The first Firefox 3 release candidate has been released and is now available for download. This tantalizing taste of Firefox 3 is stable enough for widespread use, but there are still a few more bugs that have to be resolved before the official release.

There are few noticeable differences between beta 5 and release candidate 1. The browser has gotten a bit of added polish, including bug fixes and minor artwork improvements. This release is robust enough for day-to-day use and is ideal…

Linus Torvalds tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.

This video was put together by the folks at the Computer History Museum who kindly gave us permission to share this video with Linux Journal readers. http://www.computerhistory.org __________________________ Carlie Fairchild is the publisher of…

A list of 10 websites that are either useful or entertaining. Personal favorites: Cooking for Engineers (self-explanatory), thesixtyone (safari for music junkies), and Rentometer (save money on rent).

If you are one of the 500 million worldwide who access the Internet at a cybercafe, then Jooce might be for you. Think of Jooce as a cool platform which allows you to bring your entire digital life with you wherever you go on whatever computer you…

Last summer, a local San Diego CBS affiliate television station, News 8, aired a story about a website called BumFinder.com. The website solicited users who would spot people who appeared to be homeless and plug in their location coordinates using a Google Map. The station interviewed San Diego’s most famous homeless advocate, Father Joe Carroll…

Why are we allowing unreasonable people to demand that we spend money to disturb the seal colony that so many people enjoy visiting?

Firefox 3 RC1 has just been released by mozilla

The address bar drop down has also had some changes in the latest release. I don’t know if the links were blue before, green maybe. It does look a lot cleaner now. Update 4: Changed the download link to Mozilla’s blog posting,…

Worried about someone breaking into your house in your absence? Or just need to keep a tab on who enters your room while you are away? Well, all you need is a webcam, linux & a twitter account. And you are set for real time updates through twitter about all that goes on at your abode behind your back (can even receive a text msg/sms on your phone

2.) Setup your motion configuration file. (Usually at /etc/motion/motion.conf). There are quite a lot of options available. You might want to tweak it a lot according to ur needs later on but the most important ones that you can begin…

After creating a version of its front page reachable via IPv6 two months ago, Google is now officially committing to the new protocol.

So far, big Internet destinations that have enabled IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol, have been far and few between. This changed two months ago, as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), inventors of IPv6, prepared for a…

Mobile phones are steadily becoming the only phone in American households, according to a new study. The trend, however, signifies both positive and negative changes on the horizon.

A number of demographic statistics shed light on exactly who is leaving traditional landlines behind. The largest percentage (56.9) are adults living with unrelated roommates, though adults renting their home (30.9 percent) were…

This is a short article about the makeover plans for facebook. Quite an interesting read.

"People are starting to feel that Facebook is quickly becoming like MySpace," says Adam Ostrow, editor-in-chief of Mashable.com, an online social networking news site. He's referring to the fact that News Corp.'s…

Guinness World Records has declared the GEN H-4 to be the world’s smallest one-man helicopter. Now the inventor of the GEN H-4, 75-year-old Japanese inventor Gennai Yanagisawa, will demonstrate the chipper chopper in the Italian hometown of famed aeronautical pioneer and “Renaissance Man” Leonardo da Vinci.

Yanagisawa's inspiration: da Vinci's 1493 ornithopterIndeed, Leonardo's famous notebook drawings from 1493 show an "ornithopter" with a screw-like rotor. Like da Vinci's pioneering design,…

Looking for the ultimate high-def experience? With these outstanding components, you can build the HD computer of your dreams

Pick a case that will look good on your desk or as part of your home entertainment center. Many home-theater cases include displays for identifying the name of a song that's playing and even for navigating media: in a word, slick. I chose…

Bournemouth has become the first town in the UK to get super-fast internet connections - via the sewerage system. More than 88,000 homes and businesses in the Dorset town will benefit from internet speeds up to 100Mbps under the scheme, considerably faster than consumer broadband speeds on the market.

He added: “Many households and broadband customers in the UK have insufficient connectivity bandwidths because they are attached to legacy networks deployed in the 20th Century that just can't cope with demand.”

The MPAA has asked a Swedish court for $15.4 million in damages from The Pirate Bay. Peter Sunde, the torrent tracker's fearless captain, says that the claims are bogus.

The unflappable Sunde isn't impressed with the claims. He told Swedish newspaper SvD that the figure is a fabrication and that the content industry should be thanking him instead of attempting to sue him. "We might be able to pay…

Indian officials have accused China of methodically attacking the country’s servers for the past 18 months. Detecting attacks, however, is one thing?proving they originated from the desks of government-sponsored Chinese hackers is quite another.

The degree to which the Chinese government is actually involved in these attacks is still an open question, The Times' rhetoric notwithstanding. A continuing series of sophisticated and methodical assaults is no longer proof of another…