I just bought a used iMac and am frustrated to find that it identifies itself as “Susie’s Q” on the network. Since I’m not Susie – and never have been! – I really want to change this. How do I change my iMac’s name in Mac OS X on the network?

I’ve just come across a link that describes how to enable tethering on the iPhone 3G using the 3.0 software update that was released yesterday. Most of the guides I found seemed a bit complex and involved messing around in the Terminal – something that a lot of users find intimidating. But then I came [...]

I started to consider the reasons why open source vendors select the GPL after ESR wrote: “The GPL may be a community-building signaling device, but it is also a confession of fear and weakness. To believe that it matters, you have to believe that you live in a Type A universe where closed-source development is [...]

‘P2P is a demand signal from the market,’ says Cory Doctorow. If that’s the case, what are we to make of The Pirate Bay conviction last week? For those who don’t know, Pirate Bay is one of the world’s largest Bittorrent search engines. It allows people to search through the gazillions of TV shows, films [...]