Stop sending .DOC files as mail attachments! There is a better way!

Lately there has been quite some debate about “free services” and what they mean to their users. A lot of it started with the excellent article “Don’t be a free user” by Maciej Ceglowski which described a few unpleasant truths.

A very good video introducing LibreOffice, (briefly) explaining the OpenOffice.org transition and showing all the applications.

A reader asks: "Can someone comment on the legality of using my brother's old Snow Leopard DVD to install OS X? My brother has Lion, so why can't he choose to give it to me? It doesn't violate Apple's 1 license per 1 computer policy."

LAC customers count on stable, high-performance computers, designed and configured by GNU/Linux professionals.

We have been providing desktop, laptop, and high performance computing systems to many of the worlds' leading scientific research institutions, corporations, and tech-savvy individuals since 2000. Our regular customers include NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Caltech, Yale School of Medicine, Lockheed Martin, United Technologies, several U.S. government agencies, and many more.

Hassle-Free Integration and Data Protection
Our leading-edge systems are tuned for your needs and arrive ready to use.

Excellent pre-sale consulting and post-sale tech support
Large hardware and software variety
Meticulous build and burn-in procedures
Full or partial disk encryption for data protection upon request 

System Restore
We offer a unique, automated system restore procedure that restores your LAC GNU/Linux computer to its original state, leaving non-OS data intact (every computer, every distribution).
Warranty: Satisfaction Guaranteed
All LAC computers are delivered with a 30 day guarantee. New Lenovo Thinkpad laptops and ThinkCentre desktops are covered by an up to five year parts and labor warranty.

Warranty upgrades available - visit our warranty page for details.
Many 100% Free Software Options
Buy a system at laclinux.com/gnu and you are guaranteed that LAC will prepare your computer with 100% Free Software.

ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures all your activity on social networks like Twitter, Facebook and Google+.

With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application.

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free utilizes Malwarebytes technology to detect and remove all traces of malware including worms, trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware and more.

The Microsoft Exploitability Index is designed to provide additional information to help customers better prioritize the deployment of Microsoft security updates. This index provides customers with guidance on the likelihood of functioning exploit code being developed for vulnerabilities addressed by Microsoft security updates, within the first thirty days of that update's release.

Clipperz is free under the AGPLv3 license.

It is a secure and simple password manager, an effective single sign-on solution, a digital vault for your personal data.

With Clipperz you can store and manage your passwords and online credentials, login to your web services without entering any username or password, protect all your sensitive data: codes for burglar alarms, PINs, credit card numbers, share secrets with family members and associates (coming soon)

Clipperz is free and completely anonymous, you can access it any time from any computer, requires no software to download and nothing to install, helps avoiding keeping secrets on your PC or on paper

Clipperz security consists of your secrets being locally encrypted by your browser before being uploaded to Clipperz, the encryption key being passphrase known only to you, and hosting your sensitive data in encrypted form so it can never actually be accessed in its plain form.

Clipperz is built upon standard encryption schemes, nothing fancies or homemade: you can review the source code anytime you like, but you need to know nothing about cryptography to be an happy user!