"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..."

"RDDB is a RESTful document-oriented database written in Ruby. Querying is accomplished through views using Ruby for the view language and materialization can be handled locally or through a distributed system."

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.

Holiday shopping season is about to hit full swing, and personal computers already rank high on many people's wish lists. If you're going to give the gift of a new PC, should you consider giving one with Linux? If the receiver is a tech-savvy individual, it may be the perfect gift, and the growing availability of preloaded machines means setup headaches are easily avoided.

The Linux find command is enormously powerful but, like many command-line tools, you need to be a syntactical wizz-kind to work with all its parameters. (I have a sneaking suspicion I could use it to locate Lord Lucan and the wreck of the General Grant if only I could master its syntax!)

Real people are doing real work to enhance the quality of software in healthcare. Learn about some of them.

Popular Linux Distribution To Appear On More than 180,000 Classroom Desktops Nationwide

LONDON, November 20th, 2007 - The Macedonia Ministry of Education and Science will deploy more than 180,000 workstations running Canonical’s Edubuntu 7.04 as part of its "Computer for Every Child" project.