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Screencast: Learn how to watch video on Ubuntu

This screencast from Ubuntu.com shows how to play media, like online movies and DVDs, in Hardy Heron and other versions of the Linux operating system. Learn how to add codecs automatically, play video embedded in a browser and how to install a Flash Player ...

Video: Richard Stallman talks about the importance of free software, GNU, copyleft and open sourcing

In these videos, Robin Good interviews Richard Stallman about free software and the open source movement. Stallman created the GPL and the Free Software Foundation to protect the GNU operating system from becoming proprietary. In the sequence embedded below, filmed, the founding father of open source software answers a series of ...

Video: David Stewart describes the major challenges facing anti-money laundering software makers

In this video, David Stewart, Director of Financial Crimes at SAS Software, describes the major challenges facing anti-money laundering software makers. In other chapters, Stewart (naturally) plugs his company's products, along with looking ahead to the long term trends in AML compliance. These videos are ...

Video: CommuniGate’s Pronto! demo shows what a real-time communications dashboard can do

This video, uploaded by CommuniGate, demonstrates Pronto!, their take on a unified communications dashboard. The application pulls multiple forms of rich media and communication streams into a single dashboard. The desktops of many office workers these days often contains all of these communications forms already; they're just ...

Screencast: Installing Ubuntu to Dual Boot with Windows

Learn how to install Ubuntu on a PC that already has Windows installed. After installation, when the PC boots-up, a boot menu allows a user to choose which operating system to run. This is made possible by GNU GRUB (or just GRUB), a boot loader package that supports multiple operating ...

May 1st is RSS Awareness Day. Have you checked your feeds today?

Are you hip to Really Simple Syndication? If you're still behind on the adoption curve, May 1st is RSS Awareness Day. Daniel Socco of DailyBlogTips offers a detailed explanation of where the idea for RSS Awareness Day came from and what it was intended to accomplish. Check out RSSDay.org for ...

Video: Lecture on Red Dragon advanced Linux kernel keylogger and THX-vlogger

This video features Shreeraj Shah, one of the founders of NetSquare, speaking about defending Web applications and kernel keyloggers at the HackInTheBox Conference in 2003. Fast forward to 2:40 to skip the introduction. From the show notes on Google Video: This presentation discusses some of the more ...

Video: How to install the Cosmos User Kit

This video from GoCosmos.org demonstrates how to install the Cosmos User Kit. Cosmos is an open source microkernel .Net-based operating system written entirely in C#. The folks over at SharpOS.org, who have also created a microkernel OS written in C#, have reasonably objected to ...

Videos: The world’s first holographic storage system and how it works

In the first video, Liz Murphy, marketing VP of InPhase Technologies, describes the world's first commercial holographic storage system at NAB. InPhase is the company that has spent 8 years developing a practical holographic storage system. We define a holographic disk drive, the practical implementation of the ...

Video: Sergey Brin speaks about search, Google, and life at UC Berkeley

Google's distributed search model is at the foundation of the Internet giant's current dominance in search. In the video below, one of Google's founders, Sergey Brin, speaks at length about his company. You'll need to turn the volume up on this one. It should come as ...

Better Education Through Open Source Robots

Heather Johnson is guest blogging at WhatIs.com this week. Heather is a freelance writer, as well as a monthly contributor for OEDb, a site that helps students select among accredited online schools. She invites comments and freelancing job inquiries at heatherjohnson2323@gmail.com. There has been a lot of talk about open source ...

Video: Exploring presence technology with tele-immersive dance in cyberspace

Often the title of a video alone raises an eyebrow. Today's video selection certainly does -- it's a presentation from two tele-immersion labs, one at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the other within the University of Urbana-Champaign Computer Science Department. According ...

Videos: Application Design using Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ)

Sun has uploaded a number of helpful tutorials and lectures to YouTube, including this three-part series that features Dr. Doug Locke explaining the Real-Time Specification for Java (JSR-001). The Sun Java Real-Time System (Java RTS) is Sun's commercial implementation of the JSR-001. Application developers interested in using Java for real-time ...

Video: ICANN Halts Domain Tasting

In this video, Brad Fallon of FreeInlineReport.com reports on ICANN's decision to remove the five trial period of owning a domain name. Brad notes that the decision followed Google's move to block AdSense from websites less than five days old. From the video notes on YouTube: Following ...

