Integrating a Satellite System into Your Smart-House Network

You can't connect your satellite to your video distribution panel's connector and distribute it through your house. To integrate a satellite into your network, you have to be a bit devious. Here is how.

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DIY Laptop Repair

Not too long ago the hard disk in my VAIO (PCG-FX501) failed. Unfortuntely this model does not have an easily accessible flap under which the disk lives, and requires some disassembly to fit a replacement. I have posted these step by step instructions.

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BOX.SK Founder Impresioned Under New E.U. Hacking Laws

The EU laws prohibit unauthorized access to a protected computer, and illegal possession of stolen "access devices" -- a term that encompasses passwords, credit card numbers, and the like.

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Using Java DB in Desktop Applications

This article describes how to download, install, integrate, and deploy Java DB within desktop Java technology applications. A demo application called Address Book demonstrates how to work with Java DB as an embedded database.

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Debugging Tools for Windows

You can use Debugging Tools for Windows to debug drivers, applications, and services on systems running Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, and Windows codenamed "Longhorn," as well as debugging the operating system itself.

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WIDZ - Wireless Intrusion Detection System

WIDZ (Wireless Intrusion Detection System) is an IDS for 802.11. It guards APs and monitors local frequencies for potentially malevolent activity. It can detect scans, association floods, and bogus APs, and it can easily be intergrated with SNORT or Realsecure.

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Ophcrack 2.2 is out

Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on a time-memory trade-off using rainbow tables. This is a new variant of Hellman's original trade-off, with better performance. It recovers 99.9% of alphanumeric passwords in seconds.

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How to Create an Image Map Using CSS

In this article you will learn how to turn an ordinary definition list into an image map using nothing more than CSS, and what's more, it should work in all modern browsers.

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IPIterator: Iterate through a set of IPs and run a command

I made IPIterator because I wanted to play around with FreeBasic and I needed something that would let me run a command on a series of IPs.

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Add & Edit Cookies in Firefox

Add cookies, edits cookies values and expiration dates, toolbar button. Great way to hack your cookies, from persistent sessions that never expire to sites auto logins.

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Why I Stopped Promoting Linux in Government

"I received an email from a close friend asking me to help educate the city manager in Tuttle, OK about Linux. I told him I prefer finishing a "hack" on securing SSH. Here's why I'm through orchestrating efforts for Linux in Government."

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DSL 2.3 is out!

Damn Small Linux has released version 2.3 of their shoe-horned-on-credit-card operating system. New features offered up in this release are module auto-loading, different themeing, and a few usability fixes.

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FREE Security/Hacking Magazine

(IN)SECURE Magazine is a freely available digital security magazine discussing some of the hottest information security topics. It can be distributed only in the form of the original non-modified PDF document.

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httplib2: HTTP Persistence and Authentication

In this latest Restful Web column, Joe Gregorio explains HTTP persistent connections, pipelining, and the sad state of HTTP authentication.

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Disney uses FREE font types

"One of my hobbies is creating Disney-themed freeware fonts. Amazingly, some of them have appeared on signage at the Disney theme parks, and in Disney books and DVDs.". Lazy Disney ;).

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Build a phpBB Forum in 5 Steps

If you're thinking of setting up a forum for your Website, you don't need to start from scratch. The open-source script, phpBB, can easily be installed on most Web servers. This article will describe how to do it right, from downloading through to customisation.

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Wireless Security 101

This article covers the types of attacks wireless networks encounter, preventive measures to reduce the chance of attack, guidelines administrators can follow to protect their wireless LANs, and an excellent supply of online resources for setting up a secure wireless network.

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Open Source Astronomy

David Boswell looks at some of the software used in space exploration and usable by armchair scientists.

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Jobby, a new way to hunt for a job

Jobby takes information directly from job seekers, and then focuses on helping recruiters filter through job qualifications fast via tagging and tag filtering.

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Top 87 Bad Predictions about the Future

Don't pay attention to the "experts" and create your own future.

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Data Mining Techniques

Data Mining is an analytic process designed to explore data (usually large amounts of data - typically business or market related) in search of consistent patterns and/or systematic relationships between variables, and then to validate the findings by applying the detected patterns to new subsets of data.

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10 rules to manage your boss

Boss management can stimulate better performance, improve your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand and reap the rewards.

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Get Thoggen, and leave your DVDs at home

Thoggen is a new DVD ripper/backup-tool for Linux that encodes video into the free Ogg Theora format. Unlike its rivals, Thoggen is easy to use, and its built-in support for the Theora codec instead of the patent-restricted MPEG-4 and derivatives makes it worth looking at.

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Stop Robot on Robot Violence

Robots should be working together towards human kind progress.

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Sandals and ponytail set cramp Linux

"The lax dress code of the open-source community is one of the reasons behind the software's slow uptake in commercial environments, says former Massachusetts chief information officer (CIO) Peter Quinn."

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Dreaming in Java

"Where is Java going? I have some ideas that I would like to express. This isn’t necessarily a highly structured treatise, but more of a braindump."

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ROLL YOUR OWN SEARCH ENGINE WITH ZEND_SEARCH_LUCENE

Zend_Search_Lucene promises a simple way to add search functionality to an application without requiring additional php extensions or even a database. The problem with using a relational database, such as MySql's fulltext indexing, is that scalability problems crop up as your search criteria becomes more complicated.

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Add a word/OOWriter like editor to your site

This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word. It's lightweight and doesn't require any kind of installation on the client computer.

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Most Useful CSS Properties with Examples

The ultimate reference on CSS, simple and concise.

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Learn CSS Positioning in Ten Steps

his tutorial examines the different layout properties available in CSS: position:static, position:relative, position:absolute, and float.

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Windows optimizations for broadband connections

An extensive explanation on how windows handles TCP/IP connection and how to tweak it to squeeze you bandwidth to the max.

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8 Comets Approaching Earth

A cometary "string-of-pearls" will fly past Earth in May 2006 giving astronomers a fantastic view of a dying comet.

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Industrial espionage worm authors jailed

A married couple accused of using computer worms to conduct industrial espionage has received jail terms of four and two years after pleading guilty in an Israeli court.

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Database development with Apache Derby

This column will get you up and running with the Derby database in no time. This first installment introduces the basic concepts of relational databases with an emphasis on how these topics relate to the Derby database.

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Introduction to Syndication, (RSS) Really Simple Syndication

Are you ready to find out more about RSS and feed readers? Such as, why is RSS so popular and what are the benefits? Learn what feed readers are available and which one might fit your needs.

