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Mozilla Hits Firefox 3 Download Goal

It certainly looks like Mozilla hit their download goal with Firefox 3.

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/

Blog Update: New Theme

I was getting kind of tired of the old red and black theme I chose for the blog. The layout was nice, and it was exactly what I was looking for layout wise, but the color just didn’t do it for me. I prefer to have a white background where the text is. I think just makes the entries easier to read. I’m not 100% sure I like this theme, but to me it is an improvement. One thing I lost was the page links at the top. I wanted to keep them at the top, but that’s not how this theme is setup. This is a pre-made theme from WordPress. 

 

Unfortunately, I can’t go in and edit this theme… well, I if I can I haven’t figured out how to yet. I also don’t think I can upload a theme of my choosing. I’ve found a few that I like, but the free WordPress blogs are somewhat limited when it comes to customizing the blog theme. So, I’ll go with this theme for a while and see how it goes.   

 

Edit:

I changed the theme once again. I think I like this one a lot more. The grey and white one was just too plan, and the text seemed to be a little too small to me. We’ll see how this one does. It’s blue…lots of blue… 

Upcoming Releases

October has turned into a rather exciting month this year. First, Ubuntu 7.10 is scheduled to be released on the 18^th, and just this morning Apple announced that Leopard will be available on the 26^th. Wonderful. I went over the Apple web site to find out some more details, and there was a pre-order button. I haven’t done it yet, but it was very tempting to go ahead and pre-order Leopard.

I’ve been looking forward to Leopard since I got my MacBook a little over a year ago. My boss is the one who got me into Macs, and he kept mentioning Leopard, so I started to investigate. I’ve been following it ever since. I came close to downloading one of the development release from The Pirate Bay, but I figured just waiting for the final, polished version would be a lot better.

I’m looking forward to a lot of the new features in Leopard. Stacks looks wonderful, Time Machine sounds interesting, and Spaces looks like a wonderful way to stay organized.

Being obsessed with just about any type of technology, I’m not just excited about OS X Leopard. I am extremely excited about the new Ubuntu release coming out this month. I’ve been trying out the beta releases of Gutsy Gibbon, and I have to say I’m really impressed. I haven’t been able to try out Compiz-Fusion yet, I think I’ll have to upgrade the video card in my Linux box for it to work. I think it’s an integrated Intel card right now. I’m thinking just a cheap nVidia card off Tigerdirect would fix the problem.

Well, that’s all from me for now. I’m going on vacation tomorrow, and won’t be back until next Monday. I’ll miss the release of Ubuntu 7.10, but at least I’ll be on vacation. I think that’s a pretty good reason to miss it.

OddBoot

Hello, and welcome to OddBoot. This is a place where you’ll find all kinds of interesting junk about technology. I tend to cover Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, and a bunch of other stuff.

There’s not much now, but I have plenty of tutorials already to post.