BitTorrent Site Mininova Loses Copyright Ruling

BitTorrent Site Mininova Loses Copyright Ruling - Lab Notes by ExtremeTech: "A Dutch court has ruled against BitTorrent archive site Mininova.org, and has ordered it to purge its directory of trackers linking to copyrighted files within 30 days or face fines."

1 in 5 portable computers shipped are netbooks

Report: 1 in 5 portable computers shipped are netbooks | The Toybox | ZDNet.com: "Despite the fact that many have predicted the end of the netbook era, the popularity of the miniature notebooks keeps growing."

Travel gizmos we don't need

Meandering Musings - Travel gizmos we don't need: "While browsing the Canoe.ca Travel Twitter feed and going through press releases this morning, I couldn't help but notice that no scheme is too far-fetched to pitch to travellers."

Toyota developing anti-drunk driving gadget

AFP: Toyota developing anti-drunk driving gadget: "Toyota Motor said Monday it was developing anti-drunk driving equipment that would lock the ignition of a vehicle if high levels of alcohol are detected in the driver."

Notebook PC Market Passes 38 Million Units, Driven by Netbooks

Notebook PC Market Passes 38 Million Units, Driven by Netbooks: "Tier-1 brands such as Acer, HP, Dell, Lenovo and Toshiba have been aggressive in the netbook market, which helped the total notebook PC market to post strong quarter-to-quarter and year-to-year growth, says a new report from DisplaySearch."

Another Popular Developer Lays The Smack Down On Apple’s App Store

Another Popular Developer Lays The Smack Down On Apple’s App Store: "Another day, another story of Apple’s ridiculous App Store approval policies gone awry. Joe Stump, the former lead architect for Digg who is well known in the developer community, has posted an entirely NSFW rant to his blog that condemns Apple for preventing a key update to his application from going live for over six weeks. Stump’s language is quite colorful so I’m not going to quote it extensively, but be sure to read his full blog post."

Fold Yourself a Hammock

Fold Yourself a Hammock: "Several years ago, a friend from the States was visiting us in Mexico — where my husband and I homestead — when I mentioned that I was going to hang a hammock outside under the trees for the baby. Eyeing the rope and the blanket in my hands with a puzzled expression, she asked, 'How on earth are you going to make a hammock with just a blanket?' 'Easy,' I replied. 'I'll show you.' And in moments it was ready."

The top 10 Dennis Rodman moments

The top 10 Dennis Rodman moments - Times Online: "In the final minute of the fourth game of the 1998 NBA finals, Rodman forced Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz to foul him and then sank both the free throws to clinch a 86-82 victory for the Chicago Bulls, giving them a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven series. Rodman’s performance was all the more remarkable because he had skipped a Bulls training session during the build-up to the game to take part in a wrestling match in Detroit."

The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You

The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You | Cracked.com: "If animals could talk, they would spend most of their time calling us dicks and telling us to get off their land. The traits we think of as 'cute' are often simply tricks animals have developed to get tourists to throw them food.

Here are six animals that you'll probably want to steer clear of, no matter how adorable they look on that wall calendars."

DreamWorks Animations' Derek Chan to Discuss Animation Studio's Use of Cloud Computing at Red Hat Summit

DreamWorks Animations' Derek Chan to Discuss Animation Studio's Use of Cloud Computing at Red Hat Summit | Reuters: "Chan Will Deliver Keynote, Providing Key Insights into DreamWorks' Utilization of Cloud Computing RALEIGH, N.C.--(Business Wire)-- Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Derek Chan, Head of Digital Operations for DreamWorks Animation, will keynote at the Red Hat Summit in Chicago, Sept. 1-4, 2009. Chan will discuss how DreamWorks Animation has leveraged cloud computing technologies to complete numerous films over the past several years. From the early days of 'Antz,' 'Shrek2' and 'Madagascar' to upcoming films such as 'How to Train Your Dragon' and 'Shrek Forever After' cloud computing technologies have been crucial to providing the compute resources required to create these films."

How to Stop The Raging War Inside Yourself

How to Stop The Raging War Inside Yourself - Dumb Little Man: "So much of our life is spent battling against ourself that we begin to forget who we really are. We think we need to look like Brad Pitt, Sandra Bullock or many of the other 'perfect' celebrities that grace our world."

25 Hardware Hacks: Old Tech Turned into New Gadgets

25 Hardware Hacks: Old Tech Turned into New Gadgets | WebUrbanist: "We’ve all been there, when that beloved gadget where you could once find the sweet spot has now gotta go; it’s too slow. Geeks want the next best and shiny new toy, the fastest hot new gadget on the market. But that toxic and outdated electronic equipment winds up in landfills to leach poisonous heavy metals into the soil and groundwater. Instead of leaving a technological footprint on the environment, let your inner eco-geek blossom. Here are 25 hardware hacks and magnificent manipulations of e-waste repurposed to functional geeky gadgets."

Web scraping with Python

Web scraping with Python (Part 2): "This article will show how to extract the desired information using the same three steps when the web page is not written directly using HTML, but is auto-generated using JavaScript to update the DOM tree."

100 Best Back-to-School Hacks

100 Best Back-to-School Hacks | Online Universities Weblog: "Going back to college after your long summer break is sort of like the university student’s opportunity for New Year’s Resolutions. From organization to better study habits to making new friends to preparing for your career, you’ll want to make this year the most fun and the most productive. Check out our list of 100 best back-to-school hacks for more ideas."

