AllAboutCircuits.com, what you wanted to know about electronics

Very simple and well documented lessons on electronics, a link to keep.

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Bettie Page: The Movie.

This lady is the Queen of the pin up and a true sex symbol. The producers of this movie nailed it right.

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The Ndiyo Project

Ndiyo! is a project set up to foster an approach to networked computing that is simple, affordable, open, less environmentally damaging and less dependent on intensive technical support than current networking technology.

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Death by risk-aversion

Memo to Microsoft: you've got people doing some amazing things over there. If you could just get the hell out of the way, the world might change for the better.

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Early Retirement

This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young. The author retired in 2001, at the age of 37 (same age as Rossini when he retired).

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Super RSS Tools

Some cool tools that make RSS handling a walk in the park.

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Managing Users with PHP Sessions and MySQL

Yet another article on managing users for your web portal project.

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There's a Popular New Code for Deals: RSS

The New York Times Travel section discovers RSS and lists several sites from which you can subscribe to travel deals in your newsreader, namely Orbitz, Sidestep and FareCompare.

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Make a 3-D Calendar

It's mid-January - did you get a new calendar yet? Well, look no further! We've found a clever idea for a DIY calendar you can make with paper, glue and scissors: the dodecahedral calendar.

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AJAX examples

More creative uses of Ajax.

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AJAX, Systems Theory and Climate Change

Join Kurt in trying to make sense of why Europe's in the freezer, the Pacific Northwest is washing away, and AJAX is likely to fill your life with complexity.

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In-car Computer Software - StreetDeck

Introducing the first all-in-one mobile electronics package. StreetDeck delivers all the extras you want and need in your car, so you can go from zero to loaded with one installation.

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USB Adapter for Cardbus Wireless Modem 3G Cards : U132

Take your 3G wireless internet access anywhere using the U132! This USB adapter allows the use of a wide number of high speed datacards via a USB port enabling these PC cards to be used with a desktop or laptop without a CardBus slot.

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Baboons In Mourning Seek Comfort Among Friends

When Sylvia the baboon lost Sierra, her closest grooming partner and daughter, to a lion, she responded in a way that would be considered very human-like: she looked to friends for support.

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Raw Wireless Tools

This is the main web site of several proof-of-concept tools using IEEE 802.11 raw injection.

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DIY Mouse Modding

Well, there may be some interest in modding a mouse, so it is important to understand how they work.

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More Wi-Fi Phishing

rglueap, a program that catches wireless stations searching for preferred ESSIDs.

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UBER Battery for your PSP

This is hell of a big power source for hours and hours of playing with your PSP.

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Google logo redesigned by Students for Free Tibet

A picture is still 1000s of words even if those are censored.

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phpTodo - Web and RSS Todo Lists 0.6.1beta

phpTodo is a Web service designed to help you keep all of your todo lists in one central place. It includes the ability to view your todo lists via an RSS feed. These feeds are fully customizable, allowing you to limit the number of items shown, categories, priorities, and status.

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Google Maps In Excel

"Here's my first attempt at using google maps in excel (download below). Currently I can input an address and have a google map of the address displayed in Excel, with most of the cool google functionality."

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PhpBB 2 Hacks

Many useful hacks for your BB.

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Phishing with WiFi

"With this firmware you can quickly turn a Linksys WRT54G into a rogue access point that "authenticates" users and "provides" Internet access."

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WarTV on Linux

"This very simple (unfinished) project was born out of my desire to use a webcam while wardriving. I figured it would be pretty easy to do with Windows, but since I use Kismet more often now than NS, I wanted to get this working with Linux."

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WRT54 SSID Ticker

"This script is definitely without any use, just funny to have them Netstumbler users impressed by a moving SSID message. Test it yourself..."

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Make Self contained Wardriving machine

The all in one box you can throw in the trunk or conceal anywhere else to not raise suspicion.

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coWPAtty 3.0

"For the Church of Wifi's presentation at Shmoocon 2006, we set about to create a program to pre-hash WPA-PSK password lists for quick lookup tables, thus applying the time-space trade off of rainbow tables to WPA-PSK cracking."

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Open Letter to Google

In few words: "don't be evil !!!!"

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The Web 2.0 Jobs Boom

From being unemployed to heavily wanted, this persons talks about his story as a programmer in the post 9/11 era.

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George Says...

Make GWB say whatever you want, put it on an image and keep it for your forums signature, your site or just to email it around.

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RC Live Steam Tank Project

For those who are echo friendly and hate to use batteries or dispose them.

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New on this blog: Polls!!!

Hey, I invite you to vote on the weekly polls you'll find on the sidebar on the right, lets share our opinions on current events and general stuff!!!!.

Bonlebon

Automated detection of pornographic images

Read all the details of this new "technology" on this patent submission.

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HTML Validation with Logos

By using a small bash script, an associated PNG files and the W3C's Markup Validation Service you can validate any HTML code in your domain.

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Reviews : Parsix GNU/Linux � A Gift from Ancient Persia to the world

Parsix GNU/Linux is a new twist on an old theme. It is one of a number of remixes of the Kanotix/Knoppix line, but with some very interesting differences. First off is the fact that it is centered around, and tailored to users of Persian languages and keyboards, while also being very usable in English.

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dPolls: Free AJAX driven polls for your website FREE

Adding polls to your site have never been this easy and cool.

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Top ten thrift tips

Saving or paying off debts is easier when you cut back on day-to-day expenses. These simple tips will help you put more money in the bank.

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UK file-sharers told to pay more than £20,000

The English High Court has ordered two men to pay a combined £6,500 in damages after deciding they illegally distributed music through P2P file-sharing networks.

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Mass. Murder Probes eBay Scam, 'Net Porn

Allegations of an eBay scam and involvement in a get-rich-quick Internet porn scheme are swirling around a Massachusetts murder case.

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Opus 1: A site to search for classical music concerts and opera events

Here you will find information on classical music concerts, festivals and opera in dozens of cities across the globe. A great resource for music fans who like to travel.

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Ministry of Sound

A clubbers guide to life.

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Php bag of tricks

Lots of tricks from those experts you should really listen to: the users.

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E-Mail Encryption for Linux: A Quick Start Guide

"Do you ever send confidential/extremely personal information or documents via e-mail? Did you know that when you do this, you're trusting every single sysadmin that runs every single one of what might be dozens of servers between your computer and the intended recipients."

