Thursday Taikonaut
Firebird Rises. As noted in Tuesday's
post, the Mozilla Firebird browser 0.7 was released to the
masses (get it here).
Note that they've instituted a reverse lookup to the domain
you are coming from (for security purposes, wouldn't want
just anyone using Firebird). For most people, this will not
be a problem. However, it is a problem here because our
idiot poor, overworked IT staff doesn't know how to
setup domains/DNS correctly. So I ended up using PuTTY (get
it here)
to securely login into Pair (my web host), then used the
text-based Lynx browser (get it here) to pull down the
file. I then used WS_FTP LE (get it here) to
get the file from Pair to my PC. A little complicated but
there you go.
Wink, Wink. If you are in PC application support, you probably could use something that demos mouse movements or allows you to show screen shots with custom callouts or balloons. IF so, check out Wink (see it here). You can output to Flash SWF, EXE, PDP, or HTML. The best is it's freeware.
The Need for Speed II. So you think you have a fast Internet connection eh? Well, try transferring a CD with 60 minutes of music in one second. The Swiss CERN has a link to CalTech that runs at 5.44 gigabits per second. That's gigabits folks. Per second. See the story here.
Aloha!