Now this is cool.
UI? We don’t need to stinkin’ UI! 🙂
Now this is cool.
UI? We don’t need to stinkin’ UI! 🙂
In an effort to free some of my time, so I can devote it to Firefox support planning; I’m no longer updating my SeaMonkey Help site. If anyone is interested in taking it over, please contact me. I can keep hosting it, and set up an FTP account for the maintainer.
The site uses HTML (of course), CSS, SSI, and a small htaccess script to hide file extensions.
I sometimes get email from people wanting advertising space on my website. Obviously, I don’t want any advertising on my website; but I also think (in most cases) everyone’s got a price. So here’s mine… $100,000.00 CAD. If anyone is willing to pay me a one time fee of one hundred thousand Canadian dollars, they can advertise on my website, as much as they want.
[modified version for Thunderbird 2 users. Thunderbird 1 users go here.]
Every once in a while, someone on news.mozilla.org will enquire about receiving an error message “A News (NNTP) error occurred: xpat not supported“, when trying to search newsgroups on news.mozilla.org; so I thought I’d post my ‘stock’ answer. 🙂
News.mozilla.org is hosted by Giganews, who’s servers do not support XPAT commands.
To quote one of the Giganews support personnel:
“The XPAT command attempts to search through our entire spool of over 700 million articles, to match on a specific keyword, that is often found only in a handful of newsgroups. The command puts enough of a load on our servers, that several people using this at one time can affect the performance that all of our customers receive.”
Disabling XPAT support is not an uncommon thing. When using the “Search Messages” function in Mozilla Thunderbird [Edit–>Find–>Search Messages], the XPAT command is used to search that news server. The workaround for this is to make Thunderbird search messages locally. There are a couple of ways to do that:
1. Use the Quick Search toolbar item [View–>Toolbars–>Customize, and make sure “Quick Search” is on a toolbar].
2. Before opening the search window, you can switch to offline mode [File–>Offline–>Work Offline]. There’s also an offline toggle icon in the bottom left of the Thunderbird window.
Additionally, all mozilla.* newsgroups are archived on Google Groups, which is searchable using Google Groups.
I’ve been hoping for a while, that someone would capture and post The Score‘s assessment of Roberto Carlos‘ “Improbable Goal,” and here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXA0PoEE6Y
Carlos is THE MAN. His epic free kick against France is also worth seeing.
Three months ago, I met with Paul Kim, to discuss ways of improving Mozilla user support web content. I initially thought we wouldn’t need all 45 minutes, but it turned out that 45 minutes wasn’t nearly enough. He asked if there was a page anywhere in which I outlined my thoughts on improving support. I did post a response to Chris Hofmann’s enquiry a couple of months before; but even that didn’t contain all of my thoughts on the matter; and there have been developments and new ideas since then. I had been meaning to post this sooner. Sorry Paul. 🙁 With the support meetings happening this week, that kicked me in the butt, to get this post done.
Rather than go through every problem/bug I see in Mozilla’s user support, let’s go through solutions, which may fix multiple problems at once:
In-product
Website
Other