Happy New Year

To all of you that with your visits support this blog and keep it going I want to wish a great and cool 2006. Hope all your wishes come true with health, wealth and forture by your side all year long.

It has been a cool year for me and this blog has been part of it. 2006 will bring even more cool news, tips, good things and any other stuff the quenches your thirst for tech knowledge.

For all of you:

A guads Neichs Johr olle mitanand!
Sun nin fai lok!
úspe?s?ný rok!
Een gelukkig Nieuwjaar voor iedereen!
Happy New Year!
Bonne année Merveilleus por tous!
Allen ein frohes Neues Jahr! Glueckliches und ein guten Rutsch
Chronia Pola!
Boldog Ujevet!
Nayee Saal Kee Badhi hoo!
Volo omnes felicem novum annum habere!
Xin nian kuai le!
Godt Nytt År
Feliz ano novo!
Sretna nova godina!
¡Prospero año nuevo!, Feliz Año Nuevo!
Nayya Saal Mubarak!

And if I missed somebody my sincere excuses, the best wishes remain the same (drop me an email and I'll include it in the list ;))

Bonlebon

Towards games with the wow factor

The new generation of game consoles have the processing power to herald a golden age of gaming, argues leading game maker David Braben.

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Professor Builds Computer Models for Wine

Distinguishing fine wine from plonk is usually left to connoisseurs and winemakers, who rely on their senses, rough chemical measurements and the whims of nature to produce an exceptional tipple.

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Using Linux as a Small Business Internet Gateway

This article describes how to set up and configure such a gateway built on the Red Hat 9 operating system. In other Linux distributions and packages, path names, file names, and file formats and sizes can differ. The techniques are all the same, though.

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Feather Linux for Firewalls

Feather Linux makes it easy to create and configure a firewall. When would you do this? Consider setting up an ad hoc network for a LAN party or a trade show, where you want a good connection to the internet but don't want to expose everything on the local network to the world at large.

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Use your camera phone as a scanner

Scan documents or whiteboards, anywhere, anytime, using only your camera phone.

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MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function that merges all intermediate values associated with the same intermediate key

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Build the Ultimate Garage Door Monitor

One critical monitoring element for any home automation system is the garage door.This method satisfies the minimal requirement of knowing the open/close status of the garage door. But what happens if more detail about the garage door is needed?. Read here.

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First Military Exoskeleton Reaches Prototype

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has completed the first prototype of an exoskeleton.

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2005 in Focus - Top Ten Worst Destinations

2005 has been another bumper year for finding adventurous places to travel. There was certainly no shortage of natural disasters and the seemingly never-ending supply of wars and conflict has made certain parts of the world a miserable place for many unfortunate souls.

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Che Guevara used to encrypt his messages

For those who wear a T-Shirt with the mug of Che Guevara you can identify yourself with the hacker culture too, Read how "El Che" used to exchange messages with is OLD pal Fidel.

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Python Bursts After Eating Gator

Unfortunately for a 13-foot (4-meter) Burmese python in Florida's Everglades National Park, eating the enemy seems to have caused the voracious reptile to bust a gut—literally. One word: peptobismol.

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Linux-based iPod nano plays video

Apple’s OS on the iPod nano prevents it from playing video, but user Dom Ramsey circumvented that situation by installing a different OS on his nano.

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Asterisk on WRT54G

Brian Capouch did demos of Astrerisk running on a Linksys WRT54G at the Spring 2005 VON in San Jose. He teaches a course on VOIP and has each student use Asterisk on a WRT54G.

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Running Linux and Windows on the PSP

o the PSP can do games, movies, video, music, photos, and Internet. Well.Utilizing an open source x86 emulator called Bochs, which emulates the hardware usually found in PCs, and creating a few hard disk images with the software we want on them, you can run Linux and even Windows on your PSP!.

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Linksys Latest Models: Your Experience?

Linksys has moved from Linux to VxWorks (a proprietary operating system) for its latest routers and may be gradually transitioning its devices.

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Biggest Discoveries of 2005

We live in a technological age, for sure, but 2005 will go down as a particularly abundant year for scientific discoveries.

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How To Make a 3d Looking flag Using Photoshop

A Really Fast Way To Light And Distort Images Accurately.

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An Introduction to Javascript Animation

When used properly, they can really add to the user experience, and increase the useability of your site. Also, with the advent of the DOM, the more widespread usage of new generation browsers, and the adoption of xmlHttpRequest and other technologies which all together are called AJAX.

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Ruby is NOT a Religion

I will try not to turn this entry into a rant, because we've seen plenty of that as of late.

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Digging into Ruby Symbols

Lots of people have been discussing symbols in Ruby, and seem have converged on the explanation that symbols should be used whenever you're referring to a name (i.e. an identifier or keyword, essentially), even if you're talking about a hypothetical name that doesn't really exist in actual code yet.

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How to host a personal wiki on your home computer

Imagine storing and editing your to-do lists, bookmarks, snippets of text, project notes, reference material, images from the web or anything you wanted on your home computer from anywhere just using a web browser - no disks, thumb drives, text editors, or file transfers required. This is possible with a personal wiki.

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Speed controller for model boats

This application note describes a circuit designed to control the speed of a dc motor used in radio-controlled boats. The electronic speed controller (ESC) is a “no-brake, forward-only” controller.

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XML Matters: The Web ain't just for 2D any more

Has 3D for the Web finally caught on? Explore current and potential uses for X3D, an XML version of VRML, with columnist Dethe Elza.

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Son of a Nut Cracker

One more geeky version of a christmas tale.

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Sites exploit Windows image flaw

The US net watchdog, the Computer Emergency Response Center (Cert), and security firms have issued warnings about certain types of image files called Windows Metafiles.

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Intel to Unveil New Branding Strategy

Intel Corp. is launching a new corporate and brand identity that will include a reworked company logo, a change in its ubiquitous "Intel Inside" stickers and a shift away from the Pentium name for its microprocessors.

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Google Founders Help Finance Indie Film

Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are making their first foray into the movie business, helping to finance a friend's independent film.

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U.S. to Probe Contractor's Web Tracking

Unbeknown to the Bush administration, an outside contractor has been using Internet tracking technologies that may be prohibited to analyze usage and traffic patterns at the White House's Web site, an official said Thursday.

