One of the main reasons that, around the year 2000, I started looking for an operating system that could replace Windows on my PCs — and I began using Linux full-time instead of Windows in 2006 — was that I was sick and tired of Windows’ swiss cheese-like security and the constant need to learn about and deal with all of its security vulnerabilities.

Now here we are, ten years after I started looking [more...]

For years, I created and maintained this entire Web site through a 56K (actually 40K) dial-up Internet connection.

Many times, I sat up for hours overnight, waiting for a few hundred edited pages to upload to my out-of-state Web server; or for an ISO image to download so that I could [more...]

It’s a very, very significant improvement.

Google’s Chrome browser has had it since its first release.

But Firefox has never had it. [more...]

I keep a backup of my main PC’s completely configured / and /home partitions, to make it easy to restore one or both after a catastrophic event or user error.

I haven’t experienced a catastrophic event in Linux yet, but a few different times in my early Linux days, [more...]

With everything that we’ve learned over the years about its never-ending list of serious security vulnerabilities, I find it really hard to believe that anyone would choose to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Web browser any more.

Personally, I switched to Mozilla’s much-more-secure, free and open-source Firefox browser — first in Windows, and then in Linux — on the [more...]