More than a month after the BSI, a German IT security federal agency, issued a warning about a high-risk vulnerability in Windows7, Microsoft has finally decided to warn their customers in a security advisory.

ODF news from the past week, mostly positive this time around (no signs of sabotage from the Microsoft ecosystem)

bsc (BeeSoft Commander) is a graphical file manager (similar to the midnight commander) that displays two directories at once for easier copying and moving of files.

If you’re running out of disk space and you want to quickly see what packages are using the most space on your hard drive, use the following command

The highly-anticipated torrent of low-cost, energy-efficient, user-friendly, GNU/Linux-only appliances has finally arrived, leaving Microsoft racing to the top again

Collecting things is human nature. The things we collect change over time, but the process never stops. That's where collection mangers come in.

This is a collection of Top 10 Conky designs in a random order, that I really like. Something a bit different from the basic setup.

Gartner analyst Roberta Cozza suggested that, given the strong emergence of free, open-source operating systems, Microsoft might find it difficult to demand licence fees from smart phone manufacturers for the mobile operating software. She also added that the recently introduced Windows Mobile 6.5 was not "a major improvement" from its predecessors.