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Extend Your Wireless Network and Play Tunes with AirPort Express

"With her AirPort Express, Maria Langer has figured out a way to get some phenomenal sound from some of that ancient Mac equipment collecting dust in her living room"

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Facing a Disaster: How Utilities Providers Prepare

"The weather has been in the news a lot lately. These days, if we're relatively unconcerned when we hear newscasters mention outages, it's because we've experienced how quickly utility companies get things back on track."

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Build A One Transistor FM Radio

After exhaustive research into the early articles and some key assistance from a modern day guru in regenerative circuit design, I have developed this simple radio kit. It is a remarkable circuit. It is sensitive, selective, and has enough audio drive for an earphone.

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DIY LED Flashlight

Here is a cool site I found through one of my readers at anton.lr2.com. He built a LED flashlight out of a Mini Mag light, and a MAX756 DC-DC Step up.

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Fixing your Lexus on a budget.

Nice article that could save you 1000s in spare parts and service.

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Making a Blog using PHP

"Hi, I am going to take you through the steps of making your very own password protected weblog at a basic level."

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Please Teach me Web Frameworks for Python!

"Google makes me think about lots of stuff. Today I'm thinking about the state of web frameworks."

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Norway accuses iTunes of consumer-rights violations

"The Consumer Council of Norway (CCN) has accused Apple's iTunes Music Store operation of violating the country's Marketing Control Act, and it has asked Norway's consumer ombudsman to intervene on behalf of digital music buyers."

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9 Steps to Define your Goal Destination and Devise a Plan to Get There

"Where do you want to be 5 years from now, 10 years from now, or even this time next year? These places are your goal destinations and although you might know that you don�t want to be standing still in the same place as you are now,"

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Please Teach me Web Frameworks for Python!

"Google makes me think about lots of stuff. Today I'm thinking about the state of web frameworks."

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Ten Threats Your Probably Didn’t Make Plans

"when it comes to applying security there are many practices that are overlooked simply because we choose to ignore that certain threats exist or worse still, as this is the more likely to be the case, simply don’t even realise that some threats exist.". ALERT: PDF Ahead.

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Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship

“Document Not Found: Sorry, the document you requested is not available. You can visit the main page.”. Their silence talks for them.

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And you thought you had a problem with computers?

PUSH PLAY BUTTON TO START



Here is some translation for the german impaired like me:

Was? What are you doing?
Common!
I want to play Unreal Tournament! GO!
Start the damn game!
Start the game, you son of a bitch. I WANT TO PLAY!
I won't say it again! Go!
Out of my way
(he throws the things on his desk away)
What is that? Oh my god, what happened? I want Unreal! I wanna play!
(He screams)
Instant Action!
Here we go
(He repeats it).
PLAY! You wanker! PLAY! Play Unreal Tournament!
It's loading. If it is loading, then you always have to wait so long! I don't want to wait!
Think positive...just think positive! It will start in a moment! It starts!
(he laughs and repeats his words)
You son of a bitch! Eat that! I killed him! Go, go, eat this! Eat your smelting shit! You son of a bitch, I am going to kill you!
(He starts screaming again)
Oh, the escape-button is missing, where is he? Where is the escape-button?
I don't need help.
(Then he mumbles something that I can't understand!)
I will finish you off. I will just finish you off!

SARA, spawn of SATAN

"In 1995, SATAN brought browser-based network auditing to the world. Despite its initial splash, SATAN fell to the wayside due to lack of updates. Thanks to the kind folks at the Advanced Research Corp., SATAN is back, in the form of the Security Auditor's Research Assistant (SARA), a kinder, gentler, easier to use, and more updated auditing tool."

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Getting scanners to work with Linux

You don't have to go back to windows to use your scanner, this article will help you with your Linux installation.

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Stallman vs. DRM

The first draft of Version 3.0 of the GNU GPL (General Public License) has arrived, and its authors -- Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) -- predictably aren't shying away from controversy. You can expect public debate about GPL3 to carry on for at least the next year or so.

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Zero-day details underscore criticism of Oracle

"A security researcher released details of a critical flaw in Oracle's application and Web software on Wednesday, criticizing the company for not cooperating with the security community and taking too long to fix software issues that threaten its customers."

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Researchers: Rootkits headed for BIOS

"Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference."

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TorkPark: Turn any internet terminal into a secure connection.

"Plug it into any internet terminal whether at home, school, or public. Run Torpark.exe and it will launch a Tor circuit connection, which creates an encrypted tunnel from your computer indirectly to a Tor exit computer, giving the appearance of having the Tor exit computer's IP."

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Wicked sick Java libraries

There is nothing you can't accomplish with these libraries for Java.

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PHP: Making our own RSS Feed.

You need some extra bits but basically you can get by with those. A good example of creating an RSS feed can be found here. I basically want to show how to code the feed.

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Making An RSS Feed

RSS is a method of distributing links to content in your web site that you'd like others to use. In other words, it's a mechanism to "syndicate" your content.

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The octopus and the submarine love story

A giant Pacific octopus that attacked a remotely operated submarine off north Vancouver Island could have been senile or maybe just peckish, a marine biologist said Wednesday.

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Found: one Earth-like planet

"Astronomers say they have found the most Earth-like planet yet outside our Solar System. At just 5.5 times the mass of Earth it is one of the smallest extrasolar planets ever found, and orbits its star at a distance comparable to that of habitable worlds."

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Building Recursive Descent Parsers with Python

Pyparsing is a Python class library that helps you to quickly and easily create recursive-descent parsers.

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Google: Just Be A Little Evil

"Just days after Google Inc. refused a US Justice Department demand to turn over data on its customers' searches, the company has revealed it will cooperate with China in censorship. The Google marketing department is no doubt ready with a re-engineered company motto:

Just Be A Little Evil."

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More Advancements in Perl Programming

Around Easter last year, I finished writing the second edition of Advanced Perl Programming, a task that had been four years in the making. The aim of this new edition was to reflect the way that Perl programming had changed since the first edition.

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Implementing MVC in PHP: The View

The presentation layer, as I call it, is the View, in common MVC terms. Its sole responsibility is to display information. It could care less about authenticating users, what the data is or, for the most part, where it came from.

