The Firefox community has become aware of ‘new-style’ pop-ups that manage to fool various built-in blockers. Here is a tweak that can make your life pop-up-free once again:

• In the address field, type in about:config and press ENTER
• Open a context menu (mouse secondary button) and hit New -> Integer
• Type in privacy.popups.disable_from_plugins at the first prompt
• Type in 2 at the next prompt (value)
• Also find privacy.popups.firstTime in the list and change its value to false

You can now enjoy the Internet without seeing its ugly sides. Also make sure that advertisements are blocked.

The more technologically-inclined keep old computers somewhere around the house. They are emotionally attached to them, most probably. But why not have a little bit of fun?

have the pleasure to have been ranked second in the world for my contributions to MATLAB last month. This equates to my position in July 2004, but exceeds the number of monthly downloads, which was just under 2,000 at the time. To celebrate this occasion, I treated myself to a cup of coffee with two three sugar.

Less than an hour ago, the BBC revealed the list of the UK’s richest people, which is an interesting read.

An overall increase in wealth means that the entry level for the Rich List has risen by 25% to £50m.

Am I the only one to conclude that more money is taken from the bottom to reach the Billionaires?

Nearly every aspect of life has evolved to revolve around computers. Take banking, communication and licensing, for example. With more information drifting on-line, the number of usernames and passwords one has to remember becomes unmanageable for the mind.

Following the concept of the master key, it is vital to retain one master password — a cryptic password that unveils all others. How to turn this idea into practice depends on your operating system and available tools. Consider locking of a file, hiding of records in your PDA or secure on-line memos.

Some major news have just been released:

Jerry Seinfeld announces that he and the cast of Seinfeld plan on making 23 new episodes starting this fall. NBC expects to premier the new episodes in 2006.

indows and Mac users face long procedures of installing and recovering software whenever a computer is bought. This time-consuming process shows the strengths of comprehensive Linux distributions such as SuSE or Fedora.

PC users sometimes assemble a list of programs, each of which needs to be installed in turn. Why not use an image with all the software pre-loaded? Since hard-drive capacity is enormous, redundant bits cannot harm (with the exception of the Windows Registry). Also, one can distribute everything on several machines, without any repeated effort. If this does not illustrate the power of free Open-Source software, what does?