Mark Gregson over at Linux.com Linux.com has a great article on how to write reviews for Linux distribution. I know I’ve cut corners when trying to review distros in the past, and I hope to take him up on his tips in the future.
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I’ve lost my key. Can you pass me that banana?
Patrick White from the Globe and Mail has an interesting article on a section of the hacker community that even I wasn’t aware of. Amatuer lockpicking, a sort of offline cousin to computer hacking, is gaining interest in the hacker community and is even showcased at the annual Defcon conference. See the entire article here here. HT to lewrockwell.com
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Portable Apps
Portableapps.com is an exciting website for geeks on the go. Some of the best open source apps for Windows have been shrunkand encapsulated to work on your portable flash drive. Everything from The Gimp to VLC (with DVD and DIVX codecs) are available for free. If you’re like me, your workplace doesn’t like people installing outside software on company machines, but with the software from Portable Apps, you can install the software on a thumb drive, and your settings will save to a file on the thumb drive, not to the Windows registry.