Want the look and feel of a Mac without paying the high-end design premium? Tired of hearing from all your Mac-happy friends how awesome Leopard looks? Got time to run through six pages of instructions? This How To has got you covered.

This document explains how to set up the VMware Tools in the following guest operating systems: Ubuntu 7.04, Fedora 7, PCLinuxOS 2007 and Debian Etch.

First, a little explanation may be needed as to what is happening in between you, Comcast and the Internet. Basically Comcast has been using a packet filtering platform called Sandvine. Sandvine is a essentially a Quality of Service device that actually has legitimate uses, such as giving high priority to Xbox Live communications and VOIP.

"If you are tired of Sandvine screwing with your BitTorrent and a user of GNU/Linux, then this is for you. I will tell you how to take your bandwidth back."

A member of the Amarok development team posted some instructions explaining how certain Bluetooth devices can be made to control Amarok 1.4. this is only just the beginning as the LinuxMCE project is working with the KDE folks to bring their technologies right into KDE for post KDE 4.0 releases, which means support out of the box.

Construct a highly available Apache Web server cluster that spans multiple physical or virtual Linux servers in 5 easy steps with Linux Virtual Server and Heartbeat v2.

In an effort to rally support for the underdog media format, the Free Software Foundation has launched PlayOgg.org, a website promoting awareness of the Ogg format. It's an educational primer for playing Ogg Vorbis audio files and Ogg Theora video files on Mac and Windows desktops.

You've finally made the move to a Windows-free computer, you're enjoying your brand new Linux OS, no trojans/viruses, no slowdown, everything's perfect. Suddenly, you need to update the BIOS on your motherboard to support some new piece of hardware, but typically the motherboard vendor is offering only DOS based BIOS flash utilities. You panic! Fortunately, this problem is easy to solve...

Mp3, wma formats are copyrighted formats. Not everybody knows that they are breaking a bunch of rules and copyright patents by playing and redistributing fileformats like mp3 and wma. The big companies are smart here by integrating their formats in their players and operatingsystems by default but they are not granting u as a user to do what you want with the music and other data that it produces.

Thats why i recommend all of you to convert your music archive to Ogg vorbis. Ogg Vorbis is a open and patent free format that gives you all advantages that opensource softwares provides.

Full install instructions for installing Fedora Core 5 on a Sony Playstation 3 using OtherOS Installer released by Sony. Along with a short video of it up and running.

One of the most important skills to have for navigating the command line in Linux is the ability to use manpages. The term "manpage", also sometimes spelled "man page", is short for "manual page". It refers to the online UNIX "manual", the traditional and most commonly available form of electronic documentation included with UNIX-based operating systems.

Use Perl and FluidSynth to create a real-time musical composition of your system status. Learn how to integrate various system monitoring data into a harmony-producing, MIDI-controlled audio synthesis.

Web spiders are software agents that traverse the Internet gathering, filtering, and potentially aggregating information for a user. Using common scripting languages and their collection of Web modules, you can easily develop Web spiders. This article shows you how to build spiders and scrapers for Linux to crawl a Web site and gather information, stock data, in this case

You arrive at a Debian GNU/Linux server which has some history of neglection. Let's suppose someone else neglected it but if your new-year resolution is to stop neglecting your beloved server, this applies as well.

While VMware Player is not designed to create virtual machines from scratch, other tools can help you to build your own VMs in a matter of minutes. You could use VMware's free VMware Server software, but it's overkill if you only need a quick-and-dirty way to build a VM. Instead, consider VMX Builder, an easy-to-use desktop tool for creating VMware virtual machines.