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The perfect prank to pull when your buddy steps away from
their PC for a few moments!! This classic has been around
forever but it never gets old!! If you've ever done this
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/426607/the_fastest_xp_prank_ever/

FBUI uses the Linux kernel and framebuffer to display a graphical interface and window managers in LESS THAN 50KB of memory. Great for embedded systems that don't need a full X11 install!
http://home.comcast.net/~fbui/
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Integrated_GUI_in_Linux_kernel

"We are involved in a number of massive deals for Linux desktops, and those are the kinds of things that are indicators of critical mass. So we are really looking at it very hard," said Doug Small, worldwide director of open source and Linux marketing at HP. "We are in a massive deal right now for ... multi-thousands of units of a desktop opportunity for Linux. That's an indicator." He declined to give details about the Linux deals.
http://www.crn.com/hardware/197800591

"A typical hardware refresh period for Microsoft Windows is 3-4 years. A major UK manufacturing organisation quotes its hardware refresh period for Linux systems as 6-8 years." A significant difference...a doubling even, of the lifetime of a computer.

http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/459/index.html
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Prevents_Obsolescence_Could_Prevent_Mi…

The setup: LinuxBIOS + a Linux kernel + BusyBox + a tiny X11 server (Kdrive) + the Matchbox window manager + rxvt.

All of this in a normal BIOS chip (2 MB), without any hard drive connected (who needs hard drives when you can fit everything in the BIOS just fine)...
The thing boots into BusyBox in less than 6 seconds, then in ca. 2 seconds into X11 + rxvt. There's probably even room for improvement there...
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/linuxbios-with-x11-server-completely-in-…

Microsoft has launched a marketing campaign that lets any student at an Australian university buy the Ultimate edition of Office 2007, usual price $1,150, for only $75 — a discount of about 93%. But when students go to the promotion site, Microsoft Live OneCare pops up a warning that the site may be a phishing scam. The warning reads: 'Phishing filter has determined this might be a phishing website. We recommend that you do not give any of your information to such websites. Phishing websites impersonate trustworthy websites for the purpose of obtaining your personal or financial information.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/06/1740234&threshold=4
poenok a slashdotrol:

Microsoft (MSFT) has run into trouble with a major customer over Vista: The U.S. Department of Transportation has banned Windows Vista, Office 2007, and Internet Explorer 2007, InformationWeek reports. [...] It's actively considering Apple (AAPL) Macintosh computers, as well as PCs running Novell's (NOVL) SuSe Linux.
http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/03/us_government_b.html
http://digg.com/tech_news/US_DOT_considering_the_switch_to_OS_X_Linux

It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 that you will have never heard of or used. They are in no particular order. My favorite is mkfifo.
http://bashcurescancer.com/10-linux-commands-youve-never-used.html

The Indian State of Tamil Nadu has finalized an order with lenovo to pre-install Novell's Suse Linux on 40,000 machines. Adoption of this scale will have a very positive impact on linux and its advances in the Indian Market.
http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/172654.html
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Indian_State_orders_40_000_desktops_with_Lin…

nagyon jo klipp. erdemes megnezni. raadasul CC licenszu;)

Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes.

It was nice to see an open source project, OpenNMS, win the Gold in SearchNetworking.com's Network and IT Management Platforms category. OpenNMS beat out the 800 lb. gorillas of HP's OpenView and IBM's Tivoli. This was a survey of all IT solutions, not just open source; it shows that open source software is indeed making inroads into the enterprise
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/productsOfTheYearCategory/0,2948…
http://digg.com/linux_unix/GPL_d_OpenNMS_beats_HP_OpenView_and_IBM_Tivo…

Despite what Time magazine would have you believe, you are not the most powerful or influential person on the Web. At PC World we love online personals, social networks, and videos of people falling on their keisters as much as the next person, but without the folks who create the Craigslists, MySpaces, and YouTubes of the world, much of the Web's
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,129301/printable.html#
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070305/tc_pcworld/129301
http://digg.com/tech_news/The_50_Most_Important_People_on_the_Web

When people find out I run Linux on my computer instead of Windows or even Mac OS X they sometimes have funny ideas about what it must be like. Some of it is historical; Linux used to be quite difficult to administer in its younger days. Some of it is misinformation, or no information at all. I hope to dispell some of the misconceptions.
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/03/05/161203.php

Many people, daunted by Vista's hardware requirements and product activation issues, claim on various boards how they plan to "switch to Linux." We spend 30 days using nothing but Ubuntu Linux to find out if this is truly a viable alternative for the consumer.
http://consumer.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTI5OCwxLCxoY29uc3VtZXI=

Ubuntu Ultimate Edition: the best Ultimate to this date! Due to the popularity of Ubuntu Christmas Edition (~15,000 downloads in 2 weeks) 1.2 has seen over 50,000 in 3 days. I have decided to make another distro I'm calling "Ubuntu Ultimate Edition" it has everything listed in the Christmas Edition plus much more (& without 3 licensed software)
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=3664&hit=1
http://digg.com/linux_unix/ubuntu_ultimate_gamers_iso_Now_Available_at_…

A hackerek hackere akcioban:
http://www.electric-escape.net/node/1475

How would you like to study at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for free? It has been nearly six years since MIT first announced their MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) program. More recently, MIT announced that the OCW program, a free and open educational resource (OER) for educators, students, and self-learners around the world, is online and will be completed by 2008. The OCW provides open access to course materials for up to 1,550 MIT courses, representing 34 departments and all five MIT schools. The goal is to include materials from all MIT courses by next year.

MIT provides just one of the 10 open source educational success stories detailed below. Open source and open access resources have changed how colleges, organizations, instructors, and prospective students use software, operating systems and online documents for educational purposes. And, in most cases, each success story also has served as a springboard to create more open source projects.
http://oedb.org/library/features/how-the-open-source-movement-has-chang…

Top 10 Funniest Gadgets
http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/top-10-funniest-gadgets

a legjobb (videoval):
A group of Japanese modders decided to make their own custom USB-powered BBQ using lots of USB cable, six PCI USB Adapter cards, and countless hours of hacking. Plus, the computer is fully functional. Short video demonstration after the jump.

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Turns out a person called Paradox has worked out a way to crack Vista so that you may even get all of the automatic updates just the same as any legitimate Vista user could, the main story explains fully...
http://www.uploadcrap.com/?subaction=showcomments&id=1172962283&archive…;
http://digg.com/microsoft/Vista_cracked_totally_by_Paradox_Microsoft_s_…

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.

So far, the Universe is winning
- by Rich Cook