what is dumprep.exe process ? Is dumprep.exe any virus or worm ?

There was some problem of speed in My Computer, and in the Windows Task Manager’s Process List I found dumprep.exe. Is it any normal system process, error or is it any error exe, worm, virus or any spy ware?

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How The Apache Software Foundation Works

A story about the workings of the Apache Software Foundation, written by Apache Software Foundation cofounder Ken Coar.

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Perl's Templates Toolkit

If you’re building web applications with Perl, the popular Template Toolkit provides tools to construct programs faster. Guru Randal Schwartz describes the Template Toolkit and how he uses it to manage his company’s web site in this four-part series.

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DIY Digital Stereo Camera

After seeing the Use the (PureDigital) Dakota Digital Camera with your PC, I ran out and bought a few of these $11 dollar gems and set to work hacking them up. I figured I’d write up how I did it in case anyone else wants to try it themselves. It’s a pretty easy hack all things told, but still darn cool.

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Canon Digital Rebel Remote

Tonight, Ben Holt and I hacked up a remote for the Canon Digital Rebel XT. Instead of paying $20+ for a fragile remote on a short cable that has less features, I picked up about $10 in parts from Fry’s.

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Meet the Blinkybugs

Blinkybugs are small, simple, electromechanical bugs that respond to stimulus such as movement, vibrations, or air currents. They are constructed by hand from LEDs, wire, and other miscellaneous electronic bits, and are powered by a single coin-cell battery.

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Phishing email poses as IRS tax refund

Email fraudsters are taking advantage of lax government security around a US government website to run a scam designed to trick US taxpayers into handing over sensitive personal information.

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Build a Magnetic Ball Levitator for $20

There's a super article in Popular Electronics, May 1996, pp 48-52, 78, titled "Build a Magnetic Ball Levitator", by James Cicon. It describes how to build an electromagnet with an optical sensor which will keep a hollow steel ball floating in the air about 1/4" below the electromagnet.

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Study: Security flaw allows wiretap evasion

The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer security experts who studied the system.

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New industry group to fight ICANN-Verisign deal

A newly formed lobbying group is challenging the settlement agreement VeriSign struck last month with the ICANN, the regulatory group that oversees the Internet's technical infrastructure.

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Trojan horse rides on unpatched IE flaw

Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to target users of the ubiquitous Web browser, Microsoft warned late Tuesday.

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Nixory,the Anti Spyware program open source for Mozilla Firefox,

Nixory,is an Anti Spyware program open source for Mozilla Firefox, planned for remove malicious data miner. It is a software written completely in Python and PyGTK, and it is supported by all most used platforms (Windows, Linux, Unix, MacOS, Solaris, etc...).

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Roll your own secret Santa Web application

For the uninitiated (as I was just a short time ago), a secret Santa is a solution to the excesses of holiday gift-giving in a large family.

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NASA Rover Helps Reveal Possible Secrets Of Martian Life

Life may have had a tough time getting started in the ancient environment that left its mark in the Martian rock layers examined by NASA's Opportunity rover. The most thorough analysis yet of the rover's discoveries reveals the challenges life may have faced in the harsh Martian environment.

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Creativity Determines Sexual Success, Research Suggests

The more creative a person is, the more sexual partners they are likely to have, according to a pioneering study which could explain the behaviour of notorious womanisers such as poets Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas.

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Research investigates insomnia drugs

Last year, doctors across the country doled out millions of scripts for Ambien (zolpidem) and its relatives in the group known as hypnotic drugs. Doctors also prescribed unofficial sleep aids, including antidepressants and anti-epileptic drugs, to slumber-deprived patients.

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Organic Doesn't Mean Free of Pesticides

"...in a separate small-scale study, recently screened veggies for a number of banned pesticides and made an interesting discovery: The chemicals showed up on both conventionally grown and organic veggies"

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BlackBerry shutdown nearer after ruling

Yet another creative way to take down your competitors.

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TSA to Allow Scissors, Tools on Planes

Airline passengers will be allowed to carry small scissors and tools onto planes, reversing a rule that led to confiscation of many thousands of sharp objects at airports since the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a Homeland Security Department official said Wednesday.

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Migrating to Tiger: James Gosling and Mark Reinhold on Java 2 Platform

Some pointers on migrating your applications to Java and why it is worth it.

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$600 Notebook Roundup - Crowning the Affordability King

We've rounded up a total of five notebooks, each priced at $600 and put them through their paces - trying to find a winner. An interesting point to note is that most of the manufacturers we reviewed here today didn't actually want their notebooks reviewed.

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Microsoft Revamps Vista Preview System

Microsoft has made a made a fundamental change in the way that it operates the Community Technology Preview for its next generation operating system.

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XBOX 360 modding

And the modding has started for the XBOX 360, pre made face plates take teh fun out of old fashion modding.

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Truckload of Monkey Island music

For the Monkey Island fans out there here you have all the mp3s from one of the best graphic adventures of all time.

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Downloading without a Browser

Ever had to download a file so huge over a link so slow that you'd need to keep the web browser open for hours or days? What if you had 40 files linked from a single web page, all of which you needed -- will you tediously click on each one? What if the browser crashes before it can finish?.

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Creating/Manipulating images with gd

gd is an open source library written for easy manipulation/creation of images. It lets you open images in formats like jpeg,png,xpm and a few more. You can think of gd as something like this: It opens images in different formats and converts them to generic bit-mapped images in memory.

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Building an Open-Source House

Our Senior Editor puts years of home-renovating experience to work in planning computing, networking, RF, audio and video in his family's.

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Reports of Linux's death premature

A recent Slashdot offering entitled A Look At Windows Server Outselling Linux pointed to a story on CoolTechZone with the absurd title of "Linux is Doomed, Thanks to Microsoft." The story, title and all, is one of the most egregiously wrong reports of the century. Here's why.

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Simplifying backups

The Simple Backup Suite (sbackup) is a tool for configuring regular backups of system data and simplifying full and partial recoveries.

