In Microsoft's continued effort to pay people to use their products, they are "burying" $10,000 somewhere on the web and will be giving clues out, but IE 8 (or Firefox + the user-agent switcher plugin) are the only browsers capable of finding the clues. In fact, if you go to the page with a different browser, it will make fun of you:
Chrome: "But you'll never find it using tarnished Chrome."

Microsoft is vandalising not only competing products of "partners" but also their reputation

Few people realize it, but a certain software company has generated $136 million in Linux-oriented sales during the past four quarters. Plus, the mystery company’s Linux sales essentially doubled in 2Q 2009. Impressive. So why isn’t this mystery company a Wall Street darling?

I don't know about you, but i'm damn excited about the upcoming version of Ubuntu, so it better deliver! Aside from a new Ubiquity slideshow for new users, what specific things are there to look forward to?

There are a variety of netbook distros out there, but you can have a little fun creating your own. Here are some software packages and tips worth considering:

This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Debian Lenny. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes.

The shakeyshakey program calculates the covariance of data sampled from a Thinkpad’s accelerometers. If the covariance is over a certain threshold it posts the result to Twitter. Or more simply put, shake your laptop and make it tweet!

When attending conferences, working with various open source teams, and generally interacting with people in the open source world, we see women as a small representative minority. The disparity leaves us wondering: "How do we better activate 50% of the population?".