<b>ars Technica:</b> "The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) isn't just another secret treaty—it's a way of life. If ACTA passes in anything like its current form, it will create an entirely new international secretariat to administer and extend the agreement."
What is a lightweight Linux? It seems the bar keeps moving upwards. But there are still genuine lightweight Linuxes that keep good old PCs out of landfills, as Paul Ferrill discovers with Puppy Linux.
<b>Lifehacker:</b> "XBMC is a fantastic and free cross-platform media center application we're nuts for. If you've wanted to start using it or just wanted to customize the XBMC installation you're already running, this guide will walk you through everything, from installation to total customization."
<b>Telegraph:</b> "The compendium of ill thought out web addresses, largely from companies who naively slurred their innocent-sounding names into a single word without noticing the resulting double entendres, lists more than 150 "slurls", or slur URLs."
<b>Hardware Central:</b> "Intel plans to introduce a series of new Atom processors at the opening of the giant Computex show in Taipei this week, as well as offer a preview a number of other offerings. But Atom will be the star of the show."
<b>The Inquirer: </b>"As operating systems increasingly become visual feasts, those who want to create useful interaction enhancements are having to bend over backwards thanks to closed source software in order to bring innovation to the user's environment."
<b>Desktop Linux Reviews: </b>"KahelOS is essentially a remastered version of Arch Linux. Arch Linux has always had a reputation as being somewhat inaccessible to average desktop users, and KahelOS is an attempt to make Arch Linux more accessible to more people."
<b>Wine-Reviews:</b> "The Wine development release 1.2-rc1 is now available. The source is available now, Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations."<br> <i>Link fixed --ed.</i>
<b>The H Open:</b> "Improvements include graphics drivers for recent Radeon GPUs and for the graphics cores of some Intel processors that are only expected to be released early next year. Another new addition is the LogFS SSD file system."
Are you in the market for a flash drive or a portable hard drive? Here's what you need to know to buy the right device to keep your portable data safe.
<b>IT World: </b>"Taking the results at face value, the likely respondent from the 1696 total is a male programmer who works for a high-tech company with fewer than 100 employees. Oh, and their favorite IDE is some flavor of Eclipse."
<b>Linux Planet: </b>"Have you ever thought about how you really spend your time at work? If you're wondering where the time goes, the GNOME Time Tracker is a great tool to help you keep an eye on which activities eat up your days."
The company is trying to attract Web developers to Sharepoint 2010, while at the same time keeping the product integrated with a long list of other Microsoft products.
The following steps provide two methods of putting the fresh new release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) on a USB stick. The first method will create a bootable USB stick with a live version and the second process will create a live version with persistence.
Network security isn't easy, but there are plenty of ways to maximize the return you get on your efforts. Here are fifteen ways to gain a lot more security for less effort than you might expect.
No need to catch a plane to attend this Microsoft technical conference. The company has decided that to reach a broader audience, Windows Summit 2010 will be only available online.