PHP has something similar. It's called PEAR. PEAR is the PHP Extension and Application Repository. PEAR is a framework and distribution system for reusable PHP components. Currently PEAR isn't as large as CPAN. There's currently 400 modules in PEAR. This means that you have to write more code yourself. Hopefully PEAR will grow to become the size of CPAN.

Prefetch check
I''ve added a new tool to the BrowserSpy collection. The prefecth tool checks if your browser supports the prefetch mechanism. Check your browser. Read more about link prefetching.

Gecko Statistics
I've updated my Gecko Statistics for gemal.dk to include statistics for February and March. And in March there's a all time high. 68% of all hits are made by Gecko based browser. Of those 68% 78% are Firefox hist and 13% Mozilla Suite hits. 90% of the Gecko hits are from a Windows platform.

I knew that there wasn't any backup running the the server. This was an big crisis. But I've managed to find some old backup files and have been working hard and late to get gemal.dk back online.

The site is not yet complete and the design for the blog is different than the rest of the site. So please have patience.

If you need to find an blog entry please use the archives page.

The good news is that the Gecko usage is now at 40%. In June 2004 40% of all hits to gemal.dk was made by Gecko based browser. A Gecko based browser can be a Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape or some other browser that uses the Gecko engine.

This is not a big surprise since gemal.dk is a very Mozilla oriented site. According to my Webalizer statistics the IE6 usage is around 35% but slowly decreasing. IE5.5 and IE5 is around 2% each. Netscape 4.x is at almost 2%. That's scary. I can understand why the Netscape 4.x users did upgrade to Netscape 6 but now when you have both Netscape 7 and Mozilla you gotta upgrade. The web is much nicer experience with a modern Gecko based browser.

OS wise, Windows XP is still way ahead. It's at 54%, with Windows 2000 at 16% and Windows 98 at 8%. Linux is around 5%.

If you like to generate your own Gecko Statistics you can use my script. It's available free to download.

4getmoz is a Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird download script for 4NT users. 4NT is a command prompt replacement for Windows.

I use 4getmoz every morning to get the latest nightly builds of Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. I just open a 4NT Command Prompt and type 4getmoz all branch

The new version features amonst other a much better listing of the Mozilla related blogs.

Other improvements are:
- Instead of listing the blogs sorted by date, it's now sorted by the blog entries date. So all of the entries from the blogs are collected and then sorted by date. This makes the listing more "correct".
- Unicode support. Both Daniel Glazman blog and others feeds are now shown correct.
- Planet like listing.
- Image support. If you have an image in your feed the image is now shown. Check my RSS feed on how-to.
- Open/Close all entries. If you dont like the entries to be inline you can turn it off.
- Blog entries older than 1 week are not shown. This makes the list smaller.
- Smaller codebase. It makes it easier for me to maintain.

So why read Blogupdates and not planet.mozilla.org?
- Mozilla only related blogs listed. Planet.mozilla.org have all kind of non Mozilla related blogs included.
- News notification. You can see which entries are new since you last visited.

Technical stuff:
Blogupdates is coded in Perl. It uses some CPAN modules fx XML::RSS, Unicode::String, HTML::Template, Date::Manip. It runs and rebuilds the page every 30 minutes.

In danish: Du kan læse mere om kampen mod www forvirringen på fuckwww.dk.

They are divided into 3 subsections:
Mexico, Guatemala and Belize.

Enjoy...

I've got more than 550.000 mails in 7 days! In the end my machine died. Now I changed the MX record to a larger setup and it should not happen again.

There's nothing really you can do about these sort of attacks. They function much like a DoS (Denial of Service) attack. The infected machines starts sending large numbers of mails to mailaccounts. Most of these mailaccounts dont exists but the mailserver still has to recieve the mail and reject it. And in the end the machine gets overloaded.

Mozilla Mail really helped me since it could detect 99.9% of the mails that got through my server side anti spam filter and move it to my spam folder. But having more than 100.000 mails in a folder can make your mail client really really slow. Outlook Express gave up and Mozilla was so so slow loading my spam folder with around 100.000 mails in it.

I'm using SpamAssassin on my domain and it's really good. SpamAssassin is a server side mail filter to identify spam.

The increase in spam mails must be due to Blaster.

I'm back at work trying to scan through a huge amount of mails. Most of them virus warnings since someone used an email addresse of mine as the sender of some spam/virus mails. Damn annoying!

More updates later! I'm still trying to catch up with all the Mozilla news.

And of course it validates.

Currently I use a text file with all the acronyms in it. Then when all my files are parsed I substitute the acronyms. Yes... I parse all my files. This is due to I'm having one global template which I use on all of my files.

PS: Acronym support aren't in my blog yet. Perhaps I should work on a plugin for Movable Type.

Read more about the acronym tag here:
- The Acronym Tag
- W3C

I have the following:
<style type="text/css" media="print">@import "css/print.css";</style>
which specifies that if the user prints one of my pages it should load my print stylesheet. The print stylesheet hides some of the stuff that is unimportant when printing my pages, like the navigation etc.

But IE5.5 just ignores this and loads it all the times. This way the navigation is lost when using IE5.5.

I've now fixed this by using some advanced CSS rules that only modern web browsers like Mozilla and other Gecko based browsers understands.

Stupid stupid IE. Why dont you get a modern browser with popup removal and no security problems? Why dont you get Mozilla!

All the hot air ballons are all part of the 23th danish championship.

The danish portal Jubii got a new layout. It's the first design change they had since the start of 2000. Well... they managed to mix content and ads so that it's impossible to tell the difference. But that must be some kind of design parameter for all big portals.