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How To Destroy a CD

There are a lot of different reasons for wanting to destroy a CD. Maybe it's a crappy band like U2, or a CD that you burned with stuff that you don't want anyone to see on it, either way, you don't want that CD to ever be played again.

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Playing music from the command line with mp3blaster

"When I realized I was depending on graphical players to listen to my MP3 collection, I searched for a command-line MP3 player -- and found mp3blaster."

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Snort on OpenWrt: Guarding the SOHO perimeter

If you're edgy about security for your SOHO LAN, you might want to consider moving your first line of defense out past your firewall. How about on your router, for example? If your router runs OpenWrt, you can do exactly that, by running Snort, the open source intrusion detection system (IDS).

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Play Patriot Act: the Board Game FREE

The board game that brings the thrill of trampling the Constitution right into your home... newly updated for 2006 to include NSA wiretaps and renewal of provisions!.

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How to Shutdown XP Faster

This tweak guide will show you what to do to shut down smooth and fast, just like when you first got it.

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Build a rich Ajax widget for reading RSS feeds at your site

It has some nice effects as you zoom around the feeds, but it would be nice to have a quick view piece that shows you more of the content without sending you on your way.

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New Samsung Smell-O-Phone

The perfume spraying cell phone is designed to release �smell tones� when incoming calls are received or certain buttons are pressed.

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Second Life gets VoIP

"I read a Business 2.0 article on a VOIP integration company named Vivox. They are putting VOIP into dating services and MMO�s. How great would this be for Second Life? I read on Clickable Culture yesterday that Vivox is giving SL integration demos here at GDC, so I made some time to track them down to get a demo today."

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Sony PSP Audio Streaming PHP Source available

"I noted that the RSS client Sony added to the Playstation Portable only worked with podcast feeds and streamed the audio file instead of downloading it for later listening. This, to me, seemed like a bad idea at first. But, I decided to take advantage of this feature instead of poo-pooing it."

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Solaris author Stanislaw Lem dies

Polish author Stanislaw Lem, most famous for science fiction works including Solaris, has died aged 84, after suffering from heart disease.

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How to Run a Successful Free Software Project FREE ebook

Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software. It is available in bookstores and from the publisher (O'Reilly Media), or you can browse or download it here.

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How to handle those pesky errors in PHP

"Let's face it - none of us write perfect code, and your almost-perfect PHP scripts are bound to throw an error now and then, even if you've tested them hundreds of times. It's simply impossible to rule out everything, and that's no problem really, as long as you handle the errors properly."

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How To Install A Custom Iptables Firewall

"This guide is to show you how to edit your iptables if you're running on a server This guide info came from iptables rocks, but i edited a bunch of data to make it suitable for what i want it to do"

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Javascript Object Tree Lets You Hack/Debug your Javascript

This will overlay your current document with a DIV element containing a collapsed list of all the javascript object types currently referenced by the page, from functions to strings to booleans and all else that falls between.

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Build a rich Ajax widget for reading RSS feeds at your site

It has some nice effects as you zoom around the feeds, but it would be nice to have a quick view piece that shows you more of the content without sending you on your way.

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Why Mobile Ajax will replace J2ME and XHTML

This article discuses: The limitations of the browsing model on mobile devices and how these are being overcome. The impact of Ajax on mobile applications development. The potential of Ajax/browsing model to enable applications which target a large customer base.

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The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language

Have modern programming languages failed? From the point of view of learnability and maintainability, yes! What would a truly maintainable and learnable programming language look like? This is the first of a five-part series exploring the future of programming languages.

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Start your own netflix

Ever thought about starting your own DVD-by-mail service like Netflix? Well, VNH Systems licenses DVD rental software and a movie catalog so you can launch your own online movie rental site.

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Teasing math puzzles

A website dedicated to the puzzling world of mathematics

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Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Friendly Greeting

"I suppose across the world their are various ways to greet someone. Looks like Italy is definitely the friendliest. This is Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi greeting a traffic cop just before he gets in his limousine."

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X-Men Minimates: Darktide Trailer

Cool X-Men animation based on minimates figures.

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Mr Potato meets the web

Make any funny face at this site.

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Learn Calculus online

A good source to complement/enhance your calculus studies.

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Amanda, the multi-platform open source backup utility

Amanda is the most popular Open Source Backup and Archiving software that protects thousands of production servers running various versions of Linux, UNIX, Mac OS-X and Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide.

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Ajax Developer�s Essential Tools

Lots of folks were interested in the tools we recommend for Ajax developers. Here�s our essentials list.

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Just Another Jabber Client (JAJC)

Yet another ICQ-like Jabber client designed to run in any Windows (32 bit) environment. Take it out for a spin and see if it suits your needs.

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50 Great Summertime Projects for You & Your Mac mini

So, while we�re taking it easy, pick out a few projects you haven�t tried and knock yourself out. Any Mac running at least Mac OS X v10.3 aka Panther is a suitable candidate for these projects. Many also have been tested with Tiger.

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Satellite Radio Rocks Cell Phones

"Grass-roots software and web developers have found ways to tap into XM Satellite Radio Holdings' and Sirius Satellite Radio's websites to stream music channels onto Windows-powered smartphones and other devices."

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Stop downloading warez in 10 years all the software available will be FREE

The days of selling software through the traditional commercial model are numbered, as open source is becoming the paradigm of choice, said Greg Stein, chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, at the EclipseCon 2006 conference on Wednesday.

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The Largest Atheist Populations

Below is a list of the top fifty countries containing the largest measured percentage of people who identify as atheist, agnostic, or non-believer in God. These figures do not necessarily represent the number of people who are identify themselves as "atheists."

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An Unbreakable* Code Utility for the Masses

This is a cool example of cryptography without the mathematics, easy to implement and hard to break.

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Feeling blue?, meet the laughing babies

So your day is not going on that good and you need something to laugh with, this video will make you feel better.

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MySQL Table Editor in PHP

This is not meant to be an alternative or replacement to phpMyAdmin. This is something you can provide to users to manage tables without them happily destroying your database.

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Caching with PHP5

Question: Whats the best way to improve performance of your website?, Answer: Get rid of it, and stop worrying. Unfortunately, that's not always practical (livelihoods etc). So lets have a look at caching instead.

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PCRE Cheat Sheet

"Inspired by the great stuff at ilovejackdaniels.com, here's a dedicated PCRE cheat sheet. The PHP cheat sheet at ILoveJackDaniels is fine enough, but PCRE goes way beyond what is there. Hence, this. Enjoy."

