Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 09.10.2009

Linux

Mozilla LABS releases Weave 07

ItRunsOnLinux: "Mozilla LABS has released Weave 0.7. This tool lets you sec (...)

Linux

5 Useful Tools to Access Linux Partition from Windows

Linux and Microcontroller Tips: "If you currently have Windows OS running a (...)

Linux

Product Spotlight: SystemRescueCD

Product Spotlight: "SystemRescueCD is a Linux-based rescue disk that contai (...)

Linux

Microsoft Developing a 128-bit Operating System

Linux Today Blog: "Is this really a big deal? Are we going to need 128-bit (...)

Linux

Dell: Ubuntu Desktop PC Finally Surfaces

WorksWithU: "Dell’s U.S. website has finally made good on a promise t (...)

Linux

Quick and easy backups with Flyback

Ghacks: "If you’re looking for a tool for really simple and quick bac (...)

Linux

Small size, small price, big impact

Aurora Sentinel: "Small, cheap, tough and perfect. That’s how local s (...)

Linux

How the Google Phone Works

HowStuffWorks: "An important factor that sets Android apart from most other (...)

Linux

Gentoo: Ten Years Emerge

Linux Magazine: "Gentoo, the most popular source based distribution, has tu (...)

Multimedia

Report: Lackluster Game Sales Lead To Studio Closures, Layoffs At Activision (paidContentorg)

While rival gaming companies like EA and *THQ* were laying off thousands of (...)

Linux

Speed up your IDE/ATA hard drive with hdparm

Ghacks: "The Linux operating system has a really nice tool for testing and (...)

Linux

Announcing the Web Application Security Scanner Evaluation Criteria v1

Web Application Security Consortium: "Web Application Security Scanners are (...)

Linux

The realtime preemption mini-summit

LWN.net: "Threaded interrupt handlers came out early in the discussion. Thi (...)

Linux

Open Core: The worst of both worlds

Lone Wolves: "However, I think that most them are missing the elephant in t (...)

Linux

Suse Studio Review

Matthew Casperson's Hubfolio: "Suse Studio provides a free online tool that (...)

Linux

Mesa 76 Gets Pulled Into Ubuntu 910

Phoronix: "Pulling in this newer code that provides OpenGL acceleration on (...)

Linux

New Ubuntu Community Council elected

The H Open: "Seven members were elected by the community from the twelve ca (...)

Multimedia

EA Announces FLIPS on the Nintendo DS (Business Wire)

GUILDFORD, England----Electronic Arts today announces the development of FL (...)

Multimedia

Famed Composer Tyler Bates to Score ARMY OF TWO: THE 40TH DAY (Business Wire)

MONTREAL----EA Montreal, a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. , today announced (...)

Multimedia

US IPOs perk up in Q3 (at MarketWatch)

U.S. initial public offerings recorded the highest quarterly proceeds and n (...)

Multimedia

Left Behind Games, Inc Announces Final Day For Eligibility For Forward Stock Split (PR Newswire)

Left Behind Games Inc. , dba Inspired Media Entertainment, announces this i (...)

Linux

Eolas might just sue every last, lousy company in creation

Cyber Cynic: "Computerworld - Do you want to know why I hate patent trolls (...)

Linux

Hulu Labs Cooks Up Linux Support For Hulu Desktop, New Publisher Tools

TechCrunch: "Hulu is launching two new additions to Labs: Publisher Tools a (...)

Linux

The Kernel Newbie Corner: initrd and initramfs --Some Unfinished Business

Linux Foundation: "Since a few people seemed interested, I'm going to expan (...)

Linux

Does Microsoft complicate its licensing on purpose

Computer World: ""They are impossible to track, and because they're impossi (...)

Linux

Does technology equal mush for brains

Technology & Life Integration: "Our little gadgets require feeding of elect (...)

Linux

Ripping Audio CDs in Linux

Linux.com: "GNU/Linux offers several tools for ripping, some specific to th (...)

Linux

Geeky Way of Putting Your Baby To Sleep

Tech Source From Bohol: "Are you tired of manually rocking your baby to sle (...)

Linux

Debian pushes development of kFreeBSD port

Debian News: "The Debian Release Team is pleased to announce that it sees t (...)

Linux

Ubuntu Linux 904 - Technical Details

Direct2Dell: "Though it's late, we're now offering Ubuntu 9.04 on a few mor (...)

Linux

Who really has the most Linux users

Cyber Cynic: "First, Red Hat's claimed the lion's share of the Linux market (...)

Linux

Open source green energy gets Gates Foundation blessing

CIO: "Microsoft founder Bill Gates' philanthropic organization, the Gates F (...)

Hardware

Cisco Extends Unified Computing With Virtual NICs

New rack UCS server availability announced as new virtual network interface (...)