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Woman May Not Have Meant to Swallow Phone

A woman who police thought deliberately tried to swallow her cell phone during an argument with her boyfriend was apparently the victim of an assault instead, authorities said.

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Rip DVDs the easy way with Staxrip

With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD's, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format. As a open source application StaxRip is completely free.

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Make your own internet connected weather station

Oww is a software project, to communicate with the Dallas 1-wire weather station and other 1-wire sensors, presenting live weather readings, logging data to file, uploading data to weather Web sites, and sending data to other programs through a command line interface

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iMouse: radio-transmitter for my Shuffle

I build my own radio-transmitter for my Shuffle, I nicknamed it "iMouse". It works quite easy, there is a power switch on the bottom to turn it on. Just press play on the Shuffle and tune your radio to the right frequency. The range is about 100 to 150 meters.(500 feet)

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Creating and mounting ramdisks in Linux

Ramdisks are useful for a number of things, including: Working with the unencrypted data from encrypted documents, Serving certain types of web content. Mounting Loopback file systems (such as run-from-floppy/CD distributions)

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Virtual Filesystem: Building A Linux Filesystem From An Ordinary File

Under Linux, you can create a regular file, format it as an ext2, ext3, or reiser filesystem, and then mount it just like a physical drive. It's then possible to read and write files to this newly-mounted device. You can also copy the complete filesystem, since it is just a file, to another computer. Even more here.

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Discover the hidden 8 bit Sound card in your PC

In this article, we will discuss one of the many ways to obtain sound output without a sound card.

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HOWTO: Be more productive

"With all the time you spend watching TV," he tells me, "you could have written a novel by now." It's hard to disagree with the sentiment -- writing a novel is undoubtedly a better use of time than watching TV -- but what about the hidden assumption? Such comments imply that time is "fungible".

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Hack your Body

18 tricks to teach your body. Soothe a burn, cure a toothache, clear a stuffed nose...

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Working Smart: The 50-30-20 Rule

Lately I’ve been trying a promising new method for managing my time. It’s similar to timeboxing, except that instead of allocating a certain amount of time for a specific activity, I divide my total work time between three different classes of activities.

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Gender gap alive and well online

Gender divisions persist online but it is no longer about whether more men or women use the net, research shows.

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Criminals target viruses for cash

At first glance 2005 looks like it was a quiet year for computer security because there were far fewer serious Windows virus outbreaks than in 2004. Maybe this is the calm before the storm.

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China to get tough on cellphone fraud, spam

China will require all mobile phone subscribers to register using their real names next year, in a bid to curb rampant spam and growing fraud conducted over mobile services, the official Xinhua news agency said.

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2005: The year in human spaceflight

For human spaceflight, 2005 could be labelled the year of the return. The US space shuttle and China’s Shenzhou spacecraft both made impressive returns to space while the Apollo capsule is poised for a comeback of sorts.

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Neat defrag utility

Nice utility to defrag your hard drive for windows 2000/XP. It includes both command line and gui versions.

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The Simpsons Personality Test

Find out which character from The Simpsons you are most like!.

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700 free icons for your web site or app

Ever need a particular icon for a button or link but just can't find it? There's a good chance you'll find it in Mark James' Silk icon pack. He's put together more than 700 16x16 icons for common and not-so-common actions, apps, and more, all of them free, all of them in PNG format, and he keeps adding more.

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Google Desktop Apps To Ship With Lexar Flash Drive

Lexar Media Inc. on Tuesday said it would pre-install several Google Inc. desktop applications in its line of mini storage devices starting in January, a move that reflects the industry trend of providing products for taking data and applications on the road.

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Croyt's Anger or the wrong approach towards video games

This might have been posted already, but I laugh at it every time I play it, and I think I've seen it 200 times. Funniest thing ever. Definitly something a Halo 2 player wants to watch. This guys little brother recorded him in halo rage!

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Using Gnulib to improve software portability

Gnulib is an interesting tool for people working with GPL- or LGPL-licensed software that needs to be portable without dropping the use of GNU extensions, but it has some drawbacks.

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University Rectors in Italy Promoting Proprietary Software

Last week's announcement from an Italian university group promotes students' use of MS products, available at steep discounts.

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ReactOS runs Firefox

ReactOS, the open source Windows clone, now runs Firefox..

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Easy, XML-less Web Services for JavaScript

Jason Levitt returns with a piece explaining how to use AJAX and JSON to interact with web services from JavaScript in a seamless, cross-domain, cross-browser fashion.

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Putting RSS to Work: Immediate Action Feeds

Mark Woodman shows us how to enhance the usability of RSS and Atom syndication channels with an idea he calls Immediate Action Feeds.

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Christmas Science

Ever wondered how they celebrate Christmas at the South Pole, pondered the psychology behind Christmas card lists and Christmas dinner, or wondered why an average of 80,000 Brits end up hospitalised every holiday season?.

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Create Custom Google Maps in PHP

Use the Google Maps API to embed dynamic maps into your application with custom markup, overlays, and interactivity.

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Read RSS Feeds on Your PSP

This hack creates a specially formatted RSS feed data page that displays nicely on a single page of the PSP screen.

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Impressive 3D demo in a 48Kb file

Assembly and some creativity unleashes a cool 3D demo in a very small file, think of a word file takes that for a blank document give or take.

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Chaos Computer Club hacker con begins in Berlin

On Tuesday, the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress begins -- it runs from December 27th to the 30th, and takes place at the Berliner Congress Center in Alexander Platz in Berlin.

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PHP Regex Cheat Sheet

A handy guide of all the useful regex characters, metacharacters, quantifiers and pattern modifiers to make creating regex expressions easier.

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Opera Employees Blogging Policies

Blogging about your company is not taboo at opera, they use what others don't: common sense and treat their employees like adults.

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Ever worked for a start-up? I'd like to hear about your experience and get

Read others point of view on working for a start-up company.

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WAR OF THE HELL an addictive game

Play as a savior angel taking tormented souls condemned to hell taking them to heaven, is not that easy.

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More advice for avoiding iPod Ear

Northwestern University audiologist Dean Garstecki advises that to keep “ear-healthy” people using iPods or other portable listening devices with headphones should follow the “60 percent, 60 minute” rule.

