You probably know this: you power on your machine, and immediately after you've logged in you manually start your two or three favourite applications. Why not have the system start these applications for you automatically? This short guide shows how to accomplish this under GNOME.

The Eternity Screensaver plays animations of ray-traced scenes which took days or even weeks to generate. The reasoning is that these clips should look more impressive than anything which can be generated on-the-fly.

Firefox is known as the quintessential free browser. Users can not only download it free of charge, they can also expand its abilities in almost unlimited ways.

There are a few risks and reasons to block certain bots 1) If you use Apache as a proxy spammers may try to use your Apache to "fake" clicks on advertisements on their pages, 2) to send plain old email spam and 3) to steal content from your site and use it as filler on their sites used only to serve out ads. mod_security can prevent all of this.

I’ve always wanted to use a Linux distro without getting rid of a prior working version of Windows XP. I have now succeeded. Here’s what I did:

Open source software initially was a head-scratcher: “How can you make money selling something for free?” But once open source advocates clarified the meaning of free – “Free as in speech, not as in beer” – the open source economy took off.

If you have ever read my comments on the PC World forum, it is obvious that I love Linux. But many people are afraid to use a new operating system because they are so attached to Windows. They are scared of the possibility of having to use the command line!

"This is the last post of Firebug tutorial series. I’m going to explain about Net panel, CSS panel and DOM panel in this tutorial. As there are not so much things to say about that, I’m gonna write up about all three panels in one post."