Now that is something ironic
Lots of people complaining about windows vista.
but do they really know windows vista ?
this is the opinion of some people who "KNOW VISTA PRETTY GOOD"
lets have a laugh together.

http://www.mojaveexperiment.com/#

 

for any questions or comments, please leave a comment down there.

thanks

 

A study of Microsoft's instant messaging network supports the popular idea that everyone on the planet can be connected through fewer than seven links in a chain of contacts.

The study's findings have some remarkable implications. For instance, Bill Gates is only 6 or 7 degrees away from free software advocate and Microsoft critic Richard Stallman, and John McCain -- though miles apart in age and political beliefs -- is no more than just a handful of social connections away from his presidential rival, Barack Obama.

 

by June 18 FireFox announced the following :
"Thanks to the support of the always amazing Mozilla community, we got more than 8 million Firefox 3 downloads in 24 hours. That’s more Firefox downloads than we’ve ever had in a single day -- an impressive feat indeed!.

Please be patient while the good people of Guinness review our World Record attempt. This might take a few days so please check back here. And, a huge thanks for all of your support!"



On June 19 (DAY THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN) 12,849,152 copies of Firefox 3 were already distributed by Mozilla servers.



FACTS ABOUT FIREFOX DOWNLOAD DAY
# In 5 hours, Firefox 3 beat its predecessor's first day download count
# Supporters try to set a world record for most software downloads in a 24-hour period
# Guinness World Records must certify it, a process that could take a week or longer
# Release was delayed as visitors checking for the update overloaded Firefox's servers  

By Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation
To pay so much attention to Bill Gates' retirement is missing the point.
What really matters is not Gates, nor Microsoft, but the unethical
system of restrictions that Microsoft, like many other software
companies, imposes on its customers.
That statement may surprise you, since most people interested in
computers have strong feelings about Microsoft. Businessmen and their tame politicians admire its success in building an empire over so many computer users.
Many outside the computer field credit Microsoft for advances which it only took advantage of, such as making computers cheap and fast, and convenient graphical user interfaces.
Gates' philanthropy for health care for poor countries has won some
people's good opinion. The LA Times reported that his foundation spends five to 10% of its money annually and invests the rest, sometimes in companies it suggests cause environmental degradation and illness in the same poor countries.
Many computerists specially hate Gates and Microsoft. They have plenty of reasons. 'Solicit funds'
Microsoft persistently engages in anti-competitive behaviour, and has been convicted three times. George W Bush, who let Microsoft off the hook for the second US conviction, was invited to Microsoft headquarters to solicit funds for the 2000 election.
Many users hate the "Microsoft tax", the retail contracts that make you pay for Windows on your computer even if you won't use it.
In some countries you can get a refund, but the effort required is daunting.
There's also the Digital Restrictions Management: software features
designed to "stop" you from accessing your files freely. Increased
restriction of users seems to be the main advance of Vista.
'Gratuitous incompatibilities'
Then there are the gratuitous incompatibilities and obstacles to
interoperation with other software. This is why the EU required
Microsoft to publish interface specifications.
This year Microsoft packed standards committees with its supporters to procure ISO approval of its unwieldy, unimplementable and patented "open standard" for documents. The EU is now investigating this.
These actions are intolerable, of course, but they are not isolated
events. They are systematic symptoms of a deeper wrong which most people
don't recognise: proprietary software.
Microsoft's software is distributed under licenses that keep users
divided and helpless. The users are divided because they are forbidden
to share copies with anyone else. The users are helpless because they
don't have the source code that programmers can read and change.
If you're a programmer and you want to change the software, for yourself
or for someone else, you can't.
If you're a business and you want to pay a programmer to make the
software suit your needs better, you can't. If you copy it to share with
your friend, which is simple good-neighbourliness, they call you a "pirate".

'Unjust system'
Microsoft would have us believe that helping your neighbour is the moral equivalent of attacking a ship.
The most important thing that Microsoft has done is to promote this
unjust social system.
Gates is personally identified with it, due to his infamous open letter
which rebuked microcomputer users for sharing copies of his software.
It said, in effect, "If you don't let me keep you divided and helpless,
I won't write the software and you won't have any. Surrender to me, or
you're lost!"
'Change system'
But Gates didn't invent proprietary software, and thousands of other
companies do the same thing. It's wrong, no matter who does it.
Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and the rest, offer you software that gives
them power over you. A change in executives or companies is not
important. What we need to change is this system.
That's what the free software movement is all about. "Free" refers to
freedom: we write and publish software that users are free to share and modify.
We do this systematically, for freedom's sake; some of us paid, many as volunteers. We already have complete free operating systems, including GNU/Linux.
Our aim is to deliver a complete range of useful free software, so that no computer user will be tempted to cede her freedom to get software.
In 1984, when I started the free software movement, I was hardly aware of Gates' letter. But I'd heard similar demands from others, and I had a response: "If your software would keep us divided and helpless, please don't write it. We are better off without it. We will find other ways to use our computers, and preserve our freedom."
In 1992, when the GNU operating system was completed by the kernel, Linux, you had to be a wizard to run it. Today GNU/Linux is
user-friendly: in parts of Spain and India, it's standard in schools.
Tens of millions use it, around the world. You can use it too.
Gates may be gone, but the walls and bars of proprietary software he
helped create remain, for now.
Dismantling them is up to us.  

