"Since Jitesh is currently writing an extremely interesting series of posts on diff and patch (1,2), I decided to pitch in with my contribution. Ediff is one of those things which make Emacs so much more than just an editor. It is an extremely convenient way of viewing differences in files / buffers / directories.. You get the point..."

"Just as the three quarters of oil engineers now agree that Peak Oil is in sight within the next decade (after that, oil production can only decline), can we also posit that we may have reached a moment of Peak Hierarchy, a moment in history in which it is no longer large centralized organizations that are most efficient or productive, but rather those that are organized as distributed networks an

"Our petition aims to unify the voices of concerned Europeans, associations and companies, and calls on our politicians in Europe to stop patents on software with legislative clarifications..."

Window Snyder of Mozilla (formerly of Microsoft) is leaving

The Gnome Network Manager is really buggy and a lot of people are having trouble configuring the network connexion and getting it to work. Rather it’s wireless, static or dinamic ip, it’s just a pain in the a**.

A [linux-based] system that could eventually control heating, home security cameras and draw curtains has been demonstrated by phone maker Nokia.

Today HP has announced they will ship Linux on their HP Compaq DC5850. If you're like me, your first reaction as soon as you saw it was a small business PC was "yawn." One desktop and not even a consumer one? Big deal, right? Well, it might not be. It seems that HP is toying with Linux more and more.

Over the last 4 years, firefox is becoming more and more popular, and its market share is increasing by 5% each year over the last 4 years. But since one hasto actively download and install the program (on Mac and Windows), why do people choose to download and install Firefox? Why not Opera, Safari, Konqueror or any other browser?