Being a fellow that leaves his browsers open with about 50+ tabs I’ve decided that I’m tired of some of the problems with Firefox 2.0, most notably the memory leaks. I refuse to go back to IE, so I’ve been trying the nightly Firefox builds, dubbed “Minefield.” Sure, some things don’t work quite right sometimes (I am without a Flash plugin, oh no![0]), but then again some of the things I hate about 2.0 have gone away. The coolest thing about Minefield is that the auto-updater works for new nightly builds, too. Every couple of days I get a window asking me to install the latest Minefield 3.0a5pre. Sweet! Check it out for yourself if you’re feeling adventurous.[1] [0] I …

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IBM announced a bunch of stuff yesterday: 1) IBM announced their POWER6 CPUs, with clock speeds up to 4.2 GHz. Sweet. These machines will run AIX, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The mainframe folks at IBM have been working on getting the open systems outfitted with a lot of the technology that makes mainframes so reliable, and all that work is paying off. 2) They announced AIX 6, which will feature Solaris Zone-like functionality, called “Workload Partitions,” among a number of incremental updates to support the new hardware. They are also going to do an open beta. Looks like they are learning from Sun. 3) IBM announced their “Live Partition Mobility” where you can …

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