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Linux Books I’m Considering

Posted in information, tagged on December 31, 2008 | Comments Off

Linux: The Complete Reference
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed
Understanding the Linux Kernel, Third Edition
A list: start hacking the Linux kernel

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Student in Texas accused of illegal activities by using Linux…

Posted in information on December 10, 2008 | Comments Off

This is amazing to me, I laughed so hard when I read this story.  You can read the email and response here.
Basically, a student was showing off Linux at school and the teacher became enraged and accused the student of illegal activites because there’s no such thing as “free” software… ha.  What a freaking joke…

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Google Services are Sluggish

Posted in information on December 9, 2008 | Comments Off

Basically yesterday and today all of the Google services I know and love and use all the time are either slow as hell or don’t load at all.  It doesn’t matter what service it is, Gmail, Search, Maps, Reader, or News all of these and more are very slow to load and sometimes Gmail won’t [...]

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Fix slow Firefox on Fedora 10

Posted in information, tagged , , on December 1, 2008 | Comments Off

I noticed that after installing the latest Fedora release (Fedora 10 Cambridge) Firefox was quite slow at accessing web pages.  I found that if you go into about:config and find this string:
network.dns.disableIPv6
You can set this to true, which will disable IPv6 lookups and make your web browsing much quicker.
Hope this helps.

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Firefox Market Share Up Again!

Posted in information on December 1, 2008 | Comments Off

According to Asa at Mozilla, Firefox keeps gaining whilst IE keeps losing:
firefox market share up in november

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Linux on the iPhone

Posted in information on November 28, 2008 | Comments Off

You can officially install an open boot loader and a linux shell on the iPhone.  Check it out here.

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Why I’m Sticking with Firefox

Posted in information, tagged , , , on November 25, 2008 | Comments Off

I’ve been reading a lot recently about people making the “switch” to Google Chrome.  I just moved to a Mac for everyday use and I understand why Safari is great now.  I also understand why Chrome is great, because I’ve had it installed on my Vista machine since it came out, and recently I’ve been [...]

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64-bit computing is mainstream

Posted in information, tagged , on November 18, 2008 | Comments Off

I’ve been reading lots of articles on this and I just shopped around a bit to confirm.  It turns out that, indeed, 64-bit computing has become mainstream.  Many computers from popular manufacturers like Dell and Gateway are shipping their products with the 64-bit version of Windows Vista as the default choice, and in some cases [...]

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Firefox 3.1 is coming

Posted in information, tagged , , on November 17, 2008 | Comments Off

Mozilla is hard at work on the next version of Firefox.  The new version 3.1 will feature many requested features that didn’t make it into the time frame of 3.0.  The new features include private browsing, tab tearing, enhanced tab switching, enhanced security, and a new javascript engine just to name a few.
The new javascript [...]

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Adobe Updates AIR Platform

Posted in information, tagged on November 17, 2008 | Comments Off

Adobe has released an update to its AIR Platform today to v1.5.  You can find the link below.  It will install on Mac, Windows and Linux (in beta form).
Adobe AIR 1.5

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