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A case for text-based DVD rippers

Author: Rui Lopes At a time when graphical DVD rippers and encoders propose to make the backing up of your movies just a click away,...

AltSearch for OOo Writer functionality trumps first impressions

Author: Bruce Byfield Alternative Find and Replace for Writer (AltSearch) has the ambitious goal of replacing and enhancing one of the most basic pieces of...

Mozilla officially scores a world record

Author: Amber Gillies They did it -- Mozilla now holds the world record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours, according to Jamie Panas,...

An introduction to the Kismet packet sniffer

Author: Joe Barr Kismet is a wireless "detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system," and one of the growing list of essential open source tools for...

Open source and the Kindle

I've become a big fan of the Kindle in a short time. I don't care about its wireless capabilities - downloading updates to blogs...

IOzone for filesystem performance benchmarking

Author: Ben Martin IOzone lets you benchmark your filesystem performance, seeing how well record IO occurs for files of various sizes. With IOzone you can...

Sabayon Linux 3.5 Released

Author: JT Smith Sabayon Linux is not only a Gentoo-based distribution, it's a place where innovative ideas come to life. One of them is Entropy...

Portrait: Louis Landry of Joomla! finds direction in FOSS

Author: Bruce Byfield For Louis Landry, a member of the core team for the Joomla! management system, free and open source software (FOSS) is not...

Beating Sandvine on Linux with iptables

Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users. This...

Open source and the Kindle

I've become a big fan of the Kindle in a short time. I don't care about its wireless capabilities - downloading updates to blogs...