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Firefox is the best web browser in the world. Much much better and safer than Internet Explorer. Firefox offers countless improvements over other web browsers like Tabbed Browsing, Popup Blocking and Smarter Search. It’s also fully compliant with all web standards (like XHTML, CSS, Javascript etc.)

Get it here !

Noulakaz.net has been upgraded today to WordPress as a replacement to Movabletype for the weblog.

There are two main reasons why this is so :

• Movabletype, being used a lot, is frequently targetted by countless spammers and I was becoming bored of having to delete spam comments every day from my blog. It’s possible to use Movabletype 3.x to solve part of this problem but the licensing issues bothered me. So I went for WordPress which is a 100% open source software.
• WordPress claimed to be able to import all my Movabletype setup automatically. And effectively, all (well, most) configuration, all posts and all comments were imported in no time.

WordPress rocks !

I’ve moved to udev now in my Gentoo Linux computer.

udev is a modern replacement for devfs which was itself a replacement of a static /dev directory.

In essence, udev is a userspace application using the hotplugging capabilities of the Linux kernel which enables /dev to reside in RAM and contain ONLY existing devices.

It saves in disk space and in memory consumption. And it’s soooo nice to see only the real devices on the computer.

Configuration for Gentoo was a breeze (and it worked the first time around) using this detailed instructions.

Make the jump :-)