Microsoft vs. Wine: Deja Vu on the FUD Front describes how Microsoft's WGA stuff - checking a legal system software according to Microsoft's definition even for updates for normal applications - makes the update of applications that run under Wine or Crossover Office (Windows emulators under Linux) impossible.
Let me spell that out for you: You can have a legal copy of Microsoft Office, and because you choose to run it on a Linux box using Wine, you won't be able to update it.
Bernd das Brot as GDM Theme. For the real fans of Bernd. Everyone else can go home and stare at their textured wallpaper.
Who wants to know how secure or rather insecure the T-Mobile pages in the USA are (they were recently hacked), here is a small analysis: Ethical Hacking and Computer Forensics: Secret Service hacker, how did he do it? The result is that the hacker apparently used normal SQL injection or something similar and that it is quite easy to insert false information due to the system structure of their server.
Google pagerank extension for firefox and mozilla is exactly what it claims to be: a display of the Google PageRank in the status bar of Mozilla or FireFox. Practical if you need to or want to pay attention to PageRank.
HP Photosmart 8750 Printer Announced - hey, that sounds really good. Maybe it could eventually replace my Epson Stylus 3000. Archival-quality prints are definitely something that's still on my to-do list. And there's also a 3-gray ink cartridge available for the HP, which should make black-and-white prints look nice.