Two Useful Commands for Your Linux Server

Two Useful Commands for Your Linux Server - Linux Magazine Online: "Want to back up files and documents on your laptop or desktop PC to a server? Assuming both machines run Linux, you can do that with just one command. First, install SSH server on the server and rsync on your machine. Both tools are available in the software repositories of most mainstream Linux distributions, so you can install them using your distro's package manager. Open then the terminal on your machine and run the following command"

Set up a Personal Microblog with Bilboblog

Set up a Personal Microblog with Bilboblog - Linux Magazine Online: "There are many reasons why you would want to run your own private microblog, but how do you actually do that? The easiest way is to install Bilboblog, a tiny, no-frills PHP/MySQL-based microblogging engine."

Linus Torvalds facts

Linus Torvalds facts - Just Another Linux Lover Blog: "Linus Torvalds wasn't born. he was developed. by himself.
since 1969, the year Linus Torvalds was developed (by himself),
software quality has increased 19.000 percent."

Getting started with Hadoop

Getting started with Hadoop | Coderholic: "Hadoop is an open source Java implementation of Google’s MapReduce, a distributed programming technique. I’ve been investigating Hadoop lately for some data processing tasks at work. It is a bit of a minefield at first, so I’m writing this post partly as a way for me to keep track of everything, and also to hopefully save somebody else some time, or maybe to spark an an interest in Hadoop."

Pole Dancer Doll Doesn't Really Set the Perfect Role Model - Pole Dancer Doll

Pole Dancer Doll Doesn't Really Set the Perfect Role Model - Pole Dancer Doll - Gizmodo: "It rotates. It has blinking lights, a disco ball, and a pole. And it's probably one of the wrongest toys you can give to any girl. Because, unlike the USB Pole Dancer, this one is actually for kids."

Perspective Art: Unbelievable Large-Scale Paintings

Perspective Art: Unbelievable Large-Scale Paintings | WebUrbanist: "It’s often said that there are no unique ideas out there – only unique means of executing those ideas. Swiss artist Felice Varini, however, has been executing his incredibly unique ides in a unique way since 1978. His singular style of geometric painting calls into question our ideas about complex art pieces and the interaction between art and viewer."

Sculpt a Lifelike High-Poly Rhinoceros in ZBrush

Sculpt a Lifelike High-Poly Rhinoceros in ZBrush - Cgtuts+: "In this tutorial you will learn the key theory behind how to set up your low poly mesh appropriately, and the best way to go around sculpting to get the desired level of detail. This tutorial covers the creation of a Rhino, but when you are finished, you should be ready to start sculpting any organic model you like."

3 Jedi Mind Tricks to Feel Better in a Nanosecond

3 Jedi Mind Tricks to Feel Better in a Nanosecond: "This strategy works so well and it’s so simple. You can do this at home, at work, with friends, family or even with anyone at all."

Sony explains PS3 Slim's loss of Linux option

Sony explains PS3 Slim's loss of Linux option • The Register: "After Sony's PS3 slim announcement last week, many fans were dismayed the new model would no longer include backwards compatibility and the option to run Linux as an alternative operating system"

Best theme park employee ever

This guy shows anybody can have fun at work!

Follow the example.

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5 Annoying “Papercuts” to be Fixed in Ubuntu 9.10

5 Annoying “Papercuts” to be Fixed in Ubuntu 9.10 | Ethiopian News: "Ubuntu 9.10 is coming in October, and, in addition to some new features, it will also feature 100 less “papercuts”. Papercuts are minor bugs that cause a usability issue. For example, a confusing icon or a badly positioned text box might be considered a papercut. To give you a better idea of what to expect, here are five common and annoying papercuts that should be fixed by 9.10."

Why do Linux and open source lovers give Apple a free ride?

Why do Linux and open source lovers give Apple a free ride? - Computerworld Blogs: "In its 'Windows 7 Sins' campaign, the Free Software Foundation has labeled Windows 7 as 'treacherous computing,' and accuses Microsoft of such acts as 'poisoning education.' This is just the latest in a long line of attacks by open source lovers against Microsoft. But Apple is arguably even more closed than Microsoft, yet always gets a free ride from vociferous open source proponents. Can anyone explain this hypocrisy?"

Five Tools for Getting a Geek Running

Five Tools for Getting a Geek Running | GeekDad | Wired.com: "Running. A word that used to make me groan with the thought of having to do it. Forced to run in P.E. class in school was pretty much the only time I ran - otherwise I avoided it at nearly any cost. That changed for me last February when I chose to take up running, and I figure if I could do it, so can you. Here are my entries into the non-runner’s running tool-kit."

Ten Ways to Upgrade Your Netbook

Ten Ways to Upgrade Your Netbook - Business Center - PC World: "Netbooks are universally regarded for their portability, but no two netbook models are exactly alike, and each seems to come with different trade-offs. A netbook with a superior battery might have a horrible keyboard arrangement; a netbook with a solid-state drive might slip out of your price range; a netbook with a killer list of specs might be missing 802.11n connectivity. These are all common problems--and you won't find common solutions."

DIY altoids tin lunchbox

altoids tin lunchbox: "this mini lunch box is perfect for packing snacks for road trips and such"

John Scalzi's Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design

AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi's Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design: "I'll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies. Need examples? Here's ten."

