This week at Lifehacker:
Roll your own servers with Netcat
“Unix command-line utility netcat gets called the ‘network swiss army knife’ with good reason.”
“There is more than you can do with Craigslist than that Plain Jane interface would lead you to believe.”
Get your TV season pass with Democracy
“…what a lot of people don’t know about Democracy is that it has built-in support for BitTorrent downloads.”
Volunteer your computer’s idle time to good causes
“Donate your computer’s spare cycles to science with the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing project.”
Ten best movies in the public domain
“Download Night of the Living Dead legally, for free, sans DRM, no strings attached.”
Early Adopter Download of the Day: Firefox 2.0 RC 1 (All platforms)
“Since the Beta 1 release back in July, the good folks at Mozilla have been hard at work polishing and preening our favorite web browser.”