The browser wars are heating up again, with Mozilla, Google, and Microsoft as the main competitors. Google has announced its intentions to release several new versions in rapid succession, and Microsoft is pushing Internet Explorer 9. All the players realize that the stakes are higher than ever before, with more advertising dollars being poured onto [...]
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Most Linux users are familiar with the top command. Top shows you a list of processes on your system and provides a ton of useful information such as their CPU usage and owner. Unfortunately, this isn’t always enough data and many people don’t know where to turn next. This article covers three performance monitoring applications [...]
Monday, July 5, 2010
Times Reader 2.0, is an Adobe Air-powered (and therefore cross-platform) application that allows subscribers of the New York Times to read an electronic version of the newspaper on their Windows, Mac, or Linux-based devices for no additional cost. I’ll be reviewing the application on both Windows 7 and on Linux, using a netbook for Windows [...]
Thursday, June 10, 2010
One of the most frustrating problems a network administrator can come across is an IP address conflict, when two or more machines on a network try to use the same IP. The result is typically that some packets on the network go to one machine, and some packets go to the other – leading to [...]
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Many power users have multiple computers setup in their office or on their desks, which typically results in either multiple keyboards, mice, and monitors, or the use of a KVM switch to change between each machine individually. There are downsides to both of these solutions; multiple keyboards take up lots of space and can be [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction Preload is an “adaptive readahead daemon” that runs in the background of your system, and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system. Installation Installing [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction There has been a lot of debate recently over whether or not it’s a good idea to run an anti-virus program if you’re using Linux. Reading the forums, I see a lot of misunderstandings, particularly around what exactly it is that these anti-virus programs do and whether or not they’re necessary. I hope to [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction Griffith is an application for the Gnome desktop that organizes your movie collection, much in the same way Alexandria is used to organize your book library. Simply by entering the name of a movie, Griffith will query various databases on the internet and download cover art, plot details, and cast information. Installation Griffith is [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction Google’s Picasa software is a powerful tool for managing your photo collection. It provides a simple interface for organizing your pictures, as well as some easy-to-use, yet powerful image manipulation tools. However, until recently the Windows version of Picasa has had some features that put it above the Linux version; some of these features, [...]
Monday, March 2, 2009
Introduction While it may not let you go where no man has gone before, Celestia is an amazing desktop application that lets you travel anywhere in the known Universe. You can view any object in the Solar System, travel to distant stars, and even leave the Galaxy to view planets only recently discovered by NASA [...]
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