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Printing your own newspaper fresh daily

So you are not subscribed to a newspaper edition nor physical neither on line but want something to take take with you and read on the go. This little nifty script will print you a "newspaper" daily. Sorry no windows compatible but "translatable", also check Hak.5. Remember to run it as a cron job.

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From Perl to PHP, the easy way to translate between these languages

So you know perl and want to "translate" you code into PHP, or maybe is the other way around, well, sweat no more, here is an easy to follow table that will help you a lot.

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CentOS 4.3 is Released for i386, x86_64, and ia64

CentOS, the community-supported rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, has announced version 4.3 of its distro. This consists of mostly bugfixes and security patches from the original 4.0 release, along with a new update system.

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Venezuela promotes free open-source software as alternative to Microsoft

President Hugo Chavez has long been critical of big transnational companies, and now his government is promoting free open-source software as an alternative to market-dominating Microsoft. Ouch M$!!!.

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Making the jump to Linux: Six frustrations

"I am a high school science teacher who is attempting to make the jump to Linux. A few months ago I made a some changes to my desktop PC, and had to re-register my Windows XP installation. This infuriated me -- and my quest for a suitable Linux replacement began. I'm now a bona fide Linux user, but that doesn't mean I'm completely happy."

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PHP: Creating Thumbnail using GD Library

"I guess the GD library tutorial must have given you a basic knowledge about creating images using PHP. This tutorial is an extension of that. You will be learning to create thumbnail images using GD library. If you aren�t familiar with GD library I would recommend you to have a look at the GD library tutorial."

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Easy to make interface that will give "sense direction" to your robot

It's a chip (made by programming a PIC) that allows you to use any PS/2 (or USB) mouse as a sensor, allowing you to easily read information such as direction and speed (relative a surface, like the floor) in various useful and interesting ways.

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U.S. government probes Caller ID spoofing

The U.S. government is becoming interested in commercial Caller ID spoofing services for a possible role in illegal activity. Have fun while you can.

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Ride the celestial subway

Climb aboard the solar system's invisible network and you can travel anywhere, for free

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Nintendo predicts end to DS console shortage

Nintendo Co, the world's biggest maker of handheld video-game players, said a shortage of its DS portable video-game players in Japan may ease next month as the company adds more production capacity.

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NASA's new probe returns Martian images

Cameras aboard the newest Mars probe were successfully pointed at the red planet in a test and took high-resolution pictures, U.S. space agency NASA reported on Friday.

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New York, London, Hong Kong business hubs to submerge by 2100?

Experts have warned that without efforts to curb the rise of greenhouse gases, the polar ice caps may melt far faster under the pressure of global warming than it was previously thought, threatening island states and coastal cities.

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Japanese comics go mobile

From texting to surfing the internet and making video calls, the ways in which mobile phones can be used seem to be ever expanding. In Japan, another string has been recently been added to the mobile bow with the launch of electronic books and comics specifically for phones.

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Firefox helps you quit smoking

Quitomzilla helps you quit smoking while you surf the web or wait for new emails, showing the cigarettes, money and time you have saved since you quitted. One more reason to recomend Firefox.

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PRAjax - PHP Reflected Ajax

The PRAjax class can be used to reflect PHP code into JavaScript and Ajax methods and vice-versa.

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Ballmer, Bemused

"So far nothing has happened. But in an interview with Forbes.com, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer wouldn't rule out such a showdown. Ballmer also explains why Microsoft, which on Thursday announced a sweeping reorganization of its Windows division, is less freaked out by free programs than it was a few years ago."

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Increase your productivity in Linux with these incredible tools

"I have used Linux since I was eleven, and I'm approaching my seventeenth birthday now. I still consider myself an amateur at using the operating system, but I have discovered quite a few interesting tools to help improve my productivity with Linux."

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Explore Eclipse's embedded Rich Client Platform

The embedded Rich Client Platform (eRCP) came about as a way to bring the advancements of the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and apply it to the embedded space.

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Online banking with Apache Geronimo and Axis2

Dive deep into the intricacies of using Apache Geronimo and Axis2 to build a complex Web services application. This three-part tutorial series walks you through building an example online banking Web service, documenting each step of the process so new users can quickly grasp the concepts and build a complete Web service and Web-interface.

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Java theory and practice: Good housekeeping practices

Garbage collection is nearly everyone's favorite feature of the Java� platform; it simplifies development and eliminates entire categories of potential code errors. But while garbage collection generally allows you to ignore resource management, sometimes you have to do some housekeeping on your own

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DSL Linux: Small distro that packs a big punch

Need a teeny-tiny, business-card-sized, open source operating system that squeezes a lot of software into a little space? Take a look at DSL Linux®. This quick review shows you how to use the miniscule OS, highlights the on-board applications, details how to load and start it, and explains how to save between sessions when using a bootable CD.

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Mozilla plans to fund developer community

The Mozilla Foundation is planning to use some of its millions of dollars in revenues to fund active members of its developer community, the organization said Tuesday.

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Linux lab mending fences with techies

The Open Source Development Labs, an organization devoted to improving Linux, has launched a technical advisory board to try to foster better relations with programmers, who at times have been peeved with the industry-funded group.

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Writing Your Server-Side Ajax Handler

"Matthew Batchelder has posted the other half of the equation - the PHP script that responds to the Ajax requests."

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What's Wrong with Object-Relational Mapping

Dave Cross has posted a short series of slides entitled What's Wrong with ORM. Though they're slightly Perl-centric, they discuss weaknesses of many ORM systems of other languages too -- especially not taking advantage of the power of the database.

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PSP as a Portable VoIP and Video Phone?

Starting this fall, the PSP will receive some key new features. Video and voice-over-IP features will launch in October in "motion jpg" format, allowing PSP owners to use their PSPs as a virtual phone and even, with that new EyeToy, a portable video phone.

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How DO Soldiers Really Call Home?

"According to a recent commenter on my post about AT&T ripping off American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan by charging them $.21/minute to call home from AT&T payphones in PXes, many soldiers actually have several much less expensive options available to them for calling home."

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Secure Your Linux Server

This article covers the basics of security, but it is not a substitute for common sense, nor for the necessary interactive thinking of a competent system administrator.

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Hacking the Cybiko

Dosman from http://www.twatech.org/ brings this usefull link, here you can find a lot of info on how to give the Cybiko a total different use, exploit the capabilities of the RF, create your own programs plus many others.

