• Feb 4, 2004

    Orkut invitations for sale at ebay

    Orkut membership is by invite only. Apparently that makes it something worth buying into, as this listing of Orkut invites for sale at eBay shows.

    In case the auctions get taken down, here's a screenshot for posterity (click for a larger image):

    Picture of eBay listing of Orkut invitations on auction

    Hey I'll sell you an invite for just a dollar! Heh just kidding...

  • Feb 3, 2004

    Mozilla Firebird out next Monday

    Ben Goodger posted this in the Orkut Mozilla Firebird community:

    It's Monday February 9 now. This is the first time I've been confident enough to give a date. This release is going to be the best Firebird yet.

    See Ben Goodger's reply in forum thread at Orkut if you're an Orkut member.


    Sorry for posting to a closed forum. This piece of news was also made known in the MozillaZine forums in this thread entitled FAQ: When is 0.8 coming out?.

    Cheers!

  • Feb 2, 2004

    Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 test builds are available

    Hot off the mozillazine forums: Scott MacGregor has announced that the first set of 0.5 test builds are now available for Win32.

    Expect Milestone 0.5 to be released within the week or the next as per this announcement by Scott on the updated roadmap and 0.5 plans.

    Grab the test builds.

  • Feb 2, 2004

    My Thunderbird build 20040201

    Just for fun, I built Mozilla Thunderbird from the latest sources using Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003.

    Optimized for Pentium 4, Pentium M, Celeron 1.7GHz+ and Athlon64 with SSE2. I stripped out most of the stuff I don't need, and added compiler optimizations /G7 (optimize for processors listed above) and /Oxs (full optimization, optimize for size).

    Download it: thunderbird-win32-20040201-Oxs-G7-SSE2.zip

    Here's my .mozconfig:

    export MOZ_THUNDERBIRD=1
    mk_add_options MOZ_THUNDERBIRD=1

    ac_add_options --disable-accessibility
    ac_add_options --disable-activex
    ac_add_options --disable-activex-scripting
    ac_add_options --disable-auto-deps
    ac_add_options --disable-crypto
    ac_add_options --disable-debug
    ac_add_options --disable-freetype2
    ac_add_options --disable-installer
    ac_add_options --disable-jsd
    ac_add_options --disable-ldap
    ac_add_options --disable-mathml
    ac_add_options --disable-necko-disk-cache
    ac_add_options --disable-oji
    ac_add_options --disable-profilesharing
    ac_add_options --disable-tests
    ac_add_options --disable-xprint

    ac_add_options --enable-extensions=wallet,xmlextras
    ac_add_options -enable-image-decoders=bmp,jpeg,gif,icon,png
    ac_add_options --enable-necko-protocols=http,file,jar,viewsource,res,data
    ac_add_options --enable-optimize='-Oxs -G7 -arch:SSE2'
    ac_add_options --enable-strip

  • Feb 1, 2004

    The force that is Slashdot

    You must have heard of the Slashdot effect. It is real. It is of a magnitude beyond your imagination. Yesterday I felt a teeny weeny jolt in bandwidth simply because someone linked to my "New IE vulnerability - fake URLs" entry in this Slashdot article entitled "Microsoft Advises to Type in URLs Rather than Click" in a comment. A comment that is found about 80% down a page that scrolls at least fifty times when you press the page down button.

    Lucky for me I'm just below my bandwidth allocation for this month.

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