There have been several stories proclaiming that a recent Linux infection proves Windows malware monopoly is over and that Think Linux is free from malware? Think again; it's been hacked. Much as it pains me to disagree with the good people, they're wrong.

Few years back, I always lamented that there are few and little wallpaper changer apps for Ubuntu desktop. Fast forward to today, this is no longer the case.

Google is a pretty smart company, and it employs some pretty smart people. A couple of weeks ago, one of those smart people – security engineer Tavis Ormandy – figured out how to use a bug in Windows XP’s Help and Support Center to hijack PCs through hacked websites. And last week, he decided to show the world how to do it, too.

For Lunatics, we need several space vehicles. For a few of them, we have existing free-licensed computer models that we can use, but others are not so easy, or need customizations. The Soyuz launch vehicle is one of these, and it was relatively easy to model, since launch vehicles are geometrically simple (basically a bunch of extruded cylinders and cones).

"I have now added package.el, Tom Tromey's package system, to the trunk. It's been discussed on this list previously; to summarize, it provides a convenient way to download and install Emacs Lisp packages and have them loaded automatically at startup..."

While Microsoft continues its dominance in the world of browsers, competitors weight as Firefox, Opera and most recently the Google Chrome occupy increasingly users. Now we will define the strengths and weaknesses of two popular browsers.

Transmission is a cross-platform BitTorrent client that is free software, community-driven, easy, powerful use, that has low memory footprint and cross-platform. It has following features: encryption, web interface, peer exchange ability, magnet links support, distributed hash table technology support, UPnP and NAT-PMP port-forwarding, webseed, and many more.