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When pressed to answer truthfully, most parents agree that raising kids is a big experiment. In the December 2004 issue of LJ, Diego Betancor's letter motivated me to experiment with something I've ...

Earlier this month, an academic experiment studying the impact of newly released security features for the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) went horribly wrong and crashed a bunch of Linux-based internet ...

In the last couple of weeks we’ve seen the announcement or release of a number of new products: the iPad Mini, an updated version of the full-size iPad, and Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Surface tablet. A ...

All I wanted to do was shut off the fucking backlighting on my Roccat keyboard. The wave of everchanging color has driven me nuts from Day One. No support for this keyboard exists in roccat-tools, and ...

Well, it's the middle of winter, I don't ski any more, and even the dogs are yawning with boredom. My kids have grown up and moved out on their own, so it's pretty quiet around here, for the most part ...

Haha, that topic sounds pretty dodgy, but it's best I could think of.<P>Basically, I'm experimenting to see if I can use Linux for everyday use. instead of Windows. So far this means, email, browsing, ...

B efore I got obsessed with distro-hopping, I was terrified of the Linux terminal. Since I’d been a Windows user since my ...

The following are the highlights — and lowlights — of my adventures over the past 36 hours or so with the new Compaq 15 laptop which I picked up recently, Windows 8.1 and UEFI BIOS/boot. I started ...

Microsoft is doing more than adding a native version of the Bash shell to Windows; it's paving the way for Linux development directly on Windows During the keynote presentation at today’s Build ...