62 Incredible and Breathtaking Video Game Wallpapers

62 Incredible and Breathtaking Video Game Wallpapers | Presidia Creative: "Videogames are one of the most popular forms of media today, because they allow interaction between the user and the virtual environment. Combined with the power of computer graphics, there are limitless possibilities for the creativity of videogames. There are role playing games, first person shooters, adventure games, flight simulators, movie to videogame adaptations, real time strategy, turn based, and a host of other forms of videogames."

Free Web Application Security Testing Tool

Free Web Application Security Testing Tool | GNUCITIZEN: "Automated Web Application Security Testing tools are in the core of modern penetrating testing practices. You cannot rely 100% on the results they produce, without considering seriously their limitations. However, because these tools are so good at picking the low-hanging fruit by employing force and repetition, they still have a place in our arsenal of penetrating testing equipment."

Easy Exercises You Can Do At Work

Easy Exercises You Can Do At Work | Health In Life: "Exercise is extremely important for a healthy body and even a healthy mind. Many people believe because they work a day job, there is no way for them to exercise. This is simply not true, there are many things you can do to exercise at work. There are pedaling mechanisms that you can stash under your desk so you can pedal while you work."

Atari Punk Console for die hard Atari fans

Atari Punk Console for die hard Atari fans » Coolest Gadgets: "For those of you that can’t get enough of all things that remind you of the good old days when Atari was the top of the line in gaming, here’s a gadget to pick up. If the cute guys on the outside weren’t enough to draw you in, the settings above each knob are humorous enough to catch any classic gamer’s attention. This Atari Punk Console keeps things pretty simple, but what it does, it does well."

Agile Works Best in PHP Projects

Agile Works Best in PHP Projects: "We are developing software for users, and we want to ensure that the software is really useful for the users. Over time, people working on this software have faced the same problem over and over again. Therefore, they have come up with a concept called agile development. In this article, we will explore the concepts of agile development and will also see how these can help us with the PHP projects."

11 Brilliant Web Based Event & Meeting Planners

11 Brilliant Web Based Event & Meeting Planners - Dumb Little Man: "Planning and organizing meetups and events is no longer the cumbersome task which required you to contact people individually and make sure they don't miss the event. The web 2.0 era has spawned upon some cool and easy to use tools which help you plan an event quickly and effectively."

Consumers pick gadgets over Gucci

Consumers pick gadgets over Gucci - 26 Aug 2009 - CRN: "Technology replacing clothing as the way to make a fashion statement, according to Microsoft"

New Get a Mac ads beat dead PC virus horse, waste good jokes

New Get a Mac ads beat dead PC virus horse, waste good jokes - Ars Technica: "Apple brought in voice and character actor Patrick Warburton for one of its latest Get a Mac ads, but the constant berating of PCs for virus and 'headaches' is getting a little trite."

Laptop computer to blame for Vancouver man's fiery death

The Canadian Press: Laptop computer to blame for Vancouver man's fiery death: "A laptop computer that burst into flames after being left on a couch is to blame for a Vancouver man's death, prompting a public warning from the British Columbia Coroners Service not to leave the devices on soft furniture."

More Press Than They Deserve: Delgo Creators Consider Avatar Lawsuit

More Press Than They Deserve: Delgo Creators Consider Avatar Lawsuit | /Film: "You know it’s a seriously slow news week when a vague threat from the producers of a film no one saw earns more than one line of traction. Movieline got a press release last night from reps for Fathom Studios, which produced the barely-seen animated film Delgo. The Na’vi aliens in Avatar have earned some unkind comparisons to Delgo’s folk, and evidently all the jokes (they were jokes!) got the studio to thinking about their legal possibilities. Choice quotes after the break."

The 'Sins' of Windows 7

The 'Sins' of Windows 7 -- Redmond Channel Partner: "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) kicked off a public awareness campaign on Wednesday called 'Windows 7 Sins,' which, as you can probably guess from the name, lists seven deadly sins of Microsoft, honing in on its latest Windows 7 OS. (Incidentally, you can check out this feature in our latest issue that covers the seven things Windows 7 did get right.)"

How to Be a Great Boss

How to Be a Great Boss - Dumb Little Man: "If you’re in charge of a company or team, small or large, you’ll want to do your best to keep everyone keen, engaged and productive. Being a great boss involves walking a fine line between friendship and leadership – but the rewards are immense: high employee loyalty, improved results, fewer wasted resources and the ability to go on vacation without worrying that everything will fall apart without you."

Learn Linux, 101: Text streams and filters

Learn Linux, 101: Text streams and filters: "There's a lot more to text manipulation than cut and paste, particularly when you aren't using a GUI. Study for the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) 101 exam, or learn for fun. In this article, Ian Shields introduces you to text manipulation on Linux® using filters from the GNU textutils package. By the end of this article, you will be manipulating text like an expert."

Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting?

Why is HTML Suddenly Interesting? - O'Reilly Radar: "Web developers couldn't stop talking about HTML and its evolution during the 1990s. New features were usually tempting, though not always workable, and the Browser Wars meant that vendors competed by providing and copying features. The HTML standardization process had its twists and turns, moving from the IETF to the W3C, developing standards that reflected immediate needs and tried to channel developer energy in more productive directions."

