The Noble Eightfold Path

"The essence of the Buddha's teaching can be summed up in two principles: the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path. The first covers the side of doctrine, and the primary response it elicits is understanding; the second covers the side of discipline, in the broadest sense of that word, and the primary response it calls for is practice. In the structure of the teaching these two principles lock together into an indivisible unity called the dhamma-vinaya, the doctrine-and-discipline, or, in brief, the Dhamma. The internal unity of the Dhamma is guaranteed by the fact that the last of the Four Noble Truths, the truth of the way, is the Noble Eightfold Path, while the first factor of the Noble Eightfold Path, right view, is the understanding of the Four Noble Truths. Thus the two principles penetrate and include one another, the formula of the Four Noble Truths containing the Eightfold Path and the Noble Eightfold Path containing the Four Truths."

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/waytoend.html

Rick Ross Institute

"A database of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Rick A. Ross Institute of New Jersey (RRI) is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents. RRI on-line files include news stories, research papers, reports, court documents, book excerpts, personal testimonies and hundreds of links to additional relevant resources. This database is well-organized for easy access and reference."

http://www.rickross.com/

dvd::rip

"dvd::rip is a full featured DVD copy program written in Perl. It provides an easy to use but feature-rich Gtk+ GUI to control almost all aspects of the ripping and transcoding process. It uses the widely known video processing swissknife transcode and many other Open Source tools. dvd::rip itself is licensed under GPL / Perl Artistic License."

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/

TrueCrypt

"Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux"

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Kiddo child proximity alarm locator

"Smart Target has developed a wireless proximity alarm system designed to boost child safety by helping parents quickly locate wayward young ones and keep them within a pre-set “virtual fence”."

http://www.gadgettastic.com/2008/02/23/kiddo-child-proximity-alarm-locator/

The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives

"The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, in other cases still, you’ll learn that some proprietary programs are real gems, but that the open source advocate can replace those gems with equally shiny objects from the open source repertoire."

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/

Fotofox

"Fotofox is an extension for uploading pictures to photo service sites. Many such tools exist for photo sites, but Fotofox aims to go futher by supporting multiple services and providing functionality cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux."

http://briks.si/projekti/fotofox/

Top 10 PDF Tricks

"The PDF file format is one of the best ways to publish, save and exchange well-formatted documents that will look exactly the same regardless of the device or computer you open them on. Whether it's your résumé, a tax form, e-book, user guide or a web page, you can't go wrong using a PDF. Chances are you've already got a free PDF reader installed on your computer, but you can do a lot more with your PDF files than you might think"

http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-pdf-tricks-289583.php

Fog - A Ghost-like Computer Cloning Solution

"Fog is a Linux-based, free and open source computer imaging solution for Windows XP and Vista that ties together a few open-source tools with a php-based web interface. Fog doesn't use any boot disks, or CDs; everything is done via TFTP and PXE. Also with fog many drivers are built into the kernel, so you don't really need to worry about drivers (unless there isn't a linux kernel module for it)"

http://freeghost.no-ip.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=36

IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire internet

"The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working on a computing system capable "of hosting the entire internet as an application.""

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/ibm_bluegene_web/

Best Free and Freeware Software and Games for Windows

http://www.freeware-software.org/

A renewed wish for open document standards

"Google believes OOXML would be an insufficient and unnecessary standard, designed purely around the needs of Microsoft Office."

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/renewed-wish-for-open-document.html

The OOXML BRM: Secrets and statistics

"Of all the “condensed” resolutions from ECMA, approximately 82% were not discussed at all, including counter proposals for these same issues. That leaves about 18% that were either discussed and voted on or else voted on early in batch. (I’m fine with batch votes for minor typographical fixes.)"

http://www.sutor.com/newsite/blog-open/?p=2090

"If this were a plane, would it even leave the ground?

If this were a medical device, would a patient survive its use?

If this were a car, would you drive it at highway speed?"

Big Blue on OOXML

"OOXML should not, and must not become an ISO standard. It is, as we have been saying all along, a proprietary vendor’s implementation of their proprietary document format. There will be only one beneficiary if this becomes a global standard, and it isn’t you or me…"

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/02/20/big-blue-on-ooxml/

Has Vista lost all credibility?

"Even internally, Microsoft couldn't agree on what the base requirements to run Vista were, but that didn't stop it from inaccurately promoting the OS as running on some hardware, new email evidence in an ongoing consumer class action suggests. What do the latest revelations mean for the future of Vista?"

http://apcmag.com/8344/has_vista_lost_all_credibility

Car-Pool European Liftpooling Agency

"Welcome on car-pool.co.uk the agency for liftsharers in the whole of Europe.

Because of the Congestion charging for central London we have extended our carpooling system to better meet your requirements. Just search for your desired departure and destination from the list below. If you wish to select a London district just select London and the district will appear beneath."

http://www.car-pool.co.uk/