November 22, 2004
Dumping Mozilla for Firefox,Thuderbird combo
I decide to stop using Mozilla in favour of Firefox, Thuderbird combo.
Firefox is a stand alone browser, and Thuderbird is stand alone email client, both made by Mozilla foundation.
I make this decision since Mozilla package isn’t as current as neither Firefox, or Thuderbird, and I think I raed that Mozilla foundation will favour Firefox/Thuderbird.
Another advantage of two seperate programs for browsing and email, is the ability to upgrade one component without affecting the other, althought all Mozilla upgrade were very smooth.
November 21, 2004
Working after Eid misery
Today is the second day of work after Eid vacation, I hardly got up from my bed today, as you know sleeping hours in Ramdan and Eid is dramatically fliped, I usually sleep after 6 am!! and wake up around 2pm.
I went to bed at 12 am but couldn’t sleep until 5:30 am.
Today I’ll try to stay awake all day, so I can fall sleep early in night.
November 15, 2004
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November 9, 2004
Eid vacation starting today
What are my plans? Going to my uncles farm near O’sheger.
November 8, 2004
FreeBSD 5.3 Released
and it is now considered STABLE branch of FreeBSD, i.e. it is now ready for prodution.
November 1, 2004
FreeBSD port for PHP supports dynamic extensions (update)
Few months ago I wrote about php4-extensions as the way to install other PHP modules, php4-extensions is a meta port which mean it isn’t a real port, it is a port used to install other ports.
So when you try to install php4-extensions, and selected MySQL, and XML extensions, it will install the following ports:
/usr/ports/databases/php4-mysql
/usr/ports/textproc/php4-xml
and you can uninstall them separately.
This solve alot of issue for me, previously when I want to upgrade MySQL I have to uninstall PHP completly, and reinstall it again of course this mean upgrading all port used by PHP, which create a miss.
October 11, 2004
Came back from Gitex in Dubai
More details to come, I have tons of work to catch on.
September 21, 2004
Mozilla Arabic support improvments
Today I filled a Mozilla bug report about an old bug on handling Arabic paragraph, in the same day I received a feedback about this bug saying they couldn’t regenerate it on current versions. So I downloaded Firefox Preview Release and it really solved, I love Mozilla 🙂
Update: The bug still exists in Mozilla 1.7.3 🙁
Update: But it works with Mozilla 1.8 a 🙂