If You Want to be Rich: First, Stop Being So Frightened

Felix Dennis, publishing tycoon, has written a guide to becoming a multi-millionaire. All you need is thick skin, cunning - and a work ethic. I am convinced that fear of failing in the eyes of the world is the single biggest impediment to amassing wealth. Trust me on this. Consider carefully this shortlist of what it will take...

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MAJOR Google Talk UPDATE! With Voicemail+Music status+File transfer

Finally Google Talk with voicemail, file transfer capabilities and show what music track you are playing in your client!!!

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WINE Version 0.9.18 Released: Better Game Support

WineHQ has just announced the release of WINE v0.9.18. In this release they've got better Direct3D and memory management fixes. Word from Linux-Gamers is that you should be able to play WOW and HL2 with little tweaking!

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Dreamweaver Killer: Cross Platform Open Source (Javascript, HTML, CSS) IDE

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features: Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure Error and warning notification.

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Lots of New Secret Google Services Uncovered

Accounts created from within sandbox.google.com are not "real" Google Accounts - the subdomain and associated accounts are used for testing new or experimental Google services. I managed to find and add the following services to my "sandbox" Google Account - all of which aren't currently available to add to your "real" Google Account.

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Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 Alpha 1 Released

Thunderbird 2A1 has some great new features!

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Opera reveals version 10 vision - CNET News.com

"Hot on the heels of version 9's release, the browser company gives a preview of its plans for the next incarnation. "

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Top five things Microsoft can learn from Linux

Last week, SJVN listed the top five things Linux can learn from Microsoft. Well, it's a two-way street. Here's SJVN's list of the top five things that Microsoft could learn from Linux.

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Flash Player 9 Heading To Linux

Adobe developer Mike Melanson has been tracking the development progress of Flash Player 9 for Linux users. A recent post on his Penguin.SWF blog listed the APIs being used in this version of the software.

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MAJOR Google Talk UPDATE! With Voicemail+Music status+File transfer

Finally Google Talk with voicemail, file transfer capabilities and show what music track you are playing in your client!!!

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Google launches 'Google Help'

"Those of us in user support had a pet peeve: there was no single place that held all of Google's help information at your fingertips. So we decided to build one -- and now you can visit Google Help to find tips, tricks, and troubleshooting solutions for just about every Google product and service."

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25 of the best extensions for Firefox - Have It Your Way!

The following is a list of the best 25 extensions for Firefox. They have been classified into three board categories: those that add additional enhancements to the browser and improve a user's experience, those that add additional enhancements to certain web sites, and ...

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Collection of Interesting Google Links

A collection of some interesting and strange google links that most people probably have not seen. Some are fun and some interesting.

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Huge Collection of Programming and Computer Cheatsheets!

This website contains a large collection of quick reference materials ranging from HTML and CSS to Python and Perl. All of the links are up to date and all of the cheatsheets are free to download.

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Towards one laptop per child

Countries which will initially receive the laptops are China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria and Thailand... The $100-laptops, which are designed for rough usage, will be Linux-based and have a 500 MHz processor, a 128MB of DRAM, and a 500MB flash memory.

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Experiencing déjà vu? Here's why

Researchers believe they have found a key insight into d
éjà vu, the eerie sensation of seeing something that has already been experienced. Experiments suggest that déjà vu can be triggered independently, without a real memory to prompt it.

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VMware slams XenSource-Microsoft deal

VMware has slammed Microsoft's tie-up with open source virtualisation developer XenSource, announced earlier this week, calling it a "one-way street," and accusing XenSource of betraying its open source roots.

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Dual-booting Windows and Linux the easy way (Linux.com videos)

An excellent step-by-step videos-based guide. There is no longer a reason to have any machine in the house/office which is Windows-only.

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India's biggest life insurer opts for Linux

All of LIC's 2,048 branches, 100 divisional offices, seven zonal offices, head office and subsidiary offices will be covered by the deployment. Along with this all of LIC's desktops will also simultaneously be converted to Linux. Approximately 60,000 users and five to six thousand servers will migrate to RHEL.