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Nine principles of security architecture

Security architecture is a new concept to many computer users. Users are aware of security threats such as viruses, worms, spyware, and other malware. They have heard of, and most use, anti-virus programs and firewalls. Many use intrusion detection. Architectural security, though, remains a mystery to most computer users.

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Controlling a digital cable/sat box using Fedora, Myth TV and an IR Blaster

This sure takes your mythTV project to the next level.

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Making Red Lights for Astronomical Observing

Red lights are not just helpful for astronomical observing, think more of dump diving.

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How to use an oscilloscope

This is a very powerful technique for investigating and understanding electronics circuit behaviour and for correcting circuit faults.

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Train vs Police Cruiser

PWN3D!!!!
This is true rage against the machine

Simple computer controlled LED hacking

A simple battery-driven interface with eight Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). Each LED is driven by one of the eight output lines at the Printer port.

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Fun With C# and HP Laserjets

Some fun with hp printers no page printing necessary, code something like this example and you are all set.

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MySQL wants to be Ikea of the database market

MySQL AB's imminent release of its MySQL 5.0 database will introduce new enterprise features making it more competitive with Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft, but the company's CEO has maintained that it is more interested in mimicking IKEA.

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Hacking 101

Becoming Productive Quickly in the UNIX World

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Mini Computing Without a Mac

If you love the cool looks and diminutive size of Apple's Mac Mini but are unwilling to move from Windows or Linux to Mac OS, check out AOpen's stylish and capable MiniPC.

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Linux Advisory Watch - November 25th 2005

This week, advisories were released for phpgroupware, egroupware, fetchmail, gnump3d, common-lisp-controller, xmail, unzip, netpbm, mantis, fetchmail-ssl, sylpheed, ipmenu, horde3, zope, Smb4k, mtab, phpSysInfo, eix, php, drakxtools, binutils, and fuse.

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Podcast receivers for Linux

If you're bored with blogging and ready for new worlds to conquer, podcasting might be just the impetus you need to refuel your interest in Internet publishing.

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Guide to TV Set Shopping

Sure that money is making a hole in your pocket and has new TV set written all over it, before you jump into this big expense read this guide that will help you make a more educated choice. Remember, Plasma is not the best option out there.

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Neat blogger hacking

With some tweaking you can turn blogger's blogs into something more than a blog.

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PHP: Hackers Paradise

Being a good PHP hacker isn't just about writing single line solutions to complex problems. For example, web gurus know that speed of coding is much more important than speed of code. In this article we'll look at techniques that can help you become a better PHP hacker. Old but good article.

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Robert's Perl Tutorial

A basic Perl course primarily for use on Win32 platforms. It assumes that the reader knows nothing of programming whatsoever, but needs a solid grounding for further work. After you finish this course you'll be ready to specialise in CGI, sysadmin or whatever you want to do with Perl.

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Hacking Perl in Nightclubs

Perl is great for improvising. The question is, can you write improvised Perl scripts on stage? This article hopes to answer this question.

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Hibernate for Java SE

By now it's easy to see that Hibernate is quickly becoming a popular (if not the most popular) O/R mapper/data integration framework for J2EE, now all this fuctionality is available foe Java's SE.

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What Is Struts

Apache Struts is an open source Java framework used for building web applications based on the servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies. It was created in 2000 by Craig R. McClanahan and has become the de facto standard framework for web applications in Java.

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Ruby the Rival

Bruce Tate's Beyond Java argues that Java's reign as the top enterprise development language must eventually come to an end and that, for the first time in a decade, major enterprise innovation is occurring outside of the Java realm.

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Writing Apache's Logs to MySQL

By recording performance metrics, web server administrators can have a historical record of how the server handled incoming HTTP requests. This article expands on that concept by adding a couple of logging directives and recording the logging data directly in a MySQL database.

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Introduction to Windows Sockets

Welcome to my little tutorial on Winsock socket programming. I will not be going into huge detail about the nature of sockets or protocols, but rather give basic explanations as I go through the code for a basic application line by line. (not by me - Bonlebon)

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PHP Code Generation with Elisp

There's plenty of near-repetition in software development; writing very similar code over and over again. Stop copying, pasting, and modifying, and start automating the process! Zachary Kessin shows how to use Emacs Lisp to generate useful and reusable database-access code for PHP.

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TAU 2.15 Tuning and Analysis Utilities for Most Common Languages

TAU (Tuning and Analysis Utilities) is a set of tools for analyzing the performance of C, C++, Fortran and Java programs.

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Yahoo maps skins

Web maps don't have to look like McNally verbatim copies, put some spice to yahoo maps with skins, like a pirate map skin or a radar screen one.

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Alfresco the open source content management software for the enterprise

Alfresco was designed to solve the most pervasive and difficult problems in content management. Alfresco is perfect for developing enterprise and departmental portals, compliance applications or replacing uncontrolled shared file drives.

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Perl - we'll show you a tool for archiving PDFs

Archiving and accessing PDF files with PERL has never been easier with the tool this tutorial teaches.

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MySQL Backups Manager - a handy tool that helps you backup a MySQL database

The first rule of the Sysadmin: Backup, Backup, Backup!!!.

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Mediawiki - set up your own interactive website with the wiki engine behind

This tutorial will help you to set up a "Wikipedia" like site.

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TWiki - build web applications and collective documents

A great introduction to TWiki the collaborative web application for the enterprise.

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Super Michael Bros

Michael Jackson does the Bros with style.

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Youngest "Learning Python" Fan

How old do you have to be to appreciate O'Reilly's books? Not very. Tim Pietzcker shows us how much his 17-month-old son likes Learning Python, and other readers chime in with similar experiences.

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Install Windows on a CompactFlash Card

Microsoft's XP Embedded OS can help you do what XP normally can't—boot off a CompactFlash card.

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Moving Past Java

Bruce discusses scalable enterprise applications, database-enabled applications, AJAX and lightweight solutions for web development.

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Installing and Configuring Ubuntu on a Laptop

I decided to install Ubuntu because it builds on the mature foundation of Debian and has a large (and growing) user base and strong community support through web forums and IRC. I have been running it at work for a few months now and thoroughly enjoy it. Yet another great argument on selecting Ubuntu.