On the first day Firefox was released, Mozilla.org servers were distributing around 9000 copies a minute.

and that was the highest downloading per 24 hour for a product in the world.

so what's new in the 2nd most popular browser on the Internet after Internet Explorer ?

More Security

• One click site info: Click the site favicon in the location bar to see who owns the site. Identity verification is prominently displayed and easier to understand.
• Malware Protection: malware protection warns users when they arrive at sites which are known to install viruses, spyware, trojans or other malware.
• New Web Forgery Protection page: the content of pages suspected as web forgeries is no longer shown.
• New SSL error pages: clearer and stricter error pages are used when Firefox encounters an invalid SSL certificate.
• Add-ons and Plugin version check: Firefox now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and will disable older, insecure versions.
• Secure add-on updates: to improve add-on update security, add-ons that provide updates in an insecure manner will be disabled.
• Anti-virus integration: Firefox will inform anti-virus software when downloading executables.

Easier to Use

• Easier password management: an information bar replaces the old password dialog so you can now save passwords after a successful login.
• Simplified add-on installation: the add-ons whitelist has been removed making it possible to install extensions from third-party sites in fewer clicks.
• New Download Manager: the revised download manager makes it much easier to locate downloaded files.
• Resumable downloading: users can now resume downloads after restarting the browser or resetting your network connection.
• Tab scrolling and quickmenu: tabs are easier to locate with the new tab scrolling and tab quickmenu.
• Text selection improvements: Multiple text selections can be made with Ctrl/Cmd; Double-click drag selects in “word-by-word” mode; Triple-clicking selects a paragraph.
• Find toolbar: the Find toolbar now opens with the current selection.

More Personal

• Star button: quickly add bookmarks from the location bar with a single click; a second click lets you file and tag them.
• Tags: associate keywords with your bookmarks to sort them by topic.
• Location bar

I am sure you will love it just like me ...

NOTE: SOME ADDONS WORKING ON YOUR PREVIOUS VERSION OF FIREFOX MAY NOT WORK ON FIREFOX 3

 

I just downloaded windows live writer on my vista ultimate 64bit , and giving a try on my weblog at blogspot.
everything was configured automatically really fast.
and now i am testing my first post

 

Did you ever tried to access a JavaScript variable from your PHP code?
will, I did try, like everyone I just tried googling for the best solution, and the best way I found was to refresh the page once visited sending the variable within the URL query, and then get the variable using $_GET function in your PHP code.
but that didn't work in my case, because my variable were supposed to be sent, without the user knowing these variables or there values, and that would show it in the URL.
Even worst, it would be saved in his History, and everybody else could see the values.

so I thought of another way, and it worked as a charm.
although the Browser should be accepting cookies... (but comeon when was the last time you saw a browser configured NOT to accept cookies).

One More Thing. This won't work for users using FireFox or Safari.
Only IE users fall for that, unless changes to the default IE configuration were done.
the method goes as follow:

a. JavaScript creates a new cookie, and save the variables I need in that cookie.
b. PHP then can access that cookie and read the variables.
c. PHP re-set a cookie with the same name with 0 seconds expiry time, and no values to overwrite the old cookie.

Here is a working example tried on :
Apache 2.0.58 , PHP 5.1.4 , Internet Explorer 6.0.x

.... CODE START ....
<HTML>
<Script Language="JavaScript">
var content = "foo"
function setCookie(c_name,value,expiredays)
{
var exdate=new Date()
exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate()+expiredays)
document.cookie=c_name+ "=" +escape(value)+
((expiredays==null) ? "" : ";expires="+exdate.toGMTString())
}
setCookie("CN",content,1);
</Script>
<?php
if (isset ($_COOKIE['CN']))
echo $_COOKIE['CN'] ;
else
echo 'cookie not set';
?> </HTML>