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MisterHouse - Open Source software to control your home
04 May 07 11:42 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

MisterHouse is an open source home automation program. It's fun, it's free, and it's entirely geeky. Written in Perl , it fires events based...

Filed under: Open Source, Software

Interesting results from those that uninstalled Firefox...
10 November 06 12:14 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

From: https://survey.mozilla.com/results Reason for uninstalling Total Plugin compatibility (Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Windows Media Player, etc.) 1123 Performance...

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software, Windows

New Firefox vuln...
10 November 06 10:40 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Firefox Sage Extension Feed Script Insertion Vulnerability

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Security, Software

Novell wants to know...
04 November 06 08:01 PM | rodtrent | 1 comment(s)

Novell wants to know what you think of the recent deal between them and Microsoft…take the survey… http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip...

Filed under: Networking, Open Source, Software

First Firefox 2.0 Vuln reported
30 October 06 03:10 PM | rodtrent | 1 comment(s)

A newly discovered vulnerability, which the CTO of security services firm Secunia described this morning as affecting Internet Explorer 7.0, can also affect...

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software

Is Firefox 2.0 a dud?
30 October 06 07:58 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

Is Firefox 2.0 a dud? Are users better avoiding it and waiting until a future build? Are too many of the new features buggy and incomplete and is the browser...

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software

This is cool -- if you want to spend the time...
27 October 06 03:02 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Top Firefox 2 config tweaks http://www.lifehacker.com/software/firefox-2/geek-to-live-top-firefox-2-config-tweaks-209941.php

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software

Double-clicking on the address in the Address bar produces nothing
27 October 06 02:58 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

I use this function quite a bit in IE, for either copying an address or selecting the entire field so I can enter a new address. When you double-click...

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software

3 days -- about 10 add-ons, and Firefox is working the way I want it to
27 October 06 01:49 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

OK…what does a busy person do, who wants to upgrade to Firefox 2.0 and have it work the way they want? They download and install the new version...

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software

Oops -- spoke too soon.
24 October 06 06:32 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

I just opened the myITforum.com Web blogs in both Firefox and IE7. IE7 = 4 seconds. Firefox = 11 seconds.

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software, Windows

Speed - Firefox versus IE7
24 October 06 06:28 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

I’m really impressed. It appears that the Firefox folks have spent a lot of time fixing the speed problems that plagued Firefox in the past. Firefox...

Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Software

Free is what?
21 September 06 06:32 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

I watch the communities. When someone is looking for software, the first post is about some free or Open Source software somewhere that no one has ever...

Filed under: Open Source, Software, Industry News

Yeah! Finally Linux users get to experience the horror of Lotus Notes!
10 July 06 01:40 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Lotus Notes for Linux announced

Filed under: Open Source, Software

Your new OS replacement in Texas Hold-em style?
26 June 06 09:09 AM | rodtrent | with no comments

BumpTop

Filed under: Open Source, Software, Industry News

Apple goes proprietary
17 May 06 02:18 PM | rodtrent | with no comments

Apple closes down OS X Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code. Stripped...

Filed under: Open Source, Software