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SONY yesterday set the stage for a fresh computer games war with its rival Microsoft as it launched its PlayStation 3 console.

A large number of Apple Computer's iTunes customers, who paid in advance for rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers' new album "Stadium Arcadium" in order to receive a Ticketmaster code that would allow them to purchase advance tickets for the bands upcoming tour, did not receive those codes before ticket pre-sales began on Tuesday and are now enraged with the iPod maker.

(Review) - Kernel panic is a web comic started and maintained by Christopher Wright. The main characters of this comic are a group of UNIX and Linux server administrators ordered to change the server farm over Nifty Doorways. It’s a humorous way of looking at otherwise complicated, mundane and dry topics, especially for those of you who deal with such scenarios constantly.

Los Angeles -- The highly anticipated PlayStation 3 video game console will be available for $499 in the United States starting Nov. 17, Sony executives said Monday.

3G stands for third generation, a generic wireless industry term for high-speed mobile data delivery over cellular networks. 3G networks allow users to send and receive bandwidth-intensive information such as video, video conferencing, high quality audio and web data on-demand, virtually anytime and anyplace.

Blue Security’s Blue Frog has an interesting defense against spammers. If you constantly receive spam from a specific merchant, Blue Frog will bombard that spammer with email asking him to desist.

Cisco Systems is planning to announce a new wireless module for its Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switch that will provide more centralized management and enhanced features for Cisco's Wi-Fi product.

AMUST Software today announced the release of AMUST 1-Login™ 1.0 - the next generation Internet Password Manager. 1-Login offers Single Sign On (SSO) to Internet users, the same functionality that has long been available to enterprise users who login into multiple systems and applications. 1-Login allows a user to securely login into multiple web sites by signing to 1-Login only once.

ThinkSecret has been able to confirm the release of the Apple MacBook for this Tuesday, May 9th. It also looks like they will be thinner than current iBooks and come in White and Black.

The MiniHitch allows you to mount your Mac Mini® on the back of your monitor, by making use of the 100mm or 75mm spacing VESA pattern mounting holes found on the back of many LCD monitors.

THE Scottish Catholic Church has declared war on The Da Vinci Code by releasing a DVD describing Dan Brown's book as "monumental nonsense".

Celebrity watchers rejoice! Today, Microsoft Corp.’s oline local search and mapping service, Windows Live Local, launched CelebFavorites , a Web site that pinpoints the favorite haunts of eight of the world’s top athletes and entertainers, including Eva Longoria, Anna Kournikova, Jeff Bridges and Alex Rodriguez. Each celebrity has used the site to highlight his or her favorite restaurants, hotels, clubs, shops, museums or places to hang out.

Sony Electronics has begun shipping its 25GB single layer Blu-ray Disc recording media with AccuCORE technology. In addition, a dual layer 50GB capacity disc is set to debut in June.

A California hacker has pleaded guilty to disrupting computer systems - including the network of a hospital - through a malware-fueled attack designed to install adware on infected PCs.

MacRumors is quoting an unverified anonymous source that Apple may announce the MacBook notebooks as early as May 9.

A continuing trend by banks to take ATM machines off proprietary networks and put them on the banks' own TCP/IP networks is introducing new vulnerabilities in the ATM transaction environment.

Seventy percent of malicious software being circulated is linked to various types of cybercrime, a study by security firms Panda Software showed.

Microsoft Corp. has held discussions to buy a stake in Internet media company Yahoo Inc. to compete against Google Inc., the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

THE makers of combat video games have unwittingly become part of a global propaganda campaign by Islamic militants against the United States, US Defence officals say.

There is nothing more frustrating for an Administrator who has to reboot system due to fork bomb

In some directories such as /etc you have a mix of file types.

To kill all processes of a particular user from root at unix prompt type:

The creation of many temporary files in Unix during compilations, occupies a lot of memory space. This can be got rid of by using a simple script.

High-tech thieves are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to stealing automobiles equipped with keyless entry and ignition systems. While many computer-based security systems on automobiles require some type of key — mechanical or otherwise — to start the engine, so-called ‘keyless’ setups require only the presence of a key fob to start the engine.