Whoa! Google Chrome has crashed. Restart now? While Google’s Chrome team is cheering, Rishi Narang from Evil Fingers is typing and releasing a proof of concept for a denial of service vulnerability that is successfully crashing the Chrome browser with all tabs. According to Narang’s advisory :
“An issue exists in how [...]
Installing Flash Player 9 On 64Bit Linux (x86_64) | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
Someone said, Flash Player 9 doesn’t run on 64 bit Linux, but sure it does… and you can install it, just follow the simple steps below.
If you can’t view or open Flash charts or are not able to play Flash in [...]
Google sees new browser displacing desktop software - Yahoo! News
Google Inc is challenging Microsoft Corp with its own Web browser that lets users run many applications that once worked only when installed on local PCs, executives said on Tuesday.
Google introduced a public trial version of its new browser software, Chrome, which is designed to handle [...]
Suppose someone wants to send you a large file. They could try to send it via email, but many email servers impose limits on file size. They could try sending it over during an instant messenger or Internet Relay Chat session, but that’s slow, as the file actually gets transferred twice: once to the chat [...]
Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition - Jamie’s Random Musings on Video IM - J.A. Watson’s Blog at ZDNet.co.uk Community
Open Office vs. MS Office - the Other Key to Windows/Linux Transition
Posted by J.A. Watson
As I have been going around alternately prodding my friends and family to try Linux, or [...]
Why doesn’t free trump expensive? Every Microsoft product has a free, open source counterpart created by dedicated programmers who loathe everything the company stands for. The free stuff is darn good. Yet companies and individuals continue to buy billions of dollars worth of Microsoft products. To be fair, Microsoft software is sometimes better than [...]
As we bring another season of The PC Guy column to a close — I’ll be off for the summer — let’s take a quick look at 10 cool and free software programs. They include Paint.net, EssentialPIM, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator, CDBurnerXP, 7-ZIP, Stickies, WordWeb and ooVoo. Coming out of left field in an already crowded [...]
A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new “Places” feature lets users quickly access sites they [...]
Adobe has tied together its online office suite wacrobat1.pngith the beta of Acrobat.com and the user interface is the big differentiator. What remains to be seen is whether online office users care about aesthetics.
On Monday, Adobe unveiled Acrobat.com, a suite that allows you to create word processing documents, share files, convert PDFs and hold Web [...]
Okay the topic of doing back ups in linux has come to the forefront as of late so I thought I would toss a couple of possibilities into the fray. The first is Clonezilla and here is what they have to say about their product;
You’re probably familiar with the popular proprietary [...]
