Software

Why Windows Gets So Many Viruses, Plain and Simple

While I am primarily a Linux geek, I run Windows on my laptop and at school. In my lifetime, my Windows machines have almost never been infected any sort of virus, but I have still had my share of them. Nevertheless, there are quite a lot of them out there, but you may ask yourself [...]

Do Not Be Afraid To Try Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx During It’s Development Phase

I like cutting edge stuff. I frequently check for updates for everything I use because I want to make sure I have the latest and greatest features (and not to mention bug fixes). However, most people are nervous when it comes to updates, especially testing updates before they are released as stable. Back when Ubuntu [...]

Comparing Chromium and Firefox 3.5/3.6/3.7 Nightlies’ JavaScript Performance

I have always been interested in efficiency and performance. So much, in fact, that when I finished installing three different trunk (latest source code) builds of Firefox (3.5.6, 3.6, and 3.7), I just had to compare their JavaScript performance with that of Chromium. I have heard that the TraceMonkey JavaScript engine got some performance boosts [...]