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The Awesome Solar Piramid

A MSC solar power plant is a continuous 24/7 pyramid-like structure with multi-systems for generation of electricity and desalination of seawater to obtain potable/drinking water wherein the electricity is generated by hot air moving through Wind Turbine.

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Got Beer?, get a map

beermapping.com is a project by someone who likes knowing exactly where he is and how far he needs to go for good beer. At this point, there is only one individual working on the Beer Mapping Project. But that one person has been supported by many friendly craft beer lovers.

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CSS Rounded Corners 'Roundup'

The multiple ways you can add rounded corners to your css boxes.

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It happens some times. Cows just explode. Natural causes.

Flying Cow Leaves Two Police Cars in Flames. What do you know.

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Reading the News with Sun's RSS Utilities

RSS is the de facto standard for web syndication, and there are several frameworks that allow Java developers to work with RSS. Sun even hosts its own RSS library.

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Command line Perl for sysadmins

Using perl -e allows you to specify a script right on the command line. It's a powerful, underused feature even for people who use Perl regularly. Perl's powerful command line options make it a more flexible replacement for sed, awk, and even vi.

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Yahoo Web Services Return Serialized PHP and PHP Developer

PHP developers will now be able to consume these web services even more easily than before.

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RSS Feeds for FTP Servers

Mark Woodman returns with another interesting RSS application: he describes a PHP library for creating RSS feeds for FTP sites. Old-school FTP meets new-school RSS!.

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JAVA: Managing and Monitoring Web Services in Project GlassFish

his comprehensive, three-part article shows you how to monitor and manage Web services with Project GlassFish, Sun's open-source application-server implementation of Java EE 5.

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Games created in 24 hours

What happens when design students have only 24 hours to create video games, from conception through completion? Go ahead and have a look.

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The experts out there

Check the true story of a so called expert, the sad part is a good sample of these experts are making a LOT of money, go figure.

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Bill Gates being debriefed on the anti-trust case against M$ in 1998

First rule of the engagement was deny, deny, deny. Good that "Navigator" raised from its ashes.

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Control your PC from an IRC room

IRC_slave can be a very powerful script if it's combined with a worm such as Perl. Santy giving the master an enviornment to work with. This code allows you, as the user, to execute commands on the host running the script.

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XML in Firefox 1.5

This second article in the series, "XML in Firefox 1.5," focuses on basic XML processing. Firefox supports XML parsing, Cascading Stylesheets (CSS), and XSLT stylesheets.

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Continuations, Web development, and Java programming

In this article, I talk about a radically different approach to Web development called the continuation server. By offering a stateful programming model without giving up the scalability inherent in statelessness, continuation servers make Web application development much easier.

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Create a simple J2ME application for Blackberry with WebSphere Studio

Having employees constantly connected to one's enterprise is vital to many companies. This is one of the reasons Research in Motion's BlackBerry has mustered a massive following (over three million users at the time of this article's writing) in recent years. BlackBerry addiction has become pandemic.

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Add a Bluetooth text protocol to J2ME apps

In this article, see how a package based on the Bluetooth Java APIs lets these devices trade arbitrary text-based messages, and presents a simple, useful API to the client program.

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linuxBIOS HowTo and why its usefull

"What linuxBIOS is.... you said it a BIOS system for the pc. The only difference that it is being optimised for speed and configuratabliity. The awsome thing about this is that it comes with a krenel that can be built and customised to what ever the user wants it to be..."

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Monitor any online service from your desktop

eXternalTest Widget is a tool to monitor sites and all kinds of online services like http or ftp. With this useful widget you can catch your hosting or collocation provider every time they go down.

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Volkswagen looses it's Cojones

An early campaign for the Volkswagen GTI backfires in the US.

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Could MS own the rights for ajax apps?

This old article explains how M$ patented "... a new type of application written using Web protocols, but without the security constraints of a browser".

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Using the MultiView and Wizard Controls in ASP.NET 2.0

Need to collect data from Web pages? ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easy, with the use of MultiView and Wizard controls. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to take advantage of them.

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Online Multiplayer game of Boggle driven by Ajax (kind of)

WEBoggle is primarily HTML and JavaScript. There's fewer than 100 server-side lines of Perl, and a 90,000 word dictionary. This is Peggy Hill dream come true.

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A first look at the Zend Framework

The long-awaited Zend Framework has finally been released, and in this article Dennis Pallett takes a first look at what it has to offer.

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A Simplified Navigation System in PHP

Make a cool Navigation System with cool URL's like: www.yourdomain.com/?aboutme

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Three-Tier Development with PHP 5

This article will demonstrate the power of three-tier development in PHP 5, using PEAR::DB_DataObject for the business logic and Smarty for display logic. I assume that you have some familiarity with HTML, Smarty, PEAR::DB_DataObject, MySQL, and PHP 5

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Six Simple ways to Bring Web Visitors Back to your Site

Every visitor to your web site is a precious potential client. It was hard work to get that site visitor there in the first place, so you should make every effort to encourage the potential client back.

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Linux Quick Hacks

More tricks to add to the old bag.

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A Guide to Supporting InfoCard v1.0 Within Web Applications and Browsers

The Identity Metasystem allows users to manage their digital identities from various identity providers and employ them in different contexts where they are accepted to access online services. In the Identity Metasystem, identities are represented to users as Information Cards (a.k.a. InfoCards).

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3 Ways to Get More Security with Fewer Resources

CISOs at midsize businesses face many of the same problems as CISOs at larger companies, but with a lot fewer resources. What they've learned can help any CISO get by on less.

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How to Create Secure Web Applications with Struts

This article will focus on developing secure Web applications with the popular Java framework Struts. It will detail a set of best practices using the included security mechanisms. The first section will provide an overview of both Struts and Web application security as a context for discussion.

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Replacing the Internal Disk of a Powerbook 150 with a CompactFlash Card

"Recently I came up with the idea of replacing the disk with a CompactFlash memory card. These cards have the ability to emulate an IDE device, and there are adaptor boards available which will enable them to be plugged into a standard IDE bus. This would be perfect, I thought: silent, low power, and rugged!"

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Using CSS and AJAX to Create Deleatable Links

Behaviour lets you use CSS selectors to specify elements to add javascript events to. Using this example we created deleatable links.

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Querying for persistent objects without a query language in Java

A powerful combination of Hibernate and JavaServer Faces. This article describes an easy-to-maintain solution for the persistence of form-entry data within Web applications.

