Since 1928, neither the President nor the Vice-President are running for the presidency. Now if I recall my history correctly 1928 is the year Herbert Hoover was elected to the white house, and the next year was the start of the Great Depression.
Not to start a panic, but if you thought the economy was bad now.....
Netscape is dying. After Friday, February 1st, there will not be nay more updates. It's was a long journey, but in all reality Netscape has long been dead. I didn't get my 1st computer until November 2000 (the computer is still going strong. In fact, this post is being written on it), and by then, AOHell has acquired it, and the source code had been released as open source. Almost as an afterthought, Gateway had put the installer for Netscape 4.06 on it which I installed. Compared to IE 5.5/6, it was about on par. Unfortunately, it was also running Windows ME (thank you to The Anti-Christ, and I had some other issue necessitating a wipe and rebuild of my hard drive, and the installer was very will hidden on my restore set. So I lost it, and I used IE for several years.
In the meanwhile, the Mozilla foundation had been founded and the code that started out to be Netscape was now being released as the Mozilla suite (Netscape 6/7 is essentially the Mozilla suite with a buncha of AOHell crap bundled into them). From the Mozilla Suite, it was decided to develop just a browser (rather than a full internet suite), and this became phoenix, then firebird (when I first started using it), and now you all now it as firefox. Another effort to produce a dedicated email client result in Thunderbird. Along the way, the Mozilla suite was discontinued, but it's descendant still lives on in the form of SeaMonkey.
Netscape is dying they say. I say Netscape died when AOHell bought them out. But Netscape still lives. Firefox and Thunderbird are it's great-great grandchildren descended from a long line going all the was back to 1994 and before.
BTW, Netscape and Internet Explorer both can trace there lineage in one form or another to NCSA Mosaic. If you're really feeling adventurous, you can give it a try by downloading it here. Otherwise, you're better off by downloading and using Firefox.
Wolf up this morning, and was greeted by this. Nothing like cocaine falling from the sky. And off course, it' my day off....
The KDE desktop environment has been ported to windows. It's still in very pre-release alpha, which means that the only guarantee is that it is not going to work. Which means it's still even more stable than windows. But it's a start. The games work. At least most of them. The solitaire is much better than the one that The Anti-Christ supplies with windoze. If you're not going to install it right away, then at least keep an eye it. This could be something worth following.....
I said this before, and I'll say it again: The only way to win at the game of office politics is not to play.........
If you scaled an electron down to one pixel, then one hydrogen atom would have an eleven mile radius....
(Never mind that the planet Neptune is playing the role of the proton.....)
I'm celebrating it the way I usually celebrate it. In front of the TV, watching the Space Needle self-destruct. I hope your New Year goes well (as well as this one). Even though most the fireworks aren't going off as planned.....
For some reason I think the computer running the fireworks display is running Windows. ME.
