For those who didn’t know; RFC Standard ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/news/doc/so1036.txt “signatures”: short closing texts, auto-matically added to the end of articles by posting agents, identifying the poster and giving his network addresses etc. If a poster or posting agent does append a signature to an article, the signature SHOULD be preceded with a delimiter line containing (only) [...]
I have to explain this frequently; so here’s the long version. A lot of people get confused, and sometimes mad, when they find out that all the netscape.public.mozilla.* usenet newsgroups are for development discussion, while the user support newsgroups are on a secure server, not propagated to usenet. Here’s why: The first thing to understand [...]
For audio bloggers everywhere; please listen to Maciej Ceglowski‘s, Audioblogging Manifesto. I have at times considered doing an audio post, but now remember why I never choose to. It never seems to fall in line with my first blog post.
You’ve seen how many forums there are for Mozilla and Netscape, right? Including developer forums, there’s no way a normal human being can keep up, let alone participate. And so, I’m going on a forum diet. Most notably, I’m no longer participating in netscape.mozilla.user.win32. I don’t have the time to participate in netscape.public.general, or alt.netscape. [...]
You may have noticed that my blog template has been changing. I’m still fiddling around with it, trying to find what I like, without a drastic contrast to ilias.ca.
Holger Metzger sent me this a couple of days ago to test out. It is instructions on how to update K-Meleon to use the latest Gecko core. It worked like a charm. http://www.holgermetzger.de/kmeleonupdate.html If only updating the Netscape 7 core was as easy…
You know that great feature in the Mozilla Application Suite and Netscape7, that lets you choose whether you want your browser to open with your homepage, a blank page, or the last page you visited? Well, this is one of those features that is still in Mozilla Firefox, but there’s no menu for it. Here’s [...]
And the award for best blog template goes to… Christopher Aillon Gotta love that picture.
As I stated in a previous post, duplicate RSS items is my #1 Thunderbird bug. I recently decided to look for alternatives. Stand-alone RSS readers are out of the question. I prefer to view the actual webpage of the RSS item, instead of the summary. I get to read the comments, and it makes placing [...]