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Companies selling preinstalled Linux and no-OS

I am putting together a list of companies that sell pre-installed Linux and no-OS computers.

It is aimed at the lower priced desktops and notebook/laptops.


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AMD Throws Out Quad-Core Challenge To Intel

AMD says that it will release true quad-core processors by mid-2007, distinguishing the chips from packaged two dual core design that Intel has announced will be released this year. AMD's quad-core product will differ from the Intel offering because it will four distinct processors on a single die rather than two dual-cores packaged together.

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AMD Throws Out Quad-Core Challenge To Intel

AMD says that it will release true quad-core processors by mid-2007, distinguishing the chips from packaged two dual core design that Intel has announced will be released this year. AMD's quad-core product will differ from the Intel offering because it will four distinct processors on a single die rather than two dual-cores packaged together.

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Debian 'etch' Release Update

There is an update for the next Debian release plan. According to Marc Brockschmidt Etch will carry 4.0 as version number and should be released on December 4, 2006. "Please note that as of now, RC bugs and problematic transitions are our main concern. There has been progress, but we still need to lower the number of release critical bugs further

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Joe's Goals- Free Online Goal Tracking

free online goal tracking. exactly what it says. very easy to use. i love it. =)

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"Why do people keep putting important data in spreadsheets?"

FTA - "stupid users are putting important data into spreadsheets and running their businesses with them. Oh, those stupid lazy users, if only they'd learn to put their data into normal form and enjoy all the benefits of a relational database."


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Croatian government adopts free software policy

The Croatian government has decided to adopt a free software policy and move entirely to Open Source. Proprietary software leads to too much dependence on suppliers, which can damage the market competition..OSS makes the government's business more transparent, it will save tax payers huge amounts of cash and strengthen domestic industry.

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Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever.

Frustrated that Skype doesn't allow free international calls from international locations? Gizmo does, free! You can even buy a Call in line for $3 a month so your friend can call you from their landline. Available to Window, Mac, and Linux users!

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New Google Video Feature: Link within a Video

Now you can email links to specific points inside a video! All you have to do is add the time you'd like to share to the end of a video's URL. We support hours (h), minutes (m), and seconds (s).

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French Linux-powered robots? Oui!

A French start-up is creating an autonomous, easily programmable, household service robot. The walking, talking, WiFi-enabled bot will stand nearly two feet tall, will move with 23 degrees of freedom.

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VMware slams XenSource-Microsoft deal

VMware has slammed Microsoft's tie-up with open source virtualization developer XenSource, announced earlier this week, calling it a "one-way street," and accusing XenSource of betraying its open source roots.

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Top 100 Digg Users Control 56% of Digg's HomePage Content

When folks think of Digg, they're often misled into believing that the content seen on the homepage is representative of what a wide base of Internet users think is news-worthy and important. The numbers tell a different story - that of all stories that make it to the front page of Digg, more than 20% come from a select group of 20 users.

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Speech Recognition for Linux

Wizzard Software Releases WizzScribe SI For Linux - Revolutionizes Server-Based Speech Recognition By Eliminating Training

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Ubuntu 6.06 Is Current Desktop Linux Champ

Review: The distro's usability and active community earn it high marks; its long-term support will appeal to businesses.

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New Vista build looking more and more like Mac OS X

Mac users can stop being smug now. The Vista review screenshots show Vista Build 5472 incorporating a lot of OS X-like features. It also ditched various irritating user prompts, and made the whole thing run fast. The one thing Apple does still have dominance in is media -- the article basically says the Vista Media Center is still buggy.

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ABC Does Firefox Extentions

"Feast your eyes on the following collection of free tools, ad-blockers, performance tuners, and tabbed-browsing enhancers. The basic browser works fine by itself; add some of these and you can truly harness the Internet's power."

