AboutLinux.cjb.net’s webmaster writes: “AboutLinux.cjb.net is a site that contains tutorials and howto’s about how to do anything with Linux: from USB to 3d Cards and networking, samba and security. All written from my own experience.”

Anonymous Reader writes: “In this second tutorial in a series on installing Linux on PDAs, Jay Staton explains how to install Linux on a VTech Helio (which normally runs a proprietary OS called VT-OS). Helio PDAs are not sold any more, but if you can locate one second-hand, you will end up with a Linux PDA based on a 75MHz 32-bit RISC processor, with 8M of RAM and 2M Flash ROM — for around $100. Story at LinuxDevices.com.“

Lora writes: “When we suggested developing a Computer Usability Index, which would help people gauge “How useful is Z Computer System that is available today for my purposes?”, we received thoughtful responses from readers. And as skeptical as this may sound, one person pointed out that it would be difficult to overcome the pressure of advertising. The pressures of advertising is an important issue that consumers should always keep in mind. Do you take review sites with a grain of salt or do you follow the guru of the month? In an effort to help sort through what you can trust, here’s a “A Computer Buyer’s Confidence Checklist: Evaluate Product Evaluators and their Evaluations”. USE it well.”

LinuxJournal: “Internal e-mail lists are common in many organizations. Lists like “everybody”, “sales.dept” or “students” can help anyone
inside the organization efficiently send a message to a selected group. In our organization we frequently use two lists,
“everybody” and “blackboard”, that were set up as part of LMAILER, the program we use for handling local group e-mail. The first list is
inclusive; all are de facto members, and its use is limited to professional activities. The second list allows people to opt out and is used for
more personal messages, of the type “six beautiful kittens are looking for a home.”

LinuxFocus: “Ncurses is a library that provides function-key mapping, screen painting functions and the ability to use multiple non-overlapping windows on text-based terminals.”

LinuxFocus: “This is a review of the book titled “Linux System Administration – A User’s Guide” by Marcel Gagne. The book has 532 pages and 26 chapters that cover installation, daemons, run-levels,file systems, password policy, kernel building, printing, devices, backups, network administration, secure computing, and more.”

Anonymous Reader writes “First people said, Linux was too hard to use, so KDE and Gnome made the gui, Next people complained of no office software,
Code Weavers seems to have solved that problem by porting MS Office.

Now the latest news, Lindows has finally fixed the install issues, the hardest thing to do in linux currently is to install programs.

Lindows WareHouse Click N Run from Lindows seems to solve that problem.”

Frank writes “IBM is combining its most successful conferences: WebSphere, Lotus DevCon and Solutions into one big conference called developerWorks Live. Get all the normal stuff: 40+ hands on labs, IBM executive speakers, elective sessions 375 total hours, BOFs, and you get a special developer performance from SMASHMOUTH. Earlybird conference prices still available till April 15th. The IBM developerWorks Live technical developer conference will be held at the Macone Center in San Francisco May 7th – 10th.”

Matthew Rothenberg writes “CIO Insight has a story on the copyright-protection scheme devised by Georgetown professor Dorothy Denning. Geo-encryption uses GPS technology to keep information scrambled until it reaches a precise location anywhere in the world. Can Denning’s new company, GeoCodex, sell it to Hollywood?”

From O’Reillynet: “An iBook turned out to be a great choice for running Debian GNU/Linux. Edd Dumbill explains why, and walks us through the installation process.”