According to several sources, the latest Android phone from Motorola "The DroidX" available on Verizon has hardware built  in (the eFuse chip) that will brick the phone if you mess with the bootloader.
This is akin to a car manufacturer designing a car the freezes the engine if you open the hood.

Please watch the video for the full tutorial. Basically all you have to do is this.

KDE 4 is shaping up nicely and I must admit that the look and feel is great. After using it for a while however there are still several things missing that are keeping me on the fence regarding running KDE 4 vs the KDE 3.5 backports in Kubuntu 10.04.

The ati fglrx driver is still not working for my Radeon HD 4200.
I am sure I can get it working as I did before using alternative drivers, but preffer to test and report bugs to try to help get the official driver working.

Without any driver the card works great in kubuntu 10.04 with the exception of 3d rendering being slow. All of the composite effect work great.
Unfortunately after I install the driver the desktop will not load even after I un-install the driver.

The first beta of the next Kubuntu Long Term service release is out.
I have been running the development release candidates on one of my entertainment computers for a while now and unfortunately for me the upgrade was not so smooth. Ok, it was a disaster, but only because I was running a bunch of backports and had other non-supported ppa repositories for various hardware reasons.

After a backup and full re-install averything went smooth as silk.

This USB thumb-drive is sweet. Basically this is just a standard thumbdrive built into metal carabiner which just makes sent.

I was searching for a D-Link user manual recently to help a friend configure his router and found something much better! http://support.dlink.com/Emulators/di624/ D-Link provides emulators for all of their routers that you can access via the web.

Brilliant! now why don't all router manufacturers do that?

After you watch this video you are going to want one of these.
They are available from http://www.lifesaversystems.com/buy.html
Too bad they do not have an affiliate program :(

I would also love to see something like the OLPC Project where if you buy one they give one to someone in need.

Chromium on Linux finally has plugin support!

To enable plugins, just start chromium with --enable-pluggins

chromium-browser --enable-plugins

To get the latest version of Chromium, Debian based builds can simply add the proper repository

See https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa for instructions on how to add chromium to add the repository.

Enjoy

One of the great things about KDE is that it makes heavy use of DCOP.