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Freeswitch: The New Open-Source Telco Switch

The project is sure to grab the eye of major equipment vendors who have been looking for sometime at an open-source carrier-grade switch. IBM demonstrated a fault-tolerant version of the Asterisk open-source IP PBX last year.

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Google Not A "One Trick Pony" Search

Google Tips and Tricks. Nice concise listing of the google operators. For example a google search for "1 mile in feet" will return "5 280 feet", or "safesearch: sex education" will omit adult oriented sites.

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Which Browser is King? Firefox 2, IE 7, or Opera 9?

Firefox, Microsoft, and Opera have all come out with new browser version in the past couple of months. Which upgrade is the most significant? And which browser has the features and usability you're looking for?

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Google Exec Challenges Berners-Lee

"A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence."

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Google's unknown artist has huge following

The 28-year-old webmaster designs the whimsical logos that decorate Google.com's otherwise Spartan Web site on special occasions.

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Open source in the national interest

Now if you're a CIO tasked with saving money and resources for a large or small enterprise, wouldn't it seem prudent to follow the lead of an organization tasked with saving taxpayers' money and lives? Yeah. Me, too.

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Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system--

Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system--
so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs' Analyst's
Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux
desktop distributions.

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Is your Windows systems slow to log-off or shutdown?

Microsoft has a utility called UPHClean which helps unload the user session quickly and completely at log-off or shutdown. I've tried it and it's significantly reduced the amount of time it takes to shutdown my laptop at the end of the day.

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Instructions to install NTFS-3G in Ubuntu Dapper

Brief tutorial on installing the new NTFS-3G in Ubuntu Dapper. NTFS-3G allows Linux users to read and write to NTFS drives

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Novell ships Suse Linux 10

Novel has unveiled Suse Linux Enterprise 10 the world's first major Linux distribution to offer support the Xen open source virtualization technology.

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Comcast Censors ABC's Nightline

Think there's no reason for Congress to pass net neutrality laws? Consider this: Comcast recently censored ABC's Nightline on its Comcast Broadband TV service by deleting the part of the broadcast that said a Comcast technician was sleeping on a customer's couch instead of installing residential broadband.

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Trick : Cheapest broadband, DSL and Cable internet.

Articles tells us about a cool way to get the cheapest broadband access. At around $10 a month .. year after year.

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Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course by Sun Microsystems

A free 10-week "AJAX Programming" online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and toolkits....

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275 Excellent Free Website Templates

Site also includes 60 free logo templates, 63 free banner templates, 84 free newsletter templates, website arrows, abstract images, and much more. Fantastic resource.

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Google Music Search!

I was Googling for an artist and noticed a separate sub-search section for just music. It's pretty cool if you haven't seen it yet. Has: artist info, album info, reviews, and lyrics (most of the time). Try it out!

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5 Tools To Bulletproof Firefox

Here are five essential tools for securing Firefox by disabling JavaScript and Flash, sniffing out suspicious sites, foiling phishing, preventing peeks at private data, and preparing powerful passwords.

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Linux Pre-installed on a AMD 64-bit Based System for $300

Technalign has said that they have partnered with Britt Systems in Florida to provide a 64-bit AMD 2800+ computer for under $300.00.

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Emurse : Create and Track Your Resumes

When finding your perfect career, don't leave the most important parts up to chance. Writing a great resume and keeping it up to date is essential. Getting your foot in the door requires an organized approach and maybe even a little bit of networking. Wouldn't it be swell if you could do that all from one place?

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Free Linux Disks (not Ubuntu)

TheLinuxStore.ca has started a new project. A project that will give away free Linux disks of your favorite distribution (SUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Gentoo, Debian, Knoppix). Have a look, give feedback, donate to the cause, request a disk.

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Even Shorter Sudoku Solver - In Python

The current shortest Python sudoku solver program is 178 bytes long and fits on four lines with no line longer than 80 chars.

