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Long have I admired the sacred writings from the Book of Mozilla

Type about:mozilla into your Firefox 3 address bar and you get this awesome passage:

Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9
(10th Edition)

If you haven’t caught this religion yet. Keep reading.

We’re just minutes into the Final Release of Firefox 3, dubbed “Download Day“, and already it appears that the Mozilla servers are quite thrashed. If they can keep the servers alive, I believe they probably will set a record. Despite all this excitement about breaking a record, these numbers really have a lot less to do with the number of people using Firefox, and a lot more to do with the enthusiasm of the people using Firefox as a great product/idea/movement/way. More than all the bandying about on downloads, I think they should really be talking about their alternate distribution methods. Bittorrent and other peer-to-peer methods, as well as package managed applications such as apt-get install firefox-3.0 on debian systems. Then it wouldn’t be so hard to actually get a copy using traditional methods, on “Download Day”

By the way Firefox 3 IS everything it’s cracked up to be. the new awesome bar incorporates; bookmarks, tags, recent / popular pages into an easy-to-use autocomplete that will really change the way you use the address bar. I’m anxious to see what new extensions will start to appear to take advantage of the tagging system for bookmarks which is still in its infancy. Well if you can find a copy, install FF3 do it today, the time is now.

Sometimes the best way to view things is in a tree shape, and your website is no exception.

For a nice tree view showing file sizes and links to the actual files, edit your crontab:

crontab -e

Add this line into cron:

0 * * * * /usr/bin/tree -C -s -D -H http://www.yourdomain.com
/address/of/your/web/root/ > /somewhere/tree.html

This will run every hour updating your tree.html with a new detailed site map.

Ubuntu’s apt-get dist-upgrade is working much better than it used to. Actually I’m sure that it works exactly as it always has, it’s just how well all these ubuntu packages are reliable written to upgrade cleanly. When I tried it in updating my home desktop from Dapper to Edgy, that single act came with problems too numerous to count. So last weekend I decided I didn’t have enough excitement in my life and that I’d try the next dist-upgrade to Feisty Fawn. The upgrade took about 3-4 hours to download all the files. and about an hour to do the upgrades. However…