Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 17.04.2009

Linux

Open-Source Options for Small Business

Small Business Computing: "The good news is that now there are plenty of op (...)

Linux

Slicing and Dicing on the Command Line

Linux Magazine: "If you don't know text, you don't know Linux. There are a (...)

Linux

Does a court ruling raise the risks of open source

InfoWorld: "Moreover, a ruling that could put money into the pockets of wro (...)

Linux

Open Source SSL Acceleration

o3 magazine: "A look at utilizing Open Source projects to build an SSL Acce (...)

Linux

On open source vs disclosed source voting systems

Freedom to Tinker: "...taking a software product that was once proprietary (...)

Linux

Linux Delivered Your Way

Serverwatch: "When it comes to operating systems, are you tired of taking w (...)

Linux

The Professionalisation of Free Software

Open Enterprise: "Successful projects often progress to the next stage, whe (...)

Linux

Why Microsoft won round one of netbook wars

ZDNet: "None ran Linux. All ran Windows." (...)

Linux

Top 15 Creative and Hilarious Acronym Expansions of Emacs

Tech Source From Bohol: "We all know that Emacs stands for "Editor MACroS", (...)

Linux

Linux Mint: Ubuntu plus stuff you probably want

Jamie's Random Musings: "I thought it might be just another Ubuntu derivati (...)

Linux

NSW Government not giving away Linux vs Microsoft details

IT Wire: "The Government has been far from forthcoming when it comes to rev (...)

Multimedia

March video game sales slump more than expected (AP)

U.S. video game sales slumped more than expected in March and were flat in (...)

Multimedia

Renaissance Learning, Inc Announces First Quarter, 2009 Results (PR Newswire)

Renaissance Learning®, Inc. , a leading provider of technology to support p (...)

Multimedia

Activision Blizzard Up on High Volume (Zackscom)

Activision Blizzard is up more than 2% today on un (...)

Hardware

PC Shipments Decline in Q1, Q2 Looking Better

The low-end dominates as people hold on to their money, while signs of life (...)

Linux

Can GNOME Regain the Evolutionary Advantage over KDE

Datamation: "The Internet has a habit of making anything you say obsolete a (...)

Linux

Tart, Funny, Smart, Insightful, Whiny: Linux Today Reader Comments

Linux Today Blog: "They make me laugh, they make me go "Hmmm, good stuff", (...)

Linux

ars technica: Death of Linux on netbooks greatly exaggerated

ars Technica: "A Microsoft blogger says that the Windows operating system h (...)

Linux

Ask the Wi-Fi Guru: Making a Linux-based Hotspot

WiFi Planet: "Q: I have to set up a temporary Wi-Fi hotspot at a seminar in (...)

Linux

Shuttleworth: Oracle a Litmus test for Linux, Ubuntu

Netstat -vat: "I asked Mark Shuttleworth founder of Ubuntu about the lack o (...)

Linux

The five best, new things in Ubuntu Linux 904

Cyber Cynic: "I've been using Jaunty Jackalope--what a name!--for the last (...)

Linux

How to Kill a Linux/Unix System and Live to Tell the Tale

The ERACC Web Log: "While in the /etc directory I issued this command:
(...)

Linux

10 (Latest) Beautiful Plasma Themes for KDE 4 Desktop

Tech Source From Bohol: "Since a lot of you loved our collection of some of (...)

Linux

The forefathers of the modern computer age

l2admin: "This no doubt will turn out to be a contrevertial list but these (...)

Linux

First look: Kogan Agora

Technology & Business: "This Australian-owned netbook is among the first in (...)

Linux

Ubuntu 904 Free CDs: Orders Are Taken Now

Softpedia: "There's only one week left until the final release of Ubuntu 9. (...)

Linux

Linux Desktop in Peril Solution Education

Ken Hess's Linux Blog: "As I've written before, the Linux desktop in dange (...)

Linux

The Linux Foundation Video Contest: An Experiment That Failed

Off the Beat: "As things were, for all the talk of freedom, few entrants bo (...)

Linux

Teaching Programing Skills to Children with Logo

Linux Journal: "As a parent of three young boys, I often think about what i (...)

Linux

Bringing Light Into The Darkness

Blog of Helios: "The Settlement Home is founded by 450 caring Austin and Ce (...)

Linux

Ubuntu circus set to start again

IT Wire: "Six days from today, the Ubuntu circus will start all over again. (...)

Linux

Pirate Bay founders found guilty

BBC News: "A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB (...)

Linux

Microsoft Encarta died - why And will its contents be lost

Free Software Magazine: "Microsoft has recently announced that its beloved (...)

Linux

Texas DP hit by virus

The Herald Banner: "The Texas Department of Public Safety continued repair (...)

Multimedia

This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades (at Motley Fool)

MKM says it's game over for EA. (...)

Multimedia

Analyst Slashes Take-Two Estimates In Wake Of GTA Bomb (SiliconAlley)

Disappointing sales of the hotly anticipated Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wa (...)