the Blog report
It has been an eventfull week on the HSW Tech Blog. Mozilla’s newest incarnation of it’s popular Firefox browser was released to the public near 2:00 PM EST after some problems with the main download site on Tues June 17. Despite some plugins no longer working, and some critisim of the delays to the official launch, the browser was fairly well recieved with over 8 million downloads in 24 hours.
The Linux community released Wine 1.0 which promises to allow NIX community the capability of running Windows native software on their OS of choice. With any luck this will help to increase competition with microsoft OS’s benefiting end users across the board. Also covered was the powerfull STRACE debugging utility. This utility “traces, follows, and displays the system calls made by any program.” It was even rumored to be able to make a pot of coffee, which as most techies will attest is something of a holy grail of computing.
Certainly not to be overlooked was a nice write up on the eventual retiring of IP 4 for IP 6 slated for as early as 2010. This would provide capabilities for an almost limitless addressing scheme, with the downside of those addresses being quite long and daunting for those of us who are used to IP 4.
Lastly, are a few write ups for windows users. Its rumored that we could see the next version of Microsoft’s desktop OS, Windows 7, as early as 18 months from now. The new version is supposed to include support for multi-touch applications, and a similar to Mac OS X dock. Also covered is how to upgrade your windows media player to support playing DVD’s and non native file formats using the K-lite Codec pack. Lastly ever important tips on securing your windows OS using free tools that are easy to obtain and install.
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