Installed and tried Opera for the first time. Very impressive, for that size of a product! Saw that there is also a USB version of Opera, which can be run from a pen-drive’s spare space. Blinking favicons looks interesting, need to check out it more. Had some initial hiccups because each tab has its own close icon.

Now the question is, am I going to migrate to Opera from firefox? Not now!

This blog entry is being typed from a Opera browser client though!

I use Thunderbird mail client on a Solaris laptop for connecting to a SMTP mail server. This morning, while playing with the network connections, had a strange issue where thunderbird can no longer fetch my mail. It doesn’t ask for password too, and can’t establish connections to send email. Looked like a dangling cache issue, but couldn’t find how to clean it up.

This article gives the market shares of browsers. Looks like Firefox is having a steady growth of its marketshare.

[ This post is composed using Mozilla Firefox. ]

India’s Minstry of Information & Technology has a eGovernance Standards site that documents several governance standards. Also, the site of President Of India is a very good read.

Thinking in lines of the fallacies of networking, I could quickly dump my thoughts and experiences of build engineering.

1. Builds always complete on time, as planned.
2. Build systems are easy to replicate.
3. Build systems are very reliable and are up when I need them.
4. File conflicts are easy to merge.
5. Builds can be fully automated.
6. Sanity testing of the build can be fully automated.
7. When a build fails, I can always get hold of the engineer and get it fixed right away.
8. Code is going to be platform independent, for ever.

:-).

For the last couple of weeks, hooked on to trying new themes for Firefox. I personally liked the Noia 2.0 theme. Very impressive, yet relatively light weight! Works like a jem on my Solaris desktop/laptop!

Still remember the days when Mozilla/Netscape used to come up with only two themes, Modern and Classic. Considerable improvement from that stage!