Get Less Done: Stop Being Productive and Enjoy Yourself

Get Less Done: Stop Being Productive and Enjoy Yourself: "There’s too much emphasis these days on productivity, on hyperefficiency, on squeezing the most production out of every last minute."

Increase Your Happiness With These Six Scientifically Proven Strategies

Increase Your Happiness With These Six Scientifically Proven Strategies - Dumb Little Man: "In recent years there has been an explosion of research on happiness, optimism, positive emotions and healthy character traits. While psychology has traditionally concerned itself with what ails the human mind--such as anxiety, depression, neurosis, obsessions, paranoia, and delusions--, a new branch of psychology, aptly named “positive psychology”, asks the question: 'What are the enabling conditions that make human beings flourish?' That is, the goal of positive psychology is to study what actively makes people feel fulfilled, engaged, and happy."

Ted Kennedy killed by O.J. Simpson according to WiKipedia

Seems like Wikipedia got caught with the pants down... again...

R.I.P. Mr. Kennedy.

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The copy machine is busted: Ars reviews Wolfenstein

The copy machine is busted: Ars reviews Wolfenstein - Ars Technica: "The new update/reboot of the Wolfenstein series isn't bad, but it's barely good, and it doesn't live up to the reputation of its own name. Add in a multiplayer mode that's the essence of lazy and you have a game that makes it easy to walk away."

Nintendo files for football add-on

Nintendo files for football add-on - News at GameSpot: "Wii maker's latest patent application details a foam pigskin peripheral to enhance the realism of sports games on its best-selling system."

Saving money with open source

Saving money with open source, Part 1: Use the Ubuntu operating system: "In today's economic climate, everyone is looking for a way to reduce their expenses. In the IT sector, one way to reduce expenses is by turning to open source alternatives instead of using expensive licensed products. In this 'Saving money with open source' series, learn about three open source alternatives: Ubuntu for the operating system, OpenOffice for the office application suite, and OpenChange for the Exchange groupware server. This first article explores the Ubuntu Linux® operating system and how it can help you save money by providing an excellent alternative on the desktop."

5 Copywriting Tips For Any Sized Business

5 Copywriting Tips For Any Sized Business - Dumb Little Man: "Copywriting, according to Wikipedia is described as 'getting across the perfect message, with the perfect words.' When we talk about copywriting it is usually in conjunction with a promotional message; we want to promote a new idea, a person, a business or an opinion. The greatest copywriters understand that people are entirely driven by emotions. We are driven by emotions when we buy products, often triggered by the copy we read."

Git changes the game of distributed Web development

Git changes the game of distributed Web development: "Version control systems are a core component of most development projects, regardless of whether you're developing an application, a Web site, or an operating system. Most projects involve multiple developers, often working at widely separated physical locations. Distributed version control systems are nothing new, but the Git version control system provides unique support for collaboration and interaction among developers."

Hack Your Palm Pre

Hack Your Palm Pre - Reviews by PC Magazine: "After several years of stagnation with the tired, old Palm OS, Palm surprised the tech industry with its long-awaited, webOS-powered Palm Pre. The Pre delighted techies with its stunning interface and powerful features. Between Palm and Sprint, the two companies got almost everything right, except for one thing: third-party apps."

Lego Mindstorms Hack solves those tough Sudoku problems

Lego Mindstorms Hack solves those tough Sudoku problems – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com: "Using components from the Lego Mindstorms NXT System, Hans created a rover that scans over a Sudoku puzzle using a scanner on a robotic arm. Then, using character recognition programming, learns the puzzle and creates a solution. The robotic rover will then back over the Sudoku puzzle and fill in the appropriate blanks with a pen for the Sudoku solution."

Burning Man Gets an API (and a Whole Lot More)

Burning Man Gets an API (and a Whole Lot More) - O'Reilly Radar: "The annual tech-art festival in the Nevada desert, starts on Sunday. Normally the attendees leave their phones and laptop behind, but this year that may not be the case. As I ride from Seattle to Black Rock City, NV I am getting SMS from friends on the playa. In anticipation of wifi and possible data connections Foursquare has rolled out Black Rock City as a city (@sfslim is already the Mayor of The Man). If AT&T's service doesn't work then attendees may be able to take advantage of OpenBTS's local SMS project. Most of the attendees aren't there, but the tech is already making its presence known."

Learn Linux, 101: The Linux command line

Learn Linux, 101: The Linux command line: "GUIs are fine, but to unlock the real power of Linux®, there's no substitute for the command line. In this article, Ian Shields introduces you to some of the major features of the bash shell, with an emphasis on the features that are important for LPI certification. By the end of this article, you will be comfortable using basic Linux commands like echo and exit, setting environment variables, and gathering system information."

Top 10 Tips for Maintaining a Positive Attitude

Top 10 Tips for Maintaining a Positive Attitude - Dumb Little Man: "Having and maintaining a positive attitude is vital for success in life and business. Zig Ziglar gets it right when he says, 'It is your attitude, not your aptitude, that determines your altitude.' Sure you need skills, but you can learn skills - in fact a positive attitude will make it much more likely that you will learn the skills necessary to succeed. If you take two people with an equal skill set the person with the better attitude will win."

Inglourious Basterds, an amazing movie, though strangely familiar to Quentin's other works.

