This part on PCLinuxOnline says that the new Ximian Desktop is on SuSE 8.2 »buggy as a YUGO car«. Bugs, no YAST-Menu and no shutdown procedure. Can someone proove this? Sad. Weiterlesen

Bryan Bell: I personally feel that IE has now taken Netscape 4’s old position as the boat anchor being dragged behind the internet. So yeah lets start a badge campaign to complain about the lack of development/innovation in Internet Explorer. Weiterlesen

Industrial Technology & Witchcraft – Das Maß ist voll – killt IE 6!: »Internet Explorer 6 für Windows 2000 und Windows XP zeigt zur aktuellen URL passende »verwandte Links« an und schickt dazu die Adresse der besuchten Seite an die Suchmaschinen von Alexa und MSN. Nach einem Advisory der Sicherheitsfirma Secunia geschieht das auch, wenn... Weiterlesen

PhotoStack »is an image organization system featuring template driven layout, smart caching, automatic thumbnail creation, RSS feeds, picture level EXIF date extraction, and picture level descriptions, all without the need for an SQL like database.« New: Version 1.1 (Download). Weiterlesen

»RSS Mix Tape reads items from RSS feeds that you specify, and displays them in a list. You go through the list, picking your favorite posts and putting them into categories. You can also write comments on posts. Then you click the »Generate RSS« button, and RSS Mix Feed spits out an RSS feed for... Weiterlesen

BBlog is a PHP driven weblog software, using the Smarty Template Engine. New version 0.4 can be downloaded from here. Weiterlesen

On winterspeak.com there’s more discussion about M$ not releasing IE as standalone program anymore. Very interesting: When people say that Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop PC operating system market, they’re referring to Win 95, Win 98, Win 2000, and Win XP. But each of these operating systems are actually pretty good substitutes for... Weiterlesen

Justin Frankel, Erfinder der populären MP3-Software Winamp, will sich von Nullsoft trennen: Everything I code is arguably owned by the company. The company controls what I do with my code [in the past, it seemed I had freedom, but it turns out all of that was not really the case–rather, I was somehow avoiding the... Weiterlesen

From Slashdot we’re send to an article in India Times where we learn that there is an IBM NetVista A30 Linux Desktop sold in some Indian cities, priced at about $850. Seems that there are other markets to enter besides our windows contaminated western world. Here in Germany the hardware discounter Vobis is actually selling... Weiterlesen

OK, since days the headlines about Micro$oft and AOL working together from now on are flying through the channels. Here are my sunday morning coffee thoughts about this, just noted between croissant and bagel: Who thought that AOL/TimeWarner could have been the counterpart of a unstoppable rise of Microsoft to total market reign, totally misunderstood... Weiterlesen