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This little known "law" is a corollary to the more famous Moore's Law of semiconductor growth. My last column created some interest outside of the Linux Magazine domain. In addition to being accused of shilling ARM processors, there were those who thought my prediction of ARM based supercomputers quite absurd. Of course, I have been wrong before, but not this time.

If you missed SCaLE 9X you won't want to miss this episode! Interviews with Leigh Honeywell (Hackerspaces), Jane Silber (Canonical), Orv Beach (SCaLE), Donald Burr (SCaLE), as well as, Lightning Interviews from the expo floor. Check out all the things you missed or relive the conference all over again.

I've been getting closer and closer to needing a Dropbox-like utility on my Linux, Windows and Mac machines (one of each, really). I need access to a certain subset of my files on more than one computer. I could've gone with Ubuntu One, except that I'm not running Ubuntu (and the Windows client is in beta ... no Mac client as far as I know).

Gosling says self interest rules Oracle has got no choice but to get it right on Java, according to Java founder James Gosling, who has voiced some support for the database giant's proposed changes.

Squid Proxy Server 3.1: Beginner's Guide is a new book from Packt that will help system administrators get the most out of their network connection by customizing Squid's access control lists. Written by Kulbir Saini, this book will make readers aware of the how to get the most out of Squid by customizing it for their network. They will also learn about the different configuration options available as well as the transparent and accelerated modes that enable readers to focus on particular areas of network.

HP CEO Leo Apotheker is preparing an HP cloud computing strategy and considering software acquisitions. Red Hat is an ideal target, according to The VAR Guy. Here's why.

ABLEconf announces presentations and speakers for its conference on April 2nd in Tempe, Arizona. Highlights include Open Source cars, business migrations to Open Source Software and GNU/Linux accessibility for the blind.

A full review of Fusion Linux 14, including a gallery of images.

Jean Delvare, the maintainer of the Linux kernel's i2c and hwmon subsystems and the usual release manager of LM_Sensors, has just called for the release of LM_Sensors 3.3.0. Jean plans to release LM_Sensors 3.3.0 so he has put forth a call for testing in the days up to the 26th of March...

Now that I'm using Dropbox to keep my critical files synced between my Debian Squeeze-running laptop and Windows XP-running desktop, I thought I'd spend the day in XP to see how well things run. I have 1 GB of memory and a Pentium 4 at 3 GHz. Not a screaming rig to be sure, but not the worst either (depending on who you ask). At any rate, I'm not getting a new box anytime soon, so it is what it is.

Portwell announced a Mini-ITX board designed to accept Intel's & Sandy Bridge& Core i3, i5, or i7 processors. The WADE-8012 supports up to 8GB of DDR3 memory, has six SATA ports and three video outputs, and provides two gigabit Ethernet ports, according to the company....

By now you have likely seen the AMD Fusion E-350 APU showcased on a number of Windows web-sites, but how is this AMD Accelerated Processor working in the Linux world? At Phoronix today are the first in-depth Ubuntu Linux benchmarks being published from this promising, low-power solution designed to compete with Intel's Atom.

Do you have a brand new SSD? Do you plan to partition it? Let's talk about the best way to set up your SSD so partitions -- and the resulting file systems -- align on page boundaries, thus improving performance and minimizing the number of rewrite cycles.

Nearly three decades into his quest to rid the world of proprietary software, Richard Stallman sees a new threat to user freedom: smartphones. "I don't have a cell phone. I won't carry a cell phone," says Stallman, founder of the free software movement and creator of the GNU operating system. "It's Stalin's dream. Cell phones are tools of Big Brother. I'm not going to carry a tracking device that records where I go all the time, and I'm not going to carry a surveillance device that can be turned on to eavesdrop."

CrunchBang is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Debian. It comes in OpenBox and XFCE editions, and a very dark visual theme. It's the OpenBox version that I took a look at. Being based on Debian is a point is its favor as it means that standard trouble shooting and standard packages work on the system. The documentation on the website assures that CrunchBang is, essentially, a standard Debian installation with a few additional custom packages.

The release schedule for Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) operating system has been published on the Ubuntu wiki. The distribution will be released in the middle of October 2011.

Thunderbird Conversations 2.0 is an add-on for Thunderbird 3.3 that enables Gmail style threaded conversations view. The add-on is currently in alpha stage but it is quite stable so far.Thunderbird Conversations will only work with latest Thunderbird 3.3 Miramar which itself is in Alpha stage. Since both add-on and client is in alpha stage, use them cautiously.

One of the most powerful options you can use with find is time criteria such as modified time, accessed time or changed time. Understanding how to use these elements will provide more effective searches.

This guide explains how to set up WebDAV with Apache2 on a CentOS 5.5 server. WebDAV stands for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning and is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to directly edit files on the Apache server so that they do not need to be downloaded/uploaded via http://FTP. Of course, WebDAV can also be used to upload and download files.

Recent changes to how RHEL kernel patches are distributed is creating barriers for developers. Why did Red Hat make this change? To stay competitive.