Inglourious Basterds, an amazing movie, though strangely familiar to Quentin's other works.: "Inglourious Basterds is an amazing movie by itself. However, it highlights the range of Quentin Tarantino. This movie is cleverly paced, well-written with hidden dialog references, shows Tarantino's attention to detail and the need for an army of script supervisors."

dirt cheap wireless

dirt cheap wireless « CHEAP, FAT and OPEN: "looked around on the shiny shiny internet, and thanks to this thread in the arduino fourm (and my advisor david mellis) i made this neat little wireless connection:"

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again

You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again | Epicenter | Wired.com: "More than half of the internet’s top websites use a little known capability of Adobe’s Flash plug-in to track users and store information about them, but only four of them mention the so-called Flash Cookies in their privacy policies, UC Berkeley researchers reported Monday."

The 68 Most Bizarre And Perilous Bridges

The 68 Most Bizarre And Perilous Bridges | WebUrbanist: "From deep in the jungle to high above the sharp mountainous rocks and raging rapids below, mankind builds bridges to cross to the other side. Some are outright treacherous, either extremely old, too narrow, too high, over sharp rocks, or a possible watery demise below. Despite bouncing along as the wind sways your walkway, or the sometimes breakable “floor” underfoot, some people use these dangerous bridges as a daily crossed pathway between remote villages. What if urban was only a remote memory and you must get across to the other side; would you pull a Tarzan and find a vine to swing across? How about if the bridge was made of vine? Sticks and stones, canes and roots, bamboo footpaths, can it get more creepy? Oh yes. Adventurers travel where they can cross from point A to point B via the most dangerous ways like swinging bridges, hanging bridges, rope bridges, no handrail available on some. Here are 68 pictures of the most bizarre and perilous bridges around the globe."

Who's Winning the Smartphone Wars?

Who's Winning the Smartphone Wars? - O'Reilly Radar: "The short answer - Microsoft and Nokia are slipping, RIM and Apple are gaining. It's too early to tell with Google. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone."

Tutorial on Threads Programming with Python

Free PDF: Tutorial on Threads Programming with Python - Free ebook manual download - PDFee.com: "Why Use Threads? Threads play a major role in applications programming today. For example, most Web servers are threaded, as are many Java GUI programs. Here are the major settings in which using threads has been founded convenient and/or efficient: Programs with asynchronous events: Here the program must be ready for various events, but does not …"

Garage Monitor 3001

Garage Monitor 3001: "Problem: My garage is detached from my house, difficult to see if the doors are open from the house. Or maybe I am in a hurry to ride to work and forgot to close the door.

Solution: Parallax BS2 based monitor. I can check the status of my garage doors form the web, and with a plugin to Nagios I get paged if it open more than 15 minutes."

Best Graphics Cards For The Money

Best Graphics Cards For The Money: August '09 : July Review / August Updates - Review Tom's Hardware: "So if you don’t have the time to research the benchmarks or if you don’t feel confident enough in your ability to pick the right card, fear not. We at Tom’s Hardware have come to your aid with a simple list of the best gaming cards offered for the money."

How to Live a Better Life with Less

How to Live a Better Life with Less: "I’ve worked for more than 5 years now to simplify my life, and while I’ve discovered the sublime joys of living a simple life, I’ve realized most people don’t get it."

Linux backup guide

Linux backup guide :: SearchStorage.com.au: "Performing data backup and recovery in a Linux environment poses some unique challenges. Brien Posey, a freelance writer and former CIO, answers some of the most common questions about Linux data backup in this Q&A. His answers are also available as an MP3 below."

42 Hot Free Linux Games

42 Hot Free Linux Games (Part 3 of 3) - LinuxLinks News: "Linux enjoys a very large software library of games, the vast majority of which can be downloaded without any payment. Helping to identify great games is made difficult by the fact that to a large extent games are a matter of taste. Furthermore, some players prefer games of tactics, others enjoy the communication with fellow gamers. There are those who hanker for games that require quick reflexes, or which truly challenge the mind."

The 7 Eeriest Parallels Between Avatar and Delgo

The 7 Eeriest Parallels Between Avatar and Delgo | Movieline: "Oh, and both films harbored ambition and vision that required the better part of a decade to produce. Coincidence?"

The Art of the Brick Master Chief

Nathan Sawaya | The Art of the Brick™ | Master Chief: "I get a lot of requests to create different things out of bricks, but easily the most-requested video game character has been Master Chief from the Halo series. Well, here it is video game fans: a bust of Master Chief in all his LEGO glory. I guess building him out of rectangular blocks is a lot like the pixelated version, except I think the resolution is better on the Xbox 360 than in real life."

Create a New York Subway Entrance in Maya

Create a New York Subway Entrance in Maya – Day 1: Modeling - Cgtuts+: "In this three part video tutorial series, lead video game artist, Ron Davey, will walk you through the process of creating a game-ready environment prop in Autodesk Maya, and also share his personal techniques and thoughts along the way."

Virus Protection For The Mind

Virus Protection For The Mind: "We all know how destructive viruses on our computer can be and how important it is to have virus protection installed. However we’re not so careful when it comes to protecting our own minds with the, often devastating, effects our own thoughts can have on it."

5 Things To Do When Twitter Goes Down

5 Things To Do When Twitter Goes Down - Dumb Little Man: "Back in the good old days, when it was only just starting up and no-one really saw the point, Twitter used to crash all the time. Scarcely a day went by without the poor unfortunate user base getting confronted by the “Fail Whale”, Twitter’s corporate error page mascot and terrifying avatar of an hour or two without internet inanity."