Wireshark helps you to determine if your ISP is throttling traffic

Download Squad to the rescue! The popular and useful downloads blog from Weblogs Inc. posted about a utility that can help you monitor your own network. Wireshark is a free network protocol analyzer that's available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD and many others. Download Wireshark here. Wireshark is ...

Video: Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Net neutrality

You might remember this fellow -- he invented the Web, after all. Sir Tim Berners-Lee offers some thoughts on the issue of Net neutrality in this video. You can read Lee's post on Net neutrality, which largely mirrors his statements on camera, over at his blog. ...

Video: Van Jacobsen describes a new way to look at networking that focuses on a data-centric perspective

Van Jacobsen knows networking. After all, he is is one of the primary contributors to TCP/IP, the protocol that underlies the modern Internet. This Google TechTalk features Jacobsen describing the concept of data-centric or content-centric networking. The central principle of data-centric networking is that a given communications network should ...

Video: Matt Cutts debunks 5 SEO myths

Google's Matt Cutts has long since become the blogosphere's "go to guy" for information on SEO and webmaster guidelines. WhatIs.com's Word of the Day today, phantom page, has a link to his commentary on detecting undetectable webspam, for instance. I like the term "webspam," incidentally, as it neatly describes spamming the ...

Video: Installing FiOS for the first time, amidst “awesomeness”

YouTuber Scaramouch had FiOS installed last October and videoblogged the process. I have to admit, the speed test at the end makes me pretty darn jealous. To paraphrase Michael Bay, that kind of bandwidth tips the awesomeness scale.

Video: Internet addiction, measured with the K-scale

If you're online for more than 30 hours of non-work surfing every week, experience withdrawal symptoms and find your relationships with friends, family and coworkers suffering, you might be an Internet addict. This video, hosted by Kimberly S. Young, introduces netaddiction.com. Young is the founder of the Center ...

Video: Install and configure SNORT on an XP PC

In this video, the instructor goes through the process of downloading, installing and configuring Snort as a sniffer and an intrusion detection system on a Windows XP machine. For more information about Snort, see the following tips and articles: How can I learn more about Snort? Learn ...

Video: Botnets, Botmasters, Zombies and the greatest threat to online security?

Professor Merrick Furst, associate dean at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech, explains how botmasters use zombie armies for financial gain. Furst estimates that about 7% of all Internet traffic is zombie. Kraken, today's Word of the Day, is now reported to be the largest botnet in the ...

Video: Secure Programming with Static Analysis

In this video, Brian Chess and Jacob West from Fortify Software talk about the importance of security at the software development level.

Handy tool: online Binary to Text converter

There are certainly programmers, mathematicians and assorted savants out there who can write and translate directly to and from binary code. I am not one of them. If you, too, need to occasionally convert binary to ASCII text or, alternately, amuse yourself by converting especially colorful jokes into safe-for-works form... well, you ...

Video: Oversi presents its overcache technology for P2P and video delivery

Oversi's technology is designed to help companies deliver video over the Internet. From the shownotes on YouTube: This presentation shows how Oversi's platform works; enabling service providers to manage the huge increase in traffic, enhance customer satisfaction and increase ARPU (average revenue per user). It also ...

Screencast: VMware DRS Demonstration

Paul Venezia walks through the features of VMware DRS in this screencast.

Video: Phase Change Memory (PCM) animation

This animation was presented at IEDM 2006 to show how phase change memory (PCM) devices switch between amorphous and crystalline states.

Video: Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin invite you join Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars.

Now is your chance to join Project Virgle, the first permanent human colony on Mars. Check out the YouTube responses to see who is applying for a spot on the interplanetary mission.

Happy April Fools’ Day 2008: A roundup of the Web’s best jokes, hoaxes and lies

In 2008, April Fools' Day Jokes are everywhere. Here's a roundup list of some of the best/worst of the lot. Gday, MATE, from Google Australia. Future search! A great follow-up from the company that has brought us Google MentalPlex and PigeonRank technologies, along with openings for Googlelunaplex on the ...

Win an iPod with a hyperlink

Linking to ITKnowledgeExchange.com could be music to your ears. Over the course of April, our sister site will be running a promotion whereby anyone that links to them or adds them to a blogroll will be eligible to win an iPod Shuffle. All you have to do is add ITKE and then ...