It has been about 4 months since I tried running Mozilla’s latest offering of the open source browser. When I did I have to be honest, I didn’t like it. Yeah it was pretty and had some good ideas but I didn’t like it. Why, well for starters it was slow as heck!. Pages took forever to render and it crashed.
It is slowly becoming the classic argument among Unix web developers. Which language is better, Perl or PHP? Having touched way more PHP code than Perl code, I am of course biased. However today I spoke with a die hard advocate of Perl today and he spent about 10 minutes trying to explain to me how fast Perl was, how it could connect to different databases, mod this, mod that, yada yada yada. After hanging up he sent me about 10 different examples of how PHP cannot do the things Perl can do. One of the ones he sent was….
Fireworks, cheerleaders, and a WWF theme are just a few of the things that are different about XFL vs NFL. If you didn’t tune in Saturday night to the XFL then you missed a real treat. The XFL brings us a few new rules to the game of football. I remember that one of the biggest things to get used to were the new sounds and the new “look”. The XFL interviews players right after they make a big play during the game and you can here all of the calls from the line as well as what the coaches say to players. It is a different twist for sure. Another thing that is different are the camera angles. At first I found them a little hard to get used to. If you watch 20 something years of football you get used to the same shots right?
Miester sent us a cool site for all of you Linux fans, The Linux Progress Patch.
A story carried by Cnet and released on Yahoo tells us about the new battle heating up between Intel and Transmeta. Last year Transmeta released the new Crusoe chip which brought us a chip that consumed much less power than today’s chip giving notebooks about 6 hours of battery life. Intel Tuesday released its new chip, PIII 500MHz, which according to Intel is “the lowest-power-consuming PC processor that has ever been built”. Some may remember IBM dropping the Crusoe line of Thinkpads last year due to marketing, testing and other things. Well, it turns out that IBM has adopted Intel’s new chip in the Japanese market and is getting about 5 hours on a single battery. If anyone is going to win this battle it is the consumer.