One of my memorable moments as a homeowner was looking out the window at a pair of neighborhood kids in my backyard, who were immersed in some sort of water fight. Never mind that my own kids weren’t with them, or that they didn’t have any kind of permission to be in my backyard – I’ll save those topics for the child-rearing magazines. In this case, the fight itself was what I most remember.

One way to avoid having your personal information stolen is to use a disposable computer set up for sensitive operations.

Dmitri shows how to create an OpenOffice.org extension from scratch and introduces a useful extension packaging tool.

If you are one to notice the issue numbers that appear next to our name on the spine – or above the barcode on the front cover – you will quickly ascertain that this particular issue has avery significant number for a monthly mag. 120 issues? That means ten years of Linux Magazine.

Waiting until a certain day of the week to patch your software is one way to do it, but not on Linux.