Computer Security Awareness Video Contest Winners

The contest included 62 video submissions from 17 universities. Winners were selected for creativity, content, and quality of information; overall effectiveness of delivery; and technical quality.

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Key Recovery Utilities and Resources, never leave home without them

History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet.

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Turn a Linux box into a motion detector

Want to keep an eye on what's going on in your home or office when you're not there?, a webcam and motion will do the trick.

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Search engine optimization basics: Improve your standing in search engines

Making your Web site attractive to search engines is a key factor for your success as a Web site developer. Get the basic information you need to organically optimize your Web site in this four-part series.

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Malicious Malware: attacking the attackers

This article explores measures to attack those malicious attackers who seek to harm our legitimate systems. The proactive use of exploits and bot networks that fight other bot networks, along with social engineering and attacker techniques are all discussed in an ethical manner.

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Impressive Interactive Waterfall with video

Impressive piece of art/technology, it reacts to the viewer as it moves.

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Why I'm not upgrading to WordPress 2.0 - for now

« WordPress 2.0 problems for google adsense users, and a workaround | Main | TypePad has no pagination features (next and previous buttons at the bottom of the page) AND no way of implementing them!! »

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Turn your Television into a Stereographic 3D TV!

The Virtual FX harnesses the power of 3D and brings it right into your own living room... faster than you can say WOW! Enjoy 3D Digital, Special Effects at Home!

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All Hail Shale: Shale isn't Struts

n this first of a five-part series, Brett explains what Shale is, how it's different from the Struts framework, and how to install and set it up in your development environment.

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DIY Hoverboard: Walk-through

"So, you want to grow your own Hoverboard? Well, finally, after literally thousands of emails, here is your definitive guide to Hoverboard construction."

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WOW!!! PSP Flash Player

Play your favorite flash based game on your PSP, the potential library of games for this console has jumped dramatically thanks to this guys. And SONY keeps guys from hacking the PSP firmaware?, they've got to be crazy.

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PHP Networking

"In this article I touch upon several cool applications, including how to use PHP to send e-mail, verify e-mail addresses, call operating system functions from within a script, and finally conclude the article with an explanation of how to query a WHOIS database for domain information."

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Taking down the iPod

Digital music industry execs say coming up with a portable media device that can challenge the Apple cool factor is a daunting task.

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Network Monitoring with Ajax

MILA allow to request network status and display it dynamicly on a map using AJAX, the script keep refreshing the page so you can easily monitor the network using your browser.

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Explore Amazon Web Services with AJAX - Day 1

Amazon offer access to their database via webservice and this is a great opportunity to explore the different AJAX features that we can implement with it. So as you may understand by Day 1, this week I'll try to focus on the different aspect of using AWS with AJAX using nusoap and prototype.

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PC-to-R/C interface

The PC-to-R/C interface is a device allowing controlling the servos on the receiver side with a PC (a prewritten trajectories, user called macros or control from a normal PC joystick etc.). The system is mainly targeted for controlling wirelessly a non-industrial robot. The interface will be connected between the PC and the Futaba transmitter.

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A paypal alternative

Everyone knows paypal sucks, those who use it are misinformed and hit with unreasonable charges, this is one of the many option for you to set up a merchant account and give paypal the finger.

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The World's Smallest Single-User Wiki

Here are the three lines of code it took to make a single-user Wiki in Vim.

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Detecting Proxies with PHP

Easily detect most kinds of proxies and even determine a user's real IP address.

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As banned from digg: Water on Mars

This was a really funny post that had a short life on digg's front page. Here is the picture:

Nintendo Game and Watch Tribute page

Game and Watch games were addictive, cool and portable. These were the first steps Nintendo gave to create the GameBoy hegemony. Good times.

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Letter-writing without envelopes, cutting or glue

Creative way to save paper.

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ROME in a Day: Parse and Publish Feeds in Java

Ready to parse and publish RSS and Atom feeds in Java? In this step-by-step tutorial, we'll show you how to pull in an existing feed, add your own content, and publish the results in a new format, all in 100 lines of code.

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FREE 3D Model animation software

Avimator is a simple tool for creating and editing avatar animations, does inverse kinematics, mirroring, works on Mac, PC and Linux!

