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{ Monthly Archives } December 2005

Firefox versus Opera Memory

Windows Task Manager Screenshot showing the memory consumption of Opera and Firefox (highlighted in yellow).
I got into a recent email arugument with a friend of mine between the memory resources between Firefox and Opera. Well, here is my Winodw Task Manager showing both running processes and the memory that they are occupying. Read [...]

Too Cool For IE

This is by no means a Microsoft or Internet Explorer bashing post. But, I am in the mood for ranting a little bit, so it might come across as an anti-Redmond.
You may have noticed, then again, you may have not noticed, that I put the ever-so-popular “Too Cool For IE” image at the bottom-right [...]

Use Thunderbird To Track Firefox 2.0

Mozilla has released the roadmap for Firefox 2.0.  The tentative scheduled release date is June 27, 2006.  Of course, we all know that this date will be pushed back probably at least a month if not more.  But, you can see their scheduled plans day by day until they release the final version.
First, you need [...]

GNUMP3- A Free Multi-Platform Audio/Video Streamer

I just setup a new audio/video streamer using GNUMP3. Thanks to a friend of mine who showed it off.
GNUMP3 uses the http protocol on a different port number to serve all of your compressed audio files. It will host MP3, Ogg Vorbis and movie files which are available for download or streaming. [...]

New Firefox Extension- I Can’t Wait

A new extension from Firefox will soon be available that takes full advantage of peer-to-peer… legally. The extension will be called AllPeers. AllPeers will utilize Bittorrent as the default P2P engine, with the ability for you to setup users, much like an IM client.  Sharing photos, songs, files, etc. will be a snap.  [...]

My Personal Blog Down and Minor Changes to PThree

At then end of the year, I brought down my personal blog, toponcefamily.com. It came at much discussion and thought, and the concluding result was to take it down. Mainly, however, for one serious reason. ASP.NET overhead. On average, .NET consumed 50-100MB of RAM depending on server load and other variables. [...]

Unofficial Ubuntu Documentation

Being an avid Ubuntu Linux user, I have been spending a great deal of time on the forums. Generally, I hang out there to help people where I can, and try to spend little time asking questions. I am pretty confident that someone has had my problem already, so why bother asking the [...]

Prince Passes Acid2

Fourth place just crossed the finish line, and it looks like it isn’t even a browser.
Prince 5.1 was released yesterday making it the fourth after Safari, Konqueror and iCab to pass Acid2 beating out Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.
See the news here.