Open Source

How to build the ultimate imaginary Linux distro

If I were to sit down, right now, and build a brand-new Linux distro...what tools would I use?

Why do bad patents win?

Technical patents are beyond the cusp of most juries.

Commercializing open source software via Shareware

An experiment with my own open source software and Shareware.

How to extract custom data from Google Analytics

You can use a programming language like R to bypass the Google Analytics Web interface to retrieve the data you want. Here's a step-by-step.

Is open source encryption the answer to NSA snooping?

Going the open source route to encrypt enterprise data has its own potential pitfalls

Unix: Debugging your scripts even more effectively

Last week's post provided some tips and tricks for debugging scripts. This week's provides some even better ones!

Raspberry Pi is running a bar in England

A PhD student at Oxford didn't like how the campus pub was being run, so he hacked a Raspberry Pi to make it better.

Facebook Open Sources Its Embedded Database Code

Facebook goes open source with its workhorse embedded data store

Facebook's RocksDB is an embeddable, persistent key-value store designed for fast reads and writes

How open data can keep us safe

Two murderers escape via hacking court documents.