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Satellites Show Amazon Parks, Indigenous Reserves Stop Forest Clearing

"an international team of scientists, led by Daniel Nepstad of the Woods Hole Research Center and the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia, used satellite data to demonstrate, for the first time, that rainforest parks and indigenous territories halt deforestation and forest fires."

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iRepress: How your favorite search engine supports human rights bashing

All search engines have skeletons in the closet, watch who and what here.

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Next on your agenda: Genetic privacy

Can organizations ethically use personal information about an uncertain future to change a person's benefits or freedoms in the present moment?,

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Why Google Won't Give In

Microsoft has a message for consumers who use its search engine: Don't worry, your stuff is safe.

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Kama Sutra Spoofs Digital Certificates

The Kama Sutra worm can fool Windows into accepting a malicious ActiveX control by spoofing a digital signature, a security company said Tuesday.

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Screening For Prostate Cancer May Not Reduce Men's Risk Of Death

"Men can be screened for prostate cancer by measuring prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in the blood and performing digital rectal examination. However, there is little evidence of these tests' effectiveness in reducing death, the authors report."

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Skype could provide botnet controls

Internet phone services such as Skype and Vonage could provide a means for cybercriminals to send spam and launch attacks that cripple Web sites, experts have warned.

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Review: Atomix Linux 3.2

After several years' work, a team of young Linux experts from Serbia has released Atomix Linux 3.2 to the public. Considering the long development period -- more than three years -- my expectations were fairly high, but Atomix met my expectations.

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Novell, Concurrent to sell SUSE Linux for banks, telecoms

Novell Inc. and Concurrent Computer Corp. said yesterday that they will jointly sell and support a real-time version of Novell's SUSE Linux operating system aimed at banks and telecommunications providers.

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Linux appliance startup attracts $6.4M venture funding

A start-up specializing in tools that help developers deploy software on Linux-based appliances and virtual machines has received $6.4 million funding.

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Symbian: 'Linux, Microsoft less of a threat than our customers'

Last year, smart phone operating system company Symbian outsold Microsoft at a rate of more than 10 to one. Microsoft has made no secret of its desire to take the fight to Symbian and with Linux starting to make its mark on handhelds overseas, should Symbian be worried?.

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Perl extension to support COM objects with IDispatch interfaces

The COM extension allows developers to use perl to communicate with COM objects that have IDispatch interfaces. The mapimail.ksh script is an example of how this is done (see mapimail).

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Using AJAX to Improve the Bandwidth Performance of Web Applications

They decided to see if we could cut the bandwidth use of an application by at least 50% using AJAX, read about the results here.

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The Java Podcasters

Listen and you'll hear the voices of Java: talking about success stories and embarrassing failures, great innovations and over-engineered monstrosities.

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Scripting Flickr with Python and REST

A great guide on how to use Flickr's API.

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In The Mind's Eye: How The Brain Makes A Whole Out Of Parts

" When a human looks at a number, letter or other shape, neurons in various areas of the brain's visual center respond to different components of that shape, almost instantaneously fitting them together like a puzzle to create an image that the individual then "sees" and understands, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University report."

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Webmaster Tutorials From New Tutorials

Webmaster Tutorials on a variety of topics and platforms.

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DIY: Homebrew Plexi-Bender

If you work with plastics/acrylics this is the project you need to bend these materials to whatever shape you want.

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apt-build: Optimize Debian packages for your system

One the weapons to master if you are a novice or an expert.

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Why open source works for weapons and defense

" Military, weapons, and national defense are certainly not synonymous with open source software, but developers and companies that provide Linux and other open source software for such applications indicate the ideals of open source communities are not contrary to its use in defense."

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Add an extra layer of security with systrace

"Niels Provos' Systrace is a utility that monitors and controls what an application can access on a system by creating and enforcing access policies for system calls. For the Linux crowd, it's something like the US National Security Agency's SE Linux, but it's more flexible"

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OpenSSH + Bash

"Other system administrators have fantastic toolboxes for their work. My tools consist of two everyday programs: OpenSSH and the GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash). No other tool, whether console-based or GUI, has been so consistently useful to me as these two programs."

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Linux powers cordless videophone

Dutch telecom service provider KPN recently began shipping a Linux-powered cordless videophone in the Netherlands. The VP5500 uses "established standards-based technologies like WiFi and Linux,".

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Sustaining motivation

It’s easy to come off the momentum and excitement of a new year with all sorts of resolutions that will change you for the better, but by the end of the month, those goals somehow start seeming insane and impossible. Don't get out of track with these neat recommendations.

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How to Comfort a Grieving Person

Comforting a grieving person entails offering support and allowing the person to go through whatever he or she is feeling.

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Some Quick Mutt Tips for Sysadmins

"So I haven't written the followup to my previous "Introduction to Mutt" blog post, but until I get to that, I figured I should pass along a few timesaving tips I've discovered with mutt. These tips mostly appeal to system administrators, but I can see them being easily adapted to other uses..."

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Home petcam made easy

"Writing Webcam offers view of living like a dog for the Chicago Tribune, Alex Goldfayn describes how a couple of installed a home webcam in order keep an eye on their pet dog while they're away from home."

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Need customized maps for your term paper or presentation?.

Planiglobe generates Postscript and Illustrator maps of anywhere in the world. You can use these maps for presentations, to spruce up your Web site or anything else you can think of.

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22 years ago Steven Jobs presented his son: "Macintosh"

Watch the videos that turned 1984 into "1984".

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Where to get quotations for presentations?

"In my presentations, I may have several slides which feature a quote from a famous (sometimes not so famous) individual in the field. The quote may be a springboard into the topic or serve as support or reinforcement for the particular point I'm making."

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Need a 3d model from an application?, now you can extract it.

OGLE (i.e. OpenGLExtractor) is a software package by Eyebeam R&D that allows for the capture and re-use of 3D geometry data from 3D graphics applications running on Microsoft Windows.

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IP Spotting, your IP can yield the unexpected

Every time you check you IP address with this site it will show a graphic result of many "tests" they perform on it, what will you get?, nobody knows, follow the link and give it a try.

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Google Search API, PHP and some fun!

"Long back, I decided to build a PHP application for that, and for those who wanna have some fun with it, and learn some web services api programming with php et. al. I’ve put down an article along with a sample app and some scripts that you can download and tweak to your heart’s content."

