Fedora 9 Gives Ubuntu a Run For Its Money

" The Fedora Project has released Fedora 9, a significant upgrade for the popular Linux distribution. Fedora 9 packs in a number of new features including an improved package management system, KDE 4 and more. Perhaps the best part of Fedora 9 is the new live USB options. Fedora has always made it easy to go from a live CD to a bootable USB stick, but the new options allow for a non-destructive install and persistent data. The non-destructive part means that, provided your USB stick has space, you can install Fedora 9 and none of your existing files will be lost."

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South Korean Village Runs On 100% Solar Power

The village’s forty houses and the school all have large solar panels covering their roofs. A typical roof will have a two kilowatt solar installation. In 2004, the government subsidized the solar systems in Donggwang, paying 70% of the installation fees.

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Life After the IT Department

If you didn't work in IT, where would you go? What could you do? "Though IT employment is at an all-time high in the U.S.--some 3.8 million employed residents in the U.S. consider themselves IT professionals according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, a record high--and is expected to climb even higher--computer and mathematical sciences jobs expected to grow faster than any other professional occupation through 2016, nearly a 25 percent increase--there are those that work in the field that no longer think it's all it's cracked up to be. Salary competition from offshore outsourcing, companies posting ads that expressly favor H-1B visa holders to the exclusion of U.S. workers, the fear for job safety that comes in a recession year and the constant pressure to keep skills up to date have worn some tech professionals out to a point that they would consider alternative careers. "

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100 E-mail Bouncebacks? You've Been Backscattered

The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every hour. Spammers like to put fake information in their e-mail messages in order to sneak them past e-mail filters. Because e-mail filters now just delete messages that come from nonexistent domains, the spammers like to make their messages look like they come from real e-mail addresses. That means, if your e-mail address has been published on the Web somewhere, you're a prime candidate for backscattering.

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Apple's $199 iPhone Is a Game-Changer

According to reports, AT&T (T) is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of Apple's (AAPL) new iPhone. If this is true, watch out. The Apple market share story just entered a new realm of mad growth. Remember what happened when Nike (NKE) hooked up with Michael Jordan? The $199 3G iPhone is Apple's MJ. The world is about to change.

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Eating Fugu, the World's Most Dangerous Meal

Our chief restaurant critic travels to Tokyo to eat the world’s most dangerous meal. So what does fugu taste like? And what’s that funny tingling in his throat?

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Apple Wins Ultimate Mac vs. PC Abusive Lab Test

Hardcore blind tests of new iMac vs Gateway One and Penryn MacBook vs. Asus M51SR (with detailed benchmarks) come out overwhelmingly in favor of Mac --with surprising details in number crunching.

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