Once there was a time when chess software for the home was slow, weak and expensive. To find human opponents, you had to go to your local chess club. Today, the situations is different.

Do you buy or subscribe to popular magazines like Men’s Health, Popular Mechanics, PC Magazine, ELLE, Esquire, Macworld, Playboy, and Penthouse? If you do, then you may like this simple hack that could save you a few bucks. The trick is not really that complicated and you will only need Firefox to read these magazines and more for free.

The process of getting hold of Knoppix Linux isn't quite as hand-holding as you might expect from your average Ubuntu distribution, but it's certainly got a few tricks of its own up its sleeve.

In Navigating the Filesystem I talked about how pathnames work, the difference between /home and home, and using ls to see the contents of a directory. But there are a few more useful tricks you ought to know about finding your way around in the filesystem on your disk.

Though my past experiences with Enlightenment weren't very fruitful, seeing the recent Elive Compiz made me want to see more of this unique window manager. So I started looking through the available options and I stumbled upon moonOS.

As is true with most things in Linux, there are great desktop tools, but more power can be found in Terminal than any streamlined desktop tool can match. Today, I’d like to introduce you to a few tools.

In the dawn of modern computing, there was only text. And the text was good. You can do a lot with text: write equations or sonnets, describe intricate computer subsystems or a fine spring day. But people are visual as well as verbal creatures, and there is simply no substitute for graphical communications.

I got interested in the new release of Dream Linux (3.5) because it is supposed to make it easy to create your own customised ISO boot image. I thought that if I could get it set up and configured on the HP 2133, and then make an ISO of that, that would be really useful.