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PHP MySQL Shopping Cart Tutorial

Yes, this is a another shopping cart tutorial. I am planning to make this tutorial to cover a more sophisticated shopping cart solution but for now it only explains a basic shopping cart. I will improve it in time so stay tuned.

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Delightful Javascript Libs -- LGPL, Too.

Here are some fundamental, well made JS goodies anyone can use to improve thier web sites.

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Crack any password protected access database

Cool software to have handy.

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Kavascript a Javascript cousin

KavaScript is an enhanced dialect of JavaScript designed to make your coding more productive, rewarding, and fun.

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Bruce Timm Gallery

The well known artist that brought you cartoons like Batman, presents you this great and extensive gallery of his work.

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Is your firewall spying on you?

Zone Alarm connects to their servers for an unknown reason.

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Linux and Bluetooth Headset howto

Give the penguin a bluetooth.

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Cheat Knoppix 4 to Improve Performance

How to make a very portable Live-Knoppix setup. It's really very slick and it is very handy too.

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Undervolting a laptop

There are lots of CPUs on the market that can be run at a lower voltage than what they are specified to. Especially the kind of low power consuming CPUs found in laptops. You'll be surprised when you see the results of undervolting your CPU.

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FireBug: “It’s not your Grandma’s Javascript Console.”

FireBug is a new tool for Firefox that aids with debugging Javascript, DHTML, and Ajax. It is like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter.

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An Inexpensive Video Panorama System

As those panoramic photos you see on the net, this system will offer you a 360 view of full motion video, watch the example over week 6, you will be amazed.

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Googlifying Search Results

The purpose of this article is to show how to build two functions that help make search results from a database look more appealing to users.

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Cracking Office with COM

Hacking the Office suite of software.

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BSD: The Other Free UNIX Family

There are a lot of options in the Free UNIX market at the moment. Everyone's favorite buzzword is Linux, and Sun is in the process of releasing Solaris under a Free Software license. One family, however, receives less attention than it is due. Berkley Software Distribution (BSD).

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A business card that works like a lockpick set

A hacker, entrepreneur, and all around mischief maker, Melvin wanted something he could give to peers and prospective clients that spoke of this nature.

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Hollywood's Canadian MP plagiarizes entertainment industry in op-ed

A Canadian MP who is accused of being in bed with entertainment companies published an editorial defending herself in yesterday's Toronto star.

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Fight Club nasties flood Google Video

The first rule of user generated content is, you don't mention user generated content..

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Coming Soon: Electronic Brakes

A new brake concept uses a car’s energy to slow itself down, making brake fluid obsolete.

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The future of the car

A good view of what is to come, it's not flying cars but close.

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The End of Road Salt?

This winter a new technology promises to keep ice off the pavement and rock salt off your car.

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What to do about the bird flu?.

FYI: We answer the questions that keep you up at night.

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Making a Perfect Match

How do you create a mixture that can easily burst into flames, but only when you want? Just use one of the most unstable mixtures on Earth, plus Elmer's glue.

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Converting Tailpipes into Water Fountains

Modified military Humvees, now in testing, turn diesel exhaust into fresh drinking water for soldiers.

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Living in Diggs: Digg-o-land

It is in spanish but at the end you will find a comprehensive list of digg clones, enough for every taste.

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Are We In A Productivity Crisis?

Are we in a new kind of productivity crisis, one in which there is not too little productivity, but too much?.

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Technology will help to get Osama Bin Laden

More than four years after 9/11, bin Laden issues another threat. Can new technology help to silence him?.

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Penn Jillette Podcasts

This podcast ain't bullshit but is a great alternative to what is out there,

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Falling banana kills woman

SHE survived brutal Nazi and Communist regimes to ultimately be brought down by a banana. Is this Irony or what?

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FREE ebook: Programming from the ground up

All you wanted to know about programming and never dared to ask. ALERT: PDF ahead.

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Sega Licensed TV-Game system

"we might soon see a Sega plug-n-play console (not different from the Flashback, Flashback 2.0, etc.) with 10-in-1 or 20-in-1 versions touting Sonic and the like. "

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Study: No added cancer risk from mobile phones

Using a mobile phone does not increase the risk of developing the most common type of brain tumor, according to a study on Friday. Just in case some of these studies would need more time to yield more accurate results.

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Review: Break a sweat with 'EyeToy: Kinetic'

Sony apparently feels video games should do their part to promote weight loss and physical fitness. It's teamed up with Nike on "EyeToy: Kinetic," a new game that turns the PlayStation 2 into an interactive in-home personal trainer.

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Dutch open 'Big Brother' prison

At a high-tech prison opening this week inmates wear electronic wristbands that track their every movement and guards monitor cells using emotion-recognition software.

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All Aboard AJAX, HTML Canvas, and the Supertrain

Dave Hoover shows us how to use AJAX, Ruby, and the new HTML canvas element to add simple animation and interactivity to web apps.

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Moving to OpenOffice: Batch Converting Legacy Documents

Bob DuCharme presents a practical solution to a real problem. You want to move from MS Office to OpenOffice, but you've got mountains of legacy documents to convert. Bob gives a clever batch conversion solution to this common problem.

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PHP: Securing Forms with Random Noisy Images

This tutorial is intended for those who want to ensure that the data retrieved by a form processor PHP is sent by the expected form, not another application or by hand. Digg, Slashdot and many others use this way of authentication, learn how it can be implemented.

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Process Imageshack thumbnails in a batch

You have seen those imageshack's thumbnails in a forum and you don't want to click them all, this script will make the process of extracting those link a walk in the park.

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CyberLink PowerCinema Linux Delivers Home Entertainment

CyberLink Corp., a leader in Digital Home solutions, today launched PowerCinema Linux, providing an easy means of converting the Linux PC into a feature-rich TV entertainment center ideally suited for PC vendors targeting the CE market.

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Wonder Vases, Vases you can mold with hot water

Fill with warm water, hand-form to any shape you want, empty and refill with coldwater, and you've got a sturdy, watertight vase like no other.

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Play your SNES roms online against other users

zbattle.net is a service that allows ZSNES users to easily find others who want to take advantage of the emulator's built-in netplay.

