Sunday, November 26, 2006

This person has come up with a very simple way to reduce traffic jams during your commute. His solution: drive at a slow and steady pace instead of competing with other drivers.


Friday, November 24, 2006

Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu) welcoming OpenSUSE developers

Novell
’s decision to go to great lengths to circumvent the patent framework clearly articulated in the GPL has sent shockwaves through the community. If you are an OpenSUSE developer who is concerned about the long term consequences of this pact, you may be interested in some of the events happening next week as part of the Ubuntu Open Week.

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20 Must Read HOWTOs and Guides for Linux

If your a Linux user who enjoys learning new things, I recommend taking a look at the following 20 must read HOW TOs and Guides I
’ve gathered over the years. These documents are vital to both new and old Linux users.

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The English Wikipedia hit 1.5 million articles today!

"The English language Wikipedia thanks its contributors for creating over 1,500,000 articles!" Congrats, Wikipedia, and here's to another 1.5 mil.!

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Thursday, November 23, 2006

How To Login From an Internet Cafe Without Worrying About Keyloggers

"We tested five shareware or commercial keylogging programs: HomeKeylogger 1.70, GhostKeylogger, KG-BKeylogger, Spytector 1.2.8 and ProBot. None of them captured passwords entered using the trick we describe."

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Linux movement destroys Ballmer's dream

MICROSOFT'S cunning plan to be the ruler of Linux has hit a slight snag.
Its Linux ally Novell is not going along with its plans to force Linux distributors to join its approved partners, pay up or be sued and the Open Sauce community has a counter attack planned...

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How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy

3 WinXP flaws in power-savings options created a situation where Microsoft's silly mistakes have cost the world roughly $25 billion dollars and resulted in the release of 225 million tons of CO2. Um...Oops?

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Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Ultimate Guide to E-mail: 99 Security, Productivity and Communication Tips

Even though 6 billion emails are sent every day, almost no one agrees about simple things like email etiquette, how to organize a note, or whether emails are considered private or not. The 99 tips in this article make up the best in email practices.

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Monday, November 20, 2006

Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days

Learn the basics of C++ in 21 days! Great guide for beginners. Remember, this is just an overview, fully mastering any program languages takes many years. But this is the guide to get you started!

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Sunday, November 19, 2006

If Linux violates Microsoft’s patents, let’s see the proof !

If there is offending code, I think Microsoft should show it and prove it. Why not set up a Web site with a few code snippets that show how Linux violates Windows patents — if such snippets really exist?

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The Rising Star Of Ubuntu

Given the recent Novell+Microsoft, RedHat vs. Oracle, and Sun Java Open Source news, Ubuntu is out there marching to it's own drummer. It is a grassroots effort that seems to be growing. That's a good thing for the Linux and Open Source community.

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Saturday, November 18, 2006

OpenOffice.org Calc adds support for Excel VBA

As an Excel user, you may have looked at OpenOffice.org and found that it doesn't support Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), the Microsoft Office macro language. If you've spent years building hundreds of Excel macros, the fear of losing them all could keep you locked in to Office. If so, it's time to look again; Novell has taken OpenOffice.org's

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Examples of Microsoft stealing source code

With all of the FUD around Microsoft and SCO making wild and unsubstantiated claims regarding Linux, I thought I'd look up how much code Microsoft has stolen themselves. With a simple Google search, I was able to turn up eight different instances in just a few minutes where Microsoft has lost court battles from their code theft.

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Windows user migrating from XP to Ubuntu 6.10

Experiences of an windows user while migrating away from Windows XP.

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Friday, November 17, 2006

Zimbra chases Microsoft with low-cost email

In late 2003, at a coffee shop in Palo Alto, Calif., three friends weary of work at big Silicon Valley companies decided to create an email program. In a weekend they cobbled together a simple prototype. They combed the Web for free software, and in a few months they had assembled more than 40 blocks of free programming into a basic system.

