I have a mandrake 9 box I just set up that I want to be able to VNC into from my other machines. My other 2 boxes are running XP and already have VNC working fine between them. The windows boxen can ...

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I have admitted several times in this column that I can be absentminded and careless. At least I meant to. Regardless, this tendency got me into an annoying situation recently. I made several changes ...

There was a time, not quite so long ago, when a computer was a beige box that sat on your desk. Before that, computers were big enough to double as desks, and even farther back, they took up a whole ...

Linux users running KDE Plasma desktop environments need to apply patches to fix a bug that can lead to malicious code execution every time a user mounts a USB thumb drive on his computer. The KDE ...

You might say that the trend to 64-bit Linux systems started in 1994 when Jon “maddog” Hall, then at Digital, gave Linus Torvalds an Alpha workstation. But the mass market started to make the move ...

Hassle-free Linux box might be an oxymoron (like government efficiency), but it's an interesting strategy by startup company Zonbu. They have create a small form factor home PC, used a low-end Via CPU ...

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What kind of computer would you build if you decided to spoil yourself, but keep your spending below the big price differential that occurs when you buy the next best thing? We put together a box ...