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Implementing sliders for user input

This slider is a good alternative to the text input tag, when the expected value is limited to a certain interval and/or when only a limited number of values in the interval are allowed.

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Sort Using a JavaScript Array

Javascript Arrays are quite versatile. One of its built-in features is the sort method. When an array is populated, you can simply call the sort method to sort by text.

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Biology in Motion

Dr Saul's Biology in Motion is an educational resource packed full of exhibits and activities to help you understand more about the natural world.

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Brush up you physics knowledge

Need an equation or need to understand a phenomena that relates to physics?, this is the place to start looking for answers.

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Braingle: A brain teaser a day

This site has an appealingly simple layout, which is good because you'll need to save all your brainpower for the 9000-odd teasers and puzzles it contains.

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Ten mods for NES controller

Here is a quick list of ten mods for the NES controller. There are lots of cool, and even lots of pointless things that can be done. It is amazing to see all of the innovative ideas.

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Lazarux the distribution for the visually impaired

A great Linux distro that helps those that can use a regular Linux distro,

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Build a Medieval Castle

Make your own model medieval castle -- a learning activity that teaches about history, feudalism and life in the Middle Ages.

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Mystickies a new way to browse web pages

Mystickies allows you to place little yellow squares of digital paper anywhere and everywhere you feel like in the whole wide web. Along with the ability to put sticky notes on webpages mystickies offers a powerfull interface to browse, search, sort, edit and generally have a wonderfull time.

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Kill Mario

One of the many battles in Kill Bill dubbed with Mario sounds.

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Using More Perl in PostgreSQL

The first article in this series examined the use of PL/Perl to create triggers. The trigger inserted a row into a database table for audit purposes using a new PL/Perl method called spi_exec_query(). This article looks in more detail at uses of that function and its new cousin, as well as other features for handling bulk data and composite types.

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GIS Podcasts and Feeds

Nice group of resources for porfessional who work at this interesting area of information technology.

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Analyzing HTML with Perl

Good tutorial on parsing HTML with Perl.

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Heart Attack Risk-detection Technology Developed At University Of Houston

A breakthrough in computational medicine is helping one University of Houston professor pave the way to uncover a ticking "time-bomb" in the heart.

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Digital Cookery: Take Three Foods, Google Them, et Voila!

The Miami Herald presented me recently with an amazing cooking aid: the Google search engine. Welcome to the 21st century.

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Kakuro, like Sudoku, another brain teaser

Hot on the heels of Sudoku comes Kakuro. Think of them as the mathematical equivalent of crosswords. Also known as Cross Sums or Kakro in Japan they have recently come to the UK featuring in The Guardian newspaper.

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Greenpeace delivers a full size whale to the Japan embassy in Berlin

When making a point is that important.

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Microsoft Out to Kill Craigslist

According to Mr. Niall Kennedy of Technorati fame, Microsoft has initiated a closed beta of 13,000 and is still accepting beta users.

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Adding Paypal to your site with PHP

This tutorial is intended for PHP programmers of all levels, who wish to add Paypal functionality to their website. The programmer needs only a PHP enabled website and Paypal account.

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Cxtest: automating graphical applications under linux.

Cxtest is an open source project that provides visual regression testing facilities for X11 based systems. It can automate basic X Window functionality, including finding X windows by title or by graphic picture. It can also drive Wine based windows, using Windows semantics.

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How to recover from liquid inside your equipment

Salvage your device after liquid spill.

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Lexing Your Data: When regular expressions aren't enough

Regular expressions are not the only tool to parse data in Perl.

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Lexing Your Data: When regular expressions aren't enough

Regular expressions are not the only tool to parse data in Perl.

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Welcome to the eBay Developer Challenge 2006

Enter your innovative application in the eBay Developer Challenge 2006 to show off your skills.* You could win $5,000, or many other great prizes. Or gather a team together of up to three other developers to compete for a set of matching Xbox 360™ game consoles.

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Where do ships go to die?

Thirty years ago, Europe's shipyards took apart most of the world's supertankers. But rising costs eventually sent much of the ship-breaking industry to Bangladesh. In just two months, teams of workers will reduce a 240,000-ton tanker to scrap metal using crowbars, hammers, and their bare hands.

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HOW TO - Make a LCD Cover

Everybody loves LCD monitors because they are so portable and perfect for LAN parties, but I am always afraid of something falling and damaging the soft screen when I travel with my LCD.

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The Scanner Photography Project

See how a scanner can be used as a digital camera with astonishing results.

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Too much JavaScript

"For the first time in my life, and purely by accident, I have looked at the Apple website with JavaScript disabled. What I discovered surprised me."

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War of the Worlds: Hollywood Opts Out of the 'Google Economy'

Good article on disintermediation (video over IP changing traditional broadcast models)): "Hollywood believes large-scale broadband video distribution would only destroy proven value, fail to provide alternative value, and alter a business model that is still far from being in decline. With near-total control of the most valuable program libraries and the business models governing their distribution, a shift towards broadband media will come largely on Hollywood’s terms and at an incremental pace."

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Bonjour for Windows

"I had to fire up my Windows box today, and I wanted to get some files off of my Mac. That's not a big deal because they can see each other on the network, but from Windows I need to know the IP number of the machine I want it to look at.

I don't do anything fancy to give names to my machines on the home network since most of them are Macs and find out about each other through Bonjour. Since my main Mac is called "buster", from other Macs I get to it as "buster.local" whereever I need a host name. It's all very nice and happens without me thinking about it."

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Downloading TV shows easily with Ted

Add your favourite tv shows to ted and ted will automatically download torrents of new episodes!.

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Create your own RSS feeds fast and simple

FeedXS.com allows you to create one or more personal or business feeds


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The Book Bar

We decided to rescue these books from that awful fate - and what better use for them than a bar from which to entertain our frequent guests?.

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New keylogging trojan races around the world

A new keylogging trojan is racing around the world affecting thousands of new machines a day, warns security vendor PC Tools.

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How to turn your PHP application into a bot

A freely available module allows your PHP application to attach to an IRC server and respond to messages. To illustrate how to use the module, this article shows you how to create an IRC bot in PHP that can tell you the weather on demand for a ZIP code.

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Create your own real-time visual effects

Use EffecTV and Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) to create your own real-time visual effects on live video. Learn how to integrate geometric primitives, bitmap image loading, and simple motion tracking to create your own games, leading-edge user interfaces, or immersive environments.

