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Spider 0.0.3.6

bc — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:59:01 +0000

Spider 0.0.3.6 updated to support Firefox 6, Firefox 7 Beta, Firefox 8 (Aurora) and Firefox 9 (Nightly).

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

bc — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:24:53 +0000

A little over 4 years ago, we celebrated our 25 millionth download of Firefox. It was a great day.

Firefox is about to celebrate its 1 billionth download.

The journey is just beginning!

YASU 0.0.2.15

bc — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:10:12 +0000

Yet another Spider update is available

The major change is to script-loader.js which no longer uses the subscript loader to load external user hook functions.

Dell Precision 650, October 2003 – January 2008

bc — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:09:35 +0000

After a great week in Mountain View with the rest of team I returned to find that not all was well.

When I tried to boot my trusty Dell Precision, nothing happened. Upon inspection, I found the video card had been pushed in and “bent”. I have been assured that no unauthorized vacuuming occurred during my absence, which leaves Miss Kitty as the likely suspect. I tried to re-seat the card to no avail. I think Miss Kitty actually did me a favor since I found a number of capacitors on the motherboard are bulging with “crap” coming out of their tops. I guess I am reaping what I sowed in my last post.

On Monday, I’ll try to find someone who might be able to replace the motherboard and possibly video card for a reasonable price but it looks like I’ll be needing a replacement for my personal computing soon.

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Are Macs a ripoff ?

bc — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:34:36 +0000

I sit here typing this on a 4+ year old Dell Precision while my trusty 3+ year old IBM Thinkpad stands by waiting for me to hit the road. The Dell has never needed a repair while the Thinkpad has been to the shop once. I like the Thinkpad so much, I even went for the extended warranty when the original 3 year warranty expired.

I’ve been jealous of the really sweet MacBook Pros that I’ve seen other mozillian’s packing and was planning on upgrading both my workstation and laptop to some really killer Macs sometime in the first half of next year. However, I am having second thoughts after seeing the kind of experience others are having.

Norm Walsh has been having problems recently that raised my concerns a bit.
Dave Winer has also been experiencing his share of the pain, but his experience with the Apple Store has left me flabbergasted.

What other choices for a really fast workstation and laptop do I have? For what its worth, I’m running Fedora on both my workstation and laptop and don’t want Windows on either machine. Suggestions very much appreciated.