A Unix daemon is a program that runs in the “background,” enabling you to do other work in the “foreground,” and is independent of control from a terminal. Daemons can either be started by a process, such as a system startup script, where there is no controlling terminal, or by a user at a terminal without “tying up” that terminal as the daemon runs. But which daemons can you safely play with? Which should you leave running?

Here are a few notes on how to configure operating systems and write code to support thousands of clients. The discussion centers around Unix-like operating systems, as that's my personal area of interest, but Windows is also covered a bit.

EasyVMX! is the simple and failsafe way to create complete virtual machines for VMware Player on the web. Install any windows, Linux, BSD or Solaris, and test live-CDs in a safe environment. Filling in only four configuration fields will create a downloadable virtual machine.

So the PSP can do games, movies, video, music, photos, and Internet. Well, that's not enough - it should be able to run software we enjoy on our home PCs! Utilizing an open source x86 emulator called Bochs, which emulates the hardware usually found in PCs, and creating a few hard disk images with the software we want on them, you can run Linux and even Windows on your PSP!