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Easing consumers into Linux

Kalibonca is packaging free Linux educational software on disks that let PC owners bypass the Windows operating system.

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Taiwanese parliament votes against Microsoft

Taiwan's parliament has voted to end its dependence on Microsoft software, demanding that the government reduce purchases from the software giant by 25 percent this year. Remember most of the motherboards in the world come from there, more support to Linux by hardware vendors is VERY possible.

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Parrot squawks on secret love affair

A talking parrot in the UK has been blamed for breaking up his owner's relationship.

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Racist Man Sentenced To Attend Black Church

A judge has sentenced a suburban Cincinnati man to attend services for six weeks at a black church for threatening to punch a black cab driver and using racial slurs.

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Need help from strangers to get to your goals?

Not eating enough fruit? Forgot to feed the fish again? Need a little help keeping your New Year's resolutions?. Tell us what to hassle you about, and we'll nag you via email at semi-unpredictable intervals.

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Meetings considered harmful

A study conducted by the University of Minnesota found that the amount and length of meetings correlate with “negative effects” (burnout, anxiety, and depression) on its participants

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Where can you find good images?

A lot of people ask me where they can get good-quality images, so I thought it would be good to have one post that I could bookmark and send out to people.

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Shared Source Licenses from M$

Over the past 5 years, more than 80 technologies have been made available through Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative. Additionally, more than 600 non-Microsoft technologies have been released under a Shared Source license.

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How to do what you love

To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We've got it down to four words: "Do what you love." But it's not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.

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Web Inspector: The Ultimate Designer's weapon

The Web Inspector lets you browse the live DOM hierarchy in a compact HUD style window, catering to the needs of web developers and WebKit hackers alike.

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Microsoft Commits to New Versions of Office for Mac

Microsoft Corp.’s Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) today announced at Macworld Conference & Expo 2006 a formal five-year agreement that reinforces Microsoft’s plans to develop Microsoft® Office for Mac software for both PowerPC- and Intel-based Macs. Seems Apple can't live without M$ and vice versa.

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The Perfect Linux Firewall Part I -- IPCop

This document describes how to install the GNU/Linux GPL IPCop firewall and create a small home office network. In the second installment we cover creating a DMZ for hosting your own web server or mail server and the Copfilter proxy for filtering web and email traffic.

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Dreamsbox.com is trying to document the world's dreams

Dreamsbox allows you to anonymously share dreams or nightmares. You may also browse and read other people's dreams in addition to rating them. We recently added the option for you to create your own private dream log, allowing you to keep record of all your dreams. Enjoy.

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Connect the Video iPod to TV

Did you know you can use your Video iPod with your TV? Best-selling author Derrick Story details how you can connect the Video iPod using standard cables and share your content on a TV any time you visit with friends and family.

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New GPL Is Free at Last

Richard Stallman, author of the most radical and durable license for free-software developers, is updating the GNU Public License for the first time since 1991.

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The Five Stages of Drunkeness

Been there done that ;).

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Impressive Sidewalk Art

More updates from famous street painter Julian Beever.

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Wibiki: Wi Fi powered by the people

Roaming Internet access with your Wi-Fi card, share your access point securely and make Wi-Fi access even better.

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PHP: Using Objects to Create an Application

This tutorial is intended for readers interested in Object Oriented Design. Knowledge of PHP concepts is not necessary, but knowledge of PHP's OO syntax, and of working with PHP's mysql functions and objects, is assumed.

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Clockr yet another Flickr Hack

Clockr is a neat Web-based clock that's generated via Flickr.

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Ajax Patterns

All about Ajax in just one place.

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The Prejudice Map of the World

See how stereotypes are distributed around the world.

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Google's shadow payroll not such a secret anymore

Feeling depressed because you missed out on Google's stock bonanza? Not to worry. Just get on the company's shadow payroll.

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Booting from USB

Booting a computer from your USB flash drive may seem like a daunting task, but it is actually quite easy. With the right equipment and some basic knowledge, this very useful technique can be taken advantage of in all sorts of different circumstances.

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Math you can't use

A good read about the decentralized world of computer software. How can you get a hold of patents in a world with lots of small companies whose core business is not software.

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CSS Typography

Typography isn’t an exact science, and like any aspect of design, it takes practice to select the right typefaces for the job and tweak them appropriately. This article can’t address how to design with type, but it can help you become more aware and explore the options available to you through CSS.

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Learn to Talk Awk

When it comes to slicing and dicing text, few tools are as powerful, or as underutilized, as awk. The name "awk" was coined from the initials of its authors, Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan -- yes, the same Kernighan of the famous Kernighan and Ritchie "C Programming Language" book.

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Twentyfan: a 24 blog

On this blog you can read my comments on 24's new season, is my point of view and I would like to hear form other fans.

Here is the link:

Twentyfan

Bonlebon

Conceal a computer in an UPS

So the other day I had a UPS of mine die. After taking it apart as I like to do with everything I thought what could I turn this into? After several ideas had passed I realized that I had come up with a real good one. What you use this for?, your imagination is the limit.

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The Most Popular Myths

For the mythbuster fans out there here is some candy.

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Become Your Own Web Host in 75 Steps

One of the biggest issues involved with becoming a web publisher is the question of hosting. With an internet clogged with false hosting review sites, hosting companies trying to rip you off, and hosting companies run by 14 year olds, the majority of web publishers are at the mercy of random chance when it comes to finding a quality host.

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Fixing the FireFox

Firefox 1.5 though, has a quirk that proves to be a minor irritation every time I use it. I am of course referring to the dotted outline that appears around every link.

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The ultimate CSS and XHTML bookmarks page

This page makes easy the finding of CSS and XHTML resources on the web.

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Play mp4 in old PCs

You know mp4s are processor cycles hogs, well this player makes a great job on easing the processor workload.

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Disney plagiarizes Madagascar

There's only one word I can think of to describe Disney's new movie The Wild… and that's despicable..

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Linux for the Musician, Musix

It is a Free Operating system intended for musicians and users in general. It also contains an enormous collection of free programs. The system will boot from your CD/DVD drive, with no need to install anything on your hard disk.

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Mac G5 guts

Want to see what's inside a Mac G5?, this is the page to see.

