A University of Tennessee student asks to have an RIAA subpoena seeking his name, addresses, phone number, e-mail address, and MAC address quashed. His argument: the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act bars the school from releasing the data without his or his parents' permission.

Ten open source vendors made Network World’s Companies to Watch list one year ago. Read this story to find out what they’re up to today.

With a bid underway to obtain the blessing of the Open Source Initiative for two of its software licenses, Microsoft is working to burnish its open source credentials.

I have been borrowing a laptop that runs a version of the free and open-source operating system Linux. The operating system is called Ubuntu

Microsoft software versus open source software has been, and still is a never-ending debatable issue. Both camps have harsh supporters who claim their favorite is the best. Personally, I think that both sides have their own ups and downs and you cannot just say one of them is better. Just because one suits you better, doesn't imply the other is lame.

Midnight Commander (mc for short) is the most popular console (command line) file manager. Its design was inspired by classic two-panel interface found in the famous Norton Commander, a DOS file manager. Midnight Commander is equipped in many functions.

"Javascript getters and setters may be one of the most useful upcoming language features today (already working in some browsers, including Firefox), but google the feature and you will be swamped with articles and posts, not on how to put them to good use, but how to defend against malicious use of them for web pages tripping (Firefox / ditto extension) security holes.

A Howto document very useful ;-)