Mozilla Firefox (previously Mozilla Firebird, previously Phoenix)

Mozilla Firefox iconWhat was previously known as Phoenix and Mozilla Firebird, is now known as Mozilla Firefox, due to various naming issues that cropped up over time. For the Phoenix name, apparently there was already a Phoenix browser created by the BIOS manufacturer of the same name. So they changed it to Mozilla Firebird. Nup. Firebird was already taken by another open source project, a relational database project.

So now, with version 0.8 being released, now it is called Mozilla Firefox. Apparently some of the new features are a Windows Installer, an improved download manager, new add bookmark dialog, a new work offline feature, better handling of file types, new XPInstall frontend, a new default theme for MacOS X and various of bug fixes and improvements.

Make sure you check out the Mac OS X theme if you swing that way. I think its looks pretty darn sweet now. Also worth has a squizz at the Pinstripe theme for Mozilla Thunderbird as well (Mac OS X only! 😉 )

And one more thing that everyone can check out, is the Pornzilla project. Its a collection of “bookmarklets and extensions that enhance porn surfing”. Nice 🙂

Coachella Valley Music Festival

At some place called Indio in California (excuse the ignorance) there is a festival called the Coachella Valley Music Festival. All I know about it is that it has an absolutely dizzying array of amazing artists. Check this list out for size.

Saturday: Radiohead, The Pixies, Kraftwerk, Wilco, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Rapture, Desert Sessions, Laurent Garnier, Hieroglyphics, Kinky, Stereolab, Future Sound of London, And you will know us by The Trail of Dead, Peretz, Death Cab for Cutie, Sparta, LCD Soundsystem, Living Legends, Sander Kleinenberg, The Black Keys, The Sounds, Howie Day, Junior Senior, Mark Farina, Moving Units, Sahara Hotnights, Electric Six, The Stills, Seb Fontaine, 22-20’s, Da Lata, Juana Molina, Phantom Planet, Mindless Self Indulgence, Dios, Jem, Q and not U, stellastarr*, Erase Errata, The Section Quartet, DJ Icon.

Sunday: The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Air, Belle & Sebastian, Basement Jaxx, Paul Van Dyk, Bright Eyes, Atmosphere, Thursday, BRMC, Cursive, Le Tigre, The Crystal Method, Dizzee Rascal, Adam Freeland, Mogwai, Ash, 2many Dj’s, Muse, Sidestepper, Donald Glaude, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, The Thrills, Broken Social Scene, Richard Fearless, The Sleepy Jackson, Ferry Corsten, Prefuse 73, !!!, The Cooper Temple Clause, Sage Francis, T. Raumschmiere, The Killers, Home Town Hero, The Section Quartet.

Bugz

Bugz in the Attic

I went with Benn, Kellie (thanks heaps for the +1’s guys!) and Rozie down to the Chinese Laundry to check out the Bugz in the Attic again on Saturday night since I enjoyed them so much at the Good Vibration Festival. I really enjoyed their set. A darker, more techier set of broken beats, compared to the jazzier, “greatest hits” of broken beat that they delivered at GVF (not that there’s anything wrong with that, just different). The night was made a bit less enjoyable due to the stinking heat and humidity, the punters chucking up in the corner of the club while I was having a sit and cool down (the toilets were just around the corner), the sweaty gurn apes who got crabby when I didn’t want a festy, sweaty gurner hug, feeling like I was about to fall over from being so tired and the scraggy girls dancing with their shoes off (yeeck, the Laundry it the last place I’d want to be bare foot). *sigh* The things I do for music.

Kraftwerk’s first World Tour 2004 concert report

Kraftwerk played at Helsingin Jäähalli, Helsinki, Finland and the event was sold out (about 4,500 people). Since this is their tour for their new album Tour De France Soundtracks, the show is a bit different from what I saw at the Enmore Theatre and the Big Day Out last year. Nice to see the Robots in action though. (Setlist orginally from the Antenna list via 313)

The setlist of show was:

  1. Vocoder intro
  2. Hütter, Schmitz, Hilpert and Schneider were dressed in dark grey suits with red shirts and black ties.

  3. The Man-Machine (animated graphics like back sleeve off the album)
  4. Expo 2000 (graphics from video)
  5. Tour de France 2003 (footage from video)
  6. Vitamin (animated vitamin pills)
  7. Tour de France (old Tour de France footage)
  8. Autobahn (record sleeves, footage of traffic and old car advertisements)
  9. The Model (footage from video)
  10. Neon Lights (footage of neon lights)
  11. Sellafield (text on screen)
  12. Radioactivity (radio-activity signs)
  13. Trans-Europe Express (old train footage)
  14. curtains close
    curtains open, now Hütter, Schmitz, Hilpert and Schneider ties are fitted with LEDs like “The Robots” video.

