Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 01.04.2009

Linux

Conficker: Over 300,000 Domains Blocked, Millions Infected

InternetNews: "With just hours to go before the widespread Conficker worm i (...)

Linux

The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir: An awesomely effective assault on good taste

RealTech News: "What do you get when you cover an old Volvo with singing fi (...)

Linux

4 Ways to Create CD/DVD ISO Images in Ubuntu

TuxArena: "In this guide I will show how to create CD/DVD ISO images in Ubu (...)

Linux

Open Source Is The Pinnacle Of The Free Market

California Quantum: "...I do want to point out that the open source world i (...)

Linux

On the TomTom settlement: Microsoft Rolls Back its Open Promises

Jim Zemlin's blog: "When it counts, it appears that Microsoft still activel (...)

Linux

The current state and future of Python

Tech Czar: "I interviewed with Google last year and I noticed they were hea (...)

Linux

25 highly anticipated open-source releases coming this year

Computerworld: "And there are plenty of remarkable open-source applications (...)

Linux

Ubuntu 904 Beta comes with improved netbook support

EeePC: "The popular Linux distribution Ubuntu has it latest Beta version r (...)

Linux

Open Source Set to Thump Apple (in the Long Run)

WiFi Planet: "The number of mobile application users is set to quadruple in (...)

Hardware

HP Wants to Cash In on Cloud Deployment

IT giant will bring its unsung software unit's strength to bear for firms l (...)

Linux

TV-Browser - A Digital TV Guide in openSUSE

SUSE & openSUSE: "TV-Browser is a simple Digital TV Guide that supports mor (...)

Linux

Troubleshooting the FreeNAS server

Packt: "The first place to head whenever you have a configuration problem w (...)

Linux

Will SLES Make Virtualization Ubiquitous

ServerWatch: "In fictional realms, change can happen in the flip of a page. (...)

Linux

Which SQL is MySQL

Cyber Cynic: "I can be an idiot some days. As proof I'll only mention that (...)

Linux

Webopedia Term of the Day: 80211n

Webopedia: "An extension to 802.11 specification developed by the IEEE for (...)

Linux

Installing VirtualBox 2 On A Debian Lenny Desktop

HowtoForge: "This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox 2 o (...)

Multimedia

Glu Mobile Announces the Launch of Build-a-lot on Apple App Store (Business Wire)

SAN MATEO, Calif.----Glu Mobile Inc. , a leading global publisher of mobile (...)

Multimedia

THQ President and CEO Brian Farrell to Present on Kaufman Brothers Conference Call (Business Wire)

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.----THQ Inc. today announced that THQ's President and C (...)

Multimedia

EA Announces The Godfather II Premium Upgrade Packs (Business Wire)

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.----Electronic Arts Inc. and Paramount Digital Entertai (...)

Multimedia

Gigamedia and Mythic Entertainment to Launch Taiwan Closed Beta for Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoni

TAIPEI, Taiwan----Gigamedia Ltd , publisher of Warhammer® Online: Age of R (...)

Linux

TomTom - Settled, But Not Over Yet says SFLC - Update

Groklaw: "Red Hat was not a party to this case. Even so, without a judicial (...)

Linux

What Have You Done For Linux Today

Daileymuse: "Over the past week I've been blogging about the Linux vs Windo (...)

Linux

New security features in Fedora 11 beta

TechWorld: "The latest beta of The Fedora Project's Linux includes new secu (...)

Linux

Microsoft-TomTom settlement is end of a battle, not the war

Computerworld: "In a surprising turn of developments, GPS navigation device (...)

Linux

How to Distro Hop Without Killing Your Productivity

ProductiveLinux: "A well known phenomenon here in the Linux world is "distr (...)

Linux

CentOS 53 Is Here, Based on RHEL 53

Softpedia: "The CentOS development team, through Karanbir Singh, announced (...)

Linux

New GNOME version brings Linux desktops two steps closer to business

ZDNet UK: "The GNOME project has released version 2.26 of its eponymous ope (...)

Linux

Sun Lays Off 1,500 as IBM Merger Looms

Enterprise Storage Forum: "Sun Microsystems is moving ahead with plans to l (...)

Linux

One giant step closer to the Google Linux desktop

Cyber Cynic: "Google still isn't saying publicly that they're going to depl (...)

Linux

Upside-Down-Ternet (Classic Prank and Good Wireless Security)

Upside-Down-Ternet: "My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access (...)

Linux

How PAM works

TuxRadar: "Take our guided tour of PAM, join our science lab and perform ou (...)

Linux

Puppy 42 ScreenShots

Linux Dynasty: "This is the first time I ever used Puppy Linux and the inte (...)

Multimedia

Take-Two settles stock options backdating case (AP)

Video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. said Wednesday it h (...)

Multimedia

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc Reaches Settlements Regarding Investigations of Historical Stock

NEW YORK----Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. today announced that it ent (...)