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In Front: Microsoft's Worst Nightmare
Business 2.0 ^ | October 20, 2004 | Om Malik,

Posted on 10/27/2004 10:31:15 PM PDT by budman_2001

Blake Ross is lounging at his parents' Florida Keys condo, thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his sophomore year: nothing less than to "take back the Web" from Microsoft (MSFT).

You might think the shy 19-year-old is outmatched. Think again. Ross, a software prodigy who interned at Netscape at age 14, is the lead architect behind Mozilla's Firefox -- a revolutionary new browser that's catching on the way Mosaic did in 1993. In beta for the past four months, Firefox version 1.0 is set to be released in November. With that, Ross will issue the first truly formidable challenge to Internet Explorer that the world has seen in seven years.

"We're hoping for 10 million downloads in 10 days," Ross says proudly.

http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,714129,00.html


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: browser; business20; explorer; firefox; internet; internetexploiter; linux; windows
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To: glorgau

What do you use to collect stats from your site? I am using a free program and getting what I pay for.


61 posted on 10/27/2004 11:30:40 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Liberalism: The irrational fear of self reliance.)
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To: GeronL

Yes. Just make a System Restore point so you can easily revert back to your prior configuration if it does give you problems.


62 posted on 10/27/2004 11:30:52 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: budman_2001; goldstategop

Thanks for helping GeronL.


63 posted on 10/27/2004 11:31:53 PM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: goldstategop

and a CD backup is not necessary?? Because I haven't made one and it prompts me to do so before I install SP2.


64 posted on 10/27/2004 11:32:28 PM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: familyop
No prob. Glad to.

Another advantage to using tabs, and one FF task, is that I can close all FF windows with one click.

Which I'm going to do now, and go catch some winks.

65 posted on 10/27/2004 11:34:47 PM PDT by budman_2001
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To: Straight Vermonter

I'm using Awstats. It's great, but it runs pretty heavy on resources. ...thinking about writing one in C++, although that will take a back seat to other things and might be a while.


66 posted on 10/27/2004 11:35:12 PM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: GeronL

Not necessary. Just set a system restore point and skip the CD backup if you don't enough CDs. Besides if Windows went south, you'd need to reinstall it anyway. I assume you have all of your important files saved to CD? Its less worrisome if you made a CD image of your entire Operating System via Norton Ghost.


67 posted on 10/27/2004 11:38:33 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: budman_2001

Thanks.


68 posted on 10/27/2004 11:41:33 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Liberalism: The irrational fear of self reliance.)
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To: GeronL

...just to make sure you saw the link in the following, from budman_2001.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1259635/posts?page=54#54


69 posted on 10/27/2004 11:41:38 PM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: GeronL
If it is free, that sounds like a bad business model

Mozilla/Firfox is not a business. But, if your business could use a world class browser's code base to create your killer app product, then free is a good business model.
70 posted on 10/28/2004 12:05:28 AM PDT by Russian Sage
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To: goldstategop
Besides if Windows went south, you'd need to reinstall it anyway. I assume you have all of your important files saved to CD? Its less worrisome if you made a CD image of your entire Operating System via Norton Ghost.

My computer came with Windows XP, no disc. Norton Ghost?? Like I have money to buy that.

71 posted on 10/28/2004 12:10:53 AM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: familyop

yes, saw that thanks


72 posted on 10/28/2004 12:11:11 AM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: Russian Sage

When I have a business, I'll let you know =o)


73 posted on 10/28/2004 12:11:38 AM PDT by GeronL (FREE KERRY'S SCARY bumper sticker .......... http://www.kerrysscary.com/bumper_sticker.php)
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To: familyop

How does BSD compare to Linux? I mainly use Windows 2000, but I have a linux box too, don't really like the colored fonts, etc. A nice Unix box, with good a good system administration package would be fine with me. Something easy to setup and serve an DSL gateway, router, webserver etc, would be cool. Must be able to run lastest Apache, Tomcat, java. Must have c compiler and of course X.

thanks


74 posted on 10/28/2004 12:11:47 AM PDT by jpsb (Nominated 1994/2004 "Worst writer on the net")
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To: Quix

Suggestions?

Thunderbird.

It's the Mozilla mail client.

Supports multiple mailboxes much better, supports digital IDs and encryption. Much better than Eudora in my opinion and I've tried both. I refuse to use Outlook or Outlook Express.


75 posted on 10/28/2004 12:25:18 AM PDT by DB (©)
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To: jpsb

My guess is that the following would be one of the easier versions to install. ...hadn't really looked into that, because I download everything via CVS and make it from source. Have a look, and see what you think. Generally, the BSD systems are ranking as more secure than Linux in surveys (kernels not as susceptible to buffer overruns from other packages, maybe?).

http://www.freebsd.org/

Security is a better (cleaner code) in some of the other versions (OpenBSD, NetBSD,...), IMO, but the time to learn would be rather higher for many.


77 posted on 10/28/2004 12:33:48 AM PDT by familyop (Receive, adhere, listen, dissolve, entice and launch.)
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To: budman_2001
Blake Ross is lounging at his parents' Florida Keys condo, thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his sophomore year: nothing less than to "take back the Web" from Microsoft (MSFT).

Hey Blake! Want to not only make a big splash but also create something that people will actually pay for? Create a browser with a button right on top labeled:

Animations(On/Off)

This one button should turn off animated gifs, Java animations, Macromedia, and etc. I am sick of seeing animations when I don't need them.

78 posted on 10/28/2004 12:44:09 AM PDT by Colorado Buckeye (It's the culture stupid!)
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To: goldstategop
I have Mepis on my desktop--I love it. I installed to the hard drive from the LiveCD. Exceptionally stable, never crashes the system (occasionally the Xserver gets bonked, but restarting the session is a breeze. And Warren added mppe support to the kernel, so logging in to Micro$oft VPNs is easy (his distro is one of very few Linux distro's with that built in to the kernel).

No worries at all about worms and viruses, and I am making great use of older equipment.

I just installed Ubuntu on my older Sony notebook--very very sweet distro.

79 posted on 10/28/2004 12:49:37 AM PDT by twntaipan (demonRATs are the Nazis of our era--party uber alles is their heart cry.)
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To: Quix

Have you tried the User Agent extension? One of the web sites my wife likes to visit (talbots.com--expensive!!!) did not render right in Firefox until I added User Agent, which spoofs the web server into thinking Firefox is IE6 on Windows XP. Now Firefox fully passes the WAF (wife acceptance factor).


80 posted on 10/28/2004 12:52:20 AM PDT by twntaipan (demonRATs are the Nazis of our era--party uber alles is their heart cry.)
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