<b>IT Wire:</b> "One thing I like about open hardware and software is that instead of making a few people very rich it can make a lot of people a little bit richer."
<b>Praxagora:</b> "The moment the passengers’ coats came down from their faces, he fumed. When they came within hearing he hissed at Elsa, “What did you do with him? He’s supposed to be blindfolded.”"
<b>The H Open:</b> "Mandriva began life in July 1998 as Linux Mandrake in France in Gael Duval's bedroom after he ported a KDE 1.0 desktop onto Red Hat Linux 5.1, uploaded the result onto two FTP servers, went away on holiday, and came back to find that he had a popular and successful Linux distribution on his hands."
<b>Linux Journal: </b>"In preparation for this year's annual motorcycle trip, I purchased an Acer Aspire One Intel Atom N450 netbook. What follows are a few notes and suggestions for installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) 10.04 on this model."
<b>Howtoforge:</b> "This guide explains how you can run virtual machines with Sun VirtualBox 3.1.x on a headless Fedora 12 server. Normally you use the VirtualBox GUI to manage your virtual machines, but a server does not have a desktop environment. Fortunately, VirtualBox comes with a tool called VBoxHeadless that allows you to connect to the virtual machines over a remote desktop connection, so there's no need for the VirtualBox GUI."
<b>Ksplice blog:</b> "Perl, never afraid of obscure shorthands, has accrued an impressive number of features that help with this use case. I'd like to share some of my favorites that you might not have heard of."
<b>Harald Welte's Blog:</b> "During the last days, I was working on an introductory paper on how a GSM cellphone actually works. It is titled Anatomy of contemporary GSM cellphone hardware and should provide a good technical text..."
"Patch Tuesday" is looking like an easy time for systems administrators and PC support engineers when Microsoft releases its latest batch of bug fixes to the world next week.
"Patch Tuesday" is looking like an easy time for systems administrators and PC support engineers when Microsoft releases its latest batch of bug fixes to the world next week.
Confused by all the options when it comes to choosing a small business printer? This handy guide provides everything you need to buy a color laser printer that suits both your needs and your budget.
Leaders of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs pledge to bring week-old cybersecurity bill to a markup next week, hope for passage this year.
With just one vendor to call and one bill to pay, Charlie Schluting argues that managing a WLAN with central controllers is the way to go, and explains how that works with Cisco gear.
Does Google penalize you for blasting videos to multiple sites? Plus, a source for all those gift cards you’ll never use and tips on the psychology of reciprocity.
Quick, efficient online messaging makes everyone more productive. Hipchat’s hosted instant messaging service offers a low-cost, no-hassle IM client for small businesses.
<b>Wired:</b> "Windows Mobile may lack the elegance of more modern operating systems, but some phones based on Microsoft's mobile OS are finding new life as Android handsets."