Multimedia, HTPC and IT news, 01.12.2008

Linux

Linux Foundation Certifies All Major Distros as IPv6 Compliant

OStatic: "The Linux Foundation announced this week that all "major" Linux d (...)

Linux

5 Pranks for Your Linux-Using Friend

Linux Loop: "Warning! Please use your judgment about the person, the comput (...)

Linux

How To Install VMware Server 2 On Ubuntu 810

HowtoForge: "This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to ins (...)

Linux

Upgrading to Trac 011

Linux System Admins Blog: "The TracUpgrade official documentation describes (...)

Linux

Clone/Back Up/Restore OpenVZ VMs With vzdump

HowtoForge: "vzdump is a backup and restore utility for OpenVZ VMs. This tu (...)

Multimedia

NetDragon Enters into Agreement with EA to Develop New Online Game -- Dungeon Keeper Online (PR News

NetDragon Websoft Inc., a leading game developer and operator in the People (...)

Linux

10 Mistakes New Linux Administrators Make

TechRepublic: "But that nightmare doesn"t have to happen, especially when y (...)

Linux

6 of the Best Lean Linux Desktop Environments

LinuxLinks: For users and developers who want to run an attractive Linux de (...)

Linux

Val Henson meets the Honeywell H316 Kitchen Computer

Val Henson's Homepage: "Hello! It is 1969, and my wonderful husband has bou (...)

Multimedia

Hands-On Mobiles Guitar Hero® World Tour Mobile Now Available Nationwide (Business Wire)

SAN FRANCISCO----Mobile phone subscribers everywhere will now have the oppo (...)

Multimedia

Video Game Industry Proves to Be Recession-Proof (at Seeking Alpha)

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Multimedia

Destroy All Humans!® Path of the Furon Ships to Retail Outlets Nationwide (Business Wire)

AGOURA HILLS, Calif.----THQ Inc. today announced Destroy All Humans!® Path (...)

Linux

Is IT Offshoring an Overhyped Myth

Datamation: "Jerry Luftman, the SIM VP of academic affairs and a professor (...)

Linux

Cool Command Line Apps for GNU/Linux and other Unix Systems

Internetling: "Even though I am a strong advocate of learning as much as yo (...)

Linux

Data Encryption and Ubuntu, Part III

IT Wire: "In the previous article we looked at the basics of using PGP, cre (...)

Linux

Blocking Zombie Spam Netblocks

BeginLinux: "You will need to have an iptables firewall and add this sectio (...)

Linux

Multimedia Support in Fedora 10

Complete Dose of Linux Poison: "That doesn't mean you can't play .mp3 files (...)

Linux

The State Of The Tux3 File-System

Phoronix: "Btrfs has received much of the limelight on Linux when talking a (...)

Linux

The 2008 Guide To Open Source Hardware Projects

Wired: ""What is open source hardware? Briefly, these are projects that cre (...)

Linux

Microsoft Cuddles up to Open Source

Linux Magazine: "Another model of transparency that Microsoft likes to pres (...)

Linux

An Amicus Brief: Issues in the Cyberbullying Case That Affect You - Updated

Groklaw: "I think when you read it, it will turn your hair white. It did me (...)

Linux

Proprietary Firmware and the Pursuit of a Free Kernel

Datamation: "The GNewSense team was the first to point out that the Linux k (...)

Linux

First Dedicated Netbook Summit to be Held in Paris

World Netbook Forum: "On December 1st, the first international conference d (...)

Linux

Atheros Wi-Fi goes open-source, Linux friendly

Cyber Cynic: "However, although Atheros has been popular, they haven't alwa (...)

Linux

Ride the D-Bus, Control Your Linux Desktop From the Shell

Foss Boss: "Many utilities nowadays are implementing D-Bus connectivity. It (...)