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• Internet Explorer Continues to Lose Popularity

  …on my site at least. According to my site stats over at Statcounter , IE is down to 70% of my visitors (about an 8% loss in 2 months)…and Firefox commands a pretty respectable 23% of the non IE crowd (with mozilla and netscape commanding almost all the rest). Of course it’s worth mentioning that this trend shouldn’t be viewed as indicative of normal browsing behavior as this site caters to a bit more of a tech-savvy crowd, but it’s still impressive nonetheless. IE7... Posted Mar 24 2005, 02:13 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Community Server, Firefox

• Fedora Core 3 -- Virtual PC

  Hello from Fedora Core 3 (running on VPC)! I should mention that I am a complete linux noob before I continue (I can spell l-i-n-u-x, and that's about it). This isn't my first foray into linux land (I had a round with SuSE 7.0 previously...perhaps 3 years ago?), but it is indeed my first successful one, I never could find drivers for my Voodoo 4 video card for SuSE, so it was basically unusable. Onwards to now... I won't comment on how I feel about Open Source Software (OSS, and linux in particular... Posted Jan 03 2005, 12:17 AM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Firefox, Mono and Linux

• Sick of Spyware? Using Firefox Can Help

  By this point everyone knows that Internet Explorer leaks like a sieve when it comes to letting spyware through. I purposely ran a Spybot scan just before installing Firefox about a month ago to get the junk out before embarking on my nearly month long Firefox journey (review and commentary will be up in a couple of days). I ran a Spybot scan just now, and guess what? No spyware whatsoever. Zip, zilch, nada. I've rarely had a clean scan. Period. Of course I'm a little more cautious than the average... Posted Dec 08 2004, 03:57 PM by Jayson Knight with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Technology and Internet, Opinions, Firefox