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Knoppix, the famous live Linux CD that practically started the live CD trend, needs no introduction to most people. One of the things that’s so great about it is that you can take it with you and boot to a familiar Linux environment on almost any modern computer, without touching the OS that’s already installed on it.

www.tuxmachines.org/node/14738

Is there any blogger blogging about blogging that hasn’t posted a list of his favorite plugins yet? Well, since I’m now in it too, I might as well do it. But you won’t find a list of my favorite plugins here. I did much better! I compiled a true TOP 30 list of the most popular plugins in blogosphere.

Story here.

[WWW] QEmu can run an OS inside another OS - for example, Windows under Linux. QEmu uses kqemu, an acceleration driver included in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn to run Windows at usable speed.

help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo

All for Gmail: handy Firefox extensions, best Greasemonkey scripts, some desktop tools and lots of useful tips. Take this Gmail thingie to another level. Enjoy

www.makeuseof.com/tag/gmail-craze-30-tools-to-make-your-gmail-better/

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and so on.

Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules.

Link here.

By default, Apache will send version and modules information (e.g., mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl) in every HTTP header.

Link here.

Every once in a while we try to identify what’s hot in one of our categories and this time we picked CSS since it’s becoming more popular with each day that goes by. More and more web designers become interested in learning every trick. A good way to do it is by good examples which is what this list will try to showcase. The best CSS examples of the month.

Link here.

Hearing about AJAX constantly, but never have found time to read a lengthy, frustrating, complex tutorial? In the following post, I’m going to explain how to add AJAX functionality to your website in three easy steps. It’s actually quite simple, and I’m going to try and be clear and to the point, but not over or under-explain anything like most tutorials have a tendency to do.

Link here.

Today, VMware has introduced a public beta test of a program called ACE 2 Enterprise Edition. The original ACE program was a version of VMware that allowed users to construct specific virtual machines and then distribute them in a managed form to a large number of users. The new ACE version adds many features, including the ability to distribute virtual machines on any portable USB drive.

arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070305-vmware-puts-a-virtual-machine-in-your-pocket.html

Over the last three years, this site has become far more popular than I ever could have imagined. Not that I’m complaining, mind you. Finding an audience and opening a dialog with that audience is the whole point of writing a blog in the first place.

But on the internet, popularity is a tax. Specifically, a bandwidth tax. When Why Can’t Programmers.. Program? went viral last week, outgoing bandwidth usage spiked to nearly 9 gigabytes in a single day:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000807.html