"You know that sick feeling you get in the pit of your stomach, the one that means either you forgot your mother’s birthday or even worse - your password for your favorite web site. Thankfully if Firefox has been remembering these passwords for you, recovering them in an easy task..."

Mencoder is part of the MPlayer media player package. While MPlayer can play audio and video files, mencoder converts and manages multimedia files. The application has a ton of graphical user interfaces, but you can use it from the command line to produce video files in almost any format you want. Here's how.

As the name suggests, Battle Tanks is an arcade-style game, where you drive a tank, pick up weapons, and blast enemies. While this doesn't sound like a particularly original concept, it's the implementation that makes the game so much fun to play.

I installed BLAG 70000 on an old 450MHz box with 192 MB of RAM. You might just be interested to know how it turned out.

Tracking down the cause of Stan's problems has been easy. A few days after Ubuntu was installed, Stan wanted to play an encrypted DVD. He found that this was not possible on Ubuntu. Hence, like any budding Linux user, he searched in that great wasteland, the world wide web.

Some distributions of the open-source operating system are bloated, but Puppy Linux, Knoppix, SLAX, NimbleX, and -- yes -- Damn Small Linux will get you up and running fast.

If the graphics card is not supported by default (Nvidia or ATI propriety drivers), then the Live CDs do not boot normally. Both in case of Ubuntu and OpenSUSE, the users have to use alternative methods.

I found a really quick fix today for disabling ipv6 completely on Ubuntu 7.10 (not yet tested on previous versions). This might be of interest to some of you that have had networking problems, as I’ve heard disabling ipv6 at least within the browser has been a help here. This tutorial will disable ipv6 completely on the machine.