It happens to everyone eventually. You walk into the office, turn on the desktop PC and you\'re greeted with ugly beeping and no video. The slightly acrid tang of electrical smoke reaches your nostrils and you know that before you\'ve even begun your day, it\'s already over. You say a small prayer to the computing gods that it\'s not the hard drive that\'s fried and you turn everything off before you begin unplugging peripherals.

The Linux world offers the best tools for hosting a secure, stable, efficient website. Apache on Linux = low cost, great performance, and few headaches.

As the Zaurus platform is Open Source and requires components from multiple sources to create a working developer environment, we\'ve created this \"cheat sheet\" to help you get going quickly.

In this article, we look at how you develop Linux-based applications for handheld devices using the Trolltech\\\'s C++ GUI Qt/Embedded toolkit, available for embedded devices under both the GPL and commercial licenses for UNIX/X11 and Linux.

Look at the list of names among Datamation Product of the Year 2001 Award winners and you\'ll see companies long familiar to enterprise IT executives -- Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Dell, Palm, Compaq. But it\'s the appearance on this year\'s list of one relative upstart -- Red Hat -- that underscores the major shift under way in the enterprise.

Alan Cox is one of the most influential IT innovators in the world. A graduate of the University of Wales, Swansea, he has been a key developer of the Linux kernel for nearly a decade. Here ITW asked him about his changing role at Red Hat, and learn about the benefits Linux brings to business.

QuickHelp is a development tool for quickly creating and distributing online help for Linux applications. QuickHelp consists of a Builder for creating the help topics and a Viewer for deploying them to end-users. The help information resides in a single XML file distributed with the QuickHelp Viewer. For the end-user, QuickHelp supports a table of contents, an index with automatic search field, word searches across topics, color highlighted topic text with hypertext links and context sensitive help from applications.

This month, I\'m going to look at filtering mail with Procmail. There are many reasons to filter your mail. For example, I subscribe to several mailing lists and get email from several different accounts; some of that mail is fairly important and some isn\'t urgent at all. And, of course, there\'s the ever-continuing battle against spam.

Infomart saw an opening between the high-end high-cost Pocket PC PDAs, and the low-end low-cost Palm PDAs, and created a new PDA called \"Kaii\" to fill that gap. \"We wanted to make a PDA with the features of high-end PDAs, but at an affordable cost,\" said Devesh R. Agarwal, managing director of the Bangalore, India based development company. \"Our initial target market was India only, but as we progressed further into the development cycle we realized that there were opportunities in the global market also.\"

While releasing Windows NT 4.0, Redmond\'s Hexenmeisters were already dreaming of code convergence with Win9x. But such black magic often goes beyond what apprentice sorcerers can handle.