Michael's Tech Blog

Congratulations! Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been released!

“The Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving choice and promoting innovation on the Internet, today announced the worldwide availability of the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 web browser. Development of Firefox has been driven by a desire for a more robust, user-friendly and trustworthy web experience. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 arrives on the heels of last month’s highly successful Preview Release that over eight million people downloaded, contributing significantly to the final phase of its open source development.”

I had serious problems with performance of my SQL query last week (I’m not familiar with SQL as I’d like to be). I needed to develop statatistic report and one part of its was very slow.
I didn’t understand why. I spent one day to find cause of delay. Well, I’ve found the bottleneck! Problem was in data type cast.

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Fedora Core 3 has been released. It’s available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites. Let’s download, install or upgrade and enjoy!
With this release, the Fedora Project has also dropped support for Fedora Core 1. Those still running FC1 will have to look to the Fedora Legacy Project for updates.