Mozilla Firefox 1.5 RC2 – released

Was just browsing around the mozilla ftp site when I came across this.

The mozilla web site has not been updated yet. The Win32 version is all I need.

Go and get your copy. I’m about to install right now.

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What’s New in Firefox 1.5 RC 2

• Automated update to streamline product upgrades.
• Faster browser navigation.
• Drag and drop for browser tabs.
• Improvements to popup blocking.
• Clear Private Data feature.
• Answers.com added to search engine list.
• Descriptive error pages, redesigned options menu, and RSS discovery.
• Better accessibility support.
• Report a broken Web site wizard.
• Better support for Mac OS X.

Mozilla Web Site updated for RC2! :D

Boeing jet sets flight record

A Boeing 777 plane has broken the world record for the longest flight for a commercial jet.

The aircraft carrying 35 passengers has landed at London’s Heathrow Airport after a 20,000-kilometre flight east from Hong Kong.

It flew over the northern Pacific, then over the northern part of the United States, before crossing the Atlantic.

The flight lasted 22 hours and 45 minutes and ended 15 minutes ahead of schedule.

It beat the existing non-stop passenger airline record – also achieved by a Boeing 777 – by several thousand kilometres.

When fully operational, the Worldliner will be able to carry 301 passengers on a non-stop service between Australia and New York.

Source: ABC News Online

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OMG! Amazing, I hope they had good movies and entertainment, ~23Hours in the air non stop is a long long time.

Exclusive: Microsoft Hits Windows Vista Beta 2 Delays

Sources at the company told me this week that Microsoft will soon delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 from December 7, 2005 to sometime in January or February 2006. However, because the Vista development schedule is extremely time constrained, the company will try and make up lost time by eliminating one of the planned release candidate (RC) milestones that were planned for later in the process.

A Microsoft representative told me that the company remains on track for shipping Windows Vista in the second half of 2006. “We are on schedule and committed to shipping on time and ensuring a high-quality product,” I was told. “Microsoft sets internal targets for the development team around milestones, but these are not commitments to specific dates.  We do not comment on these internal milestones and we have not announced a specific timeframe for our next major Windows Vista milestone. “

“That said, customers have told us repeatedly they prefer more frequent code drops through our Community Technology Preview (CTP) program [which] provides a great avenue for real time feedback and testing from our customers–feedback we formerly received only through the beta process.  You should expect Microsoft to continue their focus to deliver CTPs in the coming months given how successful this program has been.”

Previously, sources had revealed to me that Microsoft would at least delay the release of Windows Vista Beta 2 until late December. This more recent delay suggests that the company is having a difficult time meeting its internal shipping criteria for Beta 2, which is considered a major milestone release and will be made widely available to testers and the public. It’s not known at this time whether the delay will affect related product releases such as Internet Explorer (IE) 7.0 Beta 2 and Windows Media Player 11 Beta 1, both of which were also originally set for a December 7 public release.

 

Source: Paul Thurrott’s WinInfo

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I really don’t think this is a big deal, quality is more important than a ship date. IMHO

I’m an Approved Office “12″ Technical Beta tester

Free Beer and pretzels for all!* Really happy to have received my acceptance email from Microsoft. Once again I am not posting any information other than this as I have not reviewed the NDA document at this stage. But no harm should come from blogging the fact that I am ecstatic about testing what appears at this stage to be the most revolutionary version of Office ever?

*Free Beer and pretzels will not be honoured.

NOD32 – 34th VB 100% award received

ESET outranks all other antivirus vendors. Glad I’m using it – definately the best product there is.

Original Media Release from Virus Bulletin.

Awesome!

ÜberGeek

How is your work?

This little animation is a great summary of my work week this week.

ÜberGeek after dealing with another insane “customer”.

Windows® Vista™ Beta Tester

…and I’m really excited about it too, although I better check in the .longhorn.general first to find out what I shouldn’t talk about and all that legal jazz. Don’t want to wake up one morning log onto connect.microsoft.com only to find out I’ve been kicked out or worse, blacklisted by Microsoft.

From the information I’ve read on Paul Thurrott’s site, it seems that the CTP must be close. I hope so anyway.

Whoa, Paul also has a really cool site right here, his internet nexus. Cool.

Also spotted a lot of talk at neowin.net forums about this next CTP.

The suspense is killing me!

Cats always get up to no good.

So you want proof? Here is proof.

    

I’ve always wanted a cat, never actually got one, something to do with allergies I think

More Überg00dn3ss soon! :p