Five Things You Can Do NOW to Make Christmas 2009 a Success

Five Things You Can Do NOW to Make Christmas 2009 a Success - Dumb Little Man: "It’s the summer, and Christmas is probably the last thing on your mind (unless you happen to be a magazine editor preparing for the Christmas issue...) It might seem far too early to start any preparations: but taking a little bit of time to think, plan and shop now can save you a lot of hassle, stress and even money when December rolls around."

Carmack: Hardware Physics A Bad Idea

Carmack: Hardware Physics A Bad Idea - Tom's Hardware: "id Software's John Carmack spoke out against hardware-based physics at QuakeCon 2009, and it wasn't pretty."

BASIC TUTORIAL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MARKUP LANGUAGE (AIML) VIA NOTEPAD

BASIC TUTORIAL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MARKUP LANGUAGE (AIML) VIA NOTEPAD: "Artificial Intelligence Markup Language (AIML) is a programming language which is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) specification used by chatbot, verbot, pandorabot, superbot, and other talking robot."

How to sing like Kanye West Using Garage Band and Autotune

Hewlett Foundation ponies up cash for Wikipedia

Hewlett Foundation ponies up cash for Wikipedia • The Register: "The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which handles the cash donated to various charities and good causes by one of the co-founders of Hewlett-Packard and his wife, has given Wikimedia, the non-profit behind the Wikipedia online encyclopedia, a $500,000 grant to improve itself."

Twitter: Your New Location Service Provider

Twitter: Your New Location Service Provider - O'Reilly Radar: "We're gearing up to launch a new feature which makes Twitter truly location-aware. A new API will allow developers to add latitude and longitude to any tweet. Folks will need to activate this new feature by choice because it will be off by default and the exact location data won't be stored for an extended period of time. However, if people do opt-in to sharing location on a tweet-by-tweet basis, compelling context will be added to each burst of information."

DWT to DOA: How to Stop Driving While Texting

DWT to DOA: How to Stop Driving While Texting - John Kelly's Commons - A digital conversation with Post columnist John Kelly: "Has any human invention simultaneously brought such joy and such sorrow, such utility and such danger, as the cell phone? Well, the gun, obviously. And Britney Spears. But as this blog has been concerning itself lately with the annoyance of the ubiquitous cell phone, that's the one I'm addressing today."

Dogfighters get creative with webcams and 18 wheelers

Dogfighters get creative with webcams and 18 wheelers: "Fights are also being staged in more mobile locations, such as 18-wheelers. 'These guys are very sophisticated,' Kumpf said. 'If you're driving down the road, there could be dogs in that truck driving next to you that are dying."

monspace: The cheapest dual trace scope in the galaxy

monspace: The cheapest dual trace scope in the galaxy: "This submini USB scope is based on a Atmel Tiny45 cpu and cost less than 5€ with a homemade pcb"

WOW: Facebook Launches a Twitter App

WOW: Facebook Launches a Twitter App: "This is a bit of a shocker. Facebook, who has seemingly been in a race to emulate many of Twitter’s features, just announced that it’s launching the ability for Facebook Page admins to simultaneously update both their Page and Twitter."

Fixing Linux

Fixing Linux - Computerworld Blogs: "Everything has security problems, even Linux. An old and obscure problem with the gcc compiler was recently discovered to have left a security hole in essentially every version of Linux that anyone is likely to be running. Here's what you need to know about fixing it."

Girly geekdom for girls… only?

Girly geekdom for girls… only? | Geek Feminism Blog: "Several of the front page posters here are participating in discussions on the Python diversity email list, a list created by Python community member Aahz to discuss diversity problems in the Python programming language community. The initial aim of the list is creating a diversity statement like that of the Dreamwidth community."

Use the best open source client-side framework for cloud computing

Use the best open source client-side framework for cloud computing: "Discover the pros and cons of using Adobe® Flex and OpenLaszlo — two leading client-side rich Internet application (RIA) development languages that are particularly useful for building Software as a Service applications for the cloud."

Kool Skool: 15 Examples Of Awesome Bus Mod Art

Kool Skool: 15 Examples Of Awesome Bus Mod Art | WebUrbanist: "The words Bus and Boring share more than just their initial letter but that hasn’t stopped an assortment of visionary artists from jazzing up this most utilitarian form of transport. These 15 examples epitomize the height of slick transit glorious!"

Bug exposes eight years of Linux kernel

Bug exposes eight years of Linux kernel • The Register: "Linux developers have issued a critical update for the open-source OS after researchers uncovered a vulnerability in its kernel that puts most versions built in the past eight years at risk of complete takeover."

Traditional Programming Language Job Trends

Traditional Programming Language Job Trends | Regular Geek: "I recently wrote about what programming languages jobs are currently requiring. In the comments and other venues, people mentioned it would be really interesting to see the job trends over time. So, I decided to see what trend information I could find. Thankfully, Indeed and SimplyHired both have excellent trend information."

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5 Ways to Spice Up Your Gmail Signature

5 Ways to Spice Up Your Gmail Signature: "Sometimes the same old email signature day in and day out just won’t cut it. If you’re a Gmail (Gmail) user looking for some ways to mix it up a bit, you’ve come to the right place. Here are five ways to spice up your Gmail signature.

