Linux Today Blog: "There is a chapter for golden-eared audiophiles, who have been left behind in the rush to lo-fi MP3s and poorly-engineered CDs with no dynamic range to speak of, no balance, no nuances-- just shove all the levers to the top and call it good. So, as usual, to do it right we have to do it ourselves, and one interesting option is DVD-Audio."

Tech Source From Bohol: "If you are using Linux, there are plenty of backup software to choose from. I have here a list of some of the best free and open source backup software that you may want to check out."

Phoronix: "Phoenix Technologies, the company producing the BIOSes for many of the motherboards on the market, is today introducing their SplashTop competitor. HyperSpace is the Phoenix Technologies product being unveiled this morning with several distinct differences from SplashTop."

Ubuntu Geek: "Deleting a file or reformatting a disk does not destroy your sensitive data. The data can easily be undeleted. That's a good thing if you accidentally throw something away, but what if your trying to destroy financial data, bank account passwords, or classified company information."

BBC News: "The new agreement with Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner Music will end digital rights management (DRM) software currently attached to iTunes music."

Datamation: "Taking baby steps to become more familiar with a new operating system can be as simple as revamping the OS already in use on your computer. It begins with unlearning Windows-born behavior to free up your mind for a new way of doing things."

The VAR Guy: "International Linux developers have flooded Cisco with inquiries about the contest -- forcing the networking giant to push back a competition deadline. Here;s the scoop."

Tip of the Trade: "kill is most often used without an argument or with -9, to kill a process off. But it can also be used to send various other signals to a process. Some are variations on process termination, but you can also get information about or out of processes."

LinuxPlanet: "The newly-released book "How to be a Geek Goddess" is supposed to be a helpful, not-condescending computing howto for women. Tina Gasperson, who blatantly admits to being of the female persuasion herself, isn't sure it meets these goals, and suffers from severely mixed feelings."

Datamation: "I hate spineless managers -- especially when "executives" make incredibly stupid decisions. I realize that we all have jobs at stake but there's a line that should not be crossed."

IT Wire: "Think of the two most popular laptops trends, namely big screens and small screens. Now put them together and what do you get? Yep, the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds with one big screen and one small screen. Is this genius or simply the maddest laptop ever?"

LinuxPlanet: "A typical Linux system comes with all kinds of help documentation built-in, and a lot of users don't even know it's there. Juliet Kemp is your guide to finding man, info, and HTML help pages."

KungFu Code Monkey: "The latest feature to really impress me is how easy they've made it to connect to the internet using a 3G mobile broadband connection."

Tech Republic: "We know, first of all, that the vendors don't have a proper incentive to ship good quality software, because the vendors don't pay the cost of failure; we do."

IT Toolbox: "For these tests I used a program called x11perf which does massive amounts of screen redraw tests and reports on the results. How long those tests took I do not exactly know because I started them and then went to bed :)."

BBC News: "Kamal Prasad Sharma, aged 12, a student at Saraswati Secondary School in a small village not far from Kathmandu, was afraid when he saw a computer for the first time."

Eee PC: "Ubuntu Eee is dead, long live Easy Peasy! This is a custom Linux distribution (Ubuntu 8.10 based), optimized for netbooks, especially the Eee PC series."

XenStreet: "A few months back I wrote a review about gOS on one of my blogs which received some raving reviews. I did not just review it, but decided to start using it as my default Linux desktop."

Linux Magazine: "This year the challenge will be to create a one or two minute video or audio "advertisement", suitable for displaying on the web in sites such as YouTube and others, but captured, edited and otherwise produced using Free Software"

Chao-Kuei's Notes: "Please say it loudly in your blogs or emails, in as non-technical terms as possible. Then we will turn around and show your opinions to the confused governments and journalists who still believe Microsoft's claim that OOXML is an open format, and put an end to that lie."