Archive for the 'General' Category

21st February Comments

Firefox 3 Beta: Good Enough Now and Getting Better

Posted on February 21st, 2008 at 6:23 am

 
Don’t look now, but the third volley in the second browser war is about to be fired, and it’s packing an impressive payload. Mozilla, the folks developing the Firefox Web browser, last week released a new test version. It’s the third beta of Firefox 3.0, and it’s solid enough that it could become your [...]

16th February Comments

New ‘Guitar Hero’ gives sweet emotion to Aerosmith fans

Posted on February 16th, 2008 at 7:41 am

Called Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, the new game will arrive in stores this summer, a surprise to many analysts and fans who had expected the next title to come out closer to the year-end holiday shopping season.

woot woot! GH just keeps getting better and better!!
Source: ZDNet News

29th January Comments

MythBusters support Linux

Posted on January 29th, 2008 at 5:52 am

In a recent issue of Popular Mechanics, the main MythBuster Jamie Hyneman waxed eloquent about troublesome and downright irritating technology. He briefly recommend against Windows Vista and instead suggested Ubuntu. My opinion of him just went up another notch. Now if we could only find a way for them to disprove a myth with Linux/Windows [...]

28th January Comments

20 MOST Popular Linux Games

Posted on January 28th, 2008 at 6:14 am

 
I spent some time compiling this list and seeing how many nice games are available for Linux I couldnt help but wonder: why are we still using Vista? There are so many Windows advocates who bring as anti Linux argument an “absence” of games for Linux. Well, they are wrong! There are enough games from [...]

28th January Comments

Nokia to acquire KDE originator Trolltech

Posted on January 28th, 2008 at 6:11 am

 
Trolltech, the originator of Qt, which forms the basis of the Linux KDE desktop environment, is being acquired by Nokia, the world?s number-one mobile phone vendor. Nokia expects its acquisition of Trolltech to accelerate its cross-platform software strategy for mobile devices and desktop applications, and to enhance its Internet services business.
Now this is good [...]

27th January Comments

Dead spy satellite falling from orbit - could hit Earth in late February or March

Posted on January 27th, 2008 at 5:55 am

 
You’d hope contingency plans were in place. Wouldn’t you.
And heck I was worried about dying from old age, First a plane parts fall from the skies and kill some poor customer in a car dealership and now spy satellites are falling when will all the falling stop. Maybe Chicken Little was right after all. [...]

25th January Comments

Mystery infestation strikes Linux/Apache Web sites

Posted on January 25th, 2008 at 4:39 am

 
According to a press release issued earlier this month by Finjan, a security research firm, compromised Web servers are infecting thousands of visitors daily with malware that turns their Windows machines into unwitting bots to do the bidding of an as yet unidentified criminal organization. Security firms ScanSafe and SecureWorks have since added their own [...]

24th January Comments

Ten Years Ago Today: Netscape Announces Free Communicator Source Code Release

Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 4:56 am

 
Today marks ten years since Netscape Communications Corporation announced its intention to release the source code of the then in-development Netscape Communicator 5.0, heralding the beginning of what would become the Mozilla project. At the same time, Netscape stopped charging for Netscape Navigator 4.0 and Netscape Communicator Standard Edition 4.0.

Yikes now this is starting [...]

24th January Comments

The state of Linux according to Google

Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 4:53 am

 
This is a look at the state of Linux through the eyes of Google Trends, Google’s highly useful search trend analyzer. Though looking at search statistics can never give a complete picture, this gives an interesting perspective to how things are going for Linux, especially when viewed through the eyes of such a dominant and [...]

24th January Comments

Open source under attack?

Posted on January 24th, 2008 at 4:50 am

 
A nest of poisoned Web sites has been quietly attacking unsuspecting visitors using an arsenal of thirteen different exploits. If the site visitor has JavaScript enabled and is vulnerable to any of those exploits, then in no time at all their system will be compromised with a Trojan not yet recognized [sic] by many popular [...]