Check out how well the X-fi USB works for surround on my netbook in combination with VAAPI accelerated HD video. CPU load figures inside.

This post contains common different methods of functional partitioning and common considerations for database setup and capacity.

A Paranoid, or 5-star, security rating is the highest physical security rating that you can achieve on your computer. It entails enabling a set of OS-dependent and OS-independent features.

Take these steps to ensure that your data will be inaccessible to a third party if they gain unauthorized physical access to your computer.

Mozilla Weave is no more -- at least in name. Firefox Sync 1.3 is now available, marking the official shift in name from Mozilla Weave, which had been the name of the application since it was created in 2007.

Currently if you want to mail photos from Picasa 3 in Thunderbird 3 fails due to this bug .

Yukyung Technologies showed off a Viliv-branded, Android-based tablet at Computex equipped with a 10-inch, 1366 x 768 touchscreen. The Viliv X10 Tablet with Android offers an SD card reader, USB port, HDMI, webcam, and WiFi, and "could be an incredible iPad alternative," according to a hands-on Laptop story.

Learn how to create and manage hard and symbolic links to files on your Linux® system. You can use the material in this article to study for the LPI 101 exam for Linux system administrator certification, or just to explore the differences between hard and soft, or symbolic, links and the best ways to link to files, as opposed to copying files.

PlayOnLinux 3.7.6 has been released, this version finally fixing an incompatibility issue with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx which caused the install window to crash when the user clicked the Install button.