1. Nighty Tester Tools - It fixes extension compatibility (makes them all work with the latest firefox version), and adds a few extras useful to those that regularly test nightly builds of Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird and Toolkit Seamonkey (umong other things).
2. Better GReader - This extension is for Google Reader, and it Compiles some of the best Greasemonkey user scripts and Stylish skins for Google Reader into one convenient interface.
Read more »"A little more than three years ago there was a thread in comp.lang.lisp about what people were working on in Common Lisp. [...] Let's update this. What are you using Common Lisp for in 2008? What are you using to do it? I'll start [...] I primarily use SBCL on Linux, x86 and x86-64, with Emacs and SLIME. For deploying all my website stuff I use Edi-ware extensively: Hunchentoot, HTML-TEMPLATE, and CL-WHO. I use CLSQL for a few things too. For graphics work, I use mostly my own libraries.
How about you? Leave a comment and let me know."
Read more »"The European Commission has decided that RFID tags should be turned off in products in detail stores. The proposal was submitted last week by European commissioner Vivian Reding and should guarantee privacy for citizens as well as development of new technology. A representative of the EC has citated that the proposal can be accepted before the summer if all 27 state members approve it. So far for the news. Now, my point of view is that the RFID technology brings serious privacy concerns..."
Read more »"More than ten million customers of the UK's three largest ISPs will have their browsing habits sold to a company with roots in the murky world of spyware..."
Read more »If you need to set up a compact, secure, easily configurable Web server in as short a time, then we recommend installing Abyss Web Server. The software is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Depending on your needs, you may choose one of the two available editions. The free personal edition (X1) is a fully usable web server with no limitations. The professional edition (X2) includes an immediate access at no additional cost to new minor and major versions for a small amount of money. Abyss isn't open source software, but it is an interesting product and can provide a full web server with no cost, on older hardware, and with high-performance results.
Read more »"Amaya is a Web editor, developed jointly with W3C, to very simply edit and publish pages that include text (in HTML or XHTML), graphics (in SVG) and mathematical expressions (in MathML). Style is specified with CSS style sheets."
Read more »I have been using a Mac at home since 2002. Prior to that I had been a big NeXT guy, and my home network always consisted of a mix of OPENSTEP and FreeBSD boxes, with the occasional partition devoted to Windows for gaming.
Read more »Do you think that geeks are boring? If your answer is yes, then perhaps some of the photographs that I’m going to show to you can change your mind:
Read more »The European Commission fined Microsoft a massive €899 million (US$1.3 billion) for continued failure to honor the 2004 antitrust ruling against it, Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes said Wednesday.
Read more »The subject of open document standards grows in importance not only for the technically- minded, but for anyone who uses a computer to work on editable documents. Across the board, standards are crucial.
Read more »This month’s cover story for VAR Business touts the Attack of the Alternatives. The premise is certain companies are gaining or having success in the shadows of the market leaders because they are offering a greater value then the market giants:
Read more »11. Deluge BitTorrent Client - Best BitTorrent client for Ubuntu.
Read more »1. VLC media player - plays all media file types, with it’s own codecs (no need of additional codecs)
Read more »I was already mourning the destruction of my Saturday, thanks to some blown deadlines, and was resigned to spending at least part of the day working. Then I made a fatal error: I read my email. There were two messages from readers that said, in essence, another article about RAID 5 was about as interesting as yet another fawning review of Ubuntu Retching Rabbit or Pooping Penguin or whatever the newest coolest release is, and RAID 5 has some serious flaws anyway, and if I really wanted to be hip and helpful I would write about RAID 10.
Read more »So, I’ve been shopping for a new laptop for a few months. I’ve got an old Thinkpad T23 that is showing it’s age — both in terms of performance and functionality. It has developed a number of minor quirks over the years, as most well-loved laptops do. Numlock is flaky, the PCMCIA port is flaky, everything is just broken enough to be annoying — but not broken enough to fix.
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