When we first saw [Chris Paget]’s cloning video, our reaction was pretty ‘meh’. We’d seen RFID cloning before and the Mifare crack was probably the last time RFID was actually interesting. His ShmooCon presentation, embedded above, caught us completely off-guard. It’s v...

O scurtă prezentare despre ce înseamnă şi cum a evoluat software-ul liber. Documentul este făcut ca o broşură pentru a putea fi folosit în cadrul promovării Open Software. Corectările sunt binevenite. Istoria Open Software (Document scris în Open Office Writer, evident )...

VonGuard writes "This year marks the 25th red-letter day of the GNU overhead costs costs System. A major part of that system has always been the GNU Compiler Collection. This year, some of the earliest bits of GCC also turn 25, and yet some of the collection's most interesting years of growth may st...

RealityThreek sends this excerpt from an article at IT Management:"Pundits and business executives alike are predicting gloomy economic times for 2009. But when the talk turns to free and open source software (FOSS), suddenly the mood brightens. Whether their concern is the business opportunities in...

I have tried multiple tools to "Get Things Done" (wiki). n teh end I just use mindmapping, since it is form me the most logical way to order items. I started out with MindNode, lots of eyecandey yet low on useful features. Then I went back to the Open Source FreeMind that I have been using for years...

A few theme designers — including yours truly — received an email from Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s boss, yesterday. It read (in full and unedited): Thanks for emailing me about the theme directory. The other day I noticed a ton of bad stuff had snuck in like lots of spammy SEO lin...

When Dries (co)started his company he made sure not to step on any of the those of the community and the commercial ecosystem around Drupal. Dries stated he wanted to play it nice and offer commercial services around Drupal that would be good for Drupal, for the community, the Drupal companies that ...

Over at UbuntuGeek, the author writes: I am trying to use my ext. HD but it is formatted for windows and I can’t figure out how to re-format so i can use it for ubuntu. Also, at one point i had alot of the desktop effects working now wobbly windows won’t work, but is checked in Compiz, and cube ...

Mi disco tiene un par de miles de problemitas :D [ 1104.220622] printk: 647707 messages suppressed. [ 1104.220628] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 69250920 [ 1109.216986] printk: 646584 messages suppressed. [ 1109.216992] Buffer I/O error on device sdc1, logical block 69989873 [ 1114....

Note: Nice tutorial with screenshots online. If you have ever reformatted a computer, reloaded it with software by loading the programs one by one, you know it can be a time-consuming process. As a matter of fact, I recall spending many an hour loading software with a book in hand (pleasure reading,...