While browsing through my favorite news sites today I discovered that the nightly builds of Firefox now include native support for Theora and Vorbis (which includes support for the HTML5 media elements).
It is really great to see that they are taking the initiative add this along with their other ...
read moreAfter a busy day of work I was rather happy to see that my copy of Emmanuel Goldstein's new book entitled "The Best Of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey" had arrived in the mail today.
I have been really looking forward to the book for awhile now and I must ...
read moreI thought I would make a quick post on this since some people might be interested to know that first version of GNU IceCat 3, the GNU version of the Firefox browser, was released today.
If you are interesed you can also read the release discussion on the bug-gnuzilla mailing ...
read moreThe latest version of the Phoronix Test Suite, an open source benchmarking tool, was released today and I figured that I would download it and give it a try.
The Phoronix Test Suite is packed with 57 tests that have been grouped into 26 suites which range from audio-encoding to ...
read moreI have recently begun to seriously think about replacing my Sansa e250R v2 with another portable player that actually has support for Ogg Vorbis.
I really like the Sansa overall because it has great battery life and does what it was designed to do rather well.
However, my music collection ...
read moreI just realized that Arch Linux's newest install CD was released yesterday.
If you are interested in trying this great GNU/Linux distribution, this is the perfect opportunity for you to do so.
I'll probably download and burn a copy myself just in case I end up needing ...
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