These tips vary from the practical to the creative to the random. If you have other tricks for adding something unique to your sig, let us know in the comments."

Find vulnerabilities with Metasploit

Find vulnerabilities with Metasploit: "Metasploit is a vulnerability scanning and exploit development tool that you can use to greatly enhance the security in your enterprise. Through the use of Metasploit, an organization can locate previously unknown weaknesses and begin addressing them."

Breathe New Life into Your Old PC

Breathe New Life into Your Old PC — with Windows 7 - PC World: "Rejuvenating your 7-year-old PC with Windows, not Linux, can now make technical and fiscal sense."

Text processing with Ruby

Text processing with Ruby: "Ruby is a feature-rich, free, simple, extensible, portable, and object-oriented scripting language. As a powerful text processing language, it has immense capability. With powerful built-in libraries and a set of external libraries, Ruby is a viable option for a solution to any mundane text processing task that you might encounter."

Tutorial Roundup: 53 Amazing Blender Tutorials

Tutorial Roundup: 53 Amazing Blender Tutorials - Cgtuts+: "Okay all you freeloaders... here are the Blender tutorials I promised! I got you 53 amazing tuts from around the far reaches of the interwebs. So go get some coffee or a can of coke, cause you're gonna be here for a while."

Boot Linux on the Beagle Board

Boot Linux on the Beagle Board: "The Beagle Board is an open-hardware single-board computer that is both inexpensive and capable of running Linux® at a reasonable speed. Get to know the Beagle Board, and learn how to get a Linux development environment together on the cheap."

Disney, Zemeckis Board 'Yellow Submarine'

"The studio has been quietly brokering a complicated rights deal that would give Zemeckis access to 16 original Beatles songs for a movie he will direct in the performance-capture 3-D digital production format he employed for “A Christmas Carol.” Disney opens that film November 6, with Jim Carrey playing Scrooge as well as the three ghosts who haunt him in the Charles Dickens tale."

10 Frightening Conspiracy Theories

10 Frightening Conspiracy Theories | WebUrbanist: "Secret-societies rule the world, Elvis is still alive and working down at the Piggly-Wiggly and giant lizards are in the White House. We certainly love our conspiracy theories and the Internet has become a giant repository of the paranoid, the disturbing and the downright crazy. We read it with a mixture of alarm and amusement, knowing most of it is improbable, but we’re still left with nagging doubts. After all, we know that governments really do assassinate people, commit criminal acts, and manipulate public opinion by the use of black propaganda. We know from published documents that the CIA experimented on unsuspecting subjects with LSD and that elements of American government really did consider carrying out terrorist attacks against U.S. citizens to manipulate public opinion back in the early 60s. So if the impossible is possible and the unthinkable has indeed been thought, then what else might be true ? If there’s even a little bit of truth in any of these ‘conspiracy theories’ then the world we live in is truly a terrifying place."

Linux Newbie, You Have Options.

Linux Newbie, You Have Options.: "Nothing gets people in the Linux World riled up like comparing distributions, desktops or editors. But for the new Linux user, the whole thing is a bit confusing. What do we tell them? Do we verbally slug it out in forums or do we offer gentle guidance to those entering the Linux jungle for the first time? It's hard not to offer an opinion in such emotional matters. One might believe that Linux, choice of desktop and editors are religious notions instead of technical ones. I offer the following gentle guidelines for the newbie who dares enter our sacred space."

Simplify Photo for iPhone: Remote photo-viewing

Simplify Photo for iPhone: Remote photo-viewing | iPhone Atlas - CNET Reviews: "When you want to listen to music from your computer or your friends' collections on your iPhone, Simplify Music is one solution. On Wednesday, Simplify Media introduced a similar iPhone application called Simplify Photo, which provides the same service for pictures rather than songs."

First Look: iGoogle's New Social Gadgets

First Look: iGoogle's New Social Gadgets - PC World: "Google has just launched a new series of social gadgets for your personalized iGoogle home page. The gadgets allow you to interact with both friends and strangers through a series of games and productivity tools."

12 Funniest Wedding Cake Toppers

12 Funniest Wedding Cake Toppers - Oddee.com: "Some wedding cake toppers that will give a lot to talk about."

Three crafty photoraphy tips!

Three crafty photoraphy tips! » Curbly | DIY Design Community « Keywords: Photography, craft, crafting, tips: "I occasionally get compliments from my crafty friends about my photos and what I do to make my photos look so good. I guess a lot of it comes very naturally to me, but I think a lot of it is a) experience and b) knowing the tricks of the game to get a good photo. I thought I would share today some tips for how I take my photos (illustrated with photos I take, of course)."

The Get-Started-Now Guide to Becoming Self-Employed

The Get-Started-Now Guide to Becoming Self-Employed: "One of the best things I ever did was quit my day job and become self-employed. I’m so happy with it that I’m recommending it to everyone: my kids, my friends, my sisters."

Free program to bring adults' computer skills up to speed

Free program to bring adults' computer skills up to speed -- chicagotribune.com: "Elevate America's computer training aims to give jobless adults a career lift"

How to Make Saving as Exciting as Spending

How to Make Saving as Exciting as Spending - Dumb Little Man: "Saving. It’s never going to be the most thrilling word in the world, is it? Perhaps you’d like to start or increase your savings – but you somehow never have quite enough left at the end of the month. Plus, however great it would be to have a lump sum in the bank, the process of getting there is distinctly unsexy."

