Vista's 11 Pillars of Failure

From poor marketing to missing components, here are Dvorak's reasons why Vista will forever fail.

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Department of Homeland Security website hacked

The sophisticated mass infection that's injecting attack code into hundreds of thousands of reputable web pages is growing and has even infiltrated the website of the Department of Homeland Security.

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CIOs Need To Learn To Enable, Not Lock Down, Technology

I've always thought that CIOs should enable communication and collaboration through technology. Restricting the use of technology does the opposite and inhibits the free flowing of information; by reducing the barriers of technology.

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Linux firewall fits inside Windows laptops

Starting next month, Yoggie will offer its tiny Linux-based hardware firewall in the PCMCIA ExpressCard form factor.

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Advanced wget usage

This post looks at some of the more advanced options that wget offers the user.

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Create a mirror of a website with Wget

One of the more advanced features in wget is the mirror feature. This allows you to create a complete local copy of a website, including any stylesheets, supporting images and other support files. All the (internal) links will be followed and downloaded as well (and their resources), until you have a complete copy of the site on your local machine.

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Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All Time, Part 5

This week we take a look at the all-time favorite articles ever featured on LinuxJournal.com. We'll feature the top 25 in this series, presenting you with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com. Top Articles 1 - 5

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Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All Time, Part 4

This week we take a look at the all-time favorite articles ever featured on LinuxJournal.com. We'll feature the top 25 in this series, presenting you with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com.Top Articles 6 - 10

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Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All Time, Part 3

This week we take a look at the all-time favorite articles ever featured on LinuxJournal.com. We'll feature the top 25 in this series, presenting you with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com. Top Articles 11 - 15

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Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All Time, Part 2

This week we take a look at the all-time favorite articles ever featured on LinuxJournal.com. We'll feature the top 25 in this series, presenting you with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com. Top Articles 16 - 20

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Top 25 LinuxJournal.com Articles of All Time, Part 1

This week we take a look at the all-time favorite articles ever featured on LinuxJournal.com. We'll feature the top 25 in this series, presenting you with five each day this week. These 25 articles alone represent tens of millions of page views on LinuxJournal.com. Here we go...21 - 25

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Rube Goldberg Relay Computer

Rube Goldberg machines are usually over engineered devices that perform a series of simple tasks to complete another simple task. Today's write-up is from a professor from Portland State University who created a computer out of relays. Watch the video to hear them clicking away as it calculates.

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The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security

For your convenience, they are listed in descending order from the most-frequently-seen. If you can avoid falling into the the trap of the first three, you're among the few true computer security elite.

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Create easy to remember, hard to guess passwords

Password Bird is a simple online service that will create a password based on a number of personal markers. Because the password is culled from a few names and dates that are important to you, the hope is that the password will be easy to remember but remain hard to crack.

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Step by Step: Using Samba to join a Windows Domain

Samba has made getting Linux and Windows systems talking to each other much easier than it once was. But there are still some tasks that are more than a little finicky. One of them is definitely joining a Samba client to a domain-based Windows network. Luckily, now you'll have a step by step guide to doing just that.

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Diebold leaks results of 2008 election

Watch - and find out how you voted!

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Study: Cell Phones Worse Than Smoking

Dr. Vini Khurana, a top British neurosurgeon and medical researcher, is trying ardently to grab people's attention about what he sees as a grave risk to health. He has published over 30 papers; his specialty -- cell phones and their links to disease.

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