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Italy watching 'numerous' people as Olympics near

Let the spy everyone trust no one global move begin..err continue.

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iP0wn3d

CNN's Dan Lothian looks at what one city is doing to protect iPod users zoned out on music from being theft targets.

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2006 full of broadband promise

In the Chinese calendar the symbol changes every year. 2006 will be the year of the dog but in the world of technology, broadband has remained top dog for the last five years.

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Insect tricks of survival

How have insects become the most successful creatures on the planet? Discover how they have adapted and where to look for real life examples.

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Age of information overload

Books are being scanned to make them searchable on the Internet. Television broadcasts are being recorded and archived for online posterity. Radio shows, too, are getting their digital conversion -- to podcasts.

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The new SS?

"We are talking to major companies including Sony to supply our NAND flash chips, but no details have been decided yet," Samsung spokeswoman Lee Eun-Hee said.

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Video Game Sheds NFL License, Gets Violent

"Blitz: The League" is able to feature the graphic violence and adult themes not usually seen in sports video games because it was produced without an NFL license and the restrictions that carries.

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A Klingon Wedding

For those that haven't had the chance to attend to a ceremony like this.

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Persistent Login Cookie Best Practice

Some cool tips on how managing and implement Persistent Login for your sites.

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PHP-Based User Authentication

This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer who is generally familiar with authentication, but who would be interested in learning a practical method for authenticating access to one or more Web site pages.

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IP Banning in PHP

Ever had any nasty flamers or spammers on your site? Learn how to block their computers to stop them.

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Attention webmasters: Protection from offline viewers

If you have a pay-for-traffic webhosting deal you don't want one anxious user gobbling up a year's traffic by normal users by downloading your website for their own offline browsing pleasure. Not only is it bad for your wallet, but it also slows down the server so that regular users can't access the website as fast.

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Free Classic Audio Books

We have licensed the latest generation text to speech voices to bring you classic audio books and other narrated content at a reasonable price. FREE!.

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Javascript reference and tips

Good to have this baby handy when coding some JavaScript.

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Superb Javascipt/DHTML libraries that work on multiple browsers

What will you find here? Thousands of lines of cross-browser Javascript, all distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL.

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The New Wave

A digital tsunami is hitting Tinseltown, and the old guard is holding on for dear life. But a new generation of up-and-comers has arrived. Here are 10 who know how to surf.

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PacMan Puppet Show

PacMan in non developed countries, this is a deviated view of an American corporation on the south neighbors.

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Play your PSP Online!

A little tutorial on how to get your PSP online using a wireless router and XLink KAI

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Create a login and registry system in Apache Geronimo

This two-part article series demonstrates how to use declarative Java™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™) security and Apache Geronimo's built-in Derby database to authenticate registered users and allow them access to a Web site using the Geronimo application server.

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How do I translate business needs into IT requirements?

As an IT architect, you probably often find yourself sitting between a rock and a hard place, the rock being your business's goals, the hard place being your IT system. Both are big, hard to move, inflexible. Those who develop one don't necessarily understand the other.

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3D graphics for Java mobile devices, Part 2: M3G's retained mode

The Mobile 3D Graphics API retained mode lets you work with a scene graph representation of your 3D world. This article, the second of a two-part series, describes just that -- an easy way to manage your 3D objects.

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Linux.Mare

Linux.Mare is a worm that spreads by exploiting the PHP-Nuke "phpbb_root_path" Arbitrary File Inclusion vulnerability. The worm opens a back door and downloads and executes remote files on the compromised computer

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Demystifying Security Enhanced Linux

In this paper I will try to explain the philosophy behind the Security Enhanced Linux (SE Linux). I will however try to explain the concept with an example but to keep the length readable I will restrain myself to go into much of implementation details for e.g. commands and similar stuff..

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Python for scientific use. Part I: Data Visualization

A first step towards qualitative understanding and interpretation of scientific data is visualization of the data. Also, in order to reach a quantitative understanding, the data needs to be analyzed, e.g. by fitting a physical model to the data.

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Microsoft's Xbox 360 Hype Has Paid Off

Except in Japan, of course, where, despite a massive marketing push that included a luxurious 360 lounge in Tokyo, the console is selling even worse than its predecessor. But the system continues to sell out at retailers and online stores here in the United States, and there's no sign of demand slowing down.

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Client side sparkline images

Rely in the client side to render images that show real data dynamically.

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Rails Weenie

A fair trade-ish version of the kind of _artificial_ artificial intelligence you find in the likes of Google Answers (answers.google.com) and Amazon's Mechanical Turk (mturk.com). Oh, and it's for Ruby on Rails questions only....

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Free Wallpapers Blog

Updated frequently, this blog provides a really cool collection of wallpapers for your desktop, check it out.

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Inexpensive notebooks

Find some use to the petty cash you've got as X-Mas present.

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Kernel v2.6.15-rc7 is out

For those who wanna have the latest kernel installed.

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Ping: ICMP vs. ARP

Pinging a host is usually the first step in determining if the host is properly connected to the network. If the host does not respond to a ping request, the host is usually assumed to be offline.

But is it?

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Introducing rss2email

As its name suggests, Aaron Swartz's GPL-licensed rss2email utility converts RSS subscriptions into email messages and sends them to whatever address you specify. Despite the name, it handles Atom feeds as well, so you should be able to use it with just about any feed you like.

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Tao Live CD

Tao Live CD is a live CD based on rebuilt Red Hat Linux source RPMs. It features a useful selection of applications, has good hardware detection, and is even quick to boot. While I did run into a few problems, I found this a very worthwhile distro.

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Cluster Helps To Protect Astronauts And Satellites Against 'Killer Electrons"

The European Space Agency's Cluster mission has revealed a new creation mechanism of ‘killer electrons’ - highly energetic electrons that are responsible for damaging satellites and posing a serious hazard to astronauts.

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Workers exposed to plutonium at Los Alamos

Five workers at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory are being monitored after an accident resulted in plutonium being found inside their noses.

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Executives Gone Wild: It's Not a Pretty Sight

The olde tale of the American company going bankrupt only to enrich a few ones.

