Despite my reservations about the expected rigamarole required to establish a wifi network, as has been the case for the last several releases, I’m proud to say that the Intrepid Ibex is ready for the curious - and without any manual wifi configuration!
The tray icon for UFW is a nice addition, too.
Tomorrow’s release of alpha5 [...]
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For those of us Mozilla Thunderbird users who run Linux-based operating systems (this may affect Macs, too, but I cannot verify), some may have noticed that it’s entirely possible and sometimes unfavorable to run multiple instances of the Thunderbird application.
While googling for the inevitable answer, I ran across a bug fix from 2005 that demonstrates [...]
Technology Review’s perennial report on the next big thing in science and technology is now available for 2008. Consider wireless power, nanoradios, and a 1-THz computer chip.
The same people (edit: this project is not affiliated with Mozilla) who brought us Firefox and Thunderbird have released their latest e-mail productivity suite, known as Spicebird.
Ever wondered the name (or more) for that bright, twinkle in the nighttime sky? Stellarium is a free, open source planetarium for your desktop. Its intuitive user interface emerses you into the environment, with enough detailed information to impress Carl Sagan. Ah, so much for so little…freedom is a marvelous thing.