Natester writes “While Debian struggles to get its next release (Etch) out the door, the project’s founder, Ian Murdock, has spoken out about politics, the lack of firm leadership, and Ubuntu’s meteoric rise in prominence. Murdock believes that Debian is “process run amok” — nobody feels empowered to make decisions, leading to the sluggish rate [...]
So, you’ve turned your back on traditional mail clients and get your mail fix via Gmail these days. The only problem is getting to all those old message that are stuck in your old email client. One way to stuff that old mail into your shiny and capacious Gmail account is to use Mark Lyon’s [...]
Ever wanted to take the window open on your desktop and set it on fire? If you happen to be running Linux, you’re in luck. Jaw-dropping 3D desktop effects first came to the Linux desktop by way of the Novell sponsored Compiz effort which got started over a year ago. An open source community fork [...]
Many times a simple screencast showing how to do something by using a series of screenshots in sequence in a video can explain what paragraph after paragraph of words cannot. Linux and a few open source applications make the job of creating such…
This is a good basic look at how to get this done,trust [...]
{mosimage} EAST AMWELL, N.J. - Mike Strizki lives in the nation’s first solar-hydrogen house. The technology this civil engineer has been able to string together – solar panels, a hydrogen fuel cell, storage tanks, and a piece of equipment called an electrolyzer – provides electricity to his home year-round, even on the cloudiest of winter [...]
There’s a niche in podcasting that, in my opinion, hasn’t gotten enough attention: podcast novels. What has amazed me is just the incredible quality of the content, which is, like any podcast, free. Often, authors record their own books, and they record them well. Read on for an complete overview of the podiobook universe and [...]
I would like to offer up a big welcome to our two new users JohnP from over at Dell, and Stibs from over at SaxonOS. I’m glad that you two have stopped in and decided to stay for a while and I hope to be hearing from you both as news develops from your sites. [...]
An anonymous reader writes “The Times Online points out a post that Robert Scoble, former Microsoft blogger, put up on his site recently. In essence, Scoble has moved 180 degrees from his former blogging tone, saying that ‘Microsoft Sucks’. More specifically, he is highly critical of Microsoft’s online policy. In Scoble’s words: ‘Microsoft’s Internet execution [...]
