Recent content by KenJackson

That sounds like the same scheme used by BoxTrapper and also whatever netcom.com uses. I and some others I've talked with consider this rude. It's like I have to sign up to request permission for the privilege of emailing people that use it. Also, I've read that it generates enough extra...

Exactly. In fact, non-Microsoft operating systems have a command, uptime, which reports how many days, hours and minutes since the system was booted. That's how I know that my downstairs PC is now up to 231 days. I had been wanting to reboot it so I can try FreeBSD in the other partition...

My downstairs PC, running PCLinuxOS, has an uptime of 228 days. It's right by the dining room table so I can surf during supper. The upstairs PC, running Mandriva Linux, has only been up for 62 days. The only Windows I have runs in VMWare. It had been running a week, but I rebooted it...

I thought Carpo was making a statement or a lament, but you seem to be answering him like it was a question. Windows is almost always installed first anyway, because almost all PCs are sold with Windows installed. And the few people that buy a PC without Windows are usually savvy enough to...

The problem is that Adobe/Macromedia Flash is not open source. But help is on the way. In time, the Gnash player will replace the proprietary one and all will be well.

The article doesn't specify, but it would be interesting to see the data broken down a different way: 32-bit vs. 64-bit computers. If it should turn out that a large percentage of those crashes were were on 64-bit platforms, we would have to give a lot of credit to Eric S. Raymond and Rob...

No one said FlashBlock yet. It's wonderful! I hate the proliferation of little flash ads polluting many web pages, but FlashBlock doesn't load a flash until you click on it. Nice.

I found an interesting detail in the ars technica article about Firfox3 beta 4. They ran a Mozilla benchmark tester named Talos that repeatedly opens and closes browser windows and measures the amount of memory used. Firefox3 uses noticeably less memory than Firefox2. But the interesting...

The widely respected authority on Linux distros is DistroWatch. They keep a running list by popularity over on the right side of the page, where currently the most popular distros are Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, openSUSE, Mint and Fedora. They also have a summary page for each of the hundreds they...

It's very difficult to vote "Linux only" living in a Windows world, as we all do. But I did it. I use Mandriva Linux both at home and at work.

You can also replace the DNS IP numbers in /etc/resolv.conf with the ones supplied by OpenDNS.org: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220