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November 06, 2004

computer troubles - open thread

I'm having computer problems (hard drive damage or corruption) and I've been mostly off-line since yesterday. Things are momentarily better, but I think I'm gonna toss this disk and start fresh in the morning.

Firefox 1.0 is so close you can almost taste it! Discuss :-)

Posted by asa at November 6, 2004 10:37 PM
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sorry to hear that, good luck.
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I have a few questions. In Bug# 268045;

>>------- Additional Comment #4 From Steffen >>Wilberg 2004-11-06 17:12 PDT [reply] -------
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>>Ben just said on IRC: "we're gold, sorry."

so I assume this means no more checkins at all from the aviary branch? Tomorrows builds are whats going to be the final?

Posted by: Kurt on November 6, 2004 11:30 PM

Asa, will we be made aware of when the NYT ad will be on print? I can't afford buying the NYT every day here, it costs a fortune as it's imported, and by a single local shop too... Yeah, that's what you get for living in Belgium ;-).

Posted by: Markus Lindström on November 7, 2004 02:33 AM

Sorry about your HD... hopefully you have a system for massive reinstallation when you get the new drive.

When will Moz Suite 1.8 come out?

PS. Your my hero

Posted by: larfnarf on November 7, 2004 03:49 AM

Asa, if the hard drive is being a tad flakey, SpinRite can work wonders. I speak from experience.

Posted by: John T. Haller on November 7, 2004 04:28 AM

If you still need a working machine without a hard drive, I'd recommend a Knoppix bootable CD. It has a full Linux distro on it that detects all your hardware and DHCP if you have cable or DSL. It boots right into a graphical KDE desktop with a Web browser and everything you could want. It's saved me from screwups more than once.

Posted by: Programmerman on November 7, 2004 06:49 AM

Just thought I'd mention that I've had fairly regular popups get through with the 1.0PR lately. Maybe because of people trying to get around IE popup blocking. It's far too late to change anything for 1.0, I guess...

Posted by: backpack on November 8, 2004 10:36 AM

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