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Creating search engine friendly URLs in PHP

Often dynamic content will lead to single scripts that produce their content based on the input parameters. This article covers various techniques and methods for representing these parameters in the URL in a clean and �friendly� manner, as well as then how to read the parameters.

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PHP/MySQL News with Comments

Some time ago, I wrote two tutorials about creating a news system. Both of those tutorials dealt with using flat files as the method of storage. Today, we will investigate the use of a database backend, specifically MySQL.

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ATI slammed for lack of Linux support

"Pete's Open Source Journal on Driver Heaven, said that it is five months since products have been released, but ATI is still unable to supply Linux drivers for the products."

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Linux commands you didn't know and will help you a lot

Some tools that will make your work or hobby even more interesting and productive.

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PHP Related Comic Strip

If you are a fan of PHP this comic will make you chuckle.

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Inflight Phone Calls and VoIP

The death of in flight phones and the dawn of a new era for air travelers.

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Office Pirates, the hub for the cube dwellers

Office Pirates is a division of Office Pirates North America, which, in turn, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Worldwide Office Pirates. For more information, open any window, place a hand over your left eye and yell our name three times. We�ll be along directly.

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A SQL driven DNS server How-To

MyDNS is a domain name server designed to work with an external SQL database, specifically MySQL or PostgreSQL.

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Cool Pong 3-D

Leave the plane and get into the 3 dimensional world of pong.

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Prospects for a Hydrogen Economy

Scientists see the hurdles that must be overcome to reach that future. And many governments see an advantage in providing research money now to enable a future that may be decades away.

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MAME Cabinet on a budget

Pictures of a MAME cabinet I built. Nothing fancy, just a simple box with the minimum number of controls needed to play the older games.

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Computer Stupidities: Hardware Abuse

Some of the things people do to computers is downright painful.

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Automatically geocode your Flickr photos

Zonetag is an automatic geocode phone application for Nokia series 60 phones. Some of the features -"2-click photo upload to Flickr. Easily find your photos using location-based search When you upload your photos,"

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Turn your computer keyboard into a music keyboard

This looks like a fun way to turn your computer into an instrument

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Create pop-ups for your site

"A pop-up window that doesn�t suck. I got an idea on how to make a nice pop-up window. I thought that doing normal windows were very clumsy."

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Build Your Own Cockpit

Hopefully this will become a nice collection of articles dealing with building your own cockpit, rudders, and any other stuff to enhance your computer simulation experience.

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Encrypted thumb drive and autoplay howto

"I also managed to get Windows autoplay working on the drive so I can access the data with the least amount of annoyance. Actually it's about as easy as it's ever going to get. I stick my drive in, an autoplay menu pops up with "Mount Truecrypt Volume" as the default choice."

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More FREE Books

Take a look of this nice list of books, maybe you'll see something you like.

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Creating a Mail Form with PHP and Flash

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to create a contact form within flash and send it using PHP.

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How to bypass your BIOS Password

A comprehensive list of tips to bypass that annoying BIOS password.

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Mobile phone buyers' guide

The mobile industry is pushing a vast array of new services but do you really need them? Richard Taylor sets out what you should be looking for in a good phone.

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Create a Calendar in Word

When a new year rolls around, you can count on two things: you will write the wrong year on your checks until April, and you'll need a new calendar. Although there's not much I can do to help with the first situation, I can help with the second.

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6 Keys to Programmer Productivity

In spite of excellent productivity advances in software development tools, I believe that developers are working harder to get less done. It would be interesting to see some hard statistics on productivity (if you know of any, please let me know).

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Communism Is the Best Cure For Spam?

"A new regulation will ban sending e-mail for advertising purposes to people without their permission, and all advertising e-mail must be titled "advertisement" or "AD," the agency said."

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Mobile tracking devices on trial

Your mobile phone is a beacon - a radio transmitter in a box. Therefore it is possible to trace the signal and work out where it is.

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Creating sortable lists with PHP and AJAX

In this article, we�ll create a drag drop system using JavaScript that will let you drag an item to its new position, and then save the new order as soon as you drop the item.

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What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum?

With so many technologies and trends a CS degree can be worthless, check what should be the main subjects for a marketable major.