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Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES

Encrypted filesystems make sense for network-accessible servers that hold sensitive business documents, databases that contain credit-card information, offline backups, and laptops. EncFS and Loop-AES, which are both released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), are two approaches to encrypting Linux filesystems.

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Commentary: Gates wants poor to spend $600+, not $100 or $200, for computer

" I don't make these things up. I just read the news, in this case a Reuters article about Bill Gates expressing disdain for $100 stripped-down, crank-powered laptops running Linux while pushing a Microsoft-sponsored "ultra-mobile computer" expected to cost between $599 and $999."

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Paguna.com: Ajax Hotel Booking

Travel sites have been pioneers in the Ajax space. One of the first Ajax applications that I saw was a dutch travel site (second to Outlook Web Access of course ;).

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Custom Built MP3 Player Cradle

Many portable electronics don't come with docking cradles. This project could be adapted to work with many of them.

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Encrypt filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES

Encrypted filesystems make sense for network-accessible servers that hold sensitive business documents, databases that contain credit-card information, offline backups, and laptops. EncFS and Loop-AES, which are both released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), are two approaches to encrypting Linux filesystems.

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Social engineering reloaded

The purpose of this article is to go beyond the basics and explore how social engineering, employed as technology, has evolved over the past few years. A case study of a typical Fortune 1000 company will be discussed, putting emphasis on the importance of education about social engineering for every corporate security program.

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You favorite password cracker, John the Ripper, comes improved and reloaded

John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), DOS, Win32, and BeOS. Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords, but a number of other hash types are supported as well.

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phpwiki - The Wiki for PHP Developers

The phpwiki missing tutorial.

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Using XML: A PHP Developer's Primer

In this installment, we are going to focus on Ajax, one of the most useful and tipical applications of XML.

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Large Child porn Arrest and how to report it

Major news media reported today about a large child porn sting operation, which resulted in 27 arrests in several countries. (Links on where to report based on country location)

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Biometrics unreliable, says EU privacy head

European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx criticized governments' fondness for biometrics to identify citizens and warned that greater interoperability of databases may have serious implications for people.

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Impressive Open Source Intrusion Prevention System

HLBR is an IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) that can filter packets directly in the layer 2 of the OSI model (so the machine doesn't need even an IP address). Detection of malicious/anomalous traffic is done by rules based in signatures, and the user can add more rules.

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War-driving in Germany - CeBIT2006

"Our latest research was undertaken at CeBIT 2006. CeBIT, held in Hannover, Germany, is largest information security trade fair in the world, and we had good reason for choosing it as an arena for research."

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VeriSign warns of DoS evolution

A new kind of denial of service attack has emerged that delivers a heftier blow to organizations' systems than previously seen DoS threats, according to VeriSign's chief security officer.

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Fedora Core 4 installation notes

It is no longer necessary to become an expert practitioner of the
arcane dark arts of the Unix command line in order to get a complete
Linux distribution working on your PC including all of the productivity, multimedia, and entertainment applications you will need on your desktop and a fully functional web server as well.

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The Construciton of the All-PVC Amateur Hybrid Rocket Engine

Here's a page detailing the construction of the all-PVC amateur hybrid rocket engine. Via makezine.com

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Security-related Programs Every Linux Sys-Admin should have

"My list of tools is aimed at non-professional system administrators who manage Linux machines in a home or small-office network."

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Cool Beta Test FPS for Linux Available for Download

DropTeam is a multiplayer capable, real-time, tactical simulation of armored ground combat in the far future. DropTeam runs on Mac OS-X, Linux, and Windows 98/ME/2000/XP and has been designed to be very scalable with a wide range of systems.

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A better Spray Bottle

After becoming frustrated with yet another spray bottle that didn't work, Kevin Cotter decided to fix the problem. And with the help of two friends (Kevin Ostrom & Dave Youngberg), developed a spray bottle that actually sprays out every drop of liquid. This is our story... dun dun (Law & Order sound)

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DIY Darth Maul LED light saber

Jmumby writes - "Create a cheap yet effective dual ended light saber for a sci-fi fancy dress party. Anyone that has seen Star Wars knows Mr Kickarse 'Darth Maul'.

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Minor Mutations In Avian Flu Virus Increase Chances Of Human Infection

Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology have identified what the researchers described as a possible pathway for a particularly virulent strain of the avian flu virus H5N1 "to gain a foothold in the human population.".

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Useful-and-overlooked Command Line Utilities du jour

4 commands you may need and you didn't know about.

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James Gosling: "Java Is Under No Serious Threat From PHP, Ruby or C#"

Father of Java Reminds New York Audience That Java Works With All Languages. Is a nerd was coming?.

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Can high-tech prevent deer/auto collisions?

Modern technology does everything except give us a good way to keep deer off the highways. Fish finders are cheap and easy to use- why not have something similar for land animals?.

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SQL Injections in PHP with MySQL

SQL injections are a major security risk in many PHP applications. Injections are caused when a web developer allows the end-user to manipulate a variable that is being inserted into a database query string, generally through the $_GET, $_POST or $_SESSION superglobals.

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Altoids tin can video camera mount for $3-$11

There are 1000 uses for a paper clip and 1001 uses for an altoids can.

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DIY End-Around Pneumatic Cannon

"While not particularly new or creative, here are my plans for a simple pneumatic (compressed-air powered) potato cannon. It can also be used for other projectiles, as long as they fit down one of the interchangable barrels. It uses an electrically operated valve, originally made for in-ground irrigation systems."

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The Art of Presenting to Win: You and Your Audience

You�ve probably attended more than a few. How many of them were truly memorable, effective, and persuasive? Probably only a handful. This chapter will help you improve your presentations by keeping your audience in mind when crafting them.

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How to Style Forms in CSS

Forms give you an easy way to get information back from visitors to your Web site. Although they might be the most common way to get feedback from your Web page, forms shouldn't be a hassle for your users. Jason Teague shows you how to use a bit of simple CSS to create attractive and interactive HTML forms.

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How To Make Thermite (as seen on the broken)

You have seen it on the broken, learn hoe to make your own.

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Tiki@Work

Kick the cube blues away giving your working area a Tiki touch, it really makes the difference.

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System Administration with ooRexx

"You need a utility to help identify and remove obsolete large files. This article presents a simple script that scans through a disk drive or directory tree, presents a list of the largest files, and lets you delete those you select."

