There are plenty of applications in GNU/Linux for playing music or watching movies and TV, and many of them will work perfectly fine on old computers that choke on the simplest of tasks in Windows XP. Keep reading »
Internet Explorer 8 beta 1 has been released to the wild. The ACID2 test could not be reached for a good while after ie8 was released. I guess everyone who downloaded was running the test. While it does seem to pass the ACID2 test (provided you OK the ActiveX dialog box), it still fails on some CSS 2.1 tests in the W3C CSS 2.1 suite.. I couldn’t run as many of the test I wanted, as IE takes up around 95-99% of CPU time on the test list page. Keep reading »
Well, it would appear that microsoft is realising it made a mistake in choosing version targeted quirks mode as the default for Internet Explorer 8. I guess they didn’t anticipate the uproar from developers, and so decided to do a U-Turn and enable standard compliance mode by default. Keep reading »
You’ll need to run the following as root to install OpenOffice.org with the en_UK dictionary etc:
pacman -Sy openoffice-base
pacman -S openoffice-uk
pacman -S openoffice-spell-uk
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The guys over at The Register have a story on How BT, Virgin Media, and Carphone Warehouse plan on spying on their customers internet habits using technology from spyware company phorm (formally known as 121 Media – the spyware, malware and rootkit developers).
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