Early on in my writing career, I took on a couple of articles covering project management. To put it mildly, I didn’t know a Gantt chart from a PERT chart. Worse, I didn’t even know where to start. I had already learned, though, that vocabulary is the fastest way to become an expert on any [...]

The Canonical OEM team has been approached by a number of OEM’s who want to sell netbooks (small, low-cost laptops with an emphasis on the web) based on Ubuntu. Almost universally, they’ve asked for standard Ubuntu packages and updates, with an app launcher that’s more suited to new users and has the feeling of a [...]

NewTeeVee has reported that the popular torrent site The Pirate Bay is working on an encryption technology to protect the all Internet traffic from prying eyes. The name of the project is “Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets,” or IPETEE for short. The Pirate Bay aims to provide encryption at the network level and not [...]