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Oscar winners turn on-screen success into mediocrity

If there was any doubt after its weak opening Dec. 4, the 64 percent drop in attendance last weekend proved it. People are probably already asking, "Aeon who?".

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Java Doc Fast: search for Java classes info easy and fast

Type a few words and this cool tool will provide you the links for all the info you need to get up to speed.

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French digg clone

The digg fever is segregating along the languages in the world, German, Dutch and Swahili digg clones could be next.

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Short and killer Linux tips

A compilation of command line tips that will help you a lot.

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Is Novell losing its way?

When Novell, a company which once controlled the PC networking business, got into the Linux trade two years ago, there were great expectations. And the way the company went about its business, it looked as though all those expectations were justified.

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A tiny marine alien is emerging as a coastal grinch

A sea animal of unknown origins and lacking any known predator has begun commandeering ecosystems in cool coastal waters throughout the world.

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Google's AOL Investment May Lead to '08 IPO

Where Time Warner failed Goggle will prevail, well...maybe.

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Google says: use our service but don't be better than us

The story about how Kozoru.com refined and optimized google's search results and google didn't like it.

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Use the abundance mentality to cure procrastination

The abundance mentality is in my opinion, one of, if not the most important aspect of personal development and growth. Abundance means 'The property of a more than adequate quantity or supply' and to really take advantage of all that is available to you, you really do have to have a handle on this extremely important way of thinking.

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Find toll-free numbers with Google

A simple share could save you lots of money in long distance calls.

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Take your data home for the holidays

As I prepare to leave my warm desk at Lifehacker-LA for the blustery cold of the great Midwest, I want to make sure that I can still access my home computer at any time, in any way, so that my work is just as accessible on the road as it is at home.

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Guerrilla Marketing Tips

Promote yourself, your busniess, you blog or web site with these tips.

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Happy Holidays World!!!

Whichever Holidays you celebrate I want to wish you the best of the best ones, also I want to thank you for your visits, part of my work is to keep you informed and somehow entertained.

I found a good list of greeting for most of the people that visit my blog, if there is one miss just let me know.

Afrikaans: Gesëende Kersfees
Afrikander: Een Plesierige Kerfees
African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja: Rehus-Beal-Ledeats
Albanian:Gezur Krislinjden
Arabic: Milad Majid
Argentine: Feliz Navidad
Armenian: Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri: Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Bahasa Malaysia: Selamat Hari Natal
Basque: Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bengali: Shuvo Naba Barsha
Bohemian: Vesele Vanoce
Brazilian: Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
Breton: Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian: Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Catalan: Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!
Chile: Feliz Navidad
Chinese: (Cantonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Chinese: (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan
(Catonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan'Gung Haw Sun
Choctaw: Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito
Columbia: Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo
Cornish: Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Corsian: Pace e salute
Crazanian: Rot Yikji Dol La Roo
Cree: Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian: Sretan Bozic
Czech: Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish: Glædelig Jul
Duri: Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak
Dutch: Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
or Zalig Kerstfeast
English: Merry Christmas
Eskimo: (inupik) Jutdlime pivdluarit ukiortame pivdluaritlo!
Esperanto: Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian: Ruumsaid juulup|hi
Faeroese: Gledhilig jol og eydnurikt nyggjar!
Farsi: Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish: Hyvaa joulua
Flemish: Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar
French: Joyeux Noel
Frisian: Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
Galician: Bo Nada
Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr! German: Froehliche Weihnachten
Greek: Kala Christouyenna!
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaiian: Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew: Mo'adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi: Shub Naya Baras
Hausa: Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!
Hawaian: Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!
Hungarian: Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic: Gledileg Jol
Indonesian: Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi: Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish: Nollaig Shona Dhuit, or Nodlaig mhaith chugnat
Iroquois: Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson honungradon nagwutut. Ojenyunyat osrasay.
Italian: Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese: Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Jiberish: Mithag Crithagsigathmithags
Korean: Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Latin: Natale hilare et Annum Faustum!
Latvian: Prieci'gus Ziemsve'tkus un Laimi'gu Jauno Gadu!
Lausitzian:Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto
Lettish: Priecigus Ziemassvetkus
Lithuanian: Linksmu Kaledu
Low Saxon: Heughliche Winachten un 'n moi Nijaar
Macedonian: Sreken Bozhik
Maltese: IL-Milied It-tajjeb
Manx: Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori: Meri Kirihimete
Marathi: Shub Naya Varsh
Navajo: Merry Keshmish
Norwegian: God Jul, or Gledelig Jul
Occitan: Pulit nadal e bona annado
Papiamento: Bon Pasco
Papua New Guinea: Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
Pennsylvania German: En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Peru: Feliz Navidad y un Venturoso Año Nuevo
Philipines: Maligayan Pasko!
Polish: Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia or Boze Narodzenie
Portuguese:Feliz Natal
Pushto: Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha
Rapa-Nui (Easter Island): Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rhetian: Bellas festas da nadal e bun onn
Romanche: (sursilvan dialect): Legreivlas fiastas da Nadal e bien niev onn!
Rumanian: Sarbatori vesele
Russian: Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Sardinian: Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou
Serbian: Hristos se rodi
Slovakian: Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
Sami: Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan: La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Scots Gaelic: Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serb-Croatian: Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
Serbian: Hristos se rodi. Singhalese: Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak: Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene: Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
Spanish: Feliz Navidad
Swedish: God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog: Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tami: Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal
Trukeese: (Micronesian) Neekiriisimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!
Thai: Sawadee Pee Mai
Turkish: Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian: Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu: Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Vietnamese: Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh: Nadolig Llawen
Yugoslavian: Cestitamo Bozic
Yoruba: E ku odun, e ku iye'dun!

Be safe, have fun and my best wishes for you all.

Bonlebon

Tunnel rat, global hacker, or white supremacist?

Years before the Cronulla riots prompted police to allege a link with white supremacists and raid his home, Sanders was the head of a hacking organisation called Halcon, which claimed to be the nation's most popular. Read more here.

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Laser beam detection with a serial port

Ever wanted to make your own laser beam security system. You know the kind they have in the movies, with dozens of lasers and the thief has to limbo through them.

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Viral Marketing and the Web 2.0

Today the most curious thing happened on digg, an user called BaldMonkey posted a story about a wicked "hidden/very fast/easter egg" frame in the Apocalypto's movie trailer, I started to question the sincerity of this post on one comment made by kimos: "How do you even find that? Who was watching the trailer frame by frame", the trailer is very lame so who the hell would go for it a second time frame by frame.

