tmpfs is a virtual, RAM-backed filesystem. It’s lightning-fast, but since it’s RAM-backed, any file written to tmpfs uses precious memory while it’s there, and the entire contents of the virtual partition are lost on shutdown or crash. The good news is that these detriments can be minimized, making tmpfs a viable choice for your profile directory.

"As I mentioned before, I started working on the SeaMonkey UI for the toolkit download manager backend. In the last few days, I have progressed a lot on that, as one can easily see from the pushlog on the hg repository I created for backing up that work (and having the code out there if someone wants to test). Here's a current screenshot of my work: ..."

Although the dd command is a great option for creating images of partitions, it creates a bit-by-bit copy so that it also copies empty space, making your partition large and slow to create. Partimage has the advantage of only copying your data to the image.

GNU/Linux offers a bewildering variety of flavors -- or distributions, as they're called. To a newcomer's eye, many of these seem virtually identical to each other. Yet, the more you learn about a distribution and the community that surrounds it, the more different they become. Here, in alphabetical order, is a list of the seven distributions that have most affected GNU/Linux as a whole

I think of this question again and again. For one because because people are asking me. People who love Debian, people who dislike continuous compilation.

Well, we finally kicked Pidgin 2.5.3 out of the nest, two days late. It's spreading its wings and flying.

Slimrat is an easy to use rapidshare downloader which can be used from command line or GUI. It can download files from these services: rapidshare.com, depositfiles.com, youtube.com, leteckaposta.cz, fast-load.net, mediafire.com

Another vivid example of how so many companies are only paying lip-service to the term “Open”.