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It's been said that a mechanic is only as good as his or her tools. In this recipe I'll tell you about little-known freeware and shareware utilities that can help system builders do a faster, better job of diagnosing and repairing ailing computer systems. All of these tools are completely free of any spyware or adware, and none require any registration whatsoever. Together, these tools will equip your toolkit to fix a dozen common PC problems.

Triplex Invaders, Maniadrive, and Lost Labyrinth are perfect for some quick gaming before going out to weekend activities. PCBurn takes a look at what these three Linux games have got and why you might want to give them a try.

Mandriva, the publisher of the popular Mandriva Linux operating system, and the OpenVZ project today announced that the OpenVZ operating system virtualization software will be included as part of the Mandriva Corporate Server 4.0.

One of the reasons that I prefer using Vim to a word processor or GUI application is that my hands rarely need to leave the keyboard. I can do all my copying and pasting using Vim keybindings. When it comes to my window manager, I try to do the same thing -- work with tools that let me use the keyboard to navigate as much as possible without having to use the mouse. If you use KDE, you can save quite a bit of time by becoming familiar with all of KDE's shortcuts.

After a successful Beta period, Jitterbit announced the general release of its first stable edition - Jitterbit 1.0. This release is a major milestone in the development of the Jitterbit open source integration project and is a production-ready end-user version.

In the last several days a flurry of postings about a new company calledM2Z piled up in my email box.Technorati finds 163 new posts on the subject.Google's Blogsearch finds 329. (As of 4:30am Friday morning, which is when I'm writing this.) The pile will get a lot higher before M2Z gets off the ground. Or buried under it.

Backing Up and Restoring Using the cpio Command in Linux and Unix

Open Source is changing the way that Gartner Group measures the application development market. The big loser as a result may well be proprietary Java application development tools.

[Here's some news that ought to be fairly well-received - dcparris]

The One Laptop Per Child project achieved what it's referring to as a major milestone this week, combining the hardware and software for the $100 laptop for the first time. It also showed off alternative designs and colour schemes.

LXer Feature: 26-May-06

Now, because of your aversion to learning the least little thing about your computer, those that make them operate are taking that ability away from you. Some would say you deserve it. In fact, a good number of them are Linux Users...they say it's the price you pay for staying ignorant. Some have went as far as to say you are stupid, therefore you deserve to be led around by the nose.

Picasa is a photo organizing and editing tool from Google that does most of what most people need to do with their digital pictures. Now Picasa, previously a Windows-only program, has binaries available for most popular GNU/Linux distributions. The Linux version of Picasa is still a beta release, but it's ready to handle photo storage, organizing, and light photo editing on your Linux computer.

DistroWatch states - The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the Release Candidate for version 6.06 LTS of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu - codenamed 'Dapper Drake'. The Release Candidates includes installable live Desktop CDs, server images, alternate text-mode installation CDs and an upgrade wizard for users of the current stable release. We consider this release candidate complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user. OSDir has some sweet shots of both Ubuntu 6.06 RC and Kubuntu 6.06 RC.

It appears that the European Commission has had a sudden change of heart on the issue of software patents. In its response (Microsoft Word document) yesterday to a question posed by a Polish European Parliament member, the EC said that the European Patent Office would not grant any more software patents and that any patents that have already been granted may now be challenged and overturned in court.

Brussels, 24 May 2006. In a reply to a question from Polish MEP and inventor Adam Gierek, the European Commission has confirmed that the European Patent Office's (EPO) case law is not binding for member states, nor (under the proposed Community Patent regulation) for the European Court of Justice (ECJ). For the first time, the Commission has also clearly stated that computer programs are not patentable subject matter, without hiding behind the infamous "as such" cop-out.

A unique closed-source network monitoring product called Splunk is helping the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSUOSL) further its mission to "accelerate the adoption of open source software across the globe."

While Big News Media frets that the NSA may be sifting through cell phone chatter to find terrorists, the VA lets crooks steal Social Security Numbers by the millions. As if that's not bad enough, local officials across the nation have become ID-thief enablers by posting individuals' Social Security Numbers on their websites. Email Battles tells you why locals do it, and what you need to do to protect your own identity from local officials' incompetence.

Linux will become the dominant operating system (OS) for Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Latest News about Oracle databases by 2007, displacing Solaris, according to a recent survey from the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUC) -- but just by a smidge.

Red Hat | Europe, Middle East, Africa Training News | May 2006

You can speed up downloads or web page access time with Apache mod_deflate module. The mod_deflate module provides the DEFLATE output filter that allows output from your server to be compressed before being sent to the client over the network. This decreases the amount of time and data transmitted over the network, resulting in faster web experience or downloads for visitors.

Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker readily admitted to silicon.com that the enterprise is "not our sweet spot" but said the organisation offers an enterprise customisation kit created by an IBM developer and said it's interested in working with partners to address the needs of corporate IT.