Then I went to see this BaldMonkey guy's profile and found this:
Most of the stories this guy promotes are marketing/advertising/propaganda, the one that takes the cake is the one from Schwarzenegger, globalarnold.com, talking about a big ego.

Is this guy being paid to "inject" content to web 2.0 sites like digg.com or is he a victim of the world full of ads we live in?. Sure, ads pay for much of the thing we get for "free", I even have google ads in my blog but my approach to advertisement should be "you like the product you buy it" no "you don't like the product we'll shove it up your ass".

I know this post is now part of the viral marketing but is hard to point at something that you can't see, what is important is to point out these kind of shenanigans. Is not a first one for Mel Gibson, remember the Passion of the Christ being rumored to be anti Semitic? hell that worked out good. Viral marketing is the only resource Mel Gibson has to call himself a movie producer.

Just for the curious this is the famous frame (provided by BaldMonkey) that maybe will cause some talk about:

If this trend continues web 2.0 is damned to fail, some people want to share their opinions and views of the world, they (as me) don't want more marketing trash, we already have had enough, save it for the 20 min+ pre feature presentation at the movieplex, the visually contaminated ballpark or the highway.

Satellite honours tsunami victim

A UK-built satellite set to be launched in late December carries a tribute to a young British space engineer who died in the Boxing Day tsunami.

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'Voting error' gave London Games

A senior Olympic figure has told the BBC that London only won the 2012 Olympics because of a misplaced vote. Computers barely make errors but those who program them do.

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College Launches Cell Phone Film Contest

An Ithaca College dean is encouraging students to instead think small — and she's offering a $5,000 prize to do it. The school has invited high school and college students across America to submit a 30-second movie shot entirely with a cell phone.

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Deploying PHP web applications with Ant

The right tool for the right job, Ant will make managing and deploying your PHP applications a fast and clean task.

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High Performance JavaScript Vector Graphics Library

This JavaScript VectorGraphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript: functions to draw circles, ellipses (ovals), oblique lines, polylines and polygons (for instance triangles, rectangles) dynamically into a webpage.

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Ultimate eggnog recipe

This is your season eggnog but RELOADED.

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How to Handle House Guests That Stay Too Long

Having guests overstay their welcome is never a pleasant thing. Here's what to do when they just don't get the hint and go home!.

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Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated (r1)

This is the first update of Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (codename ‘sarge’) which mainly adds security updates to the stable release, along with some corrections to serious problems. Remember apt-get
upgrade is your friend.

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CSS coaching site

Updated regularly this site provides you with tips to keep you informed in CSS implementations and improvements for your web projects.

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How to use Model-View-Controller (MVC)

IMHO this is one of the best ways to base the design of software/web application, it makes of upgrade, re factoring, maintenance and debugging tasks a breeze.

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SANTA CLAUS: An Engineer's Perspective

The Science behind Santa Claus.

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Mazinger Z spotted in Spain

Talking about cool raytraced images.

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Hacking for a Better World

All the tools for civil protests, flash mobs and community awareness. Take the good fight to the internet.

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An IPTV logo

Since I don't watch too much TV and 24 is still some weeks away I've been hooked to IPTV shows, for this reason I have to congratulate systm, hak.5, teh show and the packet sniffers for their superb contribution to the community in giving something more valuable and useful than a Law and Order spin off, another lawyer/firemen/doctors show or any other trash some TV/Cable stations don't want to throw away for god knows the reason.

As a tribute it ocurred to me to create a logo for IPTV and this simple idea came up:

Is this IPTV or what ;).

Use at discretion and if you want to give me some credit for the idea I welcome it.

Hubble finds new moons, rings around Uranus

Are these the O rings, well the space is giving more updates every day.

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Best selling games this season in the UK

Need for Speed: Most Wanted kept the coveted festive number one spot in the official UK games charts out of reach of a giant ape.

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Creator of World Wide Web Starts Blog

World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee has started a blog just in time for the 15th anniversary of his invention.

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On-line retailers benefit from NYC transit strike

There's one silver lining to the New York City transit strike that has shut down buses and subways, while crippling many businesses. Online retailing is getting a further boost in the season's final days, as New York area shoppers turn to the Internet for last-minute buying. Watch out the Trump will come out with his own Amazon soon.

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Senate Passes Patriot Act Extension

The terror-fighting USA Patriot Act may have a new lease on life. The GOP-controlled Senate on Wednesday approved a six-month extension of the USA Patriot Act to keep the anti-terror law from expiring on Dec. 31. And the bunny keeps going and going and going.

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2006: Year of the mobile malware

Mobile security threats are expected to triple next year as smart phones and other mobile devices become more prevalent, according to a study released Monday by McAfee Avert Labs.

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Bidding adieu to Pentium M

Intel will sell its upcoming Yonah processor for notebooks and thin desktops under two designations, according to sources: Duo and Solo. The Duo label will essentially mean that the chip inside has two cores; notebooks with a single-core Yonah will sport a Solo designation.

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Why Today's Computer Viruses Suck

For my money, computer viruses these days have lost the dark nobility and sleek sense of adventure that once kept me awake into the wee hours of the morning, reading the tales of Vesselin Bontchev and the Dark Avenger (downloaded from BBSes that were only online from midnight to 6am).

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Audiobooks Galore

This article is a follow-up to Maxin B. John's article, which introduced us to the Festival text-to-speech synthesizer and some possible applications. Here, we will push it a bit further and see how we can convert ebooks from the most common formats like HTML, CHM, PS and PDF into audiobooks ready to send to your portable player.

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Firewall logging to MySQL - the quick and easy way

This article will show you how to move your firewall logs from syslog text files to a MySQL database in 10 minutes or so. The following examples were carried out on a SuSE 10.0 system but you can easily adapt them for other distributions.

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HDTV in your Linux Box

It may strike you as unusual, in these modern times, for me to suggest that the most economical way of upgrading the quality of your TV reception is not to subscribe to some new-fangled "digital cable", but rather to use an old-fashioned antenna, the kind you probably used to have up on the roof of the house when you were a kid.

