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June 18, 2008 at 4:28 pm · Filed under Interest, Recent News, Resources
The Download Day for Mozilla’s Firefox 3 is officially over and the total downloads of Firefox 3 at 3.16PM ET on 18th June 2008 was 8,587,342 despite the initial hiccup. Due to the technical problem Mozilla had yesterday the official start time of the Download Day was moved to 3.16PM ET of 17th June 2008.
Mozilla will now wait for Guinness to review the attempt. It may take few days before we all know if the record was officially entered as Guinness World Record.
June 17, 2008 at 9:03 pm · Filed under Interest, Mac, Recent News, Resources
Finally, all seems to be stable on Mozilla’s side. The sites are running fine now, both Mozilla and Spread Firefox sites. I used FF3 for around 2.5 hours while I was in office, and it didn’t give any problem. No crushing, no hiccups of any sort. The experience is better than FF2, which used to crash every now and then at the beginning.
After I returned home, took dinner and turned on my Mac, I downloaded FF3 for Mac OS X 10.5.3. Sweetly enough, it has not given any problem on my Mac either. When I went to Spread Firefox site, I found a new link to “Fluant It!“. You can enter your name and print a certificate that tells says you’ve successfully downloaded Firefox 3 to help set the record.
Last I checked at 9.04PM ET, total download counts 2,418,235. Around 1.7 million people pledged to participate in the record setting attempt. Total download has clearly passed that number. Exactly 15 hours and 56 minutes to go before the Download Day is over. Mozilla targeted 5 million downloads in 24 hours to set the Guinness World Record, which I think is well within the range and total may as well pass the targeted number.
June 17, 2008 at 3:38 pm · Filed under Interest, Recent News, Resources
It was kind of an excitement to participate in Download Day for Firefox 3. The download was scheduled to start at 1PM ET on 17th June 2008. The hype was so huge that it basically overwhelmed the web server. The main or parent Mozilla site was out of reach for about 20 or 30 minutes after 1PM ET, and the Spread Firefox site is still down (at 3.10PM ET) since the official release time.
I was able to go to Mozilla site to download the latest version. I installed it without any problem, although many have reported that FF3 crashed after installation and had to roll back to FF2. I subscribed to participate in Mozilla’s attempt to set a Guinness World Record. I received the email notification to download FF3 at 3PM. Although I’d already downloaded FF3, I wanted to see if there’s anything different at the link provided in the notification email. The site was unreachable for few minutes, but when I finally got into the page it was showing FF2 logo and link. I downloaded FF3 from the same link, about 15 minutes before I clicked on the link again from the email. The page rolled back to the FF2 download page. I could not stop myself from hitting refresh and the page that loaded after 2 minutes of wait time had Firefox 2 logo, link to download FF3, CSS was broken and all sort of messed up information.
I am sure Mozilla have planned for scalability to adopt to the load, but unfortunately that wasn’t enough. Spread Firefox site is still down. I saw on that site that Mozilla had download parties page, encouraging people to help set the record. I think that has also gone down. I had the feeling this will happen, but was really hopping it wouldn’t.
I hope Mozilla can set the record. If it does, I would know I was part of it. 
November 22, 2007 at 8:15 pm · Filed under Recent News
As we all know on 15th November Sidr Cyclone has left its mark on Bangladesh with over 3000 deaths and countless damages. Many organisations and people are coming forward to help the cyclone victims. Recently Somewhere In… has taken an initiative. It is a fund raiser program that will allow each and every Bangladeshi people to come forward by simply sending a text message. All you have to do is (if you are in Bangladesh) send an SMS with the text “save” to 5455. You spend 2 taka for the SMS and SWI along with other sponsors will give 15 taka to the Save the Children Cyclone Relief Fund.
For those of you who live abroad cannot participate in this fund raiser program but can donate to Save the Children directly. Go to this URL and you will have option to donate $20 or more. Please come forward and help out.
Thank you.
November 21, 2007 at 6:38 am · Filed under Recent News
কবে তা মনে নাই, কিন্তূ গানটা অনেক ভালো লেগেছিলো প্রথমবার শোনার পর। সানজিব চৌধুরী আর বাপ্পা মাজুমদার এর গাওয়া গানটা মন ছুয়ে যাওয়ার মত। আজ বিকালে অফিস থেকে আসার পর তিথী যখন বল্লো যে “গাড়ী চলে না” গান যে গেয়েছে ও মারা গেছে, মনে করেছি যে হয়তো অন্য কারোর কথা বলছে। পরে অনেক খুঁজে bdnews24.com থেকে জানতে পারলাম যে ঘটোনা সত্যি।
মানুষের জীবনের গাড়ী যে কখন চলা শুরু করে চিরতরে অনেক দূরে চলে যাবে তা কেউ জানে না। সানজিব চৌধুরীর পরিবারের প্রতি রইল আমাদের গভীর সমবেদনা আর ওনার আত্তার প্রতি আমাদের শ্রদ্ধা।
July 28, 2007 at 2:13 am · Filed under Recent News
Today I was reading news on The Daily Ittefaq site and when I scrolled down to IT Corner section the first article caught my eyes. It was titled “Hariye gelo cyber jouno oporadhider tothho” (Cyber sex offenders’ data was lost). I was on Google News this morning and I could not recall reading such news there.
