Some web browser wars, and the US reneges on "leave Internet alone" policy - 104

I wrote a little something about browsers not too long ago, but this is in quite a bit more details and compares several different browsers:
Review: Linux browsers, Part 1 - Arora, Chromium, Dillo, Epiphany, Firefox and Galeon. In part 2, we'll look at HV3, Kazehakaze, Midori, and Opera
Review: Linux browsers, Part 2 - HV3, …

Just a few interesting points - 103

I'm glad I am not the only one that feels this way about Google:
Anti-Google Sentiment Reaches a Tipping Point
Since my last topic was backups, and today is Backup Awareness day, here is another post about: http://blog.i-no.de//archives/2010/02/24/index.html#e2010-02-24T20_31_15.txt
This would be interesting to read from the beginning: "Building an all-text Linux workstation", current part is part 11. …

Making Backups - 102

Backups can be very important, no one wants to lose any of their data--especially if it has happened to you before.
I have previously setup my x64 desktop PC with softRAID, so everything I have in my /home folder is mirrored across 2 drives.   However, I am not sure if I am overly paranoid, or …

Browsers etc. - 101

I had used firefox for a long time, and then recently started using chrome / chromium.   It is nice in that it is faster, and load times are good.   however, it seems that it cannot properly render some sites (they are few, but they are important!). I guess I need to say that IE …

some stuff - 100

FreeBSD and the GPL -interesting article, although it gets a bit long.   I liked BSD when I tried it, however I was ust much more comfortable with Linux--if I had used and grown with BSD, I'm sure I could get comfortable with it, too.
Setting up a Linux server on a Windows network - hmmm...

Intel Wireless pains on a Sony VAIO (mirrorlist snafu part 2) - 98

As I mentioned in the last post, I re-installed Arch onto my laptop.  This went very well, and quickly--everything really fell into place.  I was going by the beginner's guide, as detailed previously, but it was not really needed this time.
Where I left off last time, Xorg was installed and I was about to install …

doh! (mirrorlist snafu) - 97

So, I've been rolling along find with my Arch Linux installs.  Well, almost.  When I installed the system on my laptop, I had somehow forgotten the root password, but was still able to do everything with sudo.
However, I could not run rankmirrors with sudo, so I figured "hey, I can run rankmirrors on my desktop, …