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There are a number of reasons someone might want to run a local DNS server/cache. Maybe your ISP's DNS servers are wonky, maybe your on dialup and just wanna get things a bit faster, or maybe something completely different.

Recently I have been surprised to find out how many people don't seem to have DPMS setup on their Linux Desktops and it seems to be partially just cause they don't know how. So lets fix that.

Find out what new cool features will be available in v1.0, what features have been implemented so far and what visions these bright young men have for the future of BitlBee and the Open Source world.

The benchmarks show that Windows XP outperforms Linux on the same hardware and the same official drivers from Nvidia. Windows XP simply does a better job at running games on this configuration.

The pop-up blocker has been greatly improved, it now resizes large images better and places the image more correctly according to the link followed and Mozilla now supports spell-checking on Linux systems.

Linux lacks working voice recognition software, something that could help disabled people work with computers. Sphinx is here to fill the gap. Sphinx is a speed recognition system written purely in Java, created by a joint collaboration between Sphinx group, Sun, MERL and HP with the aid of the UCSC and MIT.

We have come a long way with our music players in KDE. From xmms, to Noutan, to Juk and now to Amarok...but has the progression been a good one?

The new release has a very advanced built-in Junk-Filter, support for filtering away spam using Spam-Assassin, support for sharing your schedule using web calenders and NNTP support.

Krita a user-friendly image paint program where users with no or slim experience with other image programs like Photoshop and Gimp should feel right at home. Demo video and preview-release available.

3D-Desktop is pager (desktop switcher) that gives you a very impressive 3D overview of all your desktops and also allows you to switch between your desktops in a very fancy 3D box type way.

Jaroslaw Staniek is a software developer who recently submitted patches for 277 files into the KDE CVS, making it possible to use KDELibs/win32 on Windows.

Work has begun porting KDE libraries to Windows. The goal is not to make KDE for Windows, but to make it simpler for software developers to benefit from the KDEs features when making Windows software.

Learn how you can browse effectively using the keyboard, filter away advertisements, make the fonts look nicer, ensure your privacy is not violated and more.

The long awaited version 6.8.0 of the X.org implementation of the X Window System will be announced and available today. Development has finally moving rapidly forward after years of stagnation.

XFree86 is dead (if you ask me) and X.org is here to replace that overweight non-moving dog. Here are some of the great new screen-shots of features in the latest release candidate!

This means any evil black-hat can close down a vulnerable apache2 web-server and make all websites hosted on it temporarily unavailable.

The scanning engine has been rewritten and is now faster, gentler against target hosts and now able to scan many hosts in parallel.

..and chances are high they also can monitor all other communication systems. Big brother can read your e-mail and so forth. Luckily, protection is available. The protection is GNU Privacy Guard, a tool allowing you to secure your mail and instant message chats. The voice and video phone program Gnomemeeting allows you to call other Internet users free, but it does not support encryption.

txt2tags is a single python script that converts text files with minimal markup to into formatted xhtml, html, SGML and other document formats. The new version add improved xhtml support, css support and better mgp, moin and man generation. The new txt2tags version adds (valid) XHTML support and better support for images and css. mgp, moin and man targets are improved. Some of the markup tags have been changed and documents created for 1.x must be converted. Read the interview with developer Aurelio Marinho Jargas to learn more. Download the latest version and try it yourself! "For outside exchange it is kinda hard, because you just can't impose a new format on a doc/PDF world. But for internal storage I think txt2tags can be a good choice for documents with no complicated structures. In fact, being simple it forces you to write in a simple way, using basic forms as lists and tables. For technical documentation, there is no need to abuse of formatting capabilities, so txt2tags can handle the job."