Continuing with the analysis of the Firefox 3.0 browser, I take a look at some of the features and facts that aren’t really that great and add very little to the new browser. I also observe some of the shortcomings of Firefox and take note of some of the bad press surrounding it.
Read more »Firefox 3.0 first impressions, part 2: the ok, the bad, the ugly
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Firefox 3.0 is a red-hot upgrade
A new Firefox browser released this week promises to make the Web-surfing experience just a little bit quicker while easing up on computer memory and tightening security.
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Lojban and Hacking
I had recently discovered the Lojban language while I was surfing the net. The characteristics of this language greatly appealed to me as a debater and so, I decided to heavily invest my effort into studying this language. Consequently, I came across two free software tools that could aid my study of Lojban: KVocTrain and Mnemosyne.
Read more »Stop the press: Watch the news with Linux!
For the past three versions of Ubuntu, I have tested seven news websites to find out if I could watch their video feeds using Ubuntu. You can read the results for 6.10 and 7.04, and 7.10. Each time, I was disappointed to learn that a majority of the video feeds did not play correctly on Ubuntu Linux. This time, however, something amazing has happened.
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How To Love Linux On The Desktop
Blowing away a computer and installing a different operating system is all part of a day's work for the Test Center. In fact, some projects in the Test Center over the past year have included a lot of time spent simply installing and reinstalling various Linux distributions on a single machine.
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Linux And Unix System Security Wrap-Up - Part 4b
Part six of our now completed series on setting up Linux and Unix servers securely. At least, it's the end of the beginning...
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Novell and Microsoft Play Dirty Against Red Hat (Again)
Independently and sometimes jointly, both companies appear to be playing dirty against a GNU/Linux leader whom they target.
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Quick Mention:Microsoft’s Newham-type Scam in the Middle East and North Africa
Another case of competing by signing vague deals that exclude rivals.
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10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:
10 Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful:1. Robot Can Replicate Itself. English researchers have developed a robot that can not only create 3-D replicas of objects like shoes and door handles - it also can replicate itself.More @ PCWorld.com
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Microsoft Does Not Comply, Internet Explorer Under Antitrust Scrutiny Again
New examples of Microsoft's inability and disinterest in interoperability, standards, fair competition.
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Design, Build and implement a Complete CMS Framework with New Book
PHP 5 CMS Framework is a new book from Packt, which will take users through the creation of a working architecture for a PHP 5-based content management system. Written by Martin Brampton, this book includes extensive discussion of the design issues, and how to overcome them in the framework.
Read more »Does Microsoft Start Abusing the Word “Free”?
Other than a marketing blitz, Microsoft engages in confusing marketing slogans (“Free the People”).
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Red Hat’s CEO Never Talked to Microsoft About Software Patents
Red Hat's CEO reveals that he was never involved in negotiating non-technical (anti-competitive) deals.
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Interview with Liran Tal, author of daloRADIUS
daloRADIUS is a web application written in PHP with the purpose to manage a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) deployment, suited for both WISPs (Wireless Internet Service Providers) and Hotspots.
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atunes - iTunes/Winamp/Amarok killer
aTunes is a full-featured audio player and manager, developed in Java programming language, so it can be executed on different platforms: Windows, Linux and Unix-like systems, ...
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