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Warning!!! Linux Desktop Live-CDs, don't install them to a hard disk!

There are many Linux Live-CD distros that are not really meant
for installation to a hard disk.

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Last Minute Gift: Google Goo

I'm not kiding, why not giving some corporate branded products for the X-Mas materialist.

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"Santa bots" attack in New Zealand

A group of 40 drunken people dressed in Santa Claus outfits went on a rampage through New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, robbing stores, assaulting security guards and urinating from highway overpasses. Maybe these are jobless extras from Lord of the Rings productions.

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Blog like pro with Performancing FireFox extension

Congratulations to Nick and Jed over at Performancing for completing their Firefox extension which enables you to blog directly from within Firefox in a split screen way.

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Your e-waste is coming back to haunt you

Each month, hundreds of thousands of used computers, televisions and other electronic components -- about 500 container loads -- arrive in Nigeria. Some of them were donated by people who thought they were helping satisfy the growing appetite for modern technology in a developing country. Maybe part of this technology is used for de jour 419 scam.

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Helping spiders find your new home

Moving your domain in the cyberworld is like in real life you have to leave a note of your new location with a postmaster, obvioulsy there are no postmasters on the internet so you can leave a note on the door of your old domain, make the move and let the search engines follow you without them getting lost.

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South Park ripped the Ringer not the other way around

Read this article on the feud around the storyline of the movie The Ringer and the South Park episode where Cartman abuses the Special Olympics for his own benefit, almost at the end you see some concession from part of South Park creators and a cool attitude about it.

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Linux Analog to Digital Converter

It can be a little expensive to read analog signals, for example temperature readings or light levels, into your computer. In this article we will show you (1) how Linux can use a computer parallel port and a $10 integrated circuit to read 8 analog channels at 12 bit accuracy, and (2) how we used this to build the Extreme Comfort System (ECS.).

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Optimizing Website Images with the Littleutils

With the standard software provided by the Independent JPEG Group (which contains the marvelous jpegtran utility), I could often reduce file size by 50%. Losslessly.

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Experiments with an iPod

This article is intended for those who want to either use their iPod with Linux, or use Linux on their iPod.

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Artificial Light At Night Stimulates Breast Cancer Growth In Laboratory Mic

This article describes how to build a Linux-based telephone answering machine using a low cost winmodem (softmodem) for the telephone interface.

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iCon Steve Jobs : The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business

iCon is must reading for anyone who wants to understand how the modern digital age has been formed, shaped, and refined by the most influential figure of the age–a master of three industries: movies, music, and computers.

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Amazon's Best Books of 2005 on Computers & Internet

If you think of fractals and how they can be applied to society and technology you'll like this: The list of the best computer and internet related books Amazon.com sold during 2005.

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All Your Base are Belong to Google

Because “giving away” one of the most powerful analytic applications away isn’t enough, Google is now out to take on Exchange (well, in a way). Google Base is potentially rather revolutionary. Not that an online, freeform database is something that hasn’t been attempted before but this is, after all, Google Base.

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Poll: Americans Need High-Tech Gadgets

Personal computers, cell phones and high-speed Internet are considered essential to getting by for millions of Americans who are showing early signs of addiction to the next wave of high-tech toys, an AP-Ipsos poll found.

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Microsoft Odd Man Out in AOL-Google Deal

The software titan's failure to woo AOL away from Google in favor of its own search technology highlights the uphill battle Microsoft faces as it tries to gain traction in the lucrative business of selling online ads.

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Free Game Development Libraries

Here's a selection of links to free libraries for use in game development projects. Check the license for each one; some may require you to release your source code, others may only be free as long as your release is non-commercial.

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Top 7 PHP Security Blunders

Many of the PHP features can lead a programmer inadvertently to allow security holes to creep into a Web application. The popular security mailing lists teem with notes of flaws identified in PHP applications, but PHP can be as secure as any other language once you understand the basic types of flaws PHP applications tend to exhibit.

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Google Modules, get google personalized homepage content

Google has a directory of their own, but it doesn't update with new submissions often and it only shows few modules. That's why we hacked up Google Modules for you.

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Free Software as a Social Movement

Justin Podur interviews Richard Stallman. Richard Stallman is one of the founders of the Free Software Movement and lead developer of the GNU Operating System. His book is 'Free Software, Free Society'.

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Technorati upgrades

We (The Technorati Team) just rolled out a whole raft of improvements and tweaks that are built to make Technorati easier to use and easier to understand.

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Coding4Fun: Game Development Tutorials

All you need to get you started on game programming on the Windows platform.

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Oh the holidays!!!!

DIY Rocket Propelled Bicycle

What does a propulsion engineer do when he wants to experience the power of a rocket without going to space? He simply bolts one to a bike.

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Hi-tech firms censured over China

A senior EC official has criticised hi-tech firms for helping China silence its domestic critics.

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Microsoft Kills Mac Internet Explorer

Microsoft will stop supporting the Mac version of Internet Explorer at the end of 2005. The move follows a decision in June 2003 to end code development for the browser. At that time, Microsoft had predicted it would end support within a few years of letting the product sit idle.

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High-Tech Visa Plan Dropped From Bill

No more visas for skilled workers come to the US. Stay overseas outsourcing will be implemented.

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What is Hibernate?: Managing multiple mapping files

Hibernate is a popular open source library for handling object/relational persistence and queries. In Hibernate, mapping between database tables and POJO ("plain old Java objects") classes is configured in a set of XML mapping files.

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Personal productivity: what works and what doesn't

The problem: the filesystem on my Unix workstation was a mess. I couldn't find anything without grepping all over creation. About half the time, I'd actually find something useful. Usually I'd get no hits at all, or I'd match something like a compiled binary and end up hosing my display beyond belief.

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Yahoo mail beta gets mostly rave reviews

Among the features are e-mail caching; message preview; drag-and-drop filing, an integrated RSS feeder, and the ability to view multiple e-mails at the same time in separate windows and scroll through all message headers in a folder rather than one page at a time.

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Google, Microsoft, Sun Join Forces to Set up R&D Lab

The three companies are providing $ 7.5 million [EUR 6.2 million] in funding over five years, which combined with other industry funding covers 80 percent of investment in the lab.