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Run Python Scripts on Your Nokia Smartphone

While Java and Symbian C++ are powerful programming languages, their learning curves are too steep for most smartphone users. Most users do not need a full-blown programming platform to develop small hacks for their phone, here is a good example of that.

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Analyzing Statistics with GNU R

The R Project for Statistical Computing is an open source language and programming environment that provides a wide variety of data manipulation, statistical analysis, and data visualization capabilities. Yes, you can analyze your web site logs or leave it to google, who do you trust?.

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TCP Tuning and Network Troubleshooting

When you get 4Mbps transfers on q 155Mbps capable link you got a problem that needs to be taken care of.

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Happy Thanksgivings everyone

Hope you are with your loved ones enjoying this day, remember to go easy with the turkey and the stuffing, there will be plenty to take home anyways.

Steps from $0 to $1000 of monthly blogging revenue

Many bloggers today don't see anything but revenue from their blogs, while the most important point to see is the blog itself. And I'm not talking about people started blogging two months ago and looking to make thousands of dollars since the first month.

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AJAX RSS Reader Step by Step Tutorial

This is a tutorial about writing an AJAX RSS Reader, to bypass javascript security restriction the will let you capture other sites feeds follow this link

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Serious vulnerability in the PEAR installer

A poorly-implemented feature allows a package installed by the PEAR installer to execute arbitrary code any time the "pear" command is executed or the Web/Gtk frontend is loaded.

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Create graphics the smart way with PHP

This article shows how to build an object-oriented graphics layer in PHP. Using object-oriented systems can make building complex graphics much easier than building the graphics using the primitives in the standard PHP library.

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MySQL AB to Strike Back at Oracle InnoDB Offensive

In a new development to the Oracle Effect on MySQL, the finnish database company, MySQL AB, is evaluating options to replace the Innobase functionality. It may be noted that six weeks ago, Oracle Corp., had acquired Finland's Innobase OY, a developer of the InnoDB open source database technology, for an undisclosed sum.

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Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 days

Learn the hard to die language, it is VERY powerful and VERY useful, it puts the phrase "don't work harder, work smarter" at it's zenith.

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Baritone Super Mario

Mario's theme on baritones.

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20 ways to maintain a healthy level of insanity

Long time since I don't receive this message, let's spread the love:

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and Point A Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.

2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.

3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.

4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In."

5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone Has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch To Espresso.

6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write "For Sexual Favors"

7. Finish All Your Sentences With "In Accordance With The Prophecy."

8. Don't Use Any Punctuation

9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.

10. Ask People What Sex They Are. Laugh Hysterically After They Answer.

11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."

12. Sing Along At The Opera.

13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme

14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play Tropical Sounds All Day.

15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party because You're Not In The Mood.

16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Hard.

17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won! I Won!"

18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking Lot, Yelling

"Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"

19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. "Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."

And The Final Way To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity.......

20. Copy this and Send an E-mail To Someone To Make Them Smile..
It's Called Therapy...

PSP on the 360

This is a strange marriage but is possible to use your PSP and XBOX 360 together.

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Make your own PSP SOCOM Headset

Why taking all the fun out of building your own stuff, this simple hack will help you build that so needed headset for SOCOM fireteam bravo.

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Command Line vs The GUI let the flames war begin

Is not a matter of old school and new school, new users rely more on the command prompt than using GUIS, what is your stand on this war?.

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Panic time: Handling those rare Linux crashes

Linux's record for reliability may be the polar opposite of what critics consider the crash-a-day life of Windows. Yet, the fact that Linux crashes are rare means that an unexpected outage throws many IT administrators in unmapped territory.

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Create relationship diagrams with Graphviz

Graphviz is visualization software, designed to help you easily create structural information. You can use it to visually represent database and table relations in a project report or a simple Web site hierarchy.

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Secure remote file management with sshfs

When using scp and ssh becomes tedious and repetitive, sshfs come to the rescue, mount a remote filesystem in your local box with all the security advantages of ssh.

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Create a Video Jukebox under linux

How do you run video to four different video rooms at an anime convention without having a staff member change tapes or DVDs at regular intervals? How do you run a video room where viewers can choose what to watch and when to watch it?, the answers to these and more here.

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Free Podcast/Vidcast hosting

A place where you can store your podcasts online for FREE.

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Programmers Notepad a cool editor for the day-to-day programmer

This is a free, open source, text editor with special features for coders. This program is specially useful if you want to debug scripts or need of a fast loading editor where you can discriminate the structure of your code in an easy way.

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AJAX: Dawn of a new developer

The recently coined term AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript with XML) has given new life to Web development and spurred the advance of Web 2.0. This article looks at the current state of AJAX and how it is changing the Web developer's job description.

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Attackers switching to applications, media players

Attackers are changing their targets after Internet service providers and operating systems designers such as Microsoft started shoring up their systems following a barrage of worms, viruses and other online threats in recent years.

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Burger King Worker Slashes Complaining Customer's Throat

Geeks are always on the run and burger joints are their allies, just remember to be gentle with the guys working there, you need a throat to live.

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The FBI is monitoring your Internet activity NOT

The FBI is warning about a new scam involving them, is not an FBI agent trying to get some money out of Timbuktu, is a scam that uses scare tactics to make you think you are under their surveillance.

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Find best rated business with google maps

If you hate mainstream and support small business this will be you tool of choice, find business and read how they are rated by people who use their services.

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Stanley Wristwatch Tools, a hacker's must have

Stanley the well known maker of tools has come up with a cool idea, a watch that serves you as a tool. For the McGyver to be these holidays.

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GPS capability for your PSP

This is a great hack that will turn your PSP into a GPS, all with the help of a garmin gps mouse.

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Why XM Radio blows

This was taped for a show on XM, really, if satellite radio is going to pull this kind of crap I'll stick with MTV.

