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Using spindown to prolong the life of old hard disks
Author: Ben Martin
Many people leave their computers on around the clock. This usually implies that all the attached hard disks are always spinning. Constantly...
Dragbox bridges command line and desktop
Author: Bruce Byfield
The GNU/Linux command line and desktop are both sophisticated interfaces, but they are mostly separate realities. You can drag text into a...
Mounting archives with FUSE and archivemount
Author: Ben Martin
The archivemount FUSE filesystem lets you mount a possibly compressed tarball as a filesystem. Because FUSE exposes its filesystems through the Linux...
The iPhone SDK and free software: not a match
Author: Nathan Willis
Apple's recently released a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone, but if you were hoping to port or develop original open...
Run Windows and Linux without virtualization
Author: Mayank Sharma
Linux does everything that many users want it to, but some people have tasks that require Windows applications. You can dual-boot both...
Use Wubi to install Ubuntu without partitioning
Author: Jeremy LaCroix
You can install and run Ubuntu from within Windows without any risk of accidentally deleting your existing programs and files by using...
Puppeee: Puppy for your Eee PC
Author: Dmitri Popov
The Asus Eee PC ultraportable comes bundled with a version of Xandros as its operating system. If you would like to try...
Orca accessibility app makes a whale of an impact
Author: Bruce Byfield
Many people know that free and open source software (FOSS) plays a role in creating the technical infrastructure of developing nations and...
dwm 4.9 Released
"dwm is a dynamic window manager for X. It manages windows in tiled and floating layouts. Either layout can be applied dynamically, optimizing the...
Language translation from the command line or clipboard
Author: Ben Martin
Web-based automatic translators such as translate.google.com are great for getting the gist of what a document is saying, but it can be...