According to a new report from PandaLabs, less than 10% of all e-mail delivered in 2008 was legitimate. If that number seems low to you, go hug your mail administrator. Most Internet users do not really understand how e-mail works behind the scenes. Many people I deal with don’t fully grasp how difficult it is to walk the fine line between protecting e-mail users from unwanted mail while at the same time making sure legitimate messages arrive in their inboxes.

On Jan. 20, 2009, at 11:19 a.m. (EST), GeoEye-1, the world’s highest resolution commercial Earth-imaging satellite, took a color image over Washington D.C. The image shows the monuments along the National Mall and masses of people gathered between the U.S. Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial.

Seven teams, all affiliated with the Universite of Michigan have reached the semi-finals in that school’s Clean Energy Prize competition.

Who knew that cereal boxes needed to be redesigned? On the bright side, if this works out, I will be able to fit at least two boxes of cereal in my office desk drawer.

Many Linux users love to talk about using Linux and really seem to take pleasure in helping other people solve problems and learn new skills needed to get the most out of their Linux based systems. These two facts have resulted in a vast repository of online resources that range from the simplest tutorials to information on extremely esoteric topics only of interest to system administrators. Here are a few of the ones I like best. These are all geared towards Ubuntu and/or Debian installs, but there are plenty more out there for other distros as well.