A few tips that may help you out with your Firefox browsing experience. To start off with they recommend that you back up your Firefox profile before doing any edits. On a Windows machine your profile would be under
\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Mozilla \Firefox\Profiles\(profileID).default\
Below are some of the changes that they suggest will make pages load faster. To make these changes after backing up your profile navigate to about:config in your Firefox browser.

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Biodiversity, science communities unite behind epic effort to promote biodiversity, document all 1.8 million named species on planet

Scientists are starting an effort to document the entire known world’s living creatures. The effort is thought to take about 10 years. Every living thing will have it’s own page where others from the scientific community could edit and constantly update information. This new project would also help expedite the process of documenting newly discovered species. All this is possible due to 12.5 million dollars in grants from various organizations.

Source: Eurekalert.org

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Vmware announced that it’s newest iteration of it’s staple product Vmware Workstation will be released on Wednesday May 9, 2007. It also seems that it will support Windows Vista as either a host OS or a guest OS. Other important features being added.

Quoted from ITWorld

Workstation 6 supports the new Vista OS from Microsoft Corp. as a guest or host OS. It also displays an image on multiple monitors, which is important for users in financial services, computer-aided design and other environments. Workstation 6 also features the previously announced ACE Option Pack, which allows a user to store a virtual machine setup on a portable device, such as a USB drive, to transfer to another computer…

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It seems that AOL, which has sent me many a wonderful coaster for cold beverages, doesn’t really care about the security of they user base. As we all know AOL users aren’t known for their computer prowess and don’t need any more help giving away personal information. It’s been reported that AOL is truncating passwords to 8 characters even if a stronger 16 character password is used. This makes a brute force password attack much simpler for attackers. Although probably the easiest way to get AOL passwords is to simply ask the user for it in a crudely crafted email phish. Just because it looks like it comes from billing@aol.com doesn’t mean you should give them your first-born child if they ask for it.

Source: ITWire

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