Tag Archives: mozilla

Open Source Software. I just don’t get it. | A reply

By Kirk M | Published December 27, 2009

You never know what kind of response you might get from a post. Anyone who blogs realizes this.
You might write a post believing that it would elicit a decent response in the way of comments only to find it languishing in a desert of non-responsiveness. Then there are the other “spur-of-the-moment” type posts you [...]

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Open Source Software. I just don’t get it.

By Kirk M | Published November 20, 2009

I just don’t get it.
When it comes to home computers and the software that runs on them I’m not a developer I’m a user. A technically advanced user, yes but a user nonetheless. Same goes for software that runs in the so-called “Cloud”. It takes a certain mindset, a certain way of thinking to [...]

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‘Mozilla: For the Record’-A New Mozilla Blog

By Kirk M | Published February 12, 2008

Mozilla, whose I site I’ve always thought as being somewhat difficult to navigate around and finding information tailored toward the average user and other interested parties, has decided to start a portal of said information in the form of a new Wordpress blog called Mozilla: For the Record. In the opening post by Asa Dotzler, [...]

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Wikia Search-It’s an Alpha Guys, Lighten Up

By Kirk M | Published January 8, 2008

Wikia Search hit the streets yesterday to rave…well…massive criticisms actually with blogger’s and prominent news sites lambasting the poor thing before it even made 10 paces out of the starting gate. And after one whole single day for public testing too! Come on people, it’s and alpha, okay? The developers make the choice as [...]

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The Thunderbird, Eudora, Mozilla Conspiracy Theory

By Kirk M | Published October 17, 2007

I’m not going to go into all the horse manure about the recently orphaned Thunderbird and the nonexistent new “company” (MailCo) that’s supposedly taking up the reins of new development and the fact that there’s no developers at all for the job, etc etc. There’s been an awful lot of hot air being tossed around [...]

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A Couple New Plugins

By Kirk M | Published May 28, 2007

I decided to relax today and spend some time tweaking the blog, loading up a couple of new plugins and the tweaking of options thereof. One which required about a good hour to set due to the instructions being located on a German site (with handy dandy images) and no English translation. Hello Google Translate.
The [...]

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On Pmetrics, Amaldo and Firefox 3

By Kirk M | Published April 25, 2007

Just some news shorts here from yours truly. This time we’ll look at Peformancing’s newly re-re-incarnated Pmetrics statistics engine, a new blog in town called Amaldo and lastly, a Firefox 3 Planned Features post and comments thereof.
Okay…heeerrrreee we go….
Pmetrics: The new “bored and stroked” dedicated server is in place and the statistics service came back [...]

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Performancing Pulls PayPerPost Deal

By Kirk M | Published January 6, 2007

On December 30th I posted a short article about PayPerPost acquiring Performancing.com. In the deal, PPP was buying the name, "Performancing Metrics" and Performancing Exchange services. The Partners Ad Network, the PFF  (Performancing for Firefox) blog editor add-on for Firefox and the Performancing community itself was to stay together and be rebranded under another different [...]

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