Portable Firefox !

I am hoping that you have heard of firefox - the newest browser to hit the show. I have been using it for about a few months now and i am a happy man ! I've have to spend several hours a day cleaning up spywares (i use spybot) from my PC in the days of Internet explorer. I then found firefox (for those of you who've heard of netscape - firefox was created from ground up by the makers of netscape), and a couple of days later - was sold (apparently i am not the only one). If this is the first time you have heard of firefox, i encourage you to visit the firefox site.

If your main worry is about settings and bookmarks (favourites) that are already present in internet explorer - no fears - you will find that they have appeared in firefox as well. For more details on how to switch read this or read the step-by-step tutorial to firefox.

After having used firefox for a couple of months, i have noticed that my spyware problems have virtually disappeared. I do, occasionally, run into a site that looks ugly in it because the site insists that its been designed for internet explorer. I conveniently choose to overlook these sites or if nessecary - reluctantly open them in internet explorer.

Having said that, here's this innovative project that aims to get firefox to the portable world. For someone like me who carries everything in a flash drive (a small portable storage thing which can be attached to the USB port of your computer and be used to carry a substantial amount of data in it), i received a pleasant shock when i read that firefox can now be carried and run off one !! check out - Portable Firefox !

Xen - Open Source Alternative to VMware

We will soon get to see virtualization of the linux environment, using XEN according to this art icle.

Virtualization, in simpler terms, would allow one to run Linux inside any other operating system like Windows as if it were another program. The running copy of linux, would however, not notice the difference. This is typically used for testing on more than one operating systems. Today VMware is the leader in this area.