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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Linus Torvalds officially a Hero

According to TIME magazine, Linus Torvalds is one of the the greatest heroes of the last 60 years.

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

10 Ways Women Judge You

"So much subliminal information is conveyed in those first seconds of contact," says Carol Kauffman, Ph.D., a relationship therapist and psychology instructor at Harvard medical school. Okay, so you're on the clock. Make every second count. Below are 10 ways - in rough chronological order - a woman judges your fitness to be her proverbial daddy.

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Ten Job Hunting Myths

The job market looks more promising for this year's college grads, but the perfect opportunity probably won't fall in your lap. Search smart by avoiding these common misconceptions.

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World Statistics Chart Updated in Real Time

"Current Earth Population, Births This Year, Births Today, ect.." Lots of stats updating in front of your eyes.

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Samba Team Asks Novell to Reconsider

The Samba Team disapproves strongly of the actions taken by Novell on November 2nd in their dealings with Microsoft, and have posted their thoughts on the matter.

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Ubuntu Tricks : How to Mount Your Windows Partitons make it read,writable

This is very simple tutorial how to mount your NTFS and FAT partitions in ubuntu and make these Partitons as read and writable

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Give the Gift of Pre-Installed Linux This Year

With Christmas around the corner, you'll be glad to know that you can check out over 100 vendors around the globe who offer desktop and notebook computers with GNU/Linux pre-installed. Put another way, LXer's Pre-Installed Linux Vendor database is now available! All vendors in the list offer reasonably-priced desktops and/or notebooks.

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I am the 447,241,380 richest person in the world!

This website ranks your income against the world population. I make less than $30k per year but am still in the top 7.45% of the world's income bracket.

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Monday, November 13, 2006

Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine

Adobe and Mozilla today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.

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Adobe to make largest ever source code donation to Mozilla

Adobe will contribute source code from its ActionScript Virtual Machine to the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla will host a new open source project, called Tamarin, to accelerate the development of this standards-based approach for creating rich and engaging Web applications.

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GoogleTorrents.com ... search for torrents using google

A new torrent search engine using Google's Custom Search Engine.

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ULTIMATE Online File Converter- 200 File Types- 100MB- FREE

Every major file format: Document formats, Image formats, Music formats, Video formats,
Fast and High Quality - Stored for 24 Hours

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Ten reasons Linux and BSD are vastly superior to Windows - Part II

Last week, I began a countdown of the ten reasons Linux and BSD are far superior to Windows. I received a huge response to the first installment, so without further delay, here's the final four reasons and my official response to some of the comments and criticisms I've received.

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YOU'RE BEING TRACKED in Firefox 2.0 - how to disable 3rd party cookies

Issue was raised in latest Security Now. Firefox always blocked 3rd party cookies, now in 2.0 it removed the option. To fix: about:config in your address bar, change network.cookie.cookieBehavior from 0 to 1. I did this immediately. Also in the mozilla forum thread, link to extension that blocks 3rd party cookies.

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Open Source Earns Legal Victory

The open source software operations of IBM, Red Hat and Novell need not fear prosecution under antitrust laws, a federal appeals court has ruled.

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134 Free Academic Podcasts

These lectures are a great way to keep your mind sharp during your daily commute or while exercising. Some of the lectures lend themselves to this better than others. I'm not sure how much I would get out of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology I while driving in heavy traffic, but I suppose it is free to try.

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Friday, November 10, 2006

Get lost!

Ever get lost, or turned around? Found yourself in unfamiliar territory? Or worse, awakened with just one shoe on? Well, we have something for you. No, not a shoe -- we mean GPS-Enabled Google Maps on the Helio Drift.

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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Review: GnuCash 2.0

GnuCash is a personal and small business accounting package that provides true double-entry accounting, the ability to set up automatic recurring transactions, and simple budgeting. The application does not try to hide the complexities of managing your money from you with pretty screens.

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