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The 7th seal is broken: Attack of the Show podcast #3 on Itunes

As incredible it may sound, Attack of the Show has reached position #3 of popularity among the podcasts on Itunes:

Wal-Mart employee fired for Christmas email

Just right for the season another employee has succumbed to the laws of the corporation, which don't improve the quality of life of human beings neither care a bout them, just mark one more for the X-Mas suicidal season, at the end nobody cares.

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A $10-million hat

Black Hat was acquired for $10 million in cash, plus a potential $4 million based on performance over several years, the company said. Seems black hat coferences have captured more attention than defcon.

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Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Week-long Test Drive

The most interesting thing about the 770 is that it runs Linux. On top of Linux, it runs X11. Most of the apps are built around GTK, giving a completely open development platform. There is already a community of open-source developers porting existing GTK applications to the platform.

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What's Wrong with Linux?

The question "Is Linux right for you/your company?" really means "Is the software out there to support the way you work? If it takes minor changes in your work style, is it still cost-effective?"

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Web sites can read your clipboard

So you think you were safe from web sites accessing the "temporary" data you store in your clipboard when you cut or copy something?, think again, IE 5+ is your enemy.

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Fears rise as Google tries to emulate Microsoft

Some opinions on how maybe we are substituting one evil with another.

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Latest PHP Security Problems

Check out your configuration for these problems, else the word 0wn3d will be all over your system.

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American Military Begs Canadian Hackers to Commit Crimes for Them

This is hacking by proxy, although if somebody is going to get a retaliation, it will be the Canucks.

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Why, Why, Why, some questions about life.

There are other questions despite what is the meaning of life, here you have some samples:


Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are getting weak?

Why do banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there is not enough?

Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when you throw a revolver at him?

Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?

Whose idea was it to put an "S" in the word "lisp"?

Why do people constantly return to the refrigerator with hopes that something new to eat will have materialized?

Why do we say to people who run over our feet with the shopping cart, "it's okay" instead of "that really hurt you stupid idiot!"

Why do people keep running over a string a dozen times with their vacuum cleaner, then reach down, pick it up, examine it, then put it down to give the vacuum one more chance?

Why is it that whenever you attempt to catch something that's falling off the table you always manage to knock something else over?

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. Think of your three best friends -- if they're okay, then it's you.

Object Oriented JavaScript

If you've worked with JavaScript programming, you may have wondered whether it includes any object-oriented (OO) constructs. In fact, JavaScript does support object-oriented constructs—to a degree. This article will work through a Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) example to illustrate JavaScript's OO constructs.

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Every PHP related feed out there

This is the compilations of PHP news sources with RSS feeds for you to use anyway you want.

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How Yahoo's RSS Advertising works

Here’s a look at how Yahoo’s RSS ads work and a comparison to the ad insertion techniques of some of the other players — Google, Pheedo, and FeedBurner. Feedster wasn’t able to get me a publisher account in time for this article.

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Cool Internet speed test

A graphical tool that will show you your Internet speed and compare it with other services.

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Cool roller coaster simulation software

If you are a roller coaster junkie and winter is in your way for more adrenaline rushes, give a try to this cool piece of software.

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Tennis player faces riot squad

This Tennis Player gotta be out of his mind but he truly repels every attack the riot police sends to him.

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Build a binary led clock

You maybe have seen the binary clock over thinkgeek.com, this project helps you build one controlled with your computer parallel port, apart the clock it includes a memory status bar and HDD status bar. Very easy to make.

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Linux virgins: A gentle guide for 1st time Linux users

Remember your first time with linux?, these guys will be gentle to you if you are a virgin to Linux, better start with a pro than finding it all out by yourself.

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Zoiberg: the shell for the PERL programmer

Execute PERL statements from this shell and rocket propel your productivity. Very convenient for other uses too.

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The Ultimate Gaming Table

The ultimate gaming table for the uber dungeons and dragons master (other top table games included for sure).

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Meet the robotic music instruments

This is a proactive musician that builds robots which play instruments, so far he has quite an orchestra.

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Private company revives old NASA shuttle design

A private company wants to sell NASA trips into orbit on a shuttle-like spaceship that the agency itself designed two decades ago.

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Sun backs open-source database PostgreSQL

The server and software company said Thursday that it will integrate PostgreSQL into its Solaris operating system, and will begin offering support services to business customers running the software.

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Is that a bomb in your pocket or you are just happy to see me?

Bomb-detection technology is in the spotlight this month, as a deadline approaches for U.S. airport security personnel to complete a crash course in explosives screening just in time for the holidays.

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Meet the guy who beat a lie detector

With the appearance of a lie detector story on slashdot, this link showed up, is about a guy the was convicted for espionage but wasn't caught through the lie detector test. Remember he beat CIA on its own game.

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V for vendetta new posters

The movie web site has links to the new posters which are scattered across other sites, if you want to know what viral marketing is, this is your best chance to look it in action.

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vshnu a new Linux shell

vshnu is a great shell to use if you deal with directories and files.

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Enhancing kernel security with grsecurity

Is your server as secure as it could be? Sure, you use a firewall, mandate strong passwords, and patch regularly. You even take a proactive approach by performing security audits with tools such as nmap and Nessus. Yet you may still be vulnerable to zero-day exploits and privilege escalation attacks.

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Condor: Building a Linux cluster on a budget

So you need a lot of computing power but don't want to spend tens of thousands of dollars on a commercial cluster? Or maybe you just have a lot of machines sitting idle that you would like to put to good use? You can build a powerful and scalable Linux cluster using only free software and off-the-shelf components. Here's how.

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Google Maps Web Cam Locator

Geolocate web cams with this tool.

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Build your own Mars rover

This is a very detailed project that will transform that common R/C toy into a remote telemetry unit.

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WWMD: What Would MacGyver Do? the ultimate survival guide

Is not about apocalyptic days, is about trivial challenges we may face some day, What Would MacGyver Do? is an inspirational book that will teach you how so solve those challenge with every day items.

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Tiny and effective proxy server for Windows.

Do you have several machines on a network, but only one connection to the internet?, Do you want a proxy you can install at home to connect to the internet from work (or cybercafe) using a tunnel?. This is the easiest-to-use proxy for windows you'll find.

