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Why restrict yourself to merely carrying around your data on a thumb drive? Take your entire operating system on your flash drive with the excellent portable operating systems you'll find inside this week's Hive Five.

This is a list, fairly recent, in fact, of default passwords and user IDs for various makes and models of router devices. I thought it might be useful for bookmarking. The rest of the site is interesting as well.

At the Linux Collaboration Summit, the director of Intel's Open Source Technology Center talked about the upcoming Moblin Linux OS.

Like anyone else who writes about software I subscribe to the maxim that a picture paints a thousand words. In short, I like to illustrate my text with timely and relevant screenshots; so I’m always on the lookout for good, free software to get the job done. Back in the mists of time I looked at a command-line utility called Scrot. It’s immensely powerful and configurable but it does take some setting up. Not really entirely convenient when you just want to concentrate on writing the definitive user guide for some piece of killer software. I think Shutter may well be the solution. Read the full tutorial at Freesoftware Magazine.

On Thursday the New York Times reported that 100 IBM lawyers were holed up in a hotel in Silicon Valley poring over the Sun intellectual property portfolio. Four days later the proposed deal has collapsed, even though Big Blue's desire to get its hands on Sun's IP is said to be one of the primary factors behind its move for the company. So what is going on here? Have those lawyers found a big problem? Are the anti-trust issues too much of an obstacle. Or is this just a case of IBM playing hardball? Maybe it is the latter. I can't help thinking of an article that Andrew Watson wrote for IAM a while back. One which I have quoted before.

Scientific Learning Corp. announced its plans to contribute free neuroscience- and technology-based activities from the Fast ForWord and Reading Assistant family of products, as well as newly created lessons, to FreeReading.net. FreeReading.net is a free, research-based open source reading program for the elementary grades. "We're excited to partner with an open source instructional program developed by leading researchers and curriculum experts to help educators around the world teach kids to read," said Andy Myers, CEO of Scientific Learning. "At Scientific Learning, we believe there are two sides to effective learning -- a research-based curriculum and a well-prepared brain that is able to capture, process and retain information. Through this partnership, we can provide teachers with easy access to free curriculum that helps students improve the underlying cognitive skills that build brain capacity and accelerate learning."

Almost one year later the first release of "a program kinda like portsentry" is here. It would have been sooner if I had not made the mistake of trying to adopt someone else's program wholesale. Writing from the ground up proved to be the right thing to do for a change. Anyhow here it is netward-1.0; a small bit of software that one can apply pcap filters to for monitoring and logging. I plan on adding a few alerting and similar capabilities later but netward is a good first line of defence

Most vendors are already preparing for a tough Christmas. Those selling Linux-based solutions, however, can expect to spread plenty of holiday cheer, according to a new report from IDC, "The Opportunity for Linux in a New Economy." (PDF) Even as Red Hat recently talked up its impressive quarterly results, it's important to recognize that not all of Linux's success can be seen in corporate financial results.

One of the things about getting older is that you learn to ignore things until you have to do something about them. It’s a learned efficiency, I suppose, rationing your increasingly precious time out to the unceasing demands upon it. I finally realized I have to do some serious thinking about cloud computing. “Hang on a minute, don’t you work at Google ?” I hear you say. Well, yes, but in my defense many of the people who work at Google don’t have anything to do with cloud computing. Some of us have to keep the conference rooms clean, write Open Source/Free Software, things of that nature.

Time Warner Cable has increased all of its Internet data caps, added some new ones, and generously offered to limit overage charges to $75/month. Perhaps that's because the company's broadband operations are actually earning more cash and have lower expenses than they did in 2007, making TWC's stated rationale for the caps less tenable.

This guide explains how you can install and use KVM for creating and running virtual machines on a CentOS 5.2 server. I will show how to create image-based virtual machines and also virtual machines that use a logical volume (LVM). KVM is short for Kernel-based Virtual Machine and makes use of hardware virtualization, i.e., you need a CPU that supports hardware virtualization, e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V.

Inkscape is my vector graphics application of choice. It can do a wide variety of vector drawing tasks with relatively little effort. It uses the now-standard SVG vector format as its native format, and it has become very extensible through a simple “stream-based”, language-agnostic scripting system. On modern systems, it is reasonably responsive (though not the fastest), and the interface layout is well-balanced and fairly intuitive. Read the full tutorial at Freesoftware Magazine.

So this month i decide to give my laptop an apple flavor, God knows how much i hate Macs and some element of their interface, like the lack of right click, most of all the lack of freedom and ownership it and every other proprietary Operating system makes me feel.

University of Utah officials say a computer virus has infected more than 700 campus computers, including those at the school's three hospitals. University health sciences spokesman Chris Nelson said the outbreak of the Conficker worm, which can slow computers and steal personal information, was first detected Thursday. By Friday, the virus had infiltrated computers at the hospitals, medical school, and colleges of nursing, pharmacy and health.

Project management tools encompass many different types of software such as scheduling, resource allocation, collaboration software, quality management, and cost control / budget management. This type of software is typically used by project managers looking to plan and control resources, costs and schedules to meet the objectives of a project.

A few days ago I reviewed Deluge, a powerful BitTorrent client for GNOME, so today I will continue in the same manner with the latest release of its KDE counterpart, the popular KTorrent.

In their usual bi-weekly ritual, the open-source WINE developers have released a new version of this software used to run Windows programs on Linux and other operating systems. The latest development release of WINE is version 1.1.19 and it offers support for Visual C++ project files in winemaker, improvements to the Esound driver, many Direct3D code cleanups, fixes to the OLE clipboard handling, and OpenBSD compilation fixes.

We're used to thinking of Linux distributions being set in stone. They're either KDE or Gnome, use a certain kernel and bundle certain applications. But this doesn't have to be the case. If you find yourself making the same adjustments each time you install a new distribution, it's worth creating your own customised version. Revisor is a tool that lets you do just this, and in this tutorial, we'll show you how...

This isn't Burger King. You don't get it your way.

Many times I have experienced windows system administrators who just didn't care about Linux. These people are not against Linux, they just don't have very much of an opinion about it. If I try to convince someone like that, I can take my whole live just trying to convince them to even try it. But I found a way to make them experience Linux.