If you are looking for a super-fast browser, why not try out Dillo. On Mandrake you can grab it by doing a urpmi dillo from the konsole (or by using rpmdrake - install software). It can't render css yet, and doesn't handle javascript and flash too well, but if you just want to browse the news or look up documentation, it's quite handy (and extremely fast).
Monday, June 21, 2004
Friday, June 18, 2004
Speed up Firefox
Speed up Firefox
Great thread on webmasterworld about tweaking Firefox settings to make your browsing experience go a heck of lot faster.
I had to link to the google search because Webmasterworld prompts you for a login if I direct link to a forum thread. You will see the thread as option 1 of the search results.
CIA commit database
No, it's nothing to do with a certain spook outfit, but rather it's a realtime website that monitors cvs commit messages in the open source world.
A fascinating source of info about the bleeding edge of open source development.
Latest Cassini photos
Gallery here of the latest Cassini pictures including close ups of Phoebe, a long range shot of Titan, and an infra-red picture of the southern hemisphere of Saturn.
Thursday, June 17, 2004
History of Programming Languages
O'Reilly have produced a fascinating poster showing the history of programming languages since the 1950s. Over 2,500 programming languages are covered, and of course, the Slashdot crowd are busy talking about this here
Bergen's CTO : Why we moved to Linux
ZDNet interview with the CTO of the Norweigian city of Bergen, on why they are making the move to Suse Linux
Tuesday, June 15, 2004
BugMeNot
Handy website , which gives out communal logins for those annoying registration-required newspaper websites.
Friday, June 11, 2004
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Linux bloat
Great article here on the bloatedness of Gnome and KDE.
The author , quite rightly , points out that there are millions of Win98 machines out there - probably with no more than 64mb of ram at most.
He just points out that we can't move them to KDE 3.2 or the latest Gnome because of the ram and processor requirements. And if they need to get new hardware, they'll just stick with the pre-installed Win XP anyway...
Food for thought... but then i'm rather partial to Xfce anyway.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Democracy and the internet in action
Came across this superb UK site - They Work For You - which allows UK people to keep tabs on their elected representatives.
You can find out what an MP voted on, what they said in parliament, what their registered interests are and lots lots more.
Open Transport Tycoon
Open sourced version of my favourite game of all time.
Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Monday, June 07, 2004
Planet Sun
A blog aggregator of Sun employee blogs.
Woooah!!!! Sun has decided to go all bloggy.
Saturday, June 05, 2004
GoboLinux
Interesting new distro out of Brazil, with a new directory structure (the old /usr/bin and /lib are gone). In the words of GoboLinux, the filesystem itself IS the package manager. They also have their version of Gentoo's Portage,called Compile.
Slashdot are discussing this here
One wonders if this distro is a direct or indirect result of the Brazilian governments pro-Linux stance.
Friday, June 04, 2004
Cassini Countdown - 26 days left
Cassini will encounter Phoebe on June 11th. Orbital insertion around Saturn timed for July 1st.
Related stuff:
Where is Cassini now?
Two Pairs of Storms on Saturn
Colorful Saturn - new Cassini photos of the ringed planet
Fear and Loathing
The Anti-virus Industry scam
"One has to wonder how the anti-virus industry sleeps well at night. On one hand, it purports to serve the world by defending our computers and networks from any number of electronic critters and malicious code. On the other hand, sometimes its "cure" is worse than the problem its companies and products allegedly treat."
Over at Lindows/Linspire , Mike Robertson muses on the fear and loathing of computers that Windows users are currently experiencing. In his words "It's reminiscent of Hal from Space Odyssey. Computer owners fear that if they launch the wrong program, visit a 'bad' website or simply view an email, they will trigger an unstoppable torrent of emails and virus spewing from their computer."
Of course ,we Linux users are completely immune from this.
Tuesday, June 01, 2004
Brew your own fuel for 41 cents a gallon
"After a few months of driving 10 miles to a biodiesel fuel station he decided it was time to start brewing his own. It didn't take him long to find a recipe for biodiesel, and with used cooking oil that he gets for free from a nearby restaurant, he figures he's now getting 44 miles per gallon out of his diesel powered VW Golf and only paying 41 cents a gallon."
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