CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by Eastern Illinois University Eastern Illinois University The Keep July 2004 7-28-2004 Daily Eastern News: July 28, 2004 Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2004_jul Recommended Citation Eastern Illinois University, "Daily Eastern News: July 28, 2004" (2004). July. 7. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2004_jul/7 This is brought to you for free and open access by the 2004 at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in July by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. July28,2004 •WEDNESDAY and"Tullthetruth don't be afraid." •...,u B.: 1 D~ILY VOLUME 88, NUMBER 163 :1; THE Vandals THEDAILYEASTERNNEWS.COM . ' interview The Vandals are well known punk rock veterans. EASTERN NEWS Page 5 VERGE Budget not cut, funding still tight By Holly Henschen was asked late in the fiscal year filling open staff positions, com­ gone up," Hencken said. librarians, Hencken said. EDITOR IN CHIEF by the state to return almost $1 pleting deferred maintenance With inflation, the price of Many maintenance projects million annually to pJ,ug gaps in and purchasing technology. textbooks, as well as coal and await completion at Eastern. Illinois public universities can the Illinois budget. In expecta­ "This is by no means a wind­ water used to operate the uni­ Hencken described two types of breath a sigh of partial relief tion of another recall, the Board fall,'' Eastern President Lou versity have increased. maintenance- "behind-the-wall" after the recent passage of the of Trustees passed a budget in Hencken said. The money will "When you take a look at our and "in-front-of-the-wall" main­ state budget. Governor June that reserved a compara­ be . budget over the last 3 years," he tenance. Blagojevich and the state legis­ tive amount of $953,000. used to buy more educational said, "we've been cut 20 per­ Behind-the-wall maintenance lature agreed in the budget, Illinois passed a zero-based equipment, such as new comput­ cent." is university upkeep that is not passed 54 days after it was ·due, education budget, recommended ers for faculty and students and Eastern currently has 56 staff visible to the naked eye, such as that universities will operate at for universities by the Board of new technology for classrooms, positions open because funding replacing a water heater. the same allocation level as last Higher Education in February. Hencken said. is absent to fund their salaries. In front-of-the-wall mainte­ year. But the "extra" money is not a "This is the same budget we The university is 5 police offi­ nance is a project that people In the past two years, Eastern surplus. It will be put toward had last year, but costs have cers short and needs more notice, such as painting a wall. No laptop leasing By Evan Hill costs associated with leasing NEWS EDITOR would elevate the overall price of the computer too much. Eastern will not be following in The ad hoc committee then gave the footsteps of other universities a subcommittee the charge to con­ who have offered laptop PC leas­ tinue ing programs for their students, at over the summer to investigate least not in the near future, but a the idea of a laptop purchasing purchasing program might be set program, he said. The subcommit­ in place. tee conducted its discussions "After exploring that option fur­ online via e-mails. ther and communicating with peo­ "After extensive research and ple who deliberation, it was decided that a run that type of program at a pilot couple of other institutions, it was project for a Laptop Referral decided that leasing might not Purchasing Program waild best be the best option," Michael serve the Hoadley, assistant vice-president interests of the entire campus to for academic affairs for technolo­ get things started this fall," gy said. Hoadley said. "Vendors have indi­ An ad-hoc committee comprised cated the purchasing opportunity of students, faculty and adminis­ would be extended to students, fac­ trators was formed and met four ulty and staff." times in April and May 2004 to He said the idea was to allow stu­ tackle the question of whether dents and faculty to purchase such a program was feasible or "EID-ready" laptops. even desirable. Right now the group is still gath­ Chat Chatterji, assistant vice ering information from vendors president for Information interested in participating with Technology Services, and Hoadley this initiative, Hoadley said. A Web co-chaired the committee. site is being developed, but it is not Hoadley said five students repre­ complete at this time and is still sented the student body, and facul­ under review by ty representing the four academic the subcommittee members. collages were included. Once everything is complete, the He said the students on the com­ site will be PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHEN HAAS mittee were "most vocal against • made