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How to Put Up Your Own TV Station on the Internet with Mac OS X

Damien Stolarz runs through the full gamut of technologies and disciplines needed to get a 24x7 streaming station on the Internet with just a couple of Macs and an Internet connection. Bring your webcam into the 21st century!

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Make a spinner arcade controller very cheap

Your arcade cabinet can't be complete without a spinner controller, play arcanoid as it is supposed, it also works as a steering wheel.

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Celtx: Video, Film and Movie scripting made easy

Software for Film, Video, and TV - write a script, do a breakdown, collaborate with others. This is a must for the guerrilla video content producer.

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Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System

This is the development and community site for Plone, a content management system with strong multilingual support. You'll find news about Plone and its related products, documentation, links to downloads, and information about the non-profit Plone Foundation.

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Cracking Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Part 1

In this two-part series, Seth Fogie examines the internals of WPA and demonstrates how this wireless protection method can be cracked with only four packets of data. Part 1 outlines the details of WPA as compared to WEP and builds the foundation for Part 2, in which he describes in detail how WPA-PSK can be cracked.

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The Atari-Xbox 3600: A Retro Mod for Your Next-Gen Gaming System

The Xbox 360 represents a significant step forward in gaming and home media integration. The Atari 2600 was major step in gaming and home entertainment, so it seems appropriate that Seth Fogie modded his Xbox 360 to fit inside a 2600 case to create the Atari-Xbox 3600. This article shows you how he did it.

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del.icio.us is dead long live Simpy

Maybe yahoo bought del.icio.us to kill it, maybe they ran ye olde rm -f /, anyways simpy is here to the rescue, enjoy.

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'Kong' king of weekend box office

"King Kong" was less of a box-office brute than Hollywood expected, taking in $50.15 million in its first weekend, a sturdy start but unremarkable by Hollywood blockbuster standards.

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Lights, camera, vlog: new video craze hits Internet

From the Internet counter-culture which spawned blogs and podcasts comes the newest thing in new media: vlogging.

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Japanese aiming to clone Google

Japan's government, high-tech firms and universities will team up to develop their own Internet search technology, an official said, amid soaring profits for US giant Google.

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Retro Gaming Hacks, Part 1: Clone Pong, Using Only SDL (and Your Brain)

Gather up your C programming skills, your dusty old eighth grade geometry book, and a copy of the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL)--we're going to show you how to clone Pong all by yourself.

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Introduction to Zope

Zope is a web application server, similar in concept to proprietary products like Cold Fusion. However, it is free software that is available under the GPL-compatible Zope Public License, which is very similar to the BSD License.

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Last minute holiday geek gift guide

Having trouble coming up with last minute gift ideas? Yeah, we've been there too. If you need a few ideas, we've come up with a list of gift ideas from our own wishlists that should make any geek happy.

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Lace your shoes faster with this invention

SPEED LACES®, is a revolutionary new lacing system which replaces ordinary laces in minutes and provides runners with amazing advantages.

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Study links oral sex and cancer

Scientific facts or religious propaganda, you decide.

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Newton's Dark Secrets

Sir Isaac Newton, the eccentric genius who helped define modern science, was also an obsessive alchemist.

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The Freehand Formula Entry System

Translate equations written by hand into computer typed formulas, the tool for the scientific professional or student.

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Mathomatic the scientific calculator that will give you an edge

Mathomatic is a portable, general purpose CAS (Computer Algebra System) written entirely in C. It is free software (GNU LGPL license). This is a console mode application and library that quickly and easily compiles and runs under any operating system with a C compiler.

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Linux on board: Zaurus pioneers embedded Linux

Look at the good sides and the bad sides of the Sharp Zaurus SL-5600, a pioneering handheld that managed to squeeze a lot of Linux into a small package.

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Build a Perl/CGI voting system

This article presents a real-world example -- a Web-based voting application -- that highlights the use of minimal external modules, forgoes using client-based cookies, and takes advantage of CGI attributes.

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Retrofit your Web pages for wireless compatibility

Learn how to combine Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML), cascading style sheets (CSS), and the media attribute to turn plain vanilla Web pages into wireless-compatible ones.

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The Net 2.0, the sequel to Sandra Bullock's movie straight to DVD

I just learned this movie will be released straight to DVD, maybe it wasn't that good but still worth a try, seems like an identity theft story with the complications of beign in a country different from yours, let's wait and see.

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The Risky Business of Spreadsheet Errors

Spreadsheets create an illusion of orderliness, accuracy, and integrity. The tidy rows and columns of data, instant calculations, eerily invisible updating, and other features of these ubiquitous instruments contribute to this soothing impression. Maybe the next depression will be caused by this.

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Volunteers learn to translate imaging data into neural-control tool

Preliminary evidence indicates that people can quell either temporary or chronic physical pain by learning to use their minds to reduce activity in a key brain area.

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Australia reluctantly contributes to open source

Australian companies are not only lagging behind the United States and Asia when deploying Linux and open source software (OSS), they are also reluctant to contribute developer time back into the OSS community, according to a report by analyst group Forrester.

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Bringing MySQL compatibility to PostgreSQL

Despite having a strong feature set and excellent performance and stability, PostgreSQL lags significantly behind MySQL in one key area: Many more open source projects support MySQL than PostgreSQL. That limits PostgreSQL adoption to some extent because many users choose MySQL not because it's superior to PostgreSQL.

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Managing TV with XMLTV

I quickly settled upon XMLTV as the back-end and front-end for getting detailed TV listings. XMLTV downloads data from Zap2It using their Data Direct service and provides multiple ways to filter, sort, and augment the data.

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Meet the humping dog

When he catches his victim he keeps going and going and going.

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Getting To Done: Biggest Time Eaters

So, this week I’ve got a list of some of my biggest time eaters. These are things that I find myself sinking way to much time into.

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Tricks of the trade: Tech Support

How to play the Tech support game, this could lead you into a whole new career.

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Hack Attack: Motivate yourself

To overcome the obstacles that arise in the pursuit of any difficult task (marathons included), I’ve come up with a few suggestions that make achieving any goal easier and more enjoyable.

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Catproof your PC with PawSense

Tired of Fluffy logging you off your machine? How about the time Mr. Tinkles crashed your drive? Or when Giggles the Supercat cancelled a 52-hour render? You get the idea.

