My Version 2.0 Assignment update

I have got the extension to start working the way I want it to. I am researching a way to communicate information for my extension to a server, but I am thinking I should be communicate to the server on startup of Mozilla fire fox or do it when the users click on the button. Also I haven’t decided how people contribute to this project as of now. Hope in a week I will thing of something, but if you have an ideas of a direction that I should take than I would really be great full for your input.

Watching a Bugzilla User

I watch Vlad for a week. He received a ton of emails I cannot believe how much he get every week. Most of the emails I received were about bugs and graphics. A high percentage of his emails were on Svg, Apng, and Bit maps.

FSOSS 2007

FSOSS the new wave of future open source development in today world.The Product and User Experience Design in Open Communities & Usability Anonymous: A 12 Step Program for Better User Experiences was presented by Mike Beltzner , Jay Goldman and David Crow. They kept the audience glue to their sits for both presentations. I believe they both talked about the same book, "Design Patterns" by Jenifer Tidwell. Mike Beltzner discussed about building a community and letting all users from around the world get involved, Jay Golman and David Crow talked about understanding the user decisions.

The face book presentation from Drupal workshop was good and they presented a lot of interesting concepts, an open source cross-language development framework. In some cases he got a little too technical to understand, but was nice on a overall lesson on the functions for face book.

Therefore the presentations at FSOSS were well done, but could touch more on first time users. That would be nice.

Building Fire Fox 3

When I download the source code from CVS my computer lags. It's only should take about 12 minutes.

I believe the problem can from a pause that lasted 5 minutes of no bandwidth from the SP side.

I am going to redo it all over again some time on the weekend, when I have more time.

Smiley face

I was browsing the Internet and something that caught my eye it talks about “:-)” and who was the creator of this symbol.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/18/emoticon.anniversary.ap/index.html

Revolution OS

The Revolution OS was a great documentary that told the story of how GNU, GNU/Linux, and Open source was created. The 1.25 hour movie was filled with so much information I have ever hear in my life. The main person who started it all is Richard Stallman founder, GNU project was the man behind free software movement. He was watching the world he knew be restricted by rules and regulation on how not to share software freely to all individuals. The whole free software movement started at M.I.T while building an OS, the administrator place password protection on one of the computers in M.I.T and Richard Stallman was pissed off. He decided to hack the computer and email all the people their passwords. To show administration how foolish passwords were.
Here are some of the key players that help pushed the freedom of sharing code world wide. Larry Augustin, Ph.D., Eric Raymond with a group of programmers made “Open source” a keyword in 1995. Unus Torvalds creator of Linux Kernel, built his kernel faster than the GNU project could build theirs. Michael Tiemann Co-founder of Cygnus Solutions was the first company provided support to users that had GNU/Linux on their systems for a price. Bruce Perens Author of the Open Source Definition use the GPL License as an example for the open source definition as well as the BSD License because it per existed Linux.

Open source definition:
1. Free Redistribution
2. Source code Available
3. Derived Works Permitted
4. Integrity of the Author’s Source code
5. No Discrimination Against persons or groups
6. No Discrimination Against fields of endeavor
7. Distribution of license
8. License must not be specific to a product
9. License must not contaminate other software

It was finally here LinuxWorld was about to show the world that not everyone in the world uses Microsoft on there home or office computers. LinuxWorld August 9-12 1999 coming out party and all the hacker were finally wearing there suits. On August 11, 1999, Red Hat Software became the first Linux Company to go public. Most people were disappointed that they didn’t buy stocks for red hat, but on the other hand people who have brought red hat stock loved the ticker go up. VA Linux saw how well red hat did and decided to jump into the stock market game on December 9, 1999. VA Linux priced its IPO shares at $30 and chose the ticker symbol LNUX. The first trade was at $299 per share – setting a record for the highest opening trade in history. On June 19, 2001, Red Hat reported its first quarterly profit. The next day its stock opened at $4.87 per share. On June 27, 2001, VA Linux announced it was exiting the computer systems business due to mounting losses. The next day its stock opened at $2.61 per share. On May 3, 2001, Microsoft announced its shared source campaign to combat the Open Source movement.

All the information above came from the movie “Revolution OS”