfied with one day work on my own blog including redesigning, debugging and testing.
Though I can call it a day, but the blog still have some rendering bug with Internet Explorer 6, I dont have access with other version of Internet Explorer though. The css standard is not equally implemented across the browsers.
Next, I’ll implement the Mozilla prefetch optimization on selected links in my blog, to enhance users experience while using my blog.
Till the next time….
The open-source multi-platform multi-protocol Instant Messenger have been released! get it now at Gaim Official Website
Gaim supports Win32, GNU/Linux and FreeBSD operating system.
Here’s the screenshot for those who never saw Gaim :
Additionally gaim users now can read Gaim Google Summer of Code participants’ blogs at http://gaim.sourceforge.net/summerofcode/ and read their progress throughout summer.
Opera software makes an inovative move to include BitTorrent client inside their browser. The integration of this technology will allow end users to download files faster by taking full advantage of available bandwidth and reducing the chance of delays when multiple users go after the same file.
Although BitTorrent users is notoriously known to conduct illegal software exchanging, Opera Software is positive towards its implementation in their browser.
Opera rationalize their move by comparing BitTorrent use for piracy with the use of HTTP or FTP protocol to conduct illegal downloads by stating :
“Opera does not encourage the use of BitTorrent, FTP and HTTP protocols for downloading illegal, copyright infringing material.”
The original announcement from Opera software can be found here
Download Opera 8.02 Preview here