There's quite a bit in the press these days about companies (surprisingly, some very large ones) aggressively investing to expand their IP portfolios by purchasing patents or filing for patents on anything that can be imagined - often without stopping to consider whether the "innovation" has utility and is truly novel and non-obvious.

How software patents can be made a reality, by means of deception and bribery.

June is Bandwidth Conservation Month (well, not officially, but let's say that it is), so if you have multiple machines running an APT-powered Linux distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu, you should take a look at apt-proxy, a utility that caches package downloads in a shared pool for all interested parties on your LAN.

Microsoft tries to bury and even contradict what is all too clear to see; Critical flaw found in Microsoft's XML Core Services.

Microsoft seems to be on a Memorandum of Understanding crusade at the moment.

You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the book loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable to access your machine. You need a good rescue disk -- and the best way to get one is to create your own.

THE BEST ever Linux operating system out there; and this way, we can compete with big operating system like Windows and Mac. It's time for Linux users to have a strong, easy to use and powerful desktop operating system, and Ubuntu can help us.

Microsoft goes to an open source conference, blends in, and invites developers.