Tag: update

Twitter Gives the Fail Whale a Break and Updates its Site

Dear people of the world: Stop everything…right now. This is a momentous occasion. Are you sitting down? Well, stand up. Then sit down again. Okay, here it goes: Twitter, the mogul of all things 140 characters, has made an announcement this week. And here it is. They have redesigned their site! Well, it’s not final as…

September 24, 2010
Important Adobe Update Available, But There’s a Catch – You Might Need to Update Manually

It’s only been a few weeks since I wrote my last article about an update that patched 32 critical security holes in Adobe software, but here I am again. Since you’re all my internet buddies, I’d like to let you know that Adobe just released a new patch for their software but it might only…

July 1, 2010
Decrease Fedora Update Time With yum-presto

Installing updates on any operating system can be a time consuming process. Part of the philosophy of a free and open source operating system is the commitment to keeping your system updated with the latest security patches and feature updates. With Fedora systems, I often see 50-100 MB worth of updates per week. Even on…

September 22, 2009
How to Automatically Install the Newest Version of Firefox in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope

It can take quite a while for updated versions of software to make it to Ubuntu’s illustrious software repository (the software must be customized and approved before it can be listed) – which has left Firefox users hanging for months waiting for it to be updated to version 3.5+. Mozilla doesn’t offer the easy-to-use .deb…

September 9, 2009