2008’s Top Reads
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A Penguin Deathmatch? Fedora 10 vs. Ubuntu 8.10
After several weeks of trying I finally had to give in to my sweaty and now pruney hands. I could not get the heat out of my Ubuntu install on my T60p laptop. I tried everything…CPU monitors, tuning down the…
Spending a Day with Ubuntu
I recently got a chance to spend an entire working day with Ubuntu at my employer. This is sad, but I grabbed the wrong laptop on the way into work and when I emerged from standby lo and behold I…
Firefox 3.1-b2 – Big Speed Boost
I gave Firefox 3.1b2 a try last night and am seriously impressed with the speed improvements. The speed-up is probably website dependent, but on many sites that are Javascript heavy, there is no doubt that the new TraceMonkey engine is…
Taking a Break with Ubuntu 8.1
Sometimes its nice to take a break and goof around with an OS. I’ve used RedHat, SuSE, and Fedora and they are all nice, but there’s a lot of buzz around Ubuntu. I had a laptop lying around and decided…
RIM Gets Bold and Brings a Storm to Cupertino
RIM picked Santa Clara for its first developer conference right in the back yard of new rival Apple. RIM brought a few friends with them and some pretty darn impressive new phones. There’s the “Flip” their first ‘Star Trek communicator”…