Slashdot | Longhorn’s Offical Name is Windows Vista

I like it.

Slashdot | Longhorn’s Offical Name is Windows Vista
Posted by Zonk on Friday July 22, @08:15AM
from the you-have-chosen-wisely dept.
UnkleAsdf writes “The folks at Redmond have long pointed to the user interface of the next generation Windows release as one of its major selling points. Now, it appears Microsoft has chosen an official name for Longhorn with just that in mind. Enter: Windows Vista. Microsoft is expected to make an official announcement early Friday morning.” From the article: “Microsoft has also registered domains to go along with the newly christened Windows, including windowsvista.com. The domains were registered in late March, indicating the company made the decision even before WinHEC gave developers their first taste of Longhorn in over a year.”

Woot : Are You RSS?

You all know that I like to hawk on the RSS goodness. Someone else does it for a change:

Woot : Are You RSS?
We know thousands of you are already following Woot’s adventures through our RSS feed. But if you think RSS is just a reader that keeps you updated on your favorite blogs, you’re missing a very fast, very cool boat, like a yacht with free margaritas and an onboard video arcade. As seen on Slashdot, RSS marketer Sharon Housley is already proclaiming that despite their role in its origins, blogs are not the future of RSS. RSS is quickly becoming The Little Syndication Format That Could, potentially as useful and universal as the web itself.

NewsForge | Network monitoring with ngrep

Another fantastic Linux utility: ngrep.

NewsForge | Network monitoring with ngrep
Constant monitoring and troubleshooting are key to maintaining a network’s availability. With ngrep, you can analyze network traffic in a manner similar to that of other network sniffers. However, unlike its brethern, ngrep can match regular expressions within the network packet payloads. By using its advanced string matching capabilities, ngrep can look for packets on specified ports and assist in tracking the usernames and passwords zipping off the network, as well as all Telnet attempts to the server.

NewsForge | Tips for buying a Linux-compatible laptop

This article is specifically targeted at Linux Users, but most of the concepts apply to all laptop buyers. This guy knows what he’s talking about.

NewsForge | Tips for buying a Linux-compatible laptop
But if you’re going to buy a new laptop, the next step is to prevent yourself from over-buying. When I started looking at new computers, I immediately gravitated toward expensive, high-powered AMD64-based systems, because that’s what I use at work. High-powered systems are nice to have, but they’re painful to buy, with prices ranging from $1,200 to $3,000. I thought this was reasonable at first because I hadn’t shopped for a laptop computer in almost five years. Today you have far more manufacturers and CPU choices. You can buy a more than competent laptop for less than $1,000 and get the same amount of work done as you would with a system that costs twice as much (assuming normal desktop-related work tasks, not gaming or scientific visualization).

Mozilla: IE7 will boost Firefox take-up - ZDNet UK News

Mozilla: IE7 will boost Firefox take-up - ZDNet UK News
Firefox 1.1, which is due for release this month, will include a range of features to encourage companies to migrate to the open source browser, including an auto-update and preference locking feature.

The auto-update system, which Dotzler described as a “world-class update system”, will allow users to automatically install patches and updates, rather than needing to re-install Firefox each time an update is released. Version 1.1 will also include improved tools to lock-down browser preferences, he said.