public to move forward An ad-hoc committee has decided against implementing a laptop leasing program at Eastern. Instead they are the leasing program" because the and get feedback. testing a pilot laptop purchasing referal program. Mozilla reignites the browser wars By Evan Hill enough to make the fix literally a one line NEWS EDITOR configuration change that could be easily installed. Our crack release team was able to It may be hard for some people to remem­ create a hot fix for existing users and spit ber a time when the Internet was not out new releases because of the solid frame­ browsed almost exclusively by people using work of source code control and release Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But believe it automation that we rely on," Goodger said. or not, the browser wars between Microsoft Microsoft, however, took several weeks to and Netscape did happen and resulted in the release a patch to fix the bug, according to Federal Government splitting off Firefox security bulletins on www.microsoft.com. Microsoft's Internet Explorer from the rest In addition to its community integration of the company. ment. A number of talented graphic artists and responsive development, Mozilla is gain­ A screenshot from Mozilla 1.7. Mozilla is a However, times are changing and a new have helped us with artwork for Firefox, ing more· users and re-eition from users web browser competing for users with competitor has entered the arena to battle Thunderbird and the web site," Ben attracted to its many i.nnevative features. Microsoft's Internet Explorer. for home user. Goodger, lead engineer on Mozilla Firefox, a One of Mozilla's most popular features is Mozilla was started in 1998 when side project which is a browser intended to its tabbed browsing feature which allows Netscape announced it was releasing the "appeal to as many people as possible" said. users to open several Web pages in the same and Mozilla Thunderbird, which is a stand­ source code to its Internet browser, "Others are helping us with our grassroots window and switch between them. alone mail client. Netscape Navigator. A source code is like a marketing campaigns." "Tabbed browsing was implemented "Firefox is deceptively simple - the brows­ blueprint of a piece of software: By modify­ Instead of waiting a year or more for large because it seemed like a good efficiency er window has 5 navigation buttons, a loca­ ing the source code and compiling, or companies to finish a major release or patch booster," Goodger said. "On the face of it, it tion bar and a search bar, but quickly scales rebuilding, it, people could make their own to fix existirig problems, open source prod­ might not seem like much, but when you sit to the needs of more sophisticated users,'' improvements to Navigator. ucts can be made available for consumption down and use a browser that uses tabs, most Goodge said. "The aim was that most users Most software companies choose to keep as soon as they can be made available for people quickly adapt to the browsing style would not need to go into the Options dialog their source code private or proprietary. But download. that it encourages and seem to find it use­ to set anything up to be able to browse effec­ by releasing the source code to the public, A recent example of this flexibility is ful." tively. We've optimized for the out-of-the­ Netscape allowed their community of users when a bug allowing hackers to run mali­ Other browsers implement tabbed brows­ box experience more so than most prod­ to dictate how the product would evolve by cious code on infected systems was ing such as Apple's Safari, Netscape and ucts." making their own changes to . the source released, and Mozilla released a patch to fix Opera, but not Internet Explorer. Users leaving Internet Explorer for where they determine changes need to be the problem within 24 hours. In addition to the flagship Mozilla brows­ Mozilla are finding a powerful and headache made. Goodger explained how Mozilla was able er, several other programs are being devel­ free browsing experience with available "We rely on community QA for much of to react so quickly to the bug. oped to · form a Mozilla application suite SEE MOZILLA +Page 2 )ur bug reporting, tracking and manage- "In our case, our code was well structured including the streamlined Mozilla Firefox ·-· ·~-- --- --~-.,--~~:-.---:~---:--.---· --- .. ~:- .. ··---.. ~· T I . : . Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SUnday Monday PAGE Sunny Mostly Sunny Thunderstorms Thunderstorms Thunderstorms Thunderstorms Wednesday, 82° 62° 940 550 86° 640 July 28, 2004 TWO HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW HIGH LOW Upcoming International scientific effort events aims to chart "pulse of the planet" Fall welcome mixer Global Earth Observation Systern of UB Mainstage Committee will host a welcome mixer to kick off the year Systems unites 15 coun­ at EIU.