With his new album "Get Guilty" under the guise of A.C. Newman, Carl Newman takes a break from his main gig with The New Pornographers. Although it's easy to make a statement like none of the songs on the album would sound out of place on a New Pornographers album, but that actually wouldn't be true...

A few days back we looked at how to password protect your GRUB boot entries so that a password is required before anyone can boot the operating system or edit the boot entry. Let’s look at some ways you can use to reset your Linux system’s password. You might know that the root user can ...

BackTrack was the winner of our recent Hive Five for best Live CD, so we decided to take it for a test drive and show off a few of the features for everybody else. BackTrack can be installed to a regular boot cd, a USB drive, installed to the hard drive, or even downloaded as a VMware virtual machin...

That's right, March 8th marked the "historic demonstration of the first CD prototype codenamed 'Pinkeltje' on March 8th, 1979." Well congratulations, compact disc, I almost forgot you were still here. While many would argue that the CD is on its way out in favor of smaller, highly portable MP3 files...

Lighter posting this weekend.  I’m cleaning up the back yard for Spring and other assorted house-cleaning chores I’ve been putting off for a while. Michael Pietroforte at his awesome 4sysops blog has one of the best sysadmin sites I just can’t wait to see a new post from. Michael’s skil...

Man, I love it when a band brings the music! Not just the hard driving rhythms, the catchy melodies, or the dynamic conveyance of emotion through dramatic time changes. I love it when a band brings the music with pure passion, an edgy resentment for the status quo, and a bag full of fun! Water is Ri...

Japan may be one of the front runners in those hit hardest by the economic downturn but this is not stopping companies in introducing ridiculously expensive products like an audio CD which can get you a condo in Florida. The CD went on sale at the Takashimaya department store at Nihonbashi for a coo...

Dentro de 6 días sale "Supporting Caste", el nuevo disco de los punks Propagandhi. Un disco que desde hoy ya podéis escuchar en su Myspace. Conectado Con: Los Canadienses Propagandhi Sacan Cd......

Hi, While booted into F10 on a usb key, I couldn't access the hard drive's /home/kurt directory. So, as root in the usb' os I typed [root@mybox~]# chown kurt /media/_/home/kurt I also have installed google desktop and indexed the hard drive with it, but that can't, I think, be the problem, which is:...

Hay grupos que simplemente están ahí para divertirnos y hacernos pasar un buen rato. Uno de ellos es MxPx, los cuales se han despojado de cualquier atisbo de vergüenza y se han lanzando a promocionar su segundo disco de versiones de la forma que veis en la foto. Una obra para la que han contado c...