Link of the Day - DaveMansfield.com

Friday, November 12, 2004

America further butchers the English language as Smaford University recommends the use of apostrophes in acronyms.

Halfway down this page is a really good map showing how America voted by county, shaded from red to blue by percentage Repulican to Democrate.

- Dave, 11:23 am :: Comment ::

Thursday, November 11, 2004

Contiuing with Tuesdays's themes of Firefox and fucking profanity.

Review of 10 extentions for Firefox

Hotmail will not let you have the words: cunt, fuck, or nigger, in your email address.
Gmail will not let you have the words: cunt, fuck, nigger, bitch, shit, or faggot, in your email address.
minge, wank, ass, arse, penis, twat, paki, bastard, bugger, crap, and bollocks are all fine.

- Dave, 2:47 pm :: Comment ::

Wednesday, November 10, 2004

Those of you with domains may want to check your contact info is up to date as, if you don't reply to a request in 5 days, ICANN could give your domain away.

- Dave, 5:22 pm :: Comment ::

One for the geeks and a game

'rm -Rf /' vs. 'Format C:'
Or how easy is it to trick someone into wiping their hard drive.

Road blocks. Get the little ball through the maze, type of game.

- Dave, 11:00 am :: Comment ::

Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Firefox 1.0 is out today

Mozilla's site might be a bit slow, so wait a day and get it!

Thanks to Rick for the image.

- Dave, 2:10 pm :: Comment ::

Monday, November 08, 2004

Ubuntu is a new user-friendly desktop Liunx "distribution which could be perfectly acceptable to hardcore hackers, yet perfectly usable by your average user."

It's built using Debian's philosophy and package management system.

For a short while they will ship you the CDs free.
I'm geting some, so let me know if you want me to forward one to you to save them shipping costs

A list of reviews
I did compile my own, but blogger and firefox crashed on me (for the first time in ages) and I lost them.

- Dave, 10:10 am :: Comment ::