Well it’s just been released, and so far I love it

Apart from the lack of add-ons (extensions appear to have been renamed) compatible yet, it’s really good. The new skin is nice too, but is gonna need replacing with something that blends in better with my SoftCrystal Linux WindowBlinds theme. There’s a built-in spell checker in text boxes, and much better tab/window handling - it can now remember (or so it says) what tabs and/or windows you had open in your last session, and restore them!

So far, I haven’t noticed any memory leaks - I hope it stays that way! The feeds system is also a lot better - I never really used to use it as it was quite hard to add a new feed so it would show as a pop-up menu - it seems a lot better now

I’ll update this post with any extra stuff I find, as I find it.

Update: There is a new extensions, or rather add-ons manager. It’s a lot nicer than the old one, and it seems to check for updates when you start the browser, and offers to update them then and there, and it doesn’t need a restart (as it’s not yet fully loaded) afterwards

Get Firefox!

You may have seen on my Flickr pages that I built a new rackmount server. Well I sent it off on Friday last week to the Redbus Meridian Datacenter in Docklands, London, and it was installed yesterday evening.

I’ve moved Fr3d.org and the L33TSig service to the new server, so they should be a lot faster for everyone now - I’ve certainly noticed a big difference so far!

- Fr3d

I was taking some photos of my server in my cupboard (not the one this blog is on though) for a topic on the Neowin forums and I thought I’d post it here…

For those interested, the specs are on my systems page. The large black object on the right is my 1KVA UPS, and the small silver box on the floor is my Maxtor OneTouch 300GB USB2/Firewire drive

And yes, I’m bored. Nothing much is happening at the moment… Just trying to stay cool in about 35°C of heat…

Thanks to Hippy, there is now a GUI version of L33TSig for Linux!

You can download it here

You will of course need Linux to run this. The daemon runs seperately from the GUI part, so you can use the daemon-only for any servers you want to. A small configurator app is being worked on for this purpose
For now you could use VMWare, PearPC or a similar application to run a simple GUI version of Linux to make the config.

Here is a screenshot of the GUI:

(Click to enlarge)

- Fr3d

I’ve just realised I forgot to write about Fr3d.org moving servers!

About one month ago, SithToast, owner of ToastedNet started renting a dedicated server to take the load of his previous reseller account at another small web host. I look after and fix the server for him, and I get free hosting

There were a few major issues to begin with, which caused the server to “panic”, and then required a hard reboot from the datacenter techs - This happened for about two weeks non-stop, with time between reboots anything from about an hour to a couple days; it was totally random. All that was required to fix it was a quick look at the logs, recompile the Linux Kernel, reboot, and then it was sorted

L33TSig and all my other website also moved at the same time, so hopefully most of you will have noticed that everything loads a lot faster now

The server is hosted in a huge datacenter owned by Sago Networks, in Florida, USA. I’ve also setup an IRC server on the server, and will be gradually moving stuff from the old slow one to this new one.