Just a month ago Mozilla gave us the final version of Firefox 3.5 giving us a lot of nifty features like HTML5, private browsing, smarter session control among others. But Mozilla aren’t the kind of people who sit on their laurels, they already posted screenshots of Firefox 3.7 a week ago, and today we have »
This is pretty straight forward yet awesome! Get all your friends on a real chat client instead of that annoying and crippled Facebook chat window! All you need to do is install a little package called pidgin-facebook. If you are on a Debian system just download this package and install it using the GUI or »
Martin Owens over at DoctorMo’s blog designed an impressive set of visuals detailing a wide range of computer ports. Any self-respecting geek should know these, they do come in handy from time to time: Serial Port: A serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time PS/2 Connector: »
If you don’t know what Nmap is then this probably doesn’t interest you and/or not “1337″ enough. What’s wrong with you? Today, insecure.org announced the release of Nmap 5.0, which they consider the most important release since 1997. Their release notes detail the most important changes: The new Ncat tool aims to be your Swiss »
The Canonical Design team is currently running a contest for beautiful desktop wallpapers for its upcoming Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 scheduled to be released in October 2009. They have created a photo pool on Flickr where you can submit or just browse proposed backgrounds: In our next release, the Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10), we would »
Lets face it, the default GNOME desktop isn’t the easiest desktop on the eye. While Ubuntu’s desert brown is actually an eye sore, other distros like Mint and Fedora have done better jobs in theming their desktops. But still most users aren’t content with default desktops and usually tweak around their themes via gnome-look.org among »
To some, Richard Stallman is very controversial. But no one can doubt that he is in sync with his inner GNU! Here he is dancing at the FISL 10 forum in Brazil. [Via VivaLinux]
MG Siegler of TechCrunch noticed something funny today. Linux and Microsoft were holding peace tweets! Well not exactly, but on the 1st of July Microsoft decided that it should start tweeting (finally?). The guy behind the Linux Twitter account, apparently a guy from Bangladesh, decided to welcome Microsoft on Twitter. Almost a day later, Microsoft »
Well at least according to Dell’s website. A 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 8GB of disk space armed with Microsoft’s latest masterpiece: Ubuntu! Update: Here is the original Dell website. The error is still up. Not fixed. Doesn’t matter, print screen already did the damage Update 2: After 5 days from the original post, Dell finally fixed »
Linux is pretty stable, it doesn’t really need to be rebooted twice a day like another operating system that shall remain unnamed. Thats one of the reasons Linux is installed on 19 of the 20 top supercomputers in the world. However, with Kernel updates you will always need to reboot. Who needs that? Enter Ksplice! »
