As I already explained in another article file formats are extremely important: unless, at least in Public Administrations (PAs), only open file formats are used, serious amounts of public money can go to waste, important public digital documents may become unreadable and private citizens or businesses may be forced to useless expenses if they want to interact with PAs.

X Rezise and Rotare (xrandr) is a utility available in your Linux system for reseting and resizing your screen resolution. It is a command line utility. so if your display disapperaed ?? No problem you can do it from a Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+f1).

Streaming video websites like YouTube face growing pressure from consumers to provide support for native standards-based Web video playback. The HTML5 video element provides the necessary functionality to build robust Web media players without having to depend on proprietary plugins, but the browser vendors have not been able to build a consensus around a video codec.

In this article, I didn't mention about softwares which don't have gui like rtorrent. In Linux there are more alternatives than following softwares'. I didn't use some of the softwares' last versions. I've also mentioned the versions which I used, near the titles.

Gnome Nanny is a parental control system. By using Gnome Nanny you can easily control what your kids are doing in the computer. You can limit how much time a day each one of them is browsing the web, chatting or doing email.

It might come as a surprise that terms like Linux and Open Source and epiphytes like bloody Microsoft and it shouldn’t be this hard are fairly common in my household. And not always spoken by me!

While open source offers great features and flexibility the total cost of ownership issue can still result in choosing a different path sometimes.