echo 1234567890 - $(date %s) | bc

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Makemake

Today I was doing nothing in particular when my son asked me about the planets. Being the geek that I am, I decided to look up the solar system in wikipedia.

Course, the article was, as expected, lengthy, but I expected a nice pic of the solar system in silhouette, so to say, with all the planets rowed up and all. What I didnt expect was that the 'dwarf planets' would be included.

Ok, so I'm like "Ok, these first four planets are the rocky planets, and those last four planets are our gassy planets. And these are our dwarf planets- Pluto, and-"

and I paused. Was someone pulling my leg? I've read about undetected sabotage in the wikipedia, could this be it? I mean, why was a perl hack which created Makefiles included in the names of the dwarf planets? Maybe an astronomer with a sense of humour? Nah, can't be. But still- it was there in front of me- a Dwarf planet called Makemake.

My son didn't really understand why I was suddenly so excited. I'm like- "wait, just a sec" and I looked up Makemake, and Ooooh! It was pronounced maké-maké. And it was "... the name of the creator of humanity and god of fertility in the mythos of the Rapanui, the native people of Easter Island ...".

Boy was I disappointed.

An old version of firefox for slower machines?

I've been thinking about this for some time now- I have a very old laptop, a Vaio PCG-505RS. Its from 1998, but works quite well, albeit slowly. I haven't tested the firewire port, but otherwise I've gotten most of it up and running.

The problem is, of course, surfing the web. Running Firefox is... troublesome, since it consumes almost 50M, on this 64M RAM machine.

I've tried running dillo, which is, as they say, fast and lightweight, but it has pretty much no support for CSS and the like.

Which has gotten me thinking.. what if I install one of the original versions of firefox onto this laptop? The first version of Firefox, then called Pheonix must have been lightweight. At least I don't remember it hogging lots of memory. On the other hand, at the time I was probably too excited about a possible contender to Internet Explorer to be too picky about 'details' such as memory usage.

Anyway, I started looking around, and found this site, which seems to have all of them, precompiled. What I want is the source, but a quick look around the mozilla.org site didn't turn up any results.

I wonder where I can get the source for pheonix 0.1?