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Creative Labs, makers of the Nomad and Zen line of portable MP3 players, decided to sue its biggest MP3 competitor, Apple Computers. The suit that Creative filed claims that Apple infringed on patents over the interface that's used in Apple's iPods. Creative claims that it had designed the easy to use interface over 6 years ago. Many are asking why Creative waited so long if it had the patents 6 years ago.

Path Finder is a file browser for Mac OS X. It has many features, including labels, customized fonts and colors, a desktop trash can, spring-loaded folders, an image converter, a preview drawer, a menu key editor, an enhanced column view, and a built-in application launcher; and the ability to view invisibles, to compress/decompress, create disk images, add and remove thumbnail icons, open the program with the menu, view hex, copy paths, secure-delete, launch as root, find files, create aliases and symbolic links, delete as root, and to open in terminal. The program was previously named SNAX.

Ever since the iPod Nano, Apple has been introducing more and more "black" versions of their products. First it spread to the iPod with Video, and just a while ago to their top line Macbooks. Many complain about the last product, due to the price you pay just for the black coating being around $100, or even more in some blogs, but I'm no price genius so I don't what reasons are behind this.

To better understand—and, consequently, to better ensure—network security, it always pays to understand the tools of the attackers. Darknet lists 15 essential hacking tools:

.htaccess files are very versatile, and can easily become very complex. This document contains enough information to set simple access restrictions/limits on a directory in your web space. Remember to upload .htaccess files, and .htpasswd files using ASCII mode. This is an option is available in most FTP clients.

FreeBSD 5.5-RC1 is now available for testing. Things had been going well with the 5.5 BETAs up to the point we suspended making them so we could focus on the balance of the 6.1 release so we think 5.5 is pretty much ready to go. Unless big problems are reported with this RC we will start the 5.5 release builds this coming weekend and do the release early next week.

We all know that Xbox 360™ blows the doors off today's consoles in the power department. But just how much power does Xbox 360 have, and why do developers and gamers agree that it's the system to beat? Glad you asked!

Normally one would ask? how do i add additional harddrive to my linux box.. well we could make use of utilities like fdisk, cfdisk or QtParted but it is fdisk that is im going to discuss below.

These are some unix tips that might be helpful someday down the road. Feel free to contribute more unix tips by commenting on this article.

Anybody who reads the tech related news online would by now be aware of the fierce debate that is raging regarding the most suitable design of an operating system. On the one side are those who favor monolithic kernels - that is a kernel which take care of almost all the system tasks like interfacing between the sound card and the audio software, the graphics card drivers and so on. Linux is a perfect example of a monolithic kernel where most of these functions take place in the kernel space. And not surprisingly, Linus Torvalds is a strong proponent of monolithic kernels.

This document describes how to install a Proftpd server that uses virtual users from a MySQL database instead of real system users. This is much more performant and allows to have thousands of ftp users on a single machine. In addition to that I will show the use of quota with this setup.

The Linux kernel, since version 2.0, has included the capabilities to act as a firewall. In those days, the kernel module was called ipfwadm and was very simple. With the 2.2 kernel, the firewall module became called ipchains and had greater capabilities than its predecessor. Today, we have IPTables, the firewall module in the kernel since the 2.4 days. IPTables was built to take over ipchains, and includes improvements that now allow it to compete against some of the best commercial products available in the market. This guide will give you some background on IPTables and how to use it to secure your network.

I spend most of my time working in front of a black and white terminal of remote SSH connections to various servers. This means that I use bash (as my preferred shell) most of the day. And bash history is a very important feature of bash that saves me much time by recalling previous commands I have typed. Here are some tricks on how you can optimize with some simple configurations settings the usage your bash history.

Bash, which is the default shell in Linux contains a whole lot of key bindings which makes it really easy to use . The most commonly used shortcuts are listed below :

With all the excitement of Boot Camp, and the ability to now run Windows on a Mac, what about the rest of us? Those of us that use Windows out of necessity, and lust after a Mac yet can't afford or justify the purchase of one. What to do? Well, you can make your Windows XP PC look as much like a Mac as possible.

If you have a couple of old Linux boxes sitting around, then you've got the makings of a supercomputer. Dust them off, install Secure Shell (SSH) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM), and start your complex algorithms.

Apple recently launched their series of ads that were so hilarious and worth checking. See all the ads here

Some of you may be familiar with ftp (File Transfer Protocol). It is not a good idea to use ftp over the Internet because it is a relatively insecure method of transfering files between computers. As most of you know, this protocol sends the user's password and data in the clear over the network, which leaves the user information and data susceptible to password sniffing and other network traffic interception. To transfer files between machines, you need to use scp. scp works very similarly to cp, except that the files you are copying reside on different machines.

Apple officially ditches iBook in favour of a slinky new MacBook, that’s also available in panther black. Grrr…