This past Christmas my son received an Xbox 360 which has an Ethernet port. Since the console came with the Ethernet port, Microsoft plastered “Live” all over it. Which in turn had my son wanting to get online with his new gaming console. The only problem was that his room is not hard-wired for Ethernet.

LinuxElectrons is hosted on a dedicated server, running Fedora Core, that is until last week. The IDE hard drive in the server timed out causing some of the services running to crash, most noticeable was httpd (apache). To my surprise, ssh still worked. In the past when I've had a disk drive crash the OS usually panics or just freezes.

This article will introduce you to some concepts in System Design such as environmental specifications. To be even more specific, thermal specifications. I will show you how to test your laptop for thermal bugs before your laptop fails when you need it the most. Although these tests may not uncover all design defects, the tests should flush out gross design and manufacturing errors. Armed with this knowledge allows you to return your laptop for a refund and buy a different model or at the very least be able to argue with tech support.

I recently acquired a Linksys WRT54GL wireless broadband router. The nice thing about this piece of networking gear is that it runs Linux. There is an abundance of information on the prior model (WRT54G) of this series on the Internet. In fact, there is so much information that I had over twenty tabs open in Firefox of various web sites to sort through just to get the information that I needed to hack on my new router. So I decided to write this guide to save others from information overload.

This tutorial gives detailed instructions about how to install and configure a web- and mail server with Fedora Core 3. Every single step is explained with the help of 29 screenshots which allows even Linux newbies to follow this guide, but experienced Linux users will benefit from it as well.

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Compiling your own kernel is relatively easy with Linspire Five-O. Finding the source was a little bit trickier than I had imagined. Now that Linspire has a development edition available, I thought it would be pretty straight forward. A quick search and browse of CNR showed no kernel packages. I checked the developer “Aisle” and I found the development package's (the aisle is named “LinspireDeveloper 4.5”) that I would need such as gcc. However, no kernel source to be found.

NEW YORK – The Public Patent Foundation ("PUBPAT") released a free program today that details how to find prior art for issued patents. The hour long audio recording with supporting written materials uses a model patent as the basis for examples during the session. PUBPAT's program is made available as part of the organization's ongoing efforts to inform the public and provide advocacy about the patent system.

San Francisco, CA – With the privacy of bloggers and their news sources coming under fire in the court system, it's crucial that web writers know how to express themselves without risking their jobs or social lives. Yesterday the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released "How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)," a how-to guide for bloggers worried about protecting their privacy and free speech.

Baffled by batteries? If you’re one of the millions of newcomers to digital photography, you may find more than a few choices when you’re looking for batteries to power your digital camera or other portable digital device.

Contrary to popular rumors, compiling a 2.6x kernel is a snap!
This HowTo serves to show one way to do it.