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Clever Gmail account hijacking trick

Is identity theft in the digital era, those invitations to gmail can be your ultimate demise.

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24 Hours at South Park Studios

Wonder how a whole day at south park studios is?, here is your chance to take a peek.

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Opera brings AJAX to mobiles

Opera has announced a beta SDK for its mobile phone Web browser and UI package, called Opera Platform. The announcement, made in conjunction with the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative event, held on Tuesday in London, promises to make mobile applications much easier for developers to create, and also cheaper for the end user.

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Andrew's Debian-nVidia HOWTO

This document explains how to build and install drivers for nVidia video hardware under Debian GNU/Linux, or any of its derivatives including Libranet, Mepis, Ubuntu, or Xandros. The method works with any 2.4- or 2.6-series Linux kernel, and with either stock or custom kernels.

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Wireless Tools for Linux

The Linux Wireless Extension and the Wireless Tools are an Open Source project sponsored by Hewlett Packard (through my contribution) since 1996, and build with the contribution of many Linux users all over the world.

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Tool helps Linux hackers write energy-efficient C code

As crazy as it sounds this is a cool idea on energy conservation, sure we still have plenty of juice but that assumption has made us slaves to oil (the one used for energy ;))

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Get podcasts with Juice, the cross-platform podcast receiver

Formerly iPodder, here's the latest version and information for this great open source podcatcher.

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Drill powered cart

Talking about a fat youth, see this kid building a cart powered by a couple of power drills.

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Google Anal, a good analysis on google's new service

With all the minor problems Google Analysis have had since release, read more about it and how good it really is.

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Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination

If you happen to live close to Boston (yes go Red Sox) and love Star Wars you are in luck, the museum of science is having this educational exhibit based on Star Wars.

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Build your own pong video game system

At the end of the project you'll be as advanced as Kang and Kodos, just remember that.

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GeoLocate your site visitors. Fast. Free.

See at a glance where your site's visitors are located: instantaneously, even when the numbers are enormous! Visitors don't need to click on anything: just viewing your page is sufficient.

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The boy mechanic, a bible for do it yourself

This is a FREE ebook published long time ago by the guys of Popular Mechanics, there is ever imaginable project in here that can keep you busy for some long time. Have fun reading the christian propaganda that is icluded with the book.

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Build a BugBuster

Make fun out of hunting spiders, roaches and other bugs with this cool apparatus, save a bundle in chemical productas, also you can put your childs to work for free.

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Someone may have got into your gmail account and you didn't know it

Read about a bug on gmail that granted access to your gmail account, the geniuses at google have been defeated once more.

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Wacky quotes of the military

"Aim towards the Enemy."
- Instruction printed on US Rocket Launcher
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"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.
- U.S. Marine Corps
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"Cluster bombing from B-52s are very, very accurate. The bombs are guaranteed to always hit the ground."
- USAF Ammo Troop
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"If the enemy is in range, so are you."
- Infantry Journal
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"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."
- U.S. Air Force Manual
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"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
- General MacArthur
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"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo."
- Infantry Journal
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"You, you, and you ... Panic. The rest of you, come with me."
- U.S. Marine Corp Gunnery Sgt.
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"Tracers work both ways."
- U.S. Army Ordnance
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"Five second fuses only last three seconds."
- Infantry Journal
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"Don't ever be the first, don't ever be the last, and don't ever
volunteer to do anything."
- U.S. Navy Swabbie
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"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid."
- David Hackworth
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"If your attack is going too well, your walking into an ambush."
- Infantry Journal
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"No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection."
- Joe Gay
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"Any ship can be a minesweeper ... once."
- Anonymous
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"Never tell the Platoon Sergeant you have nothing to do."
- Unknown Marine Recruit
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"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you."
- Your Buddies
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"If you see a bomb technician running, follow him."
- USAF Ammo Troop
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"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death ... I Shall Fear No Evil. For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing."
- At the entrance to the old SR-71 operating base Kadena, Japan
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"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3."
- Paul F. Crickmore (test pilot)
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"The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."
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"Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky."
- From an old carrier sailor
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"If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably ahelicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."
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"When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash."
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"Without ammunition, the USAF would be just another expensive flying club."
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"What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, .... the pilot dies."
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"Never trade luck for skill."
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The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are:
"Why is it doing that?",
"Where are we?"
and "Oh S...!"
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"Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers."
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"Progress in airline flying: now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant."
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"Airspeed, altitude and brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight."
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"A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication."
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"I remember when sex was safe and flying was dangerous."
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"Mankind has a perfect record in aviation; we never left one up there!"
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"Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries."
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"Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it."
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"When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten."
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"Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day."
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Advice given to RAF pilots during WWII: "When a prang (crash) seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slow and gently as possible."
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"The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you."
- Attributed to Max Stanley (Northrop test pilot)
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"A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum."
- Jon McBride, astronaut
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"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible."
- Bob Hoover (renowned aerobatic and test pilot)
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"Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you."
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"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime."
- Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970
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"If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to."
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Basic Flying Rules: "Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there."
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"You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal."

What do you want to see on this blog?

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Hilarious Make zine spoof

Don't get caught buying this magazine, subscribe under a false name ;).

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Are U.S. innovators losing their competitive edge?

A larger pool of West's colleagues echoes his concerns. "The scientific and technical building blocks of our economic leadership are eroding at a time when many other nations are gathering strength," the National Academy of Sciences observed in a report released last month. IMHO we need less BS and more cow bell.

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Build your own tavern sign

Accept it, you have beer for breakfast and you don't mind the others because their are the ones with the problem, build this sign as a tribute on what makes your house/appartment cool.

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How to Poo at Work

The title says everything, also includes terminology

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So you think you can play Yo-Yo

While most americans are on-line playing every game theme possible these Japanese still stick with the old games, in this case the Yo-Yo, be prepared to be dazzled.

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DDR club for DIY

This is heaven for DDR fans: tips, mat build plans and more.