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Web Traffic Tracking under Linux

The Webalizer, written by Bradford Barrett and available at http://www.webalizer.com, was designed for speed: it can process log data much faster than anything written in Perl, a good thing for busy web sites with huge log files and already-taxed CPUs.

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Ten ideas for Amazon S3 applications

"Off the top of my head, here are ten ideas for applications one could build on top of Amazon S3"

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Interesting Google Job Listings-Google moving to TV business

"I was browsing Google's jobs pages looking for a fit for a friend of mine, and came across some very interesting jobs. Anyone who doubts that Google is moving into television in a big way should think again."

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We are what we do

"We�ve created 50 simple, everyday actions that can improve our environment, our health, and our communities, making our planet and the people on it much happier. We started by putting these actions in a book, but the whole movement is getting bigger. And bigger."

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RFID tags could carry computer viruses

The coming era of tracking goods and pets--and perhaps people--with radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags not only carries the danger of privacy violations, but also of new vectors for computer viruses, four computer scientists argued on Wednesday in a paper presented at the IEEE Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications.

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Convertable all terrain board for summer and winter

The fun doesn't have to stop with the end of winter, turn your snowborad in an all-terrain sporting good.

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Australian Time Zone Changes Affect Java Applications

"As a result of the DST change, applications using time or time zone functionality in an older Java Runtime Environment (JRE) may report incorrect time between March 26 and April 2 2006. The time zone data in those environments contains outdated DST information for Australia."

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DIY waterproof mp3 player & headphones

Rain won't stop you now, you can protect your mp3 player.

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A Roller Coaster in Gym

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Subway Maps of the World

For the traveler on a budget a metro system is a bless, take a look to multiple subways systems around the world.

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Exploiting Amazon Web Services via PHP and SQLite

You can gather data from Amazon in a number of ways. wget and grep could probably get the job done, but it is not elegant, nor is it encouraged by Amazon. The best way to get information is to use Amazon's application programming interface (API).

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How to write a Makefile

"make is a utility that automates the process of converting files from one form to another, doing dependency tracking and invoking external programs to do additional work as needed. Its dependency tracking is very simple and centers on using the modification time of the input files."

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Simple CSS Image Switcher

This is a pure CSS image switcher that is lightweight and standards-compliant. It could be used for a gallery or any similar function. Any number of list selection options can be used so long as the width can accommodate them.

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Nice looking DHTML scripts for your site

Give your site more life with this compendium of scripts, from Ajax based polls to dynamically loaded articles.

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Recommended PHP reading list

Learn about PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) with this reading list compiled for programmers and administrators.

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Nineteen words that don't belong in your resume

Career coaches or head hunters may have told you that creating an effective resume means punching it up with jazzy verbs and adjectives. Not so, say IT hiring managers. In fact, if you're using glitzy modifiers, you could be doing your resume more harm than good. Here's a look at some recruiters' "favorite-hate" resume verbiage.

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The Linux Penguin Gallery

Here is a collection of the interesting penguins we have been able to find out there on the net. Note that we're not trying to gather up every occurence of a penguin somewhere - the idea here is to catalog the "derivative" penguins that are on the loose.

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Serious Scripts for Serius Web Sites

If you need to pull a web site fast and need some functionality you can count on this site for scripts that will get the job done.

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Test drive Java EE 5 sdk and you could win a workstation

You could win a multiplatform, dual-core workstation with blazing x64 performance, support for 32-bit/64-bit applications, and award-winning development software.

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Sausage Fest: only 2% of FLOSS programmers are women

The focus of the essay is not only on the claims made by women in the existed FLOSS community about the tensions between male and female developers' interests and ways of doings , but also on the current obstacles against bringing more women, who are not technically competent, to participate in the FLOSS development.

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Autofilled PHP Forms

This article describes how I used PHP's regular expression functions to do most of the heavy lifting required to process forms properly, saving lots of typing and giving me time to do stuff I don't hate, such as writing code (and playing NetHack).

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Dynamic Favicons

Michael Mahemoff has posted an interesting idea concerning other uses for the �favicon� supported by browsers these days. He has worked up a library to work with this overlooked little feature, and includes some samples to show how it works.

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CSS Quirks mode and strict mode

Quirks mode and strict mode are the two 'modes' modern browsers can use to interpret your CSS. This page gives a short overview of the reasons for and the differences between these two modes.

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Repository of tips for programming in C and C++.

Some good tips and advices to get an edge while programing on C or C++. Have a tip?, add it in the comments.

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vi Reference

A good cheat sheet to have handy when you are hacking on vi.

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CSS Layout Techniques: for Fun and Profit

If you are looking for help making the transition to CSS layout (that's Cascading Style Sheets), you've come to the right place.

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Apache 2 with SSL/TLS: Step-by-Step, Part 1

This article introduces key aspects of SSL/TLS and then shows how to install and configure Apache 2.0 with support for these protocols.

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Making a Funky Chandelier

"wiring a light bulb couldn't be easier. There are only two wires. Just make sure the threaded part of the bulb is wired up to neutral, although it doesn't really matter for the electrical aspect of the bulb, it's marginally safer."

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Portable Skype HOW TO: Run Skype from your iPod

There are a number of reasons for not wanting to install a particular piece of software directly onto your computer's hard disk (be it privacy, portability etc), but instead carry it around with you wherever you go and have it ready when you need it. Enter the "Skyppod" (sort of).

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Thinking in Java, 4th edition, won't be available for FREE on the net

Bruce Eckel and his last release on one of the most trusted sources to learn Java.

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Fry fuel: McDonalds franchisee runs cars on it

Most drivers fuel their vehicles with gasoline. Robert Tomey powers his with French fry grease. The owner of four McDonald's � in Amory, Aberdeen, Houston and Vernon, Ala. � recently converted his Volkswagen Beetle and the company's Ford pickup truck to run on used vegetable oil drained from his fryers.

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The Next Web

Simon St. Laurent steps up to ask which of the competing visions for the next stage of the Web's development have borne fruit, including the latest contender: Web 2.0 and AJAX.

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Digital Bookmark Mods

Matthew Russell shows you how to add better bookmarks to your audio books, add slideshows to your music files, create enhanced podcasts, and share your favorite mods with others--even if they're on protected audio.

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Zero Configuration Networking: Using the Java APIs, Part 1

Starting in Mac OS X 10.3.9, new APIs enable Java software to advertise and discover services on the network using Zeroconf's DNS Service Discovery. The same Java DNS-SD APIs are also available in Bonjour for Windows, Bonjour for Linux, Solaris, *BSD, etc., enabling Java software to make use of Zeroconf's DNS Service.

