Mozilla announces Firefox 3 release date

Of course this is just an expected release date, but the big day is...
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

<Download Day 2008 Headquarters>
<Mozilla Development Center news post> (posted June 11th, 2008 at 4:47 pm)
<Firefox 3 mass-download world record attempt> (posted May 29, 2008)

Programming Salaries Compared

I came across a great post from <The Unix Geek - Blogspot>. He had grabbed average pay for different programming languages, operating systems, and API's from <Indeed> and listed them in order. I've used his findings and the same method to expand on them.

Programming Languages

$82,000 - Objective-C
$80,000 - C++
$80,000 - TCL
$79,000 - C#
$79,000 - Java
$78,000 - Python
$77,000 - Perl
$74,000 - Ruby
$72,000 - JavaScript
$64,000 - Delphi
$64,000 - PHP
$64,000 - Visual Basic
$60,000 - C
$54,000 - Smalltalk

Operating Systems (generic average)

$86,000 - GNU/Linux
$55,000 - Microsoft Windows
$51,000 - Mac OS X

API's

$86,000 - Win32
$81,000 - Tcl/Tk
$76,000 - Qt
$75,000 - GTK+
$71,000 - .NET ($75,000 for "Visual Studio")
$43,000 - Cocoa ($60,000 for "Mac Programming")

Embedded (Various)

$71,000 - AVR
$70,000 - RFID
$67,000 - PIC

TCP Reset Injection Detection Utility

  An interesting source, <NNSquad> (Network Neutrality Squad), has released an open source tool (licensed under <LGPL>) to detect TCP reset (RST) packets that may have been injected into a TCP connection by a party other than the endpoints.
  The <NNSquad Network Measurement Agent (NNMA)> tool's available downloads are beta and include a Windows 2000/XP/Vista installer binary and <VC++ 6.0> Windows source code.
  TCP reset injection has been discovered being controversially used by internet service providers, such as <Comcast>, to disrupt torrent and P2P file sharing.

Firefox 3 Preparing for World Record Attempt

  The official release of Firefox 3 maybe be the most anticipated software releases of the year. Firefox 3 shows many promising improvements, most notably major memory usage cutbacks and performance improvements. <Early memory comparisons> have shown impressive numbers. Many other changes and improvements are already locked in since the first <release candidate> was released. A quick run down of feature comparisons can be found <here>.

  <The Mozilla Blog> has announced an attempt to break a world record for most software downloads in 24 hours. The release date for Firefox 3 isn't set yet, but is expected some time in June. Mozilla has a <Download Day Headquarters> site where you can monitor for the release date, read more, and even pledge to download on the release date.

BSD fixes 25 year old bug

The flaw for reading MS-DOS directories in all BSDs (including Mac OS X) tracked back to 1983 was recently fixed. SAMBA uses a special workaround in order to function properly on BSD systems. OpenBSD developers received an email from an OpenBSD user which led to unraveling the bug.

Source with quotes from <Marshall Kirk McKusick>, the original developer of the *dir() library:

<OS News - The 25 year Old BSD Bug> (May 10, 2008)