[Geek] The state of the PC processor market

I've had a surprisingly popular response to techie pieces of mine in the past,  so once again, I'm posting a piece from CIX that grew a little bit longer than I intended. To nearly 1,400 words, in fact.

( In which is explained Intel versus non-Intel, 64-bit and multicore chips and more... )

[Geek] The story of Mozilla and Firefox and why you should use it

Oops, I did it again.

A potted explanation of the history of the Mozilla browser, how it came about and what has become of it - and which way it's heading. 1,700 words.
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