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Howto: Make A Robot Car - Part 2

This is the second part in a howto series about building a relatively cheap robot out of a radio controlled car and an embedded microcontroller such as the Basic Stamp.

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Step by Step molding and figure casting

If for you fun is painting those warhammer figurines this should take you straight to heaven.

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Outrageous DIY flame thrower

Be the top dog of the block with this little deamon, when apocalypse comes who you think will make it through?, you got it, the dude with the flame thrower.

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Your easy-to-use sound recording application

Silent Bob records all incoming music, streaming or otherwise, from the soundcard.

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F**k Yahoo and any company that supports human right violations

I usually don't repost stuff that shows up in /. but this one requieres the attention of those who support human rights, is the shameful case of Yahoo on turning over a chinese journalist to the government, you know that a chinese prison is not the club med do ya?.

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Wind-Powered Wi-Fi

Power a wi-fi AP with wind, it has many usefulo uses for filed applications, what to do with it is up to you.

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pHproxy: a web based proxy.

pHproxy is a web-based circumventor that can be easily installed on any PHP-enabled webserver in order to allow users to browse through the webserver itself as a proxy. pHproxy retrieves websites requested by the users and modifies their code so that all links in the requested websites point back through the pHproxy.

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Simple PHP Blog, a databaseless blog

This will help you create a flat file driven blog, no need of a database back end, you'll save a bundle in hosting fees.

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Blackfist, the albino superhero

A very funny show made by amateurs, with some work this series could hit broadcasting.

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Debugging JavaScript programs

Everyone makes mistakes writing JavaScript programs. Errors don't know experts from novices, so the next time you get an error message while trying to play a JavaScript program you've written, don't feel bad. JavaScript provides error messages as a means to help you spot mistakes.

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png2ico - PNG to icon converter (Linux, Unix, GNU, Windows, ...)

Converts PNG files to Windows icon resource files. If you're looking for a program to create a favicon.ico for your website, look no further.

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DivX Video on your PocketPC or compatible mobile device

Here you have a cool tool that will help you encode movies in DivX format and make them ready to be displayed on your mobile device.

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Trump pulls a Chewbacca defense to save The Apprentice ratings

More than a week ago the promotions for the Apprentice episode that aired on Thursday, November the 10th of 2005, showed the Trump talking to Chewbacca in the board room. All pointed out that there would be a spoof of the board room meeting with Star Wars characters but it was a bait and switch strategy to appeal more audience, maybe due to the pluming ratings the Apprentice has shown over the past weeks, I was one to fall for that.

Well, after seeing such episode of the Apprentice I have to say this, if those executives from Best Buy and Lucasfilm are part of the corporate America, we will be in for deep s**t in no time at all.

The gentlemen showed no knowledge of basic marketing nor Star Wars at all, I'll try to point those deficiencies as my knowledge permits, I'm not a guru neither an expert but with the little knowledge I've got and a little of common sense sure I can come up with a couple of good arguments.

The lack of basic marketing knowledge

The task the teams were up to was to build a display for costumers to buy the new releases of Star Wars Battle Front video game and Star Wars 3 Revenge of the Sith (ROTS) DVD, same franchise but different markets, that was the first error IMHO, trying to push two very different products as a seamless release was atrocious, the products are un related, one is a movie and the other a first person shooter that recreates most of the battles in Star Wars, yes, ROTS battles are included but this game is not about the movie, that game was released way earlier this year (May 2005).

The team that really got close to get the task right lost, gimme a break!!!, it was the only team to build a display for the products, you know, the one you pick items from at the store, but all the executives cared about was displaying Darth Vader as central figure, what a joke, that showed no knowledge of ROTS and the Star Wars franchise (the first 3 episodes at least), more about this later, also they worried more on big size pictures of the characters, but, were the heck are the DVDs? and what are the prices?, do I get a discount if I buy both?, what about a friggin T-Shirt?, where is the promotion?, that is what marketing is about: Product, Price and Promotion.

Is also worthy to point the antics of the Trump assistants, sure they are all good on kissing Trump's ass and not even argue any of the wacky decision he makes, but emitting an opinion on marketing?, C'mon, they are over glorified real state agents not marketers or Star Wars fans, (talking like Yoda) fish out the water they were.

The lack of Star Wars and Revenge of the Sith knowledge

As I mentioned earlier, the so called execs wanted to make Darth Vader central part of the promotion, wrong in so many ways that if there were serious CEOS at either of those companies (Lucasfilm and Best Buy) those execs should have lost their jobs immediately, but hey, they are CEOS, what do they really care of the company they lead?, if the company goes south they still receive a juicy severance package, so nothing to lose there.

Why using Darth Vader as central part of the promotion was wrong you ask?, well, the first answer to that is: it was already used to promote the movie and everything around it, there are still Darth Vader dolls and stuff rotting till no more at your local Toys R' Us and everywhere else, second, Darth Vader shows only for about 2 minutes of screen time during the movie, that is 1 % of the movie's length, if the execs saw the movie they should have known this: ROTS was about ANAKIN SKYWALKER and how he turns himself to the dark side, the first 3 episodes were ALL ABOUT HIM, yes, he is Darth Vader but not the one in the big black suit you will run from if you find him in your way, if you really want to see Darth Vader as a main/central character, rent/buy/bootleg/lend/kill for/5 finger discount Star Wars IV A New Hope, period. ( I take no responsability of your own acts based on things you read on this blog, you are on your own, this is for legal pourposes because you never know)

Sure the Trump pulled a Chewbacca defense on this one: see Chewbacca here, what does he do on the Apprentice?, it doesn't make sense, he lives with 3 feet Ewoks and he is a 6 feet Wookie, that doesn't make sense, watching the Apprentice talking about Star Wars didn't make sense at all. I still seated 1 hour through marketing mockery and that's what he wanted, even when I think this stunt damaged Trump's credibility even more, what does he care?, maybe he wants an easy way out with NBC or Mark Brunett has had enough of the Trump and wants to focus on scripting survivor even more. Trump, the force is not with you even by a long shot, you are not Star Wars worthy, you should be FIRED off a cannon pointing the sun.

