Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked yesterday about its top competitors a couple of days ago calling piracy and Linux as its top competitors. Ballmer all but dismissed Apple’s market share gains as insignificant. He makes the obvious point that Apple only gained 1 percent of 300 million PCs worldwide. He’s …
Yesterday Apple released a the first beta version of Safari 4 boasting Javascript rendering “30x faster” than Internet Explorer 7. Today, ZDNet released the results of a benchmark that proves exactly that. In fact, the tests show roughly 42 times faster rendering. The browser was very close to Mozilla Minefield …
Apple has released a beta version of the next version of its browser, Safari. Among some usability features, Apple is boasting some significant performance gains. It is saying that its new Nitro Engine, it can execute Javascript code 30x faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 3 times faster than Firefox …
In one of the geekiest (and coolest) things I’ve ever seen, How-to-Geek published a how-to on how to watch movies from a Linux command line. The trick uses mplayer to play the movie using colored text. It’s almost as cool as the ‘sl’ command which is clearly just as powerful …
The pattern is as sure as the sun rises: Someone writes an article about Linux vs. some other OS. Then someone will say how Linux is far superior to everything else on the market. Then someone will say that common tasks in Linux are difficult and it sucks. Then someone …