  15. Numbers/Computer world (numbers/lyrics)
  16. It’s More Fun to Compute/Homecomputer (old computer graphics)
  17. Pocket Calculator (animated pocket calculator, Ralf has mic problems)
  18. curtains close
    curtains open

  19. The Robots (robots only on stage, screen shows footage of the robots)
  20. curtains close
    curtains open, now Hütter, Schmitz, Hilpert and Schneider are wearing the “new” green light-emitting suits

  21. Elektro Kardiogramm (oscillator)
  22. Aero Dynamik (bicycle graphics)
  23. Musique Non Stop (footage from video, band leaves one by one starting with Schneider on the right, Hilpert, Schmitz leaving Hütter on the left to last)

Planet Grep continued

OK, so things are starting to look a bit spiffier now. Bj’s feed is getting pulled in now correctly, with all the dates and the html coming through correctly. My feed was a bit in that it was only pulling in an exerpt of the blog, even though it was set to pull in the full feed. Messed around with my feed, created a custom one, and forced it to send through the full feed with html all the time. Now the only weird thing is that it doesn’t seem to pull in my last post.

Testing out Planet Grep

Just a quick test entry. Something I’m playing with at the moment is a Planet Blog using My Planet.

Helloooooo Planet Grep! 😆 Think I’ll be needing grep.dorja.com/blogs or planetgrep.dorja.com or something. 😀

…bugger, looks like all of Bj’s posts are dated for tomorrow!!!

Gallery security fix

Apparenty Gallery versions 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.4-pl1, 1.4, 1.4-pl1, 1.4-pl2, and 1.4.1 have a serious security flaw which requires patching.

We have discovered a well-hidden but potentially serious security flaw in these versions of Gallery which can allow a hacker to remotely exploit your webserver. All Gallery users are strongly urged to upgrade to 1.4.1-pl1 immediately, which fixes this serious problem and will secure your system.

You can either upgrade to version 1.4.1-pl1 or if you are currently running 1.4.1 there is a small zip file which you can download which updates a couple of files.

The Neptunes aka N*E*R*D

From the N*E*R*D community on Orkut:

N*E*R*D is from the heart. When I say the heart, it’s like, if you spread your arms out and you put hip-hop in one hand, all the syncopation and hi-hats and drums, and in the other you put all the feeling and psychedelics of classic rock of the ’70s. Somewhere in the middle, where they meet is right near the heart. That’s where you’ll find N*E*R*D – the heart. That’s a perfect point of existence for N*E*R*D.

Ahahahaha 😆 Give me a hug right thuuur bruva!

MAME 0.79 released

MAME 0.79 was released 31th January. Of note is the changes to the memory management:

Another big memory change. [Aaron Giles]

The biggest change is the way address maps are declared in the drivers. Rather than having separate read and write address maps, there is now support for a single, merged map. In order to minimize the amount of code churn, there is currently still support for two separate address maps per address space, but they are combined into one internally early on in the memory initialization and setup.

Other changes to it are as follows:

New Games supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

  • Scramble Spirits
  • Triv Four (1985 Status)
  • Super Triv III (1986 Status)
  • Winning Spike
  • Whizz
  • More More Plus
  • Pairs Love

New Clones supported or promoted from GAME_NOT_WORKING status:

  • Perestrokia Girls (without Fuuki license)
  • Changes (EME license)
  • VS. Tennis (Japan)
  • Dual Assault

New Non-Working games / clones supported:

  • Varia Metal
  • Denjin Makai (protected)
  • Super Hang On Limited Edition
  • Plasma Sword (parent to Star Gladiator 2)

Relationship stuff

An email I received from a friend that was too hot too pass up…

Dear Audrey,

I know the counsellor said we shouldn’t contact each other during our “cooling off” period, but I couldn’t wait any more. The day you left, I swore I’d never talk to you again. But that was just the wounded little boy in me talking. Still, I never wanted to be the first one to make contact. In my fantasies, it was always you who would come crawling back to me. I guess my pride needed that. But now I see that my pride’s cost me a lot of things. I’m tired of pretending I don’t miss you. I don’t care about looking bad any more. I don’t care who makes the first move as long as one of us does. Continue reading “Relationship stuff”

Robin and Friends

I was searching in Google for “Robin and Friends” and this is what I got. Eeeck!

BTW, does anyone remember Robin and Friends? Was it called something else? Robin and Friends was a cartoon which featured a little dude with a pointy beany on SBS probably around 1998 or so. Robin and his friends used to get up to crazy adventures like breaking into warehouses and skiiing on mountains of cocaine and other such fun. They also featured in a Radiohead film clip for “Paranoid Android”. Anyway, I’d love to get my hand on a DVD or atleast some more information on this cartoon. I can’t seem to find any information at all, except for a brief mention on the Triple J website years ago in reference to the Radiohead filmclip.

Personal networks

If you haven’t read all about it, its now time to find out that that Orkut is the cool kid on the block now for personal networking, not Friendster. One thing I like about it is that its actually fast. 😉 And the communities feature is quite nice as well. At the moment, its invite only. I think I’ve invited pretty much everyone I have an email address for. If you haven’t got an invitation from me yet, drop me a line.