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JavaScript Developer Center

A one stop for all your javascript needs, it also provides access to the Yahoo web services API, very convenient and useful.

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A new 3-D modeling software and is made in Java

You know your 3Ds Mas, your Maya, your Blender but have your heard of the art of illusion, a really neat piece of software for 3D modeling.

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Beyond Ajax, Graphing in Javascript

Get your feet wet on the next web browsing improvement: the canvas html tag.

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Surgery goes live on the net

McLeod Hospital in Florence, South Carolina, is one of a growing number of healthcare facilities in the US that is hosting live webcasts of actual procedures.

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Get the most out of your money with this tips site

At Money Saving Expert you will find pages and pages of great tips and information from Martin Lewis, a broadcaster and journalist who has been talking about money matters for years.

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FREE alternative to Google Answers

Ever had a question that no-one knows the answer to? Whether it is for homework, a report, or just to settle an argument between friends, you can be pretty sure of getting a swift and intelligent reply from All Experts.

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Learn about Mobile robots

Learn the basics of wheeled mobile robot systems, and get the pros and cons of various movement systems.

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Ruby off the Rails

Get to know Ruby before you hop on (or off) the Rails bandwagon. Ruby on Rails is just one facet of what makes Ruby great, just like EJB is only part of the Java™ enterprise platform. Andrew Glover digs beneath the hype for a look at what Java developers can do with Ruby, all by itself.

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Scientists Find A DNA Change That Accounts For White Skin

Scientists said yesterday that they have discovered a tiny genetic mutation that largely explains the first appearance of white skin in humans tens of thousands of years ago, a finding that helps solve one of biology's most enduring mysteries and illuminates one of humanity's greatest sources of strife.

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Girl Suicides Over A Squirrel

A Hong Kong schoolgirl killed herself after her grandfather freed a pet squirrel she was given as a birthday present by her boyfriend, police said Monday.

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Why of the Koolaidguy obsession with digg?

Today Koolaidguy has done it again, bugging digg left and right, his new tool is an autocomenter to self promote his blog where he gives hints on how he messes with digg.

As always a snapshot:

What is really going on here, he claims he have "advised" the admins on these kind of vulnerabilities in the digg democracy but no part have given formal comments on this situation, why this obsession?, the points have been proven over and over, is this personal?, will he get tired of this?, will somebody address the problems or they will play cat and mouse forever. Lets see if digg 3.0 is koolaidguy free.

Executing programs in Linux as the root user without giving it's password

If your system admin is of the paranoic type and you need him/her around to get your stuff done, ask about installing sudo (superuser do) and everybody happy.

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Web Historian: Revealing your Net Surfing Activities

To get a hold of what people on your computer have been visiting on the Internet, this great piece of software will say it all.

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XML and Web Services Reference Guide

A great compendium of tutorials on managing an fparsing XML files, from Atom feeds to podcasting.

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How To Integrate a Database with AJAX

Kris Hadlock’s AJAX exploration continues with an explanation of how to create real-time data transfers with databases.

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Change your MAC address under windows

A couple links that will help you manage this task and yet another great podcast from T.W.A.T.

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Google nears AOL deal: report

Time Warner Inc.'s AOL on-line service and Google Inc. are in exclusive negotiations over a deal that would have Google pay $1-billion (U.S.) for a 5-per-cent stake in AOL, deepening their advertising partnership, the Wall Street Journal's on-line version reported Friday.

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Russia nuclear plant blast: 1 dead

You gotta love CNN.com

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Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements

Visto Corp., a maker of mobile e-mail technology, has sued Microsoft Corp. for allegedly infringing on three of its patents related to how information is handled between servers and handheld devices such as cellular phones.

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Microsoft Files Breach-Of-Contract Suits

Microsoft Corp. said Thursday it had filed its first-ever breach-of-contract lawsuits against several members of a software subscription service.

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Google to Open Research Facility in Pa.

the leading online search engine company, will open a new engineering and research office in Pittsburgh next year to be headed by a Carnegie Mellon University professor, the company said Thursday.

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Video-Game Sales Slump Ahead of Holidays

he video-game industry saw software sales decline from 2004 levels for a third straight month in November as the launch of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 console helped erode demand for existing titles.

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IBM in Linux distro love-in

IBM has strengthened in links with the two top corporate Linux distributions - Red Hat and Novell SUSE - by elevating the pair to IBM's Strategic Alliance program.

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Open Source in the Mainstream

A few things have appeared from various sources lately resurrecting the old discussion of whether Open Source software is “safe” or “right” for mainstream adoption.

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Pixel image editor

Looking for an Adobe Photoshop replacement on Linux? If the GIMP doesn't cut it, maybe Pixel will.

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Gentoo Linux @ NASA

Gentoo made a public appearance at NASA's visualization wall last month at the Supercomputing 2005 conference. Thousands of visitors were able to see the status and results from NASA's Columbia supercomputer, through a visualization system running Gentoo.

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Jingle Bells @ Google

First, Jabber has published the experimental draft Jingle specs, which extend XMPP for use in voice over IP (VoIP).And seconf Libjingle has been released, it is a set of components provided by Google that let your programs interoperate with Google Talk's peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities.

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OpenOffice manuals galore

A good compendium of manuals to get the most out of your OpenOffice.

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G2G file-sharing site shut down by Google

G2G has closed its doors and replaced its home page with the following message: "I'm sorry but G2G Share is now closed. Google has let me know that this website is against their policy and I don't want any problems with Google.

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Creativity techniques and creative tools for problem solving

Below are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY.

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Vintage Apple manuals

For remembrance or selling your vintage apple hardware with digital copies of the manuals.

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Running Linux on Windows Like Normal Programs

Using small Linux distro like Puppy Linux and open source emulator like QEMU,it is possible to run and stop Linux like normal windows programs. By creating virtual hard disks and using software like WinImage you can actually transfer data between Linux and Window.

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HOW-TO: Use your CDMA cellphone as a USB modem

Travel plans about to take you beyond the land of broadband? Venturing far afield from the great kingdom of WiFi? You may have been born with 802.11b in your mouth, but you’re going to want to get prepared for that next trip to the sticks.

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