I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
If you want to try tabbed browsing before installed a browser that supports it (like Mozilla Firefox) or if you work in a place where they don’t allow you to install software and you cannot live without tabs, try Breasy.com. It is essentially a web interface that allows to browse several sites simultaneously in a single browser window, group sites in groups, have split screens, and some other things proper browser does by itself.
I’ve upgraded my office workstation to Fedora Core 3 today. It is the most painless upgrade that I have had so far. The only problem I had was that backspace stopped working in Vim. It turned out that there is a difference between stty erase '^?' and stty erase ^?.
On the bonus side though, I’ve got a lot. First of all, my KDE desktop is even better now than ever before. It is faster, more polished, and has “complete” feeling all over it. Things just work in the most intuitive way. Firefox is finally included in Fedora Linux. It is aso much faster than the version I used until now. Fonts look georgeus. Scrolling and page loading are even shocking at first.
SELinux is pushed through this time too. It is active by default. I haven’t played with it much yet though.
If you have upgraded to Fedora Linux Core 3 recently (or planning to do so), there are probably a couple of questions you have about SELinux. If you have, then check out SELinux FAQ. Maybe it will help you. Maybe it will not. At least I tried. :)
Yet another Fedora resource – The Fedora Community Portal. Points of interest are mailing lists to forum gateways and Wiki pages. Participate, if you feel like it.
Slashdot links to an excellent article today. If you ever will need to find a prime number or to find a way to find a prime number, than look no further. This article explains few algorithms on finding prime numbers, starting with a simple brute force and ending with one that can spit out more than a billion numbers within an hour no an acceble computer. Of course, there are even better algorithms out there, but you need a place to start, and this is definetely it.
P.S.: Although this should go into category “General”, I’ll put it in computers, because I will be looking for it there afterwards…
P.P.S.: And one of the first comments in the discussion mentions /usr/bin/factor and man factor