An uninterruptible power supply (UPS) will allow your computer to continue to function for a period of time when mains power is lost. This can help you to smooth over short-term (1-5 minute) loss of power by running from the UPS battery. When the UPS battery is running low, the UPS can signal your computer to shut down cleanly. With a UPS you can avoid lengthly filesystem or RAID checks due to abrupt power loss. Here are some tips on UPSes in general and how to set one up to protect a Linux machine, even if the model you have lacks explicit Linux support.

The guru you seek in times of computer trouble started out just as you did, with no formal training in the Linux operating system or software. How, then, does the guru manage to tame the information wilderness of the computer? Why is it that he or she knows what you don't?

Dhvani can be used for creating audiobooks in any of the supported languages(Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, Oriya, Bengali, Gujarati, Panjabi).
First of all you should get the latest dhvani source code from CVS in sourceforge. Compile it and install.
To create an audiobook follow these steps

If you’re like me, your Ubuntu machine is on a network that is dominated by Windows machines. Fortunately, Ubuntu comes with some very easy and quick tweaks to help you get along nicely with your Windows counter parts. Here’s how.

A few weeks ago I promised to bring in some more general news from the world of Linux audio software development. Alas, my plans were ambushed by the happy intrusion of the release of Renoise for Linux, but I'm back on track. As promised, here's more straight reporting on the world of Linux sound and music software, starting with some news about recently released music notation programs.

It's with much disesteem that today marks 100 days since the release of Unreal Tournament 3 and there still is no UT3 Linux client available or any word when it may be released. A port is being worked on and there has been a UT3 Linux server build, but any Linux (or Mac) demo/client has yet to be released. The UT3 v1.0 server was released to the public almost a month late.

About 12 hours ago, I was notified of a thread on Ubuntu's forums: Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment - LXDE is back!. It's about LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), whose future is seriously questioned, should we read the Current Status and Future Plan of The Project — a message from his author, the very maker of the PCMan File Manager PCManFM is very much alive, having the latest release (0.3.6 stable) on 2008-02-23, but LXDE is a different matter, it seems...

Firefox 3 edges closer to release, with the fourth and final beta of the web browser out "in a couple of weeks", according to Mozilla's vice president of engineering, Mike Schroepfer.