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Diggnation Dodges Hot Topic, Avoids offending Bed-fellow

"This weeks diggnation was a rather bland podcast, largely do to their endless rambling only covering a few than normal number of this weeks topics on digg.com and what was seemingly obvious an avoiding of the godaddy.com attack on BitTorrents."

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Making music with dot matrix printers (Via Makezine.com)

Unlike the make music with your scanner, this mod updates the firmware in a dot matrix printer to make music with it.

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HowTo: Make the move to Wordpress from a hosted service

I just moved this blog from Typepad to Wordpress and figured that writing up my experience might help someone else. I won’t get into the merits of each system. If you’re thinking of switching, you can probably do that analysis for yourself.

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Ten reasons to learn and use web standards

If you’re a web developer or designer new to the concept of web standards and are undecided on whether you should spend the time to learn all about them or not, here are some of the most important reasons for doing so.

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Mask Email Image Generator

The Mask Email Image Generator will create a JPG image of your email address. Use it in place of text to fool those evil spiders that seek out email addresses for purposes of sending junk email. Once you've created your image, save it to your system. It also masks your email in ASCII codes.

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Scary Video

For those in the video business this is the way to NOT make a video clip. Brought to you by David hassenholf.

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Putting Pedestrian Safety In The Driving Seat

Every year in the European Union there are over 9,000 deaths and 200,000 injured victims in road accidents in which pedestrians and cyclists collide with a car. Hoping to improve on these grim statistics, is a cutting-edge sensing system that could ultimately help to save the lives of vulnerable road users (VRUs).

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People Who Restrict Calories Have 'Younger' Hearts

The hearts of people who follow a low-calorie, yet nutritionally balanced, diet resemble those of younger people when examined by sophisticated ultrasound function tests, and they tend to have more desirable levels of some markers of inflammation and fibrosis.

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Caffeine Limits Blood Flow To Heart Muscle During Exercise

In healthy volunteers, the equivalent of two cups of coffee reduced the body's ability to boost blood flow to the heart muscle in response to exercise.

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Satellites See Largest Jet Of Particles Created Between Sun And Earth

A flotilla of space-weather satellites – ESA’s Cluster and NASA’s ACE and Wind - observed for the first time steady large-scale jets of charged particles in the solar wind between the Sun and Earth.

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Previewing KDE 4

What is to come for this Linux's desktop.

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Hubble's Sharpest View of the Orion Nebula

Simply breathtaking.

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Download Google Videos as AVI format

This page provides this great service for convenience of everyone.

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IPTV: Pay-By-The-Minute Model For Porn

Internet protocol television (IPTV) is prompting some in the adult movie industry to propose a new pay-by-minute business model as they prepare for the death of DVD sales.

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A New Windoze Notebook — Now What? Knoppix!

Jumping the obstacles imposed by a new laptop with windows preinstalled.

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/dev/fanout : A One-To-Many Multiplexer

This article describes a Linux module that replicates its input on all of its outputs, a so called "fanout" or "one to many" multiplexer.

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Computer problems driving people to drink

There you have it: A British survey says stress over work and computer-related problems is driving people to cigarettes and alcohol.

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Managing a Doomed Software Project

When that high-profile project just ain't gonna happen, how can you ensure that your head isn't on the chopping block? Matt Heusser provides some practical suggestions for passing on the bad news without just passing the blame.

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March of the penguins

Although having an open source strategy is becoming common in many enterprises, users and analysts say 2006 is the year the penguin flippers will hit the water in terms of Linux's evolution into an enterprise-application server platform.

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The Aargh Page or how to identify pirates activity on the net?

Very curious page that measure how many times the expression aargh occurs with it's variations.

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Ancient Greek Technology Costs Jobs

How a $0.99 calculator beats a high tech laser.

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DDoS Attack Cited in Million Dollar Homepage Outage

The company hosting the Million Dollar Homepage says an electronic attack was responsible for the extended outages earlier today. The distributed denial of service (DDoS) occurred as college student Alex Tew sold the final 1,000 pixels if his innovative ad service in an eBay auction for $38,100.

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Simple MVC pattern example in PHP

This patter could save you time in the long run because it enables easy to maintain and update.web applications.

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Deploying Rails with Apache 2

For those tho need to sort this kind of a pickle,

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IPod hacks

iPod hacks have been created to aid users in using their iPod more efficiently, or to customize their product, making it more individual or for novelty purposes. Their creation has also been to create new features, possibly that Apple Computer wanted to disguise to aid sales of another product.

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First paper battery that generates electricity from urine

Physicists in Singapore have succeeded in creating the first paper battery that generates electricity from urine. This new battery will be the perfect power source for cheap, disposable healthcare test-kits for diseases such as diabetes.

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Microsoft Plans Launch of Search Ad System

Microsoft Corp. plans to launch its system for selling advertising alongside regular search results by June in the United States, giving the company its next piece of ammunition in the battle with rivals including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

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Web 2.01, a rich internet application

Learn about what I call "Web 2.01," a fusion of "Web 2.0" style application content with a "Rich Internet Application" client, which is not subject to many of the limitations of a web browser.

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Native code no longer any faster than Java?

Tony Coates relates an incident in which he found a Java-based implementation to be at least ten times faster than a native-code implementation. He concludes that native code solutions "can no longer claim an automatic performance advantage".

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Apple's iWeb Promises Blogs for All

Webmonkey takes a first look at Apple's new iWeb publishing tool in this report from Macworld 2006. By Michael Calore.

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Will AJAX Replace Java and .NET?

A look at the implications of AJAX for Java and .NET.

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This Pogo Stick's for Adults Only

The age of innocence ends with this pogo stick.

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Let's Build a Cool Linux Toy

Many of us make a living out of Linux - but, if somebody asks us why we are so crazy about it, one common answer would be `fun'. Playing with Linux is lots of fun - with the added benefit that, most of the time, you end up learning a lot.

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Cancer Center Uncover Clue To Explain Invasive Brain Tumors

Researchers at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have uncovered a clue to explain the invasive nature of an aggressive kind of brain tumor called glioblastoma multiforme, or gliomas, and their findings are published in this week's online edition of the journal Oncogene.

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Structured Blogging untangling the web

Structured Blogging is a way to get more information on the web in a way that's more usable. You can enter information in this form and it'll get published on your blog like a normal entry, but it will also be published in a machine-readable format so that other services can read and understand it.

