Alpha 2 of Deer Park is available – announcement in the Mozilla dev forums.
Install is clean and easy on NLD – settings, preferences, saves passwords and cookies – everything brought over correctly.
Browsing is fast – this is very noticable; especially compared to Firefox 1.0.x.
I will be speaking with the Novell TTP group next week on ZENworks and systems management.
“Novell TTP?” you ask.. Well – it’s not exactly secret, but you won’t find it listed on novell.com.
Here’s the official blurb:
The Novell Technology Transfer Partners (TTP) is an international group of colleges and universities that have made a substantial commitment to campus IT implementations using Novell technology. TTP was started in the early 1980’s with 14 universities whose goal was to share their networking experiences in order to leverage the knowledge of their diverse campus computing environments. The group has now grown to be a more comprehensive group of loyal Novell higher education customers that not only share information with each other, but with the software developers and business units at Novell. Perhaps no other group has more influence on software development at Novell than the TTP members.
Basically it’s my chance to listen to a few dozen senior admins and their ideas, comments, complaints, wishes .. and even praise.
Not a lot I can add about content – it’s all under Non Disclosure – but I will be talking about cross-platform systems management, ZENworks 7, our roadmap and some of the future trends.
This struck close to home – Birmingham city centre was evacuated on Saturday evening – one of the busiest nights of the week.
The BBC reports 20,000 people were moved out of the city center area in response to a specific and credible threat.
Still breaking news; this is my old home town.
A security update for WordPress – I got time to upgrade to 1.5.1.3 this weekend.
So far, so good.
Next on the list is a firewall rebuild and refresh. Hopefully sometime this weekend.
Update – new firewall is now in place. Now using IPcop as a vastly more friendly front-end to the collection of stuff I had before.
It’s hard to believe that we’ve been in Utah for almost three years. That means the three year lease on my current Land Rover is almost up.
Looking around – and I’m really taken with buying a classic London Taxi.
One of these: 
Import regulations are nasty – only vehicles over 25 years old can be imported; otherwise lots of Federal regulations need to be complied with. Looks like a 25 year old import runs at just over $10,000 to get it to one of the ports – Houston or maybe Long Beach.
Diesel only, top speed of maybe 70 mph (no speeding!), no air conditioning, right hand drive only.
BBC news has a lot of information.
One interesting technology part – again from the BBC
Mobile phone services across London were jammed with all major networks reporting problems as people tried to contact relatives and friends. A spokeswoman for Vodafone said the emergency services were being given priority.
Was ACCess Overload Control (ACCOLC) put in place?
More details here, here and here.
Year 2000 ACCOLC article here.
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