Legal music downloading

Yes, you can download music from the internet legally, all you have to do is follow this tutorial on how to rip music off streaming stations and you are set to go. The RIAA won't be able to track you down.

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How to make a scooter

This scooter is an example of how something mechanical can be made just by using standard materials that can be purchased from most building supply stores.

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Video game sales take a hit

This was a no brainer as games become the same over and over and over, lack of innovation is killing every industry like a virus.

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Hacking Java's Swing: Translucent Windows/Skinnable apps

One of the most commonly requested Swing features is transparent windows. Also called shaped windows, these are windows that have transparent portions, allowing the desktop background and other programs to shine through. Create skinnable applications in Java with this tutorial.

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Microsoft's perfect storm: Gates Feeling a Little Seasick

The technology industry shift's to internet-based software and services represents a massive and disruptive "sea change," Microsoft chairman Bill Gates wrote to top-level executives in an e-mail aimed at rallying his troops against the new competitive threats the company faces.

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Making a little Magic on your Network

Setting up a small LAN isn't always easy for the newbie. While both Microsoft and Apple have made big strides in their latest operating systems with respect to sharing folders and printers, it still can be a daunting task, especially if you are using earlier OS versions or mixing non XP and MacOS X systems into the network.

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How To Use AJAX

AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is very hot in the growing universe of Web development. While this new technology offers some great capabilities. This covers XML parsing and error handling.

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Make Your Own iTunes-Style Interface with Eye Candy

With Eye Candy: Impact, Photoshop just got easier. Impact is a sweet suite of filters and a must-have for serious Photoshop users. Whether you're a graphic designer, a digital photographer, or a Web content creator, Impact will make your designs pop.

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AlbertPacino and the 666

Well is the number of the beast for top digger AlbertPacino, no wonder he is top digger-dog ;).

Congratulations Albert keep going.

EA's monopoly keeps growing, Simpsons exclusive granted

EA now holds exclusive rights to develop games based on the Simpsons, will they destroy the Simpsons gaming experience?, let's wait and see.

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FREE Kevorkian

FYI: The loved by ones hated by others Jack Kevorkian is up for parole in 2007, he says he won't assist other to commit suicide if parole is granted.

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Reading/writing markers for Google Maps from a MySQL database

Another tutorial to take advantage of the google maps api.

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Java Programming Examples

Some good code examples that can get your project up and runing in no time.

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Great parodies

These sure must be part of your MP3 player line up, for all tastes and genres.

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A great case for the PSP

This is a case made by gameshark/madcatz, it has some pluses apart the price compared to Logitech's, give it a check and have it in mind if you don't already own a case for your PSP.

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Boeing jet breaks nonstop record

The 777-200LR Worldliner -- one of Boeing's newest planes -- touched down shortly after 1 p.m. (1300 GMT) at London's Heathrow Airport after a journey of more than 18,662 kilometers (11,664 miles).

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China crisis as FBI cracks down on pirates

Ladies and gentlemen please all remember how many the Chinese are, there is no need to piss them off.

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Heading the Girl Game Revolution

The last thing we need is a girl with mood swings and an AK-47, get out of the way is the female gaming revolution coming.

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How to put a cow on top of a construction crane

So you are given the weird task of putting one of those famous fiberglass cows on top of a construction crane but on a very tight budget, read the solutions about this problem and use them for inspiration.

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Fixing AJAX: XmlHttpRequest Considered Harmful

Security restrictions around XmlHttpRequest are stoping the development of AJAX based applications that could take advantage of web services providers.

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Things That Newcomers to Ruby Should Know

Maybe you are getting into ruby by watching others code or trough self teaching, these are some tips taht will help you good.

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Palm is not abandoning the Palm OS

MyTreo.net reports that Palm Inc.'s CEO Ed Colligan reacted directly to messages on various forums suggesting that Palm was planning to abandon the Palm operating system on future devices.

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Musician will use Nintendo Famicoms in his tour

A musician will include a Roland TR-606 controlling an array of Nintendo Famicoms as one of the instruments to play on his tour.

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Office 12 to include VoIP

The next version of Microsoft Office will have VoIP at its core, integrated messaging technology and expanded use of XML technology.

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Why Open Source Needs Apple

Or how Apple is killing Linux on the Desktop.

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phreaknic 9 videos available here

Couldn't go to phreaknic 9?, no problem, here are the videos of the presentations. Enough to fullfill your quota of hacking knowledge.

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Get Sun Java Studio Creator and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 FREE

Here's an opportunity to get full-license versions of Sun's award winning integrated development environments (IDEs). Sun is currently offering users of the NetBeans platform and SDN members FREE copies of the Java Studio Creator ($99 value) and Java Studio Enterprise ($1,895 value) development tools.

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Social mapping powered by google maps

Find social events maps on this site, this should give you a good idea what web 2.0 is all about.

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Computer controlled disco dance floor

This takes the old 70's dance floor to the next step controlling the dazzling lights with a computer.

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More fun with water rockets

This is another guide on how to build your own fleet of pressurized water powered rockets, a.k.a water rockets.

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Super Mario Bros 2.5D: Mario meets Zaxxon

This is your Mario Bros in perspective, if you don't know what is zaxxon read the comments for links.

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Flash vulnerability opens gateway for hackers

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability in Macromedia's Flash Player that creates a mechanism for hackers to attack the PCs of users running the popular application. The security bug - described as critical - affect Macromedia Flash Player 6.x and 7.x. Macromedia has issued security updates.

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Windows Update Trojan causes havoc

Two newly discovered virus threats are circulating on the web, one attacking client machines and the other targeting web servers, web monitoring firm Websense warned today.

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New worm targets Linux systems

A new worm that propagates by exploiting security vulnerabilities in Web server software is attacking Linux systems, antivirus companies warned on Monday.

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66 Ways to Save Money

Some good tips from your friends over the trade commission.

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Robosaurus: The World's First CAR-NIVOROUS Monster

Is not the Simpson's Truck-o-Saurus but sure this one rips cars appart like nothing.

