X11vnc is an easy way to remotely access your Linux desktop from another Windows (or Linux) computer. In this post I will explain how to use X11vnc to securely access your Linux computer from Windows. X11vnc is a VNC server. A VNC server sends images of an X display to a client whenever the display [...]

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I recently came across an interesting approach to the typical Web OS. Most commonly, a Web OS uses Javascript and PHP to emulate the look of a desktop enviroment. What Desktop On Demand does differently is that it is a real desktop, running Linux and GNOME. Desktop On Demand provides 1gb of storage for your [...]

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This guide is now out of date. An updated post is now available. For a long time, if you wanted to play Civilization 4 on Linux your only option was to buy Cedega. This was because Wine was lacking DirectX 9 support. Now that Wine is up to the task, you can play Civilization 4 [...]

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This is what Peter Watson, Microsoft’s chief security advisor for Australia said recently: There has been a lot of misunderstanding in the market around User Account Control (UAC) and how the function actually works. If you look at it from an architectural direction, User Account Control is a great idea and strategically a direction that [...]

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Another one of my favorite Windows-only games is working great in Linux. Today’s post will tell you how to install SimCity 4 and the Rush Hour expansion pack in Ubuntu. This was done with wine-0.9.34, Ubuntu 6.10, and with an ATI X300 SE graphics card. I used all the same Wine settings for Simcity 4 [...]

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