Step is a physics simulator for KDE 4. It’s meant to be an educational tool, but I’ve found it to be fun just to play around with also. Step was written as a Google Summer of Code project for KDE by Vladimir Kuznetsov.

The guy who tried to intervene from prison in SCO v. Novell and was denied has filed a notice of appeal.

"Las Vegas - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launches its Coders' Rights Project -- a new initiative to protect programmers and developers from legal threats hampering their cutting-edge research..."

"@mlinksva just put out a great slide show, albeit the over-use of bullet points ;), that is an overview of CC as well as a general look at the historical trajectories of Free Software and how Free Culture Movement is approximately 10 years behind.

In my last article I talked about working with shortcuts in Ubuntu Linux. In this article I want to explain the basics of the Linux file system and where you can expect to find things. Once again, I am basing this on Ubuntu Linux.

"It's really interesting that companies are spending an inordinate amount of money trying to protect information, but they're trying to protect it from people outside the organization," Duncan said. "I think that's appropriate, because there are a lot of bad guys out there -- but a recent study showed 80 percent of data leakage problems actually came from within.

Users of Compiz, a window manager that provides pretty visual effects, know that a lot of those effects are just for fun...Personally, I am most concerned with the Compiz plugins that add functionality to my desktop. There are plenty of those too. I am going to outline some of my favorites and most useful.

I’ve been struggling with various mail clients to deal with my huge IMAP mailbox which contains about 200k messages. I didn’t want to split it into more than one. It’s not my job but an e-mail client’s job; see what GMail does!