It's hard to compete for attention with the drama of the big bailout and this presidential race. But bubbles are news, at least when they burst. The patent bubble hasn't burst, but judging by last week's Wall Street Journal story on Intellectual Ventures, it's getting pretty big.

Here’s a comprehensive round up of all the cool hacks and mods for the Aspire One I could dig up from google and several Aspire One forums and blogs. With my thanks to the original authors of these tips and guides.

Recently, Richard Stallman called cloud computing 'worse than stupidity' His argument for this view is that, by giving your data away to the host of the web application you are using, you are essentially giving up all rights to that data. After all, they own it and there is little you can do to stop them from doing whatever they want with that data.

There is a distribution specifically targeting the Asian market. Enter Linpus Linux, a Fedora-based distribution developed by Taiwan-based Linpus Technologies Inc. Linpus Linux comes with full Unicode support for Chinese and Japanese.

This week, I tried Vector Linux, a slackware based distro, known to be fast and stable, ideal for older machines like mine and yet never compromising on the features. Read on, to see if it delivered what it promised.

I don’t know why, but somehow after using Gentoo it is impossible for me to use any other Linux Distro.

ODF adoption is rising; ODF workshop report; OpenOffice.org near final release

ISO is shown to be operating like an underground movement rather than a public process