I want to like Linux, but it keeps failing on me

I want to like Linux, but it keeps failing on me - Computerworld Blogs: "Recently I argued that running Firefox off a bootable copy of Linux on a CD or USB flash drive was an excellent approach for online banking. Windows users face a torrent of malware and, for many people, maintaining and using a Windows system securely requires too much time, effort and technical expertise."

PS3 Slim doesn't do Linux

PS3 Slim doesn't do Linux - News - The H Open Source: News and Features: "Sony's announcement of the new PS3 Slim, a smaller, more power efficient version of the PS3 console, comes with a sting in the tail for the Linux community. Previously, the PS3 had sported an 'Install Other OS' menu option which allowed the user to repartition the hard disk and install a PowerPC Linux distribution such as Yellow Dog or Ubuntu. For the PS3 Slim this option has been removed. The ability to install Linux had allowed some groups to sell clusters of the games console and run software which made use of the Cell processor for computation."

japanese rubber gunman shows us how to make rubber band machine guns on

japanese rubber gunman shows us how to make rubber band machine guns on [technabob]: "I can’t believe this isn’t the first time that a rubber band machine gun has been featured on this blog. Dammit. I wasn’t even aware that rubber band machine guns existed until I read this article at JapanProbe. One day I’ll be better than you boss *sniff*. Meanwhile let’s take a look at this homemade, not-so-new-news-at-technabob rubber band machine gun."

Character Head Modeling in Blender

Character Head Modeling in Blender: Part 2: "In this tutorial, we are going to look at how to model a character head in Blender. Along with basic modeling tools we will also focus heavily on good topology and how to create a clean mesh that will deform well during animation."

Opaque Wi-Fi laws 'damage UK economy, social inclusion'

Opaque Wi-Fi laws 'damage UK economy, social inclusion' • The Register: "Laws controlling the sharing of wireless internet access are hindering the digital economy and the digital social inclusion plans of Government, an academic has warned. The law should be clarified to help spread broadband access more widely, he said."

Three Minutes with a Computer Wrangler

Three Minutes with a Computer Wrangler - PC World: "David Merrill, a graduate student at the MIT Media Lab, wants to make your computer work for you -- literally. Imagine arranging images, composing electronic music and completing math and language tasks on your computer using a more three-dimensional approach. Merrill believes that the little miracle blocks he calls Siftables will help us interact with digital media in a more natural, tangible way. As their co-creator, he is passionate about this science of 'embodied media.'"

Why Your PC May Be Your Best TV

Why Your PC May Be Your Best TV - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com: "There are several ways to watch online videos from the comfort of your living room couch. I’ve tested several over the past few months, including the Apple TV, Boxee for ATV, and PlayOn for the PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360. In this final installment (for now, at least–you know how it goes with gadgets), I look at one of the most obvious ways to port online videos to the big screen. This may sound crazy, but I used–wait for it–a good ol’ fashioned PC."

\Sony Computer Entertainment America Files 'Laugh Detector' Patent

Gamasutra - News - Sony Computer Entertainment America Files 'Laugh Detector' Patent: "As new types of input devices change the way we interact with our video games, Sony Computer Entertainment America filed a patent that would track users' laughter and emotional output when playing a video game or watching other types of media."

Seven things Windows 7 can learn from Linux

Seven things Windows 7 can learn from Linux - Techworld: "I’m so excited about the release of Windows 7. Yes, really, an old Linux tragic like me can’t wait for Microsoft’s next-generation OS. But that doesn’t mean Microsoft should stop learning. Far from it, let’s consider the perfect number of moves Redmond can make to take a leaf out of Linux’s book – for the benefit of all."

Second open-source Silverlight hits beta

Second open-source Silverlight hits beta • The Register: "The second edition of the open-source edition of Microsoft's Silverlight media player has been released to beta testing."

Building a News Aggregating Site Using Drupal 6

Building a News Aggregating Site Using Drupal 6: "The example project in this article by Timi Ogunjobi is based on a fictitious web site development brief, and it illustrates a practical way of applying Drupal to develop a News Aggregation site called Weird Hap'nins. Bad news is always good news for the press. This is why Vaughan Pyre has decided to take advantage of this fact and create a web site that will aggregate bad news and weird happenings from all over the world. The content of the site will be entirely derived from Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds from several sources (each feed being automatically fetched and its items displayed on the web site)."

Thoughts from OSCON 2009: Open government, concurrency

Thoughts from OSCON 2009: Open government, concurrency: "The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is nothing if not a place to collect one's deeper thoughts around software development. The 2009 convention offered more than its share of inspiration, but David Mertz whittled the schedule down and focused on two very different but important areas: open government and concurrency."

Hackers Break Into Police Computer

Hackers Break Into Police Computer | Australian Federal Police: "An Australian Federal Police boast, on the ABC's Four Corners program last night, about officers breaking up an underground hacker forum, has backfired after hackers broke into a federal police computer system."

The truth about the pandemic flu vaccines

The truth about the pandemic flu vaccines: "The other thing is that according to the UK experts at the National Institute for Medical Research mentioned that 'Analysis done so far suggests what they are dealing with is a mild virus.' 'It is believed that a further mutation would be needed in order for the H1N1 virus to cause the mass deaths that have been estimated by some.'"