Orthogonal Defect Classification

I have been reading up a lot on this interesting methodology, which specifies a very simple process for capturing the necessary information that can help the stream of defects reported against a software product into a stream of information that can help in improving the software development process. This is a method for doing ongoing rootcause analysis on product defects that is lightweight to implement but turns about high value.

Related to this is an intersting book that i am reading:
Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering
There is a chapter in this book discussing ODC as well.

firefox toolbar issues

I use Proxybutton extension for switching proxies heavily. I drag the proxybutton to the toolbar. But everytime the browser restarts the toolbar state vanishes away.

i searched firefox bugs and found this:

Bug 341696 – Tool bar customization is not maintained after closing and re-starting the browser. (edit)

which pointed me to this article.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customizations_reset_on_startup

im gonno try this now.

Ubuntu install was a breeze on a Pentium III

I had a Pentium 3 Circa 2000 with 256 MB memory. It was running win2k and was slow as a snail. I cut an ubuntu cd and installed ubuntu on it. The machine is fairly responsive and will be fine for server tasks. I installed desktop version and pulled in the server packages (apache, php, mysql, etc.) Im going to make it my home server and expose it to internet thru dyndns.org
Im planning to put wordpress, twiki, etc. on it and use it as a personal productivity server.

2 Thumbs up Way up! for Ubuntu!

I was curious to find what blog software were available in the free software domain.
Here is a top link i got containing a comparision matrix: http://asymptomatic.net/blogbreakdown.htm

This seems to recommend wordpress as explained here.

My problem with wordpress is that it is mysql based and doesnt seem to have any oracle plugin.

Im exploring twiki blog plugin at the moment.