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Mandrakesoft today announced the release of two new books for beginners and more advanced users of the Mandrakelinux operating system: 'Discovery 10.1 - Your First Linux Desktop' and 'PowerPack 10.1 - The Full Power of Linux Desktop'. These highly informative guides are both bundled with a...

I've heard it's nearly impossible to get beef jerky in the United Kingdom... is this true?

Free Games Thread Ever played a game which was incredible, and yet cost nothing? Free is the best price! Do the world a service and post it in this thread! Please, do not post any comments! If you like a game, just click "thanks" on the post where it's listed. This thread should only...

According the Open Source Development Laboratories, enemies of the open source movement have been especially busy lately, spreading FUD* and misinformation in general about open source software -- especially GNU/Linux. They take the time to address each and every point that's been brought up...

It was announced recently that MandrakeSoft, distributor of Mandrake Linux, has merged with Conectiva, the widely used South-American distribution. This seems to bode well for both companies, as both posses experienced engineers and share a similar focus. This may lead to having another large...

Microsoft is now warning of a swath of new, next-generation spyware which is already upon us. The end result is a modified Windows kernel laden with pure evil. These "rootkits" actually intercept system calls to the kernel, making them invisible to detection tools. According to Microsoft, the...

Hey everybody! Just got back from a hard day of (pro bobo) work down at the local community center. The problem with volunteer work is that volunteers often aren't qualified to do the work they're volunteering for. Even if they are, they often do sub-standard work. Here's what Hounor, Fred and...

A vulnerability was discovered today in all Gecko-based browsers, such as Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape. It allows the possibility of website spoofing, in which case you'd actually see a small popup-style graphic which would cover the address bar and contain the spoofed URL. This would likely be...

From the makers of the well-known Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird mail client comes Sunbird. Mozilla Sunbird is an open-source, cross-platform calendaring program with similar functionality to the one found in MS Outlook. Sunbird is available as both a stand-alone version and as a...

Here's an older article with some pretty good reasons to reconsider which operating system you allow on your PC. Definately not an unbiased source, but not untrue either. Actually, it's a surprisingly fair summary of Microsoft's business tactics and why they're only good for MS, not for us. Give...

According to a recent CNET article, the newly implemented heap overflow protection in Windows XP Service Pack 2 can be easily circumvented by attackers. As security experts have been saying for years, an operating system must be designed to be secure from the ground up, not through a series of...

According to the Honeynet Project, a non-profit security research firm, unpatched default Linux rollouts in the wild take an average of three months to compromise. This is a sharp break from much older reports, which put the number around 72 hours. It seems newer default Linux rollouts use...

The item for sale is an iStar mini-redundant 400watt PSU. It is new and in the retail box. It's never been used, and is covered by iStar's standard 3-year warranty. This unit is a redundant, hot-swappable, high-end power supply which will provide clean and stable power as well as minimize...

Let's see how my company's new primary server will fare at distributed computing! I'm burning it in over the weekend, so I'll hit it with some high memory limit WUs. Here's a link to some pics of it.

A Danish security firm, Secunia, has published a proof of concept of truly horrible exploit in Microsoft's Windows XP, SP2. [Cue shock and awe] Apparantly even with all of the latest security patches applied, behind a firewall and with an antivirus, all an XP-SP2 user has to do is visit a...

Geez, my buddy asked my to allow him to SSH into my machine so he can download some files. So, I forwarded port 22 on my router to my system, and left it open overnight. No problem right? I mean, SSHv2 is very secure, if set up properly. Passwords are sent over strong encryption, root is...

Hey everybody! I haven't been as active lately in the forums as I'd like to be; let me explain why. First of all, I've been pretty sick for about a month and a half now, since I've been working in foul weather without taking any sick time. Which brings me to the other major reason... I'm...

Ever been in a situation where you're dying for some nourishment but you were too poor, too far away, or are just plain unable to get typical food from the typical sources? When you're in a pinch like that, you'll try just about anything which promises a quick boost of energy and a slight break...

The item for sale is an Abit KD7. This excellent motherboard supports any Socket-A Athlon up to an XP 3200+. It features a VIA KT-400 chipset, four 400MHz DDR RAM banks, an 8x AGP slot, six 32-bit PCI slots, ATA-133 IDE, USB v2.0, integrated 10/100 network and onboard 5.1 surround sound. The box...

Some of us who've been in the PC gaming scene for a while now may remember the days of the dual-GPU versions of the (then) popular 3DFX Voodoo series cards. They were quite the power-house at the time, but were considered by many to be a bit on the excessive side. Well, those glory days are...