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Domain names as mobile phone numbers

Learn how you can take the Domain Name System (DNS), which is used primarily on the Internet, and implement it in mobile phones. Find out what DNS is all about, how mobile phones actually work behind the scenes, and how a domain name can simplify how you contact a mobile user.

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Guide to Japanese Castles

"Guide to the 47 castles in Japan I've personally visited and 13 donated by readers"

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Top Ten Tips For Being a Successful Joyful Entrepreneur

A JOYFUL entrepreneur? I know it's more popular to think of entrepreneurs as "haggard," working hard and hustling to make their mark. But you can have a successful business with ease. It can, and should, be fun.

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FREE Hackers Novel

Based on true stories of the crackers underworld, full of tales you can learn a thing or two,

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Apple vs. the Hackers, Round 1

Recent stories of a spate of Mac-targeted viruses may have been overblown, but the best defense will always be educated users.

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Train Your Brain

Mental exercises with neurofeedback may ease symptoms of attention-deficit disorder, epilepsy and depression--and even boost cognition in healthy brains

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Room Sized Camera Obscura

This time, we will deal with an optical experiment easy to do, but which, in spite of its simplicity, is able to give you a continuous marvel. What you have to do is simply mount a lens on the bedroom window. In this way, when you wake up in the morning, you will admire the outside scene projected on a wall of your bedroom

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digg - Submit Item

Based on true stories of the crackers underworld, full of stories you can learn a thing or two,

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London anagram tube map

Have fun playing with the stattion names along the London tube/metro system.

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Underwater CVS Camcorder Mod

"This is how I turned the one-time-use CVS video camera into a re-usable underwater video camera."

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Style html lists with css

Html lists can be formated differently with very simple tricks. First you can use either bullets or numbers for your the lists. Secondly you can use images instead of bullets to make them better looking.

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GRASS The FREE GIS Analysis Suite

Commonly referred to as GRASS, this is a Geographic Information System (GIS) used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics/maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. It is currently used in academic and commercial settings around the world.

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Hi Tech Graffities

"An electro-graf is a graffiti piece or throw-up that uses conductive and magnetic paint to embed LED display electronics. The following pages describe the materials and processes used to create the prototype indoor and outdoor interactive electro-grafs created in the lab at Eyebeam"

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Old laptop as EVDO router

You may have all parts needed to build your own EVDO router!

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Why Do You Work So Hard?

There remains this enormous and wicked sociocultural myth. It is this: Hard work is all there is.

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Virtual Breadboarding in Linux

KTechlab provides a powerful environment for electronic circuits and microcontrollers. This includes simulation of a variety of components (logic, integrated, linear, nonlinear and reactive), simulation and debugging of PIC microcontrollers via gpsim, and its own closely-linked and complementary high level languages: FlowCode and Microbe.

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NES controller DS case mod

Here's a pretty cool mod to make a Nintendo DS look like an old NES controller

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PHP: Allowing Registration-Required Binary Downloads

You have a great PDF, MP3, or binary file to distribute, but you want to know who's downloading it. How hard could it be to write a little PHP program to require registration before letting your goodies loose? Robert Bernier demonstrates that it's actually pretty easy.

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Web Radio Boom Box

I�ve hollowed out a perfectly good radio and made room for a tiny motherboard and power supply that are set up to run Damn Small Linux off of a USB flash drive. There is a wireless card inside, and the box is configured to sniff out wireless networks and automatically start streaming web radio on any friendly Wi-fi network.

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Futuristic Car Style

A giant leap in car design.

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A Mobile 3G/WiFi Router Project

A Stompbox is a home-brew WWAN (Wireless Wide Area Network) router. In more human terms, it's a compact little box that gets data from cellular towers and re-shares it for multiple computers to use.

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Build Flash widgets with XML and JavaScript

OpenLaszlo is a rich client application architecture that uses Macromedia Flash as a deployment vehicle. Declarative in design, OpenLaszlo relies upon JavaScript for logic and offers advantages over traditional Flash development.

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WWMD: What would McGyver Do?, an extreme survival quiz

Think you can survive the next big disaster?, find out with this quiz.

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Early V For Vendetta Review!

"The movie is actually pretty strong, which surprised me. It is a movie about true ideas and not nonsense action. It stays quite true to the tone of the original Alan Moore comic, with some slight deviations."