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Google's Site-Flavored Google Search

Want to offer your visitors search results that are tailored based on your site? With a few easy steps, you can customize search results based on the content of your website.

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My First (Smaller) Ipod Case Hack

A true shell for your Ipod.

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Larry Page Keynote, CES 2006

For those who didn't attend the event.

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Skin your Windows XP

Website WinCustomize features skins, themes, icons, wallpapers, and widgets that you can easily install and use to customize your Windows XP experience.

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Tips for getting to sleep faster & sleeping better

I’ve pieced together various bits of advice I’ve received over the past few months that have not only helps me get to sleep faster, but helps me get a better nights sleep.

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PHP: Error Handling: Stepping beyond True/False Results

Proper error handling is a struggle for most software engineers, myself included. There is no fun in error handling, no logic puzzles to solve. Most of us don’t add any kind of error handling to our code until we run into a problem.

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Homeland Security helps secure open-source code

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is extending the scope of its protection to open-source software.

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PDF Generation Using Only PHP

Yes this is right no external libraries no complicated programming, a simple approach on generating PDF documents only using PHP.

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PHP: Building Database Interfaces

This article is about using and building Database Interfaces (DB interfaces). DB interfaces make application development faster and easier. This is accomplished by relocating scattered DML (Insert, Update, Delete) statements into a single shared tool, the Class.

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Microsoft Readies 'NXT' to Take On Linux

Microsoft is set to launch a new software-marketing campaign aimed at persuading Linux and Unix users to migrate to Windows.

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Input/Output redirection made simple in Linux

Get the most out of Linux taking advantage on how it works.

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Building a Linux home media center

I realized the best way to connect my digital media library with my home theatre was to build my own Linux home media center (LHMC). Here is how.

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An introduction to services, runlevels, and rc.d scripts

What's the first thing that you do once you've logged onto Linux? Is it to manually start up a processes such as Apache or MySQL, or even start your network connection? Or do you have to stop applications that have started up without your telling them to, and which are overloading your machine?.

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Why Microsoft is trying to debunk legacy Linux

Stories about Microsoft's latest study are beginning to crop up here and there. This time, Redmond is trying to convince us that Linux isn't really any better on older hardware. In other news I see pigs flying out of my window.

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Researchers Develop New Vaccine Candidate Against Hepatitis C

Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) have developed a vaccine candidate for hepatitis C, leading to hope in the fight against a disease for which no vaccines are yet available.

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Morning Grogginess More Debilitating Than Sleep Deprivation

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows that people who awaken after eight hours of sound sleep have more impaired thinking and memory skills than they do after being deprived of sleep for more than 24 hours.

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Automatically back up your hard drive

Don’t expect yourself to remember to back up your data, or stack your closet full of burned CD’s or DVD’s. Today we’re going to set up automated nightly, weekly, monthly local and off-site backups for your PC using free software. Once you get this up and running, you’ll never have to worry about losing data again.

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Modifying Conifer Antennas for Wireless Networking

This page details a method for constructing a new dipole for a Conifer dish, resulting in improved performance over the more common dipole modification.

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Homebrew outdoor antenna to 2.4 GHz band

Professional looking antenna for your Wi-Fi needs.

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Homebrew Nintendo DS Development

Some tutorials about homebrew development on the Nintendo DS game system. Lots of material and how tos.

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dvdjon Targets AACS

AACS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS) is now under famous dvdjon cross hairs, the only question is how much before he cracks it wide open. Predictions are welcome, let's see how close digg community gets.

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Create Your Own Motivational Posters

You know those trendy motivational poster that create the false illusion of a positive environment at work, well now you can make your own, let your imagination fly.

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How To Program a Bootstrap Loader

Before an operating system begins to work, a program called a bootstrap has to load the computer from scratch. This tutorial includes assembly language code to demonstrate loading and executing a binary image from a FAT filesystem.

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Irongeek Does The WMF File Code Execution Vulnerability With Metasploit

This video covers the use of the recent (Jan 2006) WMF file code execution vulnerability with Metasploit. It shows how to shovel a shell back to the attacker with the WMF vulnerability. See Microsoft Security Advisory 912840. Thanks to kn1ghtl0rd, AcidTonic, Electroman and livinded for their help.

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School Bus to Camper Conversion Project

Your next bachelor pad is just a junkyard away, this is a cool project that will solve your habitat problem and if you don't like the neighbors don't just move your house, you can run them over on your way out :D.

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New Make Magazine forums

For the tinkerers, hardware hackers, mod gurus a new place has open for you, brought to you but the ultiamte magazine about DIY Make Magazine, did I mention this is O'Reilly's?.

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The end of KoolAidGuy: a theory

These days we don't hear too much from Digg's old nemesis: KoolAidGuy, this for me is no coincidence, Digg upgraded its word verification interface, you know the letters contained in an image for you to type down, it is used for user creation and story submissions.

The new system is really easy on the eyes and includes twisted characters with spaces in between, here is a comparison:

Old system:

New System:

In my opinion the previous system was exploited transforming the image to black and white and then feeding the resultant image to an OCR that takes jpeg files. This returned the string of characters needed as a confirmation token. All the process of creating users and posting phony stories or comments could be automated once this roadblock was blasted.

There was also a chance for a pattern to exist and be taken advantage of, I remember writing the same text for different posts. Having a set of known words and images with a combination of trial and error could lead to successful entry. Curiously some of the words in the previous system were misspelled on purpose, as you may see on the example above the word is college with a capital "C" instead of an "e"

Another option includes installing Diggs's word verification system and map every image to its size and its word key, maybe the previous system was based on an open source application or an application you could try free for some days.

Other theory could involve exploiting a possible relation between the name of the image file and the string it contains but that seems a little far fetched but you never know.

Maybe there was a backdoor that required no word verification to register users or post stories and comments and that hole was patched

So far the current "state of the art" with Digg's security seems to be working and it will remain that way till it can be breached again, as everything in life nothing is forever.

Unless we hear from KoolAidGuy again this example shows how a simple fix can solve a problem that seems complex and would need a lot of work, in the words of H.L. Mencken (1880-1956):

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."

I welcome any idea or comment that could enhance this post.

Bonlebon