Archives for Computing

Open Source Challenge

I challenge all my fellow Linux geeks and other computer users out there to take up the *[Open Source] Challenge*. That is that each one of you try to use Open Source for all your computing. Now I hear you say “I spend most of my computing time at work and I can only use [...]

Longhorn faces another delay

Yet another delay has been announced for the next versoin of windows codenamed Longhorn. Will this give futher chance for Linux to gain a foothold in the Desktop market only time will tell. But by the time it is released in late 2006 we on the current 6 month release schedule we should see Gnome [...]

IE7

Just last week I was saying how we weren’t going to see a new version of Internet Explorer until Longhorn was released however today I read this article which is saying Microsoft is now possibly ramping up it’s development. All I can say is that they have a fair way to go in terms of [...]

Death of a Browser

With Microsoft’s decision to not to release any new versions of Internet Explorer independent of new versions of Windows. With Longhorn looking like it’s still at least a year away and might even be held further back if hardware doesn’t catch up to it could be pushed back even further. But even if Microsoft pulls [...]

Why Firefox

Still not convinced to switch for Firefox? Why not check out the reasons to switch at http://www.switch2firefox.com/

4th in Google search of "emerge world"

I was looking at the stats for my blog today using the Awstats which is provided by my fantastic free webhost bulidtolearn and I noticed that I had a visitor who searched “emerge world” in at google so I did the search myself. To my supprise my tale of emerge world came up 4th you [...]

Google on the desktop?

Just a quick thing I was reading that I found quite interesing while reading the Google Blog. That it looks like we will see Microsoft-Netscape type battle all over again but this time with the worlds most popular search engine. Read the article on at the NY Times

Firefox 0.9 released

Just a quick note that one of my favorite browsers, firefox, has just released another version, 0.9. It is by far the best browser available for windows and in which I do all my browsing here at work. So with a download footprint of just under 5mb who whouldn’t at least want to give it [...]