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Water Balloon Cannons

We made these potato cannons early last year with the goal of being more compact than any of our previous models. They worked great for firing water balloons.

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The 2006 Independent Games Festival Finalists-FREE downloads

Download and play these awesome indie games, as Fargo and FilePlanet take you on a tour of the best entries in this year's IGF.

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How robots "see"

Instead of seeing, today's robots measure. They use a variety of sensors, cameras, laser range finders, radars to gauge the shape, slope, and smoothness of the terrain ahead.

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Dutch blaggers explode ATMs-Kaboom goes the ATM

According to local reports, enterprising local crims have taken to drilling holes in conventional ATMs and filling them full of flammable gas and igniting it from a safe distance, a technique called plofkraak. Surprisingly this doesn't incinerate the contents of cash dispensing machines.

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Kanotix the "perfect distro."

Simply put, Kanotix is Knoppix on steroids -- lots of THEM.

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World's largest Wi-Fi network uses Linux

If securely deploying 10,000 wireless access points across 1700 locations in five months to create what is said to be the world's largest enterprise Wi-Fi network sounds like a challenge, Victoria's Department of Education (DET) in Australia took it all in its stride - with the help of a little penguin.

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Ultra-low-powered SBC for solar applications runs Linux

Technologic Systems is shipping an ultra-low-powered SBC (single-board computer) for solar and battery-powered applications. The ARM9-based TS-7260 RevB has flexible input power needs, comes with an embedded Linux 2.4.29 development kit, and can be configured with an SD card slot, custom logic port, or extra TTLs.

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A perl script to backdoor chkrootkit rendering it useless

Anti-antirootkit coded by saic. This code will stop chkrootkit from doing its thing. Tested on chkrootkit version 0.44 running on Red Hat enterprise 3. The code can be easliy modified for other anti-rootkit tools.

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An EmailWorm Vaccine Architecture (PDF)

Our main idea is to intercept every incoming message, prescan it for potentially dangerous attachments, and only deliver messages that are deemed safe. Unlike traditional scanning techniques that rely on some form of pattern matching (signatures), we use behavior-based anomaly detection.

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19 Ways to Build Physical Security into a Data Centre

Protecting data is not just a job for technologists. It also takes physical security and business continuity experts

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Open Source + Creative Common based movie to open March 24th in Amsterdam

Friday March 24th, the premiere of Elephants Dream will be in Cinema Ketelhuis, Amsterdam. People will get access to the source code of the movie plus digital media, what else you can ask for.

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Access the Linux kernel using the /proc filesystem

This virtual filesystem opens a window of communication between the kernel and user space

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Ajax Templating - Separation of Layout and Logic

In this informative blog entry, BorkWeb.com shares a method for creating a templating system generated wholely with Ajax and PHP.

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New Amazon S3 - Simple Storage Service

Amazon S3 provides a simple web services interface that can be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web. It gives any developer access to the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites.

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US Hospital moving to open source medical apps

Laboratory, pharmacy and patient management systems at a three-campus facility are going open source. Now if this helps to cut costs hope the savings are transfered to the patients.

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Monitoring bandwidth from the command line, a digg effect monitor

Volker Gropp's enhanced bandwidth monitor -- called bwm-ng, or Bandwidth Monitor Next Generation -- is a rewrite of an earlier bwm. You might find it useful, usefull to alert about the digg effect in your server.

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Use your TV as an Oscilloscope

Attach this easy to make project to your TV and you will get basic oscilloscope.

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Transforming Spam into Haikus

Spamku.net takes spam email and randomly generates haiku from them. They aren't great, but it is a work in progress. Voting for Spamku is now up and running! Help the good ones rise to the front page!

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Scanlines Effect For Photoshop

Scanlines give your image a futuristic appearance or can even be used to simulate pictures on a TV screen depending on its usage.

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Abandonware - Running DOS Games in Windows

Most of us remember the "old days" of computer gaming when shotty pixelated graphics were thought to be high-end. Games like Leisure Suit Larry, Dune, Kings Quest, Populus, Wolfenstein 3-D, and even Duke Nukem 3-D are just a few in an endless list of games that are now branded as Abandonware.

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Rodent Rises from the Dead

It wasn't dead he was partying.

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Harvesting gmail addresses for the spammer to be

"I woke up today to find my Gmail account so spammed.. I couldn't think why either, the only person that knows that email address works for google .. lol", well is not like that.

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Glade - a User Interface Builder for GTK+ and GNOME

The user interfaces designed in Glade are saved as XML, and by using the libglade library these can be loaded by applications dynamically as needed. (Glade can also generate C code, though this isn't recommended for large applications.). Creating a widget for Linux has never been this easy.

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Newbie's Guide to Asterisk@Home 2.7

Want a rock-solid PBX at a rock-bottom price: free! Asterisk@Home 2.7 has hit the street with some new goodies and a new release of Asterisk. So here we go again.

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Management hack: death by next action

Problem: You�ve got a boss/colleague/intern/vendor who is dragging their feet on some task that you�re dependent upon, but only they can execute.

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Clever Phishers Dodge Spoofed Site Shutdowns

Fraudsters are using a new technique to keep their spoofed Web sites up and running even as authorities pull the plug, a security expert said this week.

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Pop-Up 3D words and messages!

Use this simple technique to turn any simple font into a full 3D pop-out message. It makes an original present or surely will catch the attention of those passing by.

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Solving Java Puzzlers With Google's Joshua Bloch

Java Puzzlers, a new book by Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect, and Neal Gafter, Google software engineer and Java technology evangelist, contains some 95 "puzzlers" and is designed to amuse, tantalize, challenge, and educate Java developers.

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Hacking your Home Thermostat

"One of the most popular projects in Smart Home Hacks, judging from my email, is Hack #41 Control Your Heat Remotely. It describes how to replace your existing HVAC thermostat with one that can be controlled via X10 either locally, or by calling in and issuing touch-tone commands."

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Overcoming the Windows 2GB Caching Limit

"The goal of this post is to present an architectural pattern to combat the 2GB limit in Windows and other runtime environments."

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Installing Broadcom drivers onto Linux + getting binary source

A great alternative to ndiswrapper.

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Traditional DNS Howto

"Linux system administrators should learn traditional DNS. Front-ends and quick templates to setup domain records have a place in managing sites. When confronted with DNS configurations already in existence, nothing can substitute for knowing and using the fundamentals."

