Mozilla's second alpha of Firefox 3.1 is upping the ante in the next-generation browser battle. So how do the main contenders stack up so far now?

Onces again, Apple make a sexy Mp3 player. http://www.apple.com/ipodnano/

Google Came out with a Web Broswer of there own today. http://www.google.com/chrome

A recent report about the music service Pandora and its upcoming plans was recently released, shining some light on Internet-based music industry, which might be a lot harder to handle than some might think. The piece, presented by the Washington Post, includes an interview with Pandora’s founder, Mr. Tim Westergren, who talked about the many problems encountered by his company. Read More

In the latest word in a peculiarly public interchange, Linux leader Linus Torvalds appears inclined to take up Sun Microsystems Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz on his offer for dinner. Last weekend, Torvalds expressed some 'cynical' thoughts about Sun's intentions regarding its open-source Solaris operating system, which in turn led Schwartz to invite Torvalds to dinner to demonstrate Sun's intention of being a team player in the open-source realm, not a parasite...Complete Story

"This is pure speculation by The VAR Guy. But things are getting a little strange over at Dell. It seems that some people who ordered Dell PCs with Ubuntu Linux preinstalled have been told that ship dates have been delayed a bit. "For instance, some people who ordered Ubuntu Linux PCs during the Memorial Day Weekend (May 26-28) were originally told that their systems would likely ship on June 12..." Complete Story

If you are like me, and enjoy serious gaming the only choice of OS is Windows. Now what if you could bask in the aesthetic value of Mac OSX while enjoying all the functionality of Windows? Guess what folks! NOW YOU CAN!! And all for free! I just downloaded the windows theme by the name of flyakiteosx and so far it works great.( Shout out to Dingus9 for recommending ) The only thing that I have found to not function properly is when you have the quickkey program on the bottom it will overlay whatever program is open. Ex. I opened WMP ( windows media player ) and it covered the play/pause/volume controls. Fortunately WMP controls all have shortcut keys =D. So for now I can enjoy the peaceful scheme of MAc OSX.

Well for those of us who are new to Linux, Here is an interesting tip. If you have Linux or any other Os on your PC, or Currently have XP or another flavor of Wendos; beware upgrading to Vista will remove the Bootloader from the MBR. Translation: It will appear that your Linux distro has been deleted.Never fear nerdlings, your distro has not been destroyed. Its just that when Wendows goes through it's installation process it intentionally ignores anything written on the MBR and rewrites a wendows only boot script/whatever. ( In my case it would delete Grub and only alow me to boot into wendows.) To fix this just pop in your favorite distro's livecd and replace your Bootloader using the terminal.

Recently I upgraded my Debian distribution to discover that my ssh logins, and pings would occasionally take over 20 seconds to resolve the connection. As you may note the time on this post is well after 3:00, but I am victorious. You see my problems all started the other day while I was trying to setup a new vps box(the one hosting this site,) every time I would try and connect over ssh it would take about 15 seconds to respond. At first I thought it was the new server, so I sshd to another box, and it went fast. So I naturally I was a bit upset at the thought I had just paid for a server with a slow connection. It wasn't until I mentioned it to reaneyk, who didn't have the same problem, that I realized I was dealing with different beast entirely. Now I began to start testing things out. First I began by trying it from my Macbook, it worked, then my file server, which also worked. Now I figured it was a global problem with my ssh installation on my desktop, but it wasn't, after reinstalling and purging any previous config files I was right back where I started, totally confused. After a few hours of muddling around in /etc with hosts resolve, I decided it was time for irc and some real help. I ended up searching google for hours, testing various different services, programs and finally capturing a ton of packets with Wireshark. Nothing I did gave me any leads as to the cause of my problem. So far I had discovered it was only on the one computer, only effected pinging and ssh to my one server, and to make it even more confusing I wasn't getting any errors and my dns configs where exactly the same as my file servers. I decided to try killing processes one at a time to see if something was interfering with dns traffic, and when I had finished I reran KDM which for some reason locked up. I was almost out of patience and was seriously considering a reinstall at this point. I restarted and at the grub menu I saw the single user entry and was like ahhh what the heck. Booting into su I made the shocking discovery that ssh was fast, Finally progress. I quickly "init"ed into runlevel 2 and saw THE service avahi mdns, Doh how did I miss that. After poking around starting and stopping it I found that it was indeed avahi causing my woes. Apearenly one of the recent upgrades has a small bug that causes avahi to try and resolve an address, and if it cant it just sits there, even though the address would be easly resolved by dns. So until they get it fixed I won't have zeroconf nor be able to ping my Macbook with its bonjour address. Btw this bug could possible rear its ugly head if you install feisty fawn, as it is part of the default installation now.

I just saw this dell is now offering solid state hard drives in two laptop models, and soon in and entire line of computers. 32 gigs of solid state memory? wow nice Article