Remember this number

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

It is, apparently, the encryption key required to decrypt HD-DVD and Blu-ray content. Hmmm expect lots of 20GB Torrents soon.

See: How it was done.

The IceWeasel cometh

Debian have just finally published Iceweasel to their servers. Iceweasel is the Debian version of Mozilla Firefox, due to a trademark of the Firefox name and logo Debian have had to modify their slightly different version of it to now change the name. Iceweasel was chosen as the name, I don't know why, but as some bloke once said:

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;"

The amount of hostile words and frankly utter rubbish that have been spewed forth by the blogging community about Iceweasel is quite mad. The way I see it, Debian's Free Software Guidelines, the guiding principles of the whole debian community, forbid the inclusion of any software material that is restricted in its usage, which rules out the use of Mozilla's Logos and artwork. Simple as that. Mozilla previously agreed that debian could release Firefox without the artwork and still call it Firefox, but have now changed their mind and insist that to use the Firefox name, the logos and artwork must be unaltered. Leaving Debian one option if they wish to include firefox in some way. Mozilla's policy is perfectly just and right, the corporate identity of Firefox is very important and must be closely guarded. So the Iceweasel fork was created. This current idea is the only 'right way' to proceed.

Calling it a fork seems a bit over the top to me, basically it's just the same patches that debian would have always applied to Firefox, with an additional patch that changes the name of the software to IceWeasel. They are not planning to go ahead and take the software in another direction, which is what forking of software usually implies.

So anyway. Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0. It's great isn't it? Who would have thought that spell checking would be such a useful tool in a browser? The new Tab features are great too.

Expect a higher standard of SPaG from my posts from now on.