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Lightsaber for $33 in 33 minutes

$150 for a lightsaber replica?, no way jose, I'll try this one.

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Getting Started With C++ Classes

" Many advanced programmers learn about classes and object oriented programming (henceforth known as OOP) very late in their programming career. When I was learning C++, not until near the very end of the book did it discuss classes and OOP, and the same is true for many different books on programming."

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Hacking your computer CMOS

"The cmos has always been very mysterious and quiet. He always seemed to talk more to the operating system, bios or whatever. One day I said: 'This shall be no more! From now on you will talk to me too!'. So I started gathering information about it."

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Defeating Human User Authentication

Do you know those little graphics with a code for you to type in order to foil automatic scripts or bots?, well this guy has a working example on how some of these codes can be bypassed by software.

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Learn to power small networked devices with an Ethernet cable

How many cables go into the back of a wired netcam, which hooks directly into your ethernet? ONE, if you�re using PoE (power over ethernet).

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Building Robots Just Got Easier

Think making a robot sounds hard? Not anymore. Now you can turn your Roomba into one
.

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Amazing electronic circuit prototyper

This is a quite good java application where you can simulate any project as you were working on a breadboard, lots of components and parts to work with.

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Foiling Cross-Site Attacks in PHP

Security is a nebulous topic. Web applications are often described as being secure or insecure, and this yields dangerous misconceptions and confusion. Just how secure is a secure Web application?. The same principles apply for many other languages.

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Complementary Ruby on Rails Workshop......... in UK!

Well this is some candy from our digg brothers on the other side of the big pond, enjoy mates.

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Don't Let the Art Fade Away in All the Computer Science

Some thoughts on the art of programming.

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Apple teaches you... ergonomics

Seems the guys from Cupertino are way ahead of everyone else in the implementation of computer ergonomics, taking care of the costumers, taking care of business.

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Kill any famous person online

Take your vendetta online, pick any of the default characters or upload any picture of your nemesis or not so favorite character, very original way to blow some steam off, highly recomended.

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Full Size R/C Car

Bunch of guys convert a 1982 Toyota Camry into a full size RC car and drive it around in the desert and then destroy it. Thanks Star! and makezine.com

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Amazon in talks for movie, TV downloads

Online retailer Amazon.com Inc is holding talks with three Hollywood studios on creating a service to allow consumers to download movies and television programs and copy them onto DVDs, The New York Times reported today.

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How to Design Flash Pages for Google

Google is now indexing Flash content! James Gonzalez tells you how to determine which Flash content Google is actually indexing and how to optimize this content to achieve better rankings in Google's search results.

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The X10 FireCracker Kit: Not Your Grandmother's Clapper

Getting old/lazy? Got a broken leg and can't get to and from the lamp easily? Save the Clapper for Granny and instead follow Kulvir Bhogal's easy instructions on hooking up your electrical devices to be run right from your computer.

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Fedora conference presentations online

The Fedora Project Wiki now has presentations, photos and reports from FUDCon Delhi 2006. This meetup of Fedora users and developers in the Indian capital saw speeches by Christopher Blizzard (Red Hat Desktop Lead) and presentations on security and Xen.

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"Pimp" Your Penguin

Would you call Linux on a Mini a "Lini"?

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Fine-Tuning Kubuntu

Kubuntu is the KDE-ized edition of Ubuntu Linux, the current Linux glamour distribution. Ubuntu is an excellent distribution, and I believe its popularity is due largely, in addition to technical and design excellence, to the Ubuntu philosophy.

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Storing an XML Document in Apache Xindice

Apache Xindice is a native XML database in which XML documents may be stored, queried, and modified. The advantage of a native database over a relational database is that mapping of XML to SQL is not required. Instead, XPath is used to query the Xindice database and XML:DB XUpdate is used to update the database.

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How Hacking Begins

A good view ot the hacker culture, not in the misguided criminal way but in the self made researcher way.

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Network Monitoring with Zabbix

Zabbix has the capability to monitor just a about any event on your network from network traffic to how many papers are left in your printer. It produces really cool grahps. In this howto we install software that has an agent and a server side. The goal is to end up with a setup that has a nice web interface that you can show off to your boss ;)

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Debugging PHP applications

One way to avoid exposing your sensitive data, while also giving yourself a live printout of your variables is by making them visible to only you and/or your team. The technique I will show you here requires that you have a static IP, or that you are willing to monitor your dynamic IP and change values as it changes.

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Hands-free tunes

Assemble a switch box to switch from listening to music on head phones to listening to answering your phone with your left ear, while music continues in the right.

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Counter-Strike clan leader accused of pedophilia

A 52 year old Canadian man has been arrested by police following allegations that he exploited his role as a Counter-Strike clan manager to solicit nude pictures of minors.

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PIN Scandal "Worst Hack Ever;" Citibank Only The Start

The unfolding debit card scam that rocked Citibank this week is far from over, an analyst said Thursday as she called this first-time-ever mass theft of PINs "the worst consumer scam to date."

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Use the Unicode database to find characters for XML documents

The Unicode standard database has a wealth of characters for maximum expressiveness and even for fun

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Automate OS switching on a dual-boot Linux system

Switch from one operating system to another -- without manual intervention -- by following these step-by-step instructions for enabling a dual-boot machine. Duplicate this setup for running both Linux® and Windows® on your own machine with the scripts provided with this article.

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Automate OS switching on a dual-boot Linux system

Switch from one operating system to another -- without manual intervention -- by following these step-by-step instructions for enabling a dual-boot machine. Duplicate this setup for running both Linux® and Windows® on your own machine with the scripts provided with this article.

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Adding Progress Bars to Your Scripts

Give a visual indication that a download is progressing smoothly.

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Second Life released for Linux

Fans of the online virtual world Second Life can now connect from Linux machines. Linden Lab, creator of Second Life, recently launched a public test of the Linux client, sporting the same feature set and interface as the Windows and Mac OS X versions.

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Real-time Linux powers shipbuilding robots

A top shipbuilding company has licensed a commercial, real-time embedded Linux operating system for use in three robotic manufacturing devices, including two currently in production.

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The JavaScript Minifier, cleaning the clutter from your javascript code

JSMin is a filter which removes comments and unnecessary white space from JavaScript files. It typically reduces file size by half, resulting in faster downloads. It also encourages a more expressive programming style because it eliminates the download cost of clean, literate self-documentation.

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