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Manage and read multiple RSS feeds online

Take your RSS feeds on the road or forget about installing software for that, Rojo provides a service where you can compile and manage your RSS feeds online, simple and easy.

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Board Game Geek: the human side of gaming

Gaming should not be limited to on line PC gaming or LAN parties, some geeks like the human interaction and share a good board game with other geeks, read about games, matches and other interesting facts of this still not forgotten way of entertainment.

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Protect your LCD (IPOD or digital camera)

Stop being ripped off with expensive screen protectors and stuff.

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Having fun with bluetooth enabled phones

Learn how to detect bluetooth enabled phones that come close to you, pinpoint a coworker or play the empire march when a boss comes to your floor, the imagination is the limit. All you need is good asterisx and a bluetooth dongle, yes, I said dongle.

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Yet another addictive flash game

To add up to the things that kill your productivity here is this cool game made in what else: flash.

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Thou shalt not commit adultery: Seriously

Apparently M3 dude was "having fun" with ex-wife of psycho dude. Psycho dude goes to ex's house and takes out aggression on M3 dude's new M3

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Pure CSS menus

A good example on how to create menus powered by CSS.

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Building an exoskeleton costume

This sure is a cool costume to build over the weekends, you'll end up being the most scaring dude in the neighborhood.

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Soda bottle raft

Need a cheap ride to get yourself out of an island, need to cross a river or something alike?. Here you have a raft made of soda bottles.

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Hardware emulation with QEMU

QEMU is an open source cross-platform emulator for Linux hosts. It allows you to emulate a number of hardware architectures (x86, x86-64, and PowerPC are currently known to work, with others, including SPARC and MIPS, in development).

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Linux thumbnail viewers

Thumbnail viewers are utilities that let you quickly view or manipulate images. For instance, many let you display, rotate, and zoom images. Some also offer built-in slide show features -- though not at the level of presentation programs such as OpenOffice.org Impress. Here's an introduction to several common Linux thumbnail viewer programs

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Linux lovers hit hard times as home users

There may be plenty of options for businesses looking to migrate to Linux but consumers aren't so lucky, well there is always the get the distro's CD and install it yourself.

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Good old DOS hacking fun

There is still a DOS operating beneath your fancy Windows XP box, maybe you know some DOS maybe not. Here you'll find some cool tips to have fun with it, the more you know.

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Schwarzenegger Street

These guys created this flash animation a la JibJab, get ready to have a laugh.

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Got a car with a dead battery?, learn how to get out of such predicament

If you ever faced the situation were your car's battery is dead and there is nobody around to give it a jump start, this is the article for you, you'll end up carrying some stuff you never thought about.

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DIY Motorcycle

Maybe Jesse James beginnings were like this.

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Microsoft’s brand calls to US workers eyeing India return

In the battle to lure top talent back to India from Silicon Valley, Microsoft would appear to have a major edge over flashier darling of the moment Google and stalwarts such as Intel, Oracle and Dell. Well the almost all hated corporation still lures people for sure.

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World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit

Want to cheat in your online game and not get caught? Just buy a Sony BMG copy protected CD. And that why so many people die playing this game, too much effort and time to end up 0wn3d by some punk with a hack.

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Suspected bot master busted

In what prosecutors have labeled the first case of its kind in the nation, a federal grand jury charged Jeanson James Ancheta with 17 counts of conspiracy and computer crime stemming from his alleged profitable use of bot nets. Excuse me, they said profitable?.

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Publish flash presentations without learning flash at all

If you know how to use PowerPoint, you can use this app to create and publish your presentations in flash, this is great for your on the road presentations, on line tutorials and trade shows.

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Microsoft to Digitize 100,000 Books

Software giant Microsoft Corp. said Friday it has signed a deal to scan and put online 100,000 books from the British Library.

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ImageMagick: easy Image handling in PHP

ImageMagick®, is a suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a large variety of formats. Images can be cropped, colors can be changed, various effects can be applied, images can be rotated and combined and more.

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Hacking the 3COM Ergo Audrey

This site will discuss hacking and exploitation of the 3COM Ergo Audrey. The audrey is an internet appliance developed to fill the void between the desktop and the Palm. Running QNX with PalmOS extensions it is ripe to be hacked and used for all sorts of interesting things.

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Cow poop helps to filter water

Looking for some clean drinkable water in the badlands?, cow poop can be the answer to your prayers, read more about it here.

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Shaping ADSL traffic with Linux

This little tutorial will help you squezze the juice from the upload link of your DSL connection.

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Creating the Bluetooth Music Store

Push content to cell phones with bluetooth enabled, easy as shooting a fish in a barrel, other uses are up to you.

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Teenager cleared of email attack charge

A British teenager has been cleared of launching a d enial-of-service (DoS) attack against his former employer, seems the Chewbacca defense or his solid statement "I didn't do it" worked wonders.

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Smart arrangement of letters

Every common word we use has a secret meaning if you reorder the letters it contains:

DORMITORY:
When you rearrange the letters:
DIRTY ROOM

PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION:
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

GEORGE BUSH:
When you rearrange the letters:
HE BUGS GORE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

SLOT MACHINES:
When you rearrange the letters:
CASH LOST IN ME

ANIMOSITY:
When you rearrange the letters:
IS NO AMITY

ELECTION RESULTS:
When you rearrange the letters:
LIES - LET'S RECOUNT

MOTHER-IN-LAW:
When you rearrange the letters:
WOMAN HITLER

SNOOZE ALARMS:
When you rearrange the letters:
ALAS! NO MORE Z 'S

A DECIMAL POINT:
When you rearrange the letters:
IM A DOT IN PLACE

THE EARTHQUAKES:
When you rearrange the letters:
THAT QUEER SHAKE

ELEVEN PLUS TWO:
When you rearrange the letters:
TWELVE PLUS ONE

AND FOR THE GRAND FINALE:

PRESIDENT CLINTON OF THE USA:
When you rearrange the letters
(With no letters left over and using each letter only once):
TO COPULATE HE FINDS INTERNS

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