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  • Thunderbird 3 released



    Mozilla Messaging announced on Tuesday the official release of Thunderbird 3, a major update of the popular open source mail client. The new version brings great improvements, including an impressive new search system and support for tabs in the user interface.

    The Mozilla Foundation began forming the Mozilla Messaging subsidiary in 2007 with the aim of giving Thunderbird a chance to soar. The company brought in former ActiveState CTO David Ascher to direct the organization and set its technical agenda. After he took the reigns in early 2008, he began documenting his team’s vision for Thunderbird 3, an ambitious update that would modernize the mail client in much the same way that the Firefox 3 release renewed Mozilla’s browser. The roadmap included plans to adopt Gecko 1.9 so that Thunderbird could leverage important improvements that had been made to the underlying architecture of the Mozilla platform.

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  • FSlint “Select using wildcard” feature

    To specify a whole path you would enter:

    /Backup/Pictures/Trips/*

    to select all files with ous in the name, use *ous*

    to select all files with four letter names, use ????

  • Excellent tool for searching domain names

    Nice catchphrase too.

    Give your domain search a happy ending.
    There???s a whole world of domains out there???hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

  • Excellent tool for searching domain names

    Nice catchphrase too.

    Give your domain search a happy ending.
    There’s a whole world of domains out there—hundreds at the top-level and even more beyond. Whether you want a short URL or something big, Domainr helps you explore them all. Some of our favorites are ste.ph, streetstyl.es and iamthewalr.us.

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  • Restoring Nautilus as the default “Open Containing Folder” in Firefox

    Using the terminal:

    gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

    Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

    and make sure the whole line reads

    x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

    instead of:

    x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
    x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
    x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

  • Restoring Nautilus as the default “Open Containing Folder” in Firefox

    Using the terminal:

    gksudo gedit /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

    Search for: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=

    and make sure the whole line reads

    x-directory/gnome-default-handler=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

    instead of:

    x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop;
x-directory/gnome-default-handler=kde4-dolphin.desktop

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  • Red Hat takes on VMware with server virtualization solution


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    Red Hat expanded its virtualization product portfolio this week with the launch of its Enterprise Virtualization for Servers platform. The company touts it as an end-to-end solution which includes management tools and a bare-metal standalone hypervisor that can run both Windows and Linux guest operating systems.

    Red Hat aimed to become a major player in the virtualization market last year when it acquired Qumranet, the company behind the Kernel Virtual Machine (KVM). Following the acquisition, Red Hat began transitioning its virtualization strategy towards KVM and away from Citrix’s Xen. KVM has strong backing from the upstream Linux kernel development community, making it a natural choice for Red Hat. The company has invested considerable resources to boost KVM’s capabilities and has built robust management tools around the technology. KVM was practically the centerpiece in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.4, which was officially released in September.

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  • Google opens up its JavaScript development toolbox to all


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    Google is providing the web development community with an intriguing glimpse under the hood at some of the fundamental building blocks of the company’s most popular web applications. The search giant has opened the source code of its comprehensive JavaScript library collection and is making it available to third-party developers for widespread adoption. Google also opened the source code of its own JavaScript compression tools.

    The library, called Closure, includes an extraordinarily diverse assortment of capabilities with functionality ranging from JSON serialization to standard user interface widgets. All of the features are cross-browser compatible and can be readily adopted without marginalizing any users. The library consists primarily of helper functions and user interface widgets, many of which are recognizable from popular Google applications.

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