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How to make ice that sinks

Ice is supposed to float, but with a little heavy water, you can make cubes that sink. You won't want to make much (it costs about $15 a cube), but you can probably make your costs back with the bets you will win.


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List of Books Banned by the Catholic Church

This is a huge list of books banned by the Catholic church; in case any of you heretics wanted to start a reading list.

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Hack almost any Nokia cell phone

This site will give you the codes to unlock your Nokia cell phone, plain, fast and simple.

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Computers Outperforming Investors

Many mutual funds that make their trades based on the recommendations of a proprietary computer model, known as quantitative or quant funds, have outperformed their benchmarks in the last three years. And investors have noticed.

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eWEEK Labs Bakeoff: Linux Versus .Net Stacks

Talk about your Romeo and Juliet: Neither the open-source nor the Windows communities seem to be able to accept a marriage of open-source server components and Windows operating systems.

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Unnamed Math Program 0.8.4

Ump is a program in which all sorts of calculations can be done, from the simplest to the more advanced. It handles complex numbers and matrices of those.

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Lotus Notes tuned for Linux

IBM plans to unveil on Monday a version of its Lotus Notes desktop collaboration software for Linux.

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Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide

An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting

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HOW TO: Record Videos Of Your Desktop

Have you ever wanted to take a video of your sleek desktop, with your customised icons, window manager, GKrellM, and whatnot? Or make a video of cool XGL effects? Or a video tutorial to teach a few friends how to use a certain application? If you have, then this tutorial is for you.

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12 Web 2.0 StartUp Gems - Useful Services for Free

A wide range of google AJAX / Web 2.0 Services offered by innovative Start Ups
Will be fascinating to watch how they progress

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Move an Entire File System on a Live Unix System

Copying a live file system can be risky, especially if there are open files. You should also be careful to ensure that you don't accidentally overwrite a partition, or existing files, with the files you are trying to copy. With some careful thought, you can effectively migrate files reliably to take advantage of more space, even on a live system.

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Instantly Start Your Operating System

Forget Live CDs! Check of Linux Bios. When you start your PC, you have an OS running. You might have seen a Bios that's aware of your mouse. That's nothing. You can run Firefox from the Bios. Software to flash your Bios at this page. Instant On is here today.

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Massachusetts holding tight to OpenDocument

State is sticking to its plan to standardize on OpenDocument, says the incoming CIO, describing the move as irreversible.

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The best way to learn Linux online!

I have been using this for the past week and it is by far the best way I've found to learn Linux. There are "courses" and "exams" that you can skim through or take full advantage of. If you want to learn Linux and have no idea where to begin, I suggest you start here.

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Installing your own webserver, and why you'd want to

A great tutorial on installing an Apache (and all the trimmings) webserver on your own computer, and what benefits it brings. It's designed for people who wouldn't normally consider doing it, and wouldn't know where to start - It's great for Digg's new non-geek audience!

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How to concentrate on writing

Professional writer gives ten tips to improve concentration and get the copy written. Would work for other forms of writing and brain-intensive work too, such as coding.

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New Venture of FireFox Creator: A Firefox PC Operating System?

If you had a development cycle for a Firefox OS, and you had 10 percent of the computers in the world going out with Fire OS on it, then we would see some improvements in this corporation in Redmond.

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Amazing clone of Basecamp, 100% free

activeCollab is here to provide free alternative to Basecamp, great service developed by 37signals

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Wikipedia founder launches political site

"Wikipedia founder Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection."

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Apple ranks No.2 on PC buyer survey

Apple is expected to make major inroads in the PC market this back-to-school season, according to one report.

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Google Video Secret Categories

Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.

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An Openoffice.org thesaurus for Ubuntu 6.06 and Debian Sarge

Actually, this is a Debian Package that works well on my 6.06 desktop. I downloaded it and it installed in a few second. Just another development in moving Openoffice.org further into the mainstream for all users and especially those seeking industrial strength.

