Columnist Tony Northrup explains how to use Streets and Trips 2005 with a Tablet PC to find your destination when you’re driving or walking.

Gaming writer Joel Durham, Jr. explains how to configure game settings so they fit with your hardware configuration and provide the perfect level of detail for gaming.

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge (Aq), and Ade Bradshaw talk about Linux and whatever else comes along, including:

• Michael Meeks, Novell hacker and Busiest Man Alive, talks about OpenOffice.org, Gnome, how you can get involved, and how to get lots of work done by not spending all day reading other people’s weblogs
• Building communities: why some projects attract a large and vibrant community and others don’t, and what we can do about it
• Distro Wars, part III: 75% of the team review the six chosen distributions and distributors (Xandros, Linspire, Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Gentoo) against various different criteria. This week, they’re being reviewed for potential for world domination
• ZeroConf: what it is and whether we should be using it in Linux
• Letters and emails and phone calls, oh my!

Columnist Charlie Russel explains how to recognize malware running on your computer and recommends recovery procedures to help you get rid of it.

Columnist Joli Ballew explains how to successfully search for solutions and post questions in non-Microsoft discussion groups.

Columnist Jeff Van West explains how to use Table PC Input Panel to customize speech recognition profiles and user dictionaries.

Jono Bacon, Stuart Langridge (Aq), Ade Bradshaw, and Matt Revell talk about Linux and whatever else comes along, including:

• Kevin Carmony, President and CEO of Linspire, talks about Linspire 5.0 and Linspire’s relationship with the open-source community
• Distro Wars, part II: the team review the six chosen distributions and distributors (Xandros, Linspire, Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and Gentoo) against various different criteria. This week, they’re being reviewed for acceptability in the home and the corporate desktop environments
• The MS Mini: if Microsoft brought out their own Mac Mini-style mini PC for a really good price, would the team buy it?
• Letters and emails and phone calls: your words on our show