Hamster is a time tracking tool that runs as a GNOME panel applet. With Hamster, you can track what you're doing, when you're doing it, and for how long easily and right from your panel. Hamster will be included in GNOME version 2.24, and likely also in Ubuntu 8.10.

Imagine being able to open any Web page on your server in OpenOffice.org, edit it, and save the changes back to the server by pressing the Save button. It may sound too good to be true, but that's exactly what the ODF@WWW project is set to achieve.

Computer engineer Alan Dechert didn't like what he saw during the controversial vote tallying in Florida in 2000's presidential election.

Michelle Murrain is a great example of what the FOSS community is all about. She's complicated: she calls herself a "scientist turned technologist turned theologian turned writer," all blended into one person. She's also an active supporter of and contributor to open source software projects.

Wine is a lot like my cell phone. It sucks, but it would be really awesome if it didn't. As much as we'd like to, we can't give up on it entirely. So the only reasonable thing to do is try and make it suck less.

Too often, businesses and enterprises focus on the dangers that get the most press and forget that there are plenty of other ways they can be hurt. This article outlines some of the lesser-known attacks that a business can face and points out ways to defend against them.

The Secure Shell (SSH) and Secure Copy (SCP) make remotely performing system administration and copying files across secure links a painless operation. SSH and SCP use the same SSH protocol to protect network communications, but they rely on users knowing if they want a shell or to copy a file beforehand.