Camino is a relatively new web browser designed specifically for the Mac that brings the power of Mozilla’s gecko engine without the process weight and larger memory footprint of either Firefox or Mozilla. Camino emulates much of the Safari user experience in it’s simplicity, but still retains many of Mozilla’s features under the hood. (you can still get at it’s internals with the about:config URL) One of my biggest pet peeves with Safari is it’s broken JavaScript. As a sysadmin, I manage a lot of devices that rely on JavaScript & Java support. While Safari is generally adequate for surfing the web, it’s flaws become apparent when attempting to manage some hardware web interfaces. For this task I would usually open the Mac version of Firefox, but it’s huge memory footprint (compared with Safari) and process weight could bring my humble G4 iMac to its knees if I had more than a couple of apps open. I was discouraged by previous experiences with Camino, but this new 1.0 release looks to be fairly solid.
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Black hole or Dark energy star?
New Scientist News – Three cosmic enigmas, one audacious answer
This article in New Scientist presents an interesting new theory behind the phenomena we currently think of as a black hole. However, this new theory not only matches the external characteristics of black holes, but manages to obey the laws of quantum mechanics. As if that weren’t enough, the predictions made by this new theory suggests that, unlike black holes, such a dark energy star would also emit particles. (which could explain some observations from our own galaxy) Very exciting indeed..
Consumer data protection bill declawed
Groups Slam Data Breach Notification Bill
What started as an effort to address the rising problem of identity theft & corporate carelessness has resulted in a law that does very little to correct the problem. The primary focus, to require corporations to report security breaches, is now little more than lip service as it allows the breached corporation to determine whether or not it’s necessary to report the incident to the public.