BioWare technical producer Derek French has said that the PC versions of both Mass Effect and Spore will make use of copy protection that will require online validation every ten days to continue working.

Looking for a $1,000 notebook that can handle Crysis? Techgage takes a look at the latest offering to come out of the ASUS camps, which proves to be a notebook worthy of praise, and one that is well worth the price tag.

Tutorial on how to backup Linux with the help of rsync. Article explains in depth how to back up to another hard drive, external storage, network storage and also how to set up a cron job to encourage regular backups.