Stories about: Hatch

Not so long ago, the only way to see whether Linux would run on a particular PC was to install the OS on its hard drive. Times change. Nowadays, many so-called live CD versions of Linux boot and run solely from a CD-ROM. Ubuntu Linux, our 2005 World Class winner for Best Linux Distribution, has a live CD version available for download. You may be asking yourself, "How do I download a CD-ROM?"

A group of technology trade groups, consumer advocates and lawyers filed more than 20 briefs Tuesday in support of peer-to-peer (P-to-P) software vendors facing a U.S. Supreme Court showdown with the movie industry later this month.

File-swapping software giant Kazaa is steps closer to music-business legitimacy with a software upgrade later this month that lets users win prizes and earn points that they can use to buy multimedia content.

I was sitting on my laptop looking at a movie [1] of my daughter Reegen in her hula skirt on our trip to Hawaii this January. She and Allison, the daughter of one of our friends, were playing "Ring around the Rosey" and it was terribly cute.

About twenty minutes after the OpenSSH vulnerability[1] was discovered, I started getting a number of messages from readers asking how to upgrade OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com) safely. Luckily, I already had written an article on this very topic, assuming it'd come in useful at some point. So here goes!

When you buy a sports car, it's a no-brainer that you'll take it for a test drive to make sure you like the way it handles, the comfort level and its performance. And if you're like me, when purchasing a security product for your company, you show the same due diligence to make sure you're getting the performance you need.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss Napster and its battle with the recording industry over the free swapping of digital music files over the Internet.