When I was first learning about the new Macbooks and deciding if I wanted to buy one, I went to the Apple store to ask some questions. This was my first time talking to an Apple sales rep so I had no idea how advanced they were. Being a programmer, as I’m sure many Mac [...]
After much delay, Mozilla finally made the first beta release of Firefox 3. I was extremely unhappy with Firefox 2 when it was first released because of memory leaks and bloat. I felt that the developers put much more effort into the Windows version than the Linux or Mac OS X versions and my thoughts [...]
Like everyone else, I used the /bin/false guide to install Ubuntu on my MacBook. Either I did something wrong or there was/is an error in the guide because lilo was installed to the MBR of /dev/sda and not the third partition, /dev/sda3, like specified in the given lilo.conf. I think the error in the guide [...]
Dell’s idea storm has been no secret among the Linux and OSS bloggers and therefore, the “Linux on Dell” idea has dominated the votes. Within a week, Dell responded saying they will make Linux happen. But really, with 10,000+ votes, how can it be ignored? Take the Dell Linux survey and tell Dell what you [...]
I do a lot of programming so I’m very accustom to my emacs shortcut keys (C-e, C-a, C-f, C-b). One of the coolest features of Mac OS X is that they have those emacs keys enabled by default but Linux does not! I’ve found a way to have this feature on Linux as well: Edit [...]