10. Email Sniping
Server side fun. “Did you get my email?” <<zap>>, “No…(yes)”
9. The Decaff. Suprise
See how the marketing department feels when their java lifeline is switched to non-caffeinated pisswater. 
8. Good ol’ password change.
Make it something like )*(_&ifhu-)*&D)FH_)87fy-09y8Y_)* and insist they memorize it. Idiots. 
7. The straight up crash
Burn their fucking computer to the ground with a few [...]

 
Red Hat president and CEO Jim Whitehurst expects the enterprise open source software business to emerge from the economic crisis stronger than the proprietary market.
In August Red Hat posted second quarter revenue 29 percent higher than the same quarter a year ago, while its subscription revenue also enjoyed double-digit growth to beat analysts’ estimates. Whitehurst [...]

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I promise I will not turn that into a habit, but after quite a few months and more than 100 entries in this blog, I feel like it is time for a little rant indepth analysis summary of where we stand. I mean of where Linux stands as [...]

To start using Linux, you will want to choose a distribution. A distribution, or distro, is the Linux operating system. Distributions are put together by companies or nonprofit groups with the operating system and preinstalled software they feel will best suit you. Many distributions include an application that can search the internet for other Open [...]

We all have the need to find software that is actually useful occasionally, even more so when we are operating in a linux environment.
Taken from forum-replies.cfm?t=797838, this wiki is all about what people find the most useful software to use with linux.
This list is by no means complete, as only posts with links were added [...]

50. I develop for Linux for a living, I used to develop for DOS.
Going from DOS to Linux is like trading a glider for an F117.
– Lawrence Foard, entropy@world.std.com
49. Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux.
– unknown source
48. I’ve run DOOM more in the last few days than I have the last few
months. [...]

What if Unix, Windows, Linux and OSX were houses?
UNIX is the old Victorian Mansion that was the first of it’s kind and set the standard for all things to come.
It is still considered one of the most solid and stable houses ever built since it was build by compliant construction practices.
It’s incredibly solid foundation allows it [...]

Ubuntu is becoming more and more complete and easy to configure. However, like any operating system there’s work to be done after the installation. Here’s a list of 10 tips that you can use after installing or upgrading Ubuntu.

Install software faster
As a commenter on Slashdot said:
I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if [...]

It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 that you will have never heard of or used. They are in no particular order. My favorite is mkfifo.

pgrep, instead of:

# ps -ef | egrep ‘^root ‘ | awk ‘{print $2}’
1
2
3
4
5
20
21
38
39
…
You can do this:
# pgrep [...]

Windows Software
Linux Equivalent/Alternative

3D Studio Max

K-3D (http://www.k-3d.org/)

Wings 3D (http://www.wings3d.com/)

Art of Illusion (http://www.artofillusion.org/)

Blender (http://www.blender.org/)

ACDSee

GTKSee (http://gtksee.berlios.de/)

gthumb (http://gthumb.sf.net/)

KuickShow (http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/)

ShowImg (http://www.jalix.org/projects/showimg/)

Gwenview (http://gwenview.sourceforge.net/)

GQview (http://gqview.sourceforge.net/)

Eye of GNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/)

Adobe Acrobat Reader

okular (http://kpdf.kde.org/okular/)

Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)

Evince (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/)

ePDFView (http://trac.emma-soft.com/epdfview/)

KPDF (http://kpdf.kde.org/)

Adobe Audition

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/)

Adobe Illustrator

Skencil (http://www.skencil.org/)

Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/)

Karbon14 (http://www.koffice.org/karbon/)

Xara Xtreme for Linux (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/)

Adobe PageMaker

Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/)

Adobe PhotoAlbum

F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page)

KPhotoAlbum (http://www.kphotoalbum.org/)

digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/)

Adobe Photoshop

CinePaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/)

Gimpshop (http://www.gimpshop.com/download.shtml)

Krita (http://www.koffice.org/krita/)

GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)

Adobe Premier

PiTiVi (http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page)

LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/)

Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/)

Cinelerra (http://cvs.cinelerra.org/)

kdenlive (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/)

Jahshaka [...]