NEW YORK (AP) - Admit it. You can’t ignore that little electronic ping that alerts you to a new e-mail or an incoming call. It’s even in your dreams.
More than a quarter of us report being so attached to our cell phones and laptops that we leave them alone only when we’re asleep, according to [...]
GNOME applications that make CD burning easy
By Robin Monks
The GNOME desktop environment comes with a simple and single-minded CD burner application built into the Nautilus file manager (not dissimilar to what Microsoft bundles with Windows XP’s Windows Explorer and Vista’s Explorer) that can handle a lot of your file burning needs. But what do you [...]
Intro
This aims to be the most comprehensive0 kernel1, 2 comparison3 of the latest most popular Unix style kernel versus the latest most popular kernel. In Q2 2007, this means Linux 2.6.20 kernel versus Windows Vista kernel. In Q3 2007, this means Linux 2.6.21 kernel versus Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 kernel.
It’s interesting to [...]
By: TechieMoe
Introduction:
Much like most of the distributions that I come to me via recommendation, Lunar was out of left field. I’d never heard of it and didn’t understand why it existed.
After reading the introduction article (which is offered as part of the install process, not unlike Gentoo’s documentation) I found that Lunar was an ancestor [...]
(Review) - I’m thrilled to report that the latest beta of Audacity is indeed, just what the doctor ordered. If you have been an Audacity fan with your favorite distribution, you likely remember the headache of doing something as simple as assigning the proper sound device settings when working with something like a USB [...]
Cory Doctorow: I’ve just published the conclusion of my latest podcast series, a reading of Peter Gutmann’s amazing “Vista Suicide Note” paper, formally called “A Cost-Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection.” It’s a long paper — it took more than two and a half hours to read aloud — and it covers a lot of [...]
