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Chipmaker Dumps Employees, Bumps Exec$

It seems as though layoffs and cutbacks are omnipresent these days, as more and more companies make the difficult decision to scale down in order to better compete in the recessed economy. Such decisions are not easy or popular, but are nonetheless necessary — one is left to accept with great sadness that such things should come to pass. That is until the rustling of countless cardboard boxes is muffled by the unmistakable sound of slot machines paying out the jackpot.

Smarter Than Phones

The phone business is changing at a rate so fast, and on such a curved path, that Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle comes to mind. Where it is and where it's going may be conjugate variables, but trying to reconcile the two is kind of futile.

ASUS to Eee Android?

Taiwanese computer maker ASUS — which ostensibly launched the netbook craze in 2007 with its EeePC — appears to be looking to hop on another craze with the low-cost lightweight laptop. According to reports, the company is in high gear developing a new netbook which will run on, of all things, the Android mobile phone platform.

Use netstat to See Internet Connections

Using netstat, you can monitor programs that are making connections to remote hosts: $ netstat -tpe The -t flag limits the output to show only TCP connections. The -p flag displays the PID and name of the program making the connection. The -e flag displays extra information, such as the user name under which each program is running.

Death by Poking?

Social networking seems all-encompassing these days, as we find ourselves tweeting madly from smartphones, joining the group of the moment on Facebook, and leaving little bits of our lives recorded on the pages of Flickr. With the volume of socialization that issues forth from the myriad of social networks now available, one can easily begin to wonder if someday we'll all be swept to our deaths by the never-ending flow. If one psychologist is to be believed, however, while we won't drown in a flood a tweets, our social networking habits just might be what kills us.

Add a Binary Payload to your Shell Scripts

Generally when we think of shell scripts we think of editable text, but it's possible to add binary data to your shell script as well. In this case we're going to talk about adding a binary payload to the end of your shell script.

OpenOffice.org Base: Creating basic databases and tables

When databases became available for the personal computer in the mid-1980s, they quickly gained a mystique as the ultimate productivity applications. Despite their widespread use, in some ways they have never lost that mystique -- so much so that many desktop users will stretch the use of spreadsheets to cumbersome lengths rather than consider setting up a database.

Sweden Begins Full Out Battle Against File Sharing

File sharing, file sharing, file sharing. Whether it's college students by BitTorrent, schoolkids copying tracks off their friends during study hall — do they even still have study hall? — or grandmas making Glenn Miller mix tapes, file sharing seems to be everywhere. At least, that's the story the record industry is telling — to anyone who will listen — and the one they'll be telling a Swedish court starting this week, as the four founders of the Tracker di tutti Trackers, The Pirate Bay, go on trial in Stockholm.