Posted in Internet, Linux on 7 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, Google released it’s web browser, Chrome, to much fanfare last week. Right now, only a Windows version is available, but the WINE developers worked quickly to release a patch that allows Linux users to run Chrome. Here’s the proof:
The directions are available from Ubuntu Geek.
I already used Chrome on my Windows XP computer at [...]
Posted in Internet, Technology on 22 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Like many people, I was excited when I first heard about netbooks. Most of my computing experience revolves around the Internet, so a low-cost machine for that purpose would be useful to me, and it would lower the barrier to entry for many people who still aren’t on the net. Then I found out how [...]
Posted in Internet, Miscellaneous on 21 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
A self-described mother of five posted an article on Linux.com about a new content filtering add-on for Firefox called Glubble. Like NetNanny, Dansguardian, and all the rest, it relies on white lists and black lists of key words. This approach has its cumbersome limitations. My anonymous suggestion in the comments (which you should recognize after [...]
Posted in Internet, Politics on 20 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This screenshot was taken from http://www.johnmccain.com/supporters/ on 18 July. Kind of funny.
Posted in Internet on 17 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
These days, spam accounts for 90% of all email. My Gmail account is deluged with about 150 spam messages per day. It costs businesses an estimated $10 billion per year to deal with. And the problem just keeps getting worse. Botnets on compromised computers can crack CAPTCHAs, create endless random accounts, and send millions of [...]
Posted in Internet, Linux on 13 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Information Week reports on an analysis by the web monitoring firm Pingdom, which revealed that Microsoft has the most “reliable” update service, better than Mac, and much better than Ubuntu. Microsoft’s update service had an uptime of 100% in the second quarter of 2008, while Mac’s was 99.9%, and Ubuntu’s was 98.6%.
Of course, this single [...]
Posted in Internet on 11 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation’s largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet.
The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of [...]
Posted in Culture, Current Events, Internet on 11 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jodie Hudson is a student in the United Kingdom whose family owns an $8 million home in Spain. Her mother allowed her to have a 16th-birthday party at their Marbella getaway, I suppose in a vainglorious attempt to recreate the elaborate soires of MTV’s My Super Sweet 16. The party itself was not enough, though, [...]
Posted in Internet on 10 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After experimenting with DesktopTwo, I find that I don’t really need it. Yes, it offers a number of common desktop applications, but I already have those applications on my own desktop, as well as any other desktop that I’m going to use. Why should I fire up a web browser and consume extra RAM with [...]
Posted in Internet on 10 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Several web sites are now offering “online desktop” services. One that I’ve tried is DesktopTwo. It provides applications that handle email, instant messaging, word processing, and a number of other functions. Of course, you can store files on your desktop, too. Basically you can have the same “operating system” no matter where you are. The [...]