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The swiss army knife of gaming cheating

Poke is the ultimate gaming utility. It's a small program that allows you to cheat in every game out there - published or to be published in the future!

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Worse Job ever?

Everyone has to work for a living but this guy hits rock bottom.

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Speed Web delivery with HTTP compression

A look at the page-delivery effects of data compression in HTTP 1.1

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New web app penetration testing tool

Oedipus is an open source web application security analysis and testing suite written in Ruby. It is capable of parsing different types of log files off-line and identifying security vulnerabilities. Using the analyzed information, Oedipus can dynamically test web sites for application and web server vulnerabilities.

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It's Over: 1 Billion Songs Sold by iTunes Store

As best I can tell, the 1 billionth song was purchased on iTunes around 0600Z (10PM PST). Somewhere, someone has won a bunch of cool products from Apple. And, boy, am I envious :-)

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Preventing Buffer Overflow Exploits Using Linux Distributed Security Module

The sad thing about buffer overflow exploits is that good programming practices could wipe out even potential exploits, however, that simply has not happened. The own defence against such exploits should revolve around controlling access to sensitive systems, installing software updates that replace exploitable software.

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Skype expert: SkypeOut a "lousy PSTN experience"

"SkypeOut does poorly in call quality, and doesn't exactly win the cost savings contest either. If he had his wishes, though, call quality would be improved."

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Create iPod video content on the Java platform

The newest generation of iPod media players has opened up a world of opportunity in mobile video programming -- but how do you get started? This article introduces you to the QuickTime for Java� library, which is required to programmatically create video content for the iPod media player.

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Improve mouse response/accuracy by changing the USB polling rate

Windows by default has the usb ports working at 125Hz of 1000Hz that USB is capable of, giving 8ms response times. You can change the frequency to 250Hz(4ms), 500Hz(2ms) and 1000Hz(1ms) to get better response times.

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South Korea plans 'Linux showcase city'

In an effort to boost take-up and awareness, the government is paying for a city to deploy open source across its infrastructure

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CSS PLAY: Experiments with Cascading Style Sheets

"my site deals with experimental CSS that is exactly what you get JUST CSS, no javascript or any other programming language has been used in any of the demonstrations."

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A Link Is Found Between Morphine Addiction And The Tendency To Explore

A team of researchers from the UAB has found experimental evidence in rats showing a link between addiction to morphine and the tendency to explore perseveringly.

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Create mosaic images with Perl and ImageMagick: an approach to Digg mosaic

Use simple Perl scripts to automate the image manipulation, text creation, and compositing of arbitrary mosaic images. Learn how to use ImageMagick, GD, and The Gimp to create your own mosaic images suitable for static display and dynamic content. Explore the capabilities of ImageMagick and open source graphical editing tools.

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Awesome flash animation

At this site the push flash animation to the max. They got an Audience Award at Sundance Online Film Festival on 2004.

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Four Linux Games I Can't Stop Playing

The GNU/Linux operating system isn't exactly known for gaming, but that doesn't mean that there aren't any games on it that are worth playing.

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Treo650 Bluetooth Dial Up Networking Hack

When PalmOne released the Treo 650 smartphone for Sprint PCS and Cingular, they had to obey the carries requests to disable the DUN (Dial Up Networking) profile for bluetooth.Thus I set out of figure out how they disabled it and how to fix it.

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How to Build a Linux Service Business

By centralizing a ticket tracking system on the Internet you can create a virtual 24 by 7 Linux support business. You'll want to use a combination of VoIP and a global clearing provider for taking payments. A system like this costs pennies to start and has the ability to scale rapidly.

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Preventing Buffer Overflow Exploits Using Linux Distributed Security Module

The sad thing about buffer overflow exploits is that good programming practices could wipe out even potential exploits, however, that simply has not happened. The own defence against such exploits should revolve around controlling access to sensitive systems, installing software updates that replace exploitable software.

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JSP 2.0 XML Cheat Sheet

Another cheat sheet to add to the arsenal of tools.

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Tour to Skywalker Ranch

A tour to the crib of George Lucas ideas. Ronald Reagan, then President of the United States requested a tour of Skywalker Ranch but was denied.

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Atlantis slated to be first shuttle retired

Atlantis will