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Burning Chrome

Google Chrome Comic

Google Chrome Comic

Google plans to release a new browser soon, based on Webkit, but with a new JavaScript engine, which is expected to be significantly faster than most browsers and will be sandboxed to ensure that a crash in one tab…

Firefox 1.0 Steps Up

Mozilla Firefox 1.0 has been released! This is great news for Web developers and users both. I highly recommend everyone grab a copy once the servers recover from the initial download frenzy. Remember to make a list of your extensions and back up…

Build a $100 GNU/Linux machine

Build a $100 GNU/Linux machine “out of new, readily available parts that already have Free Software drivers.” - Boing Boing

Samba Configuration Via Webmin

After spending far too many hours trying to recall the way to set up Samba on a Linux box - so it can resume its role as a fileserver - I found a detailed walkthrough, listing the steps to configure…