Firefox Personas

Does anybody reading this remember Hotbar for IE 5 and 6? Remember how it came with dozens and dozens of adware and spyware apps. For anyone who doesn’t remember this was back when Bonzi Buddy spoke to us to distract you from the fact he was tracking everything you did online. When anybody who was [...]

SystemTap

SystemTap is the Linux analogy to Solaris DTrace and is similar to the strace command, only much much more powerful. It effectively lets you set breakpoints in the kernel to monitor what your applications are doing. For example if I was worried that some application I’d written was polling way too often, I could ask [...]

The New Google Reader

This morning Google announced some new features for Google Reader. These features make Reader feel like a social networking website. I think Google is taking an interesting approach to social networking. They’re refitting all their existing products to include social features. It still feels a little separate though. There isn’t a feel of congruency across [...]

The Truth Will Shock and Amaze You!

Pick the correct headline:

* Meteorologists Determine That Hell Has Frozen Over
* Scientists Genetically Engineer a Pig Capable of Flight
* Microsoft Releases 20,000 Lines of GPL code to the Linux [...]

The Windows Registry vs Gconf

I often hear people attacking GNOME and Linux because of the claim that they’ve emulated the Windows Registry in Gconf. While this looks to be true at first glance, looking a bit deeper reveals many differences that make the two into completely separate entities. Both GConf and the Registry have their own advantages and [...]