with just 13 days to go until Firefox 1.0 goes final the Mozilla org have released the first release candidate of Firefox. I’ve replaced my preview release with this version and i’m a whole lot more happy. I suffered from the memory leak issue (which has been fixed) when using LiveMarks and can now have about half a dozen tabs open without using excessive amounts of memory.
More info regarding bug fixes can be found here
An interesting article on the BBC about a Delta flight stewardess who was grounded for a month for postings made on her blog.
Read the article here.
Just in case you haven’t seen the annoucement anywhere elsewhere the Alagad Image component 2.0 (a single cfc) was released yesterday. You can find out more at alagad.com. Incidentally, the download is version 2.0 despite it looking from the page that it’s 1.0.
Something i hadn’t come across before but some people have been finding performance on IIS6.0 is slower than IIS 5.0, there’s a technote issued by MM on October 1st, here which links to Microsofts site with a possible solution.
Not available in the UK, but this handy accessory from Vodafone Japan apparently let’s you see through clothes - once fiction, now reality!
Read more here.
Then make a donation to the Firefox project’s campaign for the first open source funded full page ad in the NYT in preparation for the 1.0 launch of Firefox on 9th November.
Read more here.
It’s something i’m sure a fair few people would like to see, Apple OS’s running on the Intel platform - are Apple working on it, well rumours are rife, but who knows. Apple hardware is super sweet looking but i do think a little overpriced. I’ve been looking at a potential move to an Apple Mac but besides other things I’m a Windows network admin and use MS Outlook extensively so could never really rid myself totally of MS. If i went to a Mac i’d need a Windows emulator - i hadn’t seen an emulator the other round, Mac on Intel until I came across this site here. I’m going to get hold of a Mac OS to give it a try out.
A little premature as it’s not releasing until Q1 2005 but the latest SQL Server offering from MS looks like it will have some real gems in it and offers some signicant reasons for upgrading.
The whole licensing surrounding MSDE (the developers edition) and whether it can be used as production Db server for small scale web sites, limited connection count and poor management has been replaced by SQL Server 2005 Express, which will come with proper user config tools and only minor restrictions; single processor only, 1GB RAM restricted and a single Db restriction of 4Gb is now licensed by MS for running on a live webserver- putting it directly up against MySQL.
The full version of SQL 2005 has some new fault tolerant features which enterprises will take interest in. You can now ‘mirror’ databases to a second well connected (LAN, ADSL etc) SQL 2005 server. One server will be defined as a live server which would pass executed transactions to the other SQL servers - much more efficient than traditional replication methods and doesn’t require expensive hardware. A third server can be introduced as a ‘witness’ server to resolve conflicts as and when they occur.
Something else which I like the sound of is the ability to turn a stored procedure into a webservice - enterprises will like this as it will allow them to move the responsbility of the webservice to the Db admin away from the web developer.
You can read more about SQL 2005 here as well as download a prerelease version of the product.
back from holiday to a miserably cold UK, going from 35 degrees C down to a mesly 14 degrees C, so i’m certainly feeling the cold weather.
I had a number of ideas for my site/blog enhancements whilst relaxing in the hot sun so i’m going to be playing around over the coming weeks. I’ll let you know if anything decent comes out of it all…
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