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New Web Based Operating System Built as a Science Experiment

Experimental "Web operating system" that a small team at MIT created. YouOS is an online platform with a window-based, graphical user interface.

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Find out where your senator stands on Net Neutrality

Expands on the old list somewhere and tells you what to say to your senator, etc. Great!

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New Internet Tech 153,000 Times Faster Than Modem

A new data transfer protocol for the Internet fast enough to download a full-length DVD movie in less than five seconds, the California Institute of Technology said today.
The protocol is called FAST, standing for Fast Active queue management Scalable Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

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Want to learn Chinese, China wants to teach you

"China launched a Web site, www.linese.com, on Saturday offering free Chinese lessons and materials to promote the study and use of the language abroad."

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Real-Time Eye Tracking

"For those who want to build their own real-time eye tracking system, downoad the open-source code here." Check out the video.

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Nokia Selected as Primary Provider of Free WiFi in NYC Parks

"Nokia has been selected as the primary provider for mobile services in the free WiFi networks in New York City parks. Parks include Central Park, Union Square Park and Corona Flushing Meadows and will feature the network infrastructure owned and managed by WiFi Salon."

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Google Video Secret Categories

Hidden categories have been found by modifying the query string that Google Video doesn't list anywhere on its site. Publishers are given 38 categories to select from to add their movie. Now you can search through those 38 categories. Also found was the "movers and shakers" by country.

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Negroponte: $100 laptops due next year

...One Laptop Per Child initiative -- which
aims to produce a $100 laptop computer for distribution to children in
developing countries -- features a hand crank that generates the two
watts of power the machine needs to operate. It uses a Wi-Fi mesh to
connect to the Internet, and runs open-source software (Linux).

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Dvorak predicts Microsoft's iPod Killer to be flop

"We saw this coming a mile away. Better than iPOD? That
�s not the key. The key is to be �hotter� and �cooler� than iPOD. No easy chore. Microsoft is not up to this challenge. Go for the portable gaming device, not this!"

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The Ultimate Do-It-Yourself Linux Box

Start with the ultimate AMD64 motherboard and build on it to create a masterpiece of your own... Linux syle!

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Google: A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor

Google is as much about infrastructure as it is about the search engine.

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Ubuntu Gamers Arena

Latest drivers list , latest games , all for Ubuntu

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Toyota Homeâ??building 21st century comfort and luxury into houses in Japan

"Concentrating the knowledge and technology of the Toyota Group to the housing business, Toyota's house making is based on the "Skeleton & Infill" approach. Based on careful consideration of customer lifestyles, three different structures have been developed for the Toyota Home line-up."

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Toyota Homeâ??building 21st century comfort and luxury into houses in Japan

"Concentrating the knowledge and technology of the Toyota Group to the housing business, Toyota's house making is based on the "Skeleton & Infill" approach. Based on careful consideration of customer lifestyles, three different structures have been developed for the Toyota Home line-up."

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15x15 - Your chance to be famous

Using Warhol's "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" statement as a premise, 15x15 advances the statement into the 21st century; with new media technology anyone and and everyone can be world famous... for 15 seconds.

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Linux cuts Kent Police system costs by 90%

Kent Police has cut the cost of running its major criminal investigations system by 90% using Novell Open Enterprise Server, the company's version of SuSE Linux....

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Linux Moves Towards Unified APIs...

"The Portland Project has released a beta version of its programming interfaces for the Gnome and KDE Linux environments. This is designed to boost development of desktop Linux applications by creating common application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to use."

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Linux Moves Towards Unified APIs...

"The Portland Project has released a beta version of its programming interfaces for the Gnome and KDE Linux environments. This is designed to boost development of desktop Linux applications by creating common application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to use."

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MacBook sales stronger than expected, Apple may introduce 15.4'' models.

Apple's notebook sales in 2006 would represent a 39% increase from the 2.16 million units shipped in 2005. Sources contacted also noted that Apple may expand its MacBook family by introducing a 15.4-inch widescreen lineup.

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