After I read the article I searched for a long time on Google, BBC News and everywhere I could but could not find such news! In short TDI reported that out of 29,000 sex offenders found on MySpace.com profile data of 700 offenders were lost. It also reports that it was published more than four times in past two months on the company’s website.
From what I have found so far is some relevance with the numbers mentioned in the article. From BBC, Google, MSN and few other places I have found that MySpace.com has barred 29,000 sex offenders found on their social networking site. This number is four times higher than it was reported about couple of months earlier. Previously in May the site found 7,000 offenders.
I did not try to match every bits and pieces of the report made by TDI but so far only only number of offenders matches against the report made by worldwide media. It is really sad to see such bad reporting. Even though I could not find anything relevant that TDI reports, I will be happy to see anything that proves their report is correct. I do not know the editorial process of our newspaper and who approves all these news without making sure it is correct but it is really bad for people in our country! They are given wrong information and that is just not because someone found it wrong. But the person failed to translate or understand what was being reported on millions of news sites and newspapers.
All these raises a question “What is our news reporters’ standard?” I am not being rude to anyone and I know there are many excellent news reporters in our country who are giving their 100% effort in finding the correct news for Bangladeshi people. But these kind of weired and wrong news really puts a bad impression.
Please improve the quality of news published and let people know the right thing. Do not just publish for the sake of running your business!
April 8, 2007 at 3:23 am · Filed under Recent News
Bangladesh has proven again that we are not Minnows anymore in Cricketing world by defeating South Africa.
Courtesy cricinfo.com
Thanks to the blustering knock of Mohammad Ashraful Bangladesh reached 251. It was surely one of the best knock by Ashraful. Bangladeshi bowlers also played great. Their tight bowling secured the first ever victory for Bangladesh in Super Eight round of the World Cup. South Africa never came closer and ended up with loosing by 67 runs. We hope to see more win for our team and best wishes for the Tigers.
Courtesy cricinfo.com
Thank you.
March 18, 2007 at 4:17 am · Filed under Recent News
Yes, it’s true! Bangladesh has won the first match against India.
Courtesy cricinfo.com
From the begining of the match, Bangladesh team has dominated the match. With Mortaza striking early in the match bolwing out Shewag, followed by Uthapa’s departure, Rafiq and Razzak taking three wickets each. At the end of the match Mortaza striked again, taking couple more to end Indian innings.
Bangladesh batted with full confidence. Three batsmen made half centuries. Tamim Iqbal blasted through his innings, making 51 off 53 balls with seven 4s and two 6s. On the other hand Mushfiqur Rahman handled his innings more steadily; scoring the winning run by hitting a 4, which took him to 56 off 107 balls. Saqibul Hasan scored 53, who also bowled beautifully.
Habibul Bashar - captain of Bangladesh team - dedicated this win to Manjural Islam Rana, who died couple of ago in a road accident. Through out the match Bangladesh was on top and right after the match I am sure people back home are celebrating the win. It was 3:15AM in Bangladesh, when we won the match. I called my wife and cousin back home and they said it is wild on roads in Dhaka. People are celebrating, screaming and breaking the silence of night with joy.
Well done Bangladesh. I really hope we make it through the second round. Hopes are always high and it will be great to see what Bangladesh does against Sri Lanka.
March 16, 2007 at 11:45 pm · Filed under Recent News
It is a sad moment for Bangladesh. While we are waiting for our cricket team to play their first match tomorrow against India, we loose one of our fine cricket players - widely known as Rana.
Courtesy cricinfo.com
At the young age of 22 Manjural Islam Rana died when he collided with a bus while riding a motorbike in Khulna (Inna lillahi wa inna ilahi raji’un). As far I have seen and felt he could have turned out to be one of the best cricket players for Bangladesh. Sajjadul Hasan Setu (local first-class player) also died in the incident. Undoubtably Rana’s presence will be missed.
February 1, 2007 at 6:53 am · Filed under Interest, Recent News, Resources
With Microsoft’s latest addition to the OS list, Vista makes its way to market with slogan “WOW”. In fact with the graphical transition this version will blow away anyone’s mind. But for that you must have a good platform, which I think everyone is aware of.
Security has always been an issue with operating system. Latest version of Windows, Vista that is, promises to be stronger in that aspect. Suddenly today I ran into an article which was really interesting. MS Vista has voice recognition capability for performing commands. That means user can speak any command through a microphone.
A question before I proceed. Are you tired of unwanted pop-up window ads? Well, here is a latest challenge for everyone. A website can have some audio clips which will start playing once you visit the site, which can in fact (if speech is clear) can shutdown your PC! A voice command like “Shutdown” can play and your Vista running PC will cleverly turn off. Awesome! Isn’t it?
I am not sure if MS Vista has voice authorising system or not - which may prevent this from happening. Only your voice can run your PC. Hopefully it does.
Have fun with Vista!
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