Now before I get started I want to say that I use openSUSE as my choice of Linux distribution and couldn't be happier with it. They always seem to be on top of implementing new technologies that are easy-to-use and really appealing to those who want the latest and greatest.

Following along with the bird theme, Flock has announced that their code name for the Cardinal successor (Cardinal is the current 0.7.x release) is Cormorant, a medium-to-large seabird. Originally, the next big release was supposed to be Danphe, however they've taken a step back to evaluate where they currently are, and where they'd like to be.

There is no doubt that the Wii causes enough damage as it is from arms being whipped through the air as excitement builds in a game. Heck, there is even a site, Wii Have A Problem, that is dedicated to sharing everyone's stories on how they got injured or what objects they have broken. All of this commotion comes from one little video game system that has motion sensitive controllers.

Wikipedia is taking new steps to help prevent "indirect" vandalism.  Software has been created and is in use on the main page.  It's called "Cascading Protection" and it applies to local images and templates which are typical targets for vandalism. Andrew Garrett created this, and on his blog explains in a simplified way how it works:

Going along with our recent poll, here's another question for you.  How many of you that own an Xbox 360, also own or owned at one point the original Xbox?  According to Chris Satchell of Microsoft, he's saying that so far, 10.4 million Xbox 360 units have been sold.  But, even more interesting is that he says over half of those have come from people that never owned the original Xbox.

Last week we asked "When was the last time that you used a floppy disk." Apparently, the floppy disk is becoming a thing of the past! For 53% of you, it's been a thing of the past for at least five years! In second place with 22% of the votes was the response, "it's been a few years," and third place was "during the last year" with 8 percent of the votes.

We had just released a great new feature yesterday where registered users can pick and choose which sidebar items they want to show up. That's when CoryC made a comment with the first request for the first optional sidebar add-on:

It's Free for all Friday, and thanks to a couple of tips from our users, I have a new service for you to try.  It's called Secunia Software Inspector.