Adobe recently announced that flash 11 will be the last supported version of flash for Linux (after giving us serious trouble with the 64 bit version argh).
Bug fixes will come but no more major version will be released.
Unfortunately this last version of flash introduces a bug that adobe has not (and most probably never will) fixed, it shows most video with a blue tint.

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If you want to give mozilla a helping hand and run their beta or even alpha browser under Debian 64 bit, you may run into this error message while starting the browser:

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file firefox/libxpcom.so:
libdbus-glib-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn’t load XPCOM.

This missing library is included in the package “ia32-libs-gtk”
Install it and have fun with firefox beta/aurora/nightly

I maintain the Debian package of a Diablo-like game called flare
It just hit Debian testing (aka wheezy) after residing 10 days in Debian unstable only.
If you run Debian, grab it and have fun :)

I own the mainboard AsRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 which has an onboard sound card.
Sadly Linux does not set it up correctly so you have to tweak it a bit.

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I almost forgot that most file systems under Linux (ext3 and ext4 in any case) reserve 5% of every created file system for privileged users/processes.
While this is useful on your root file system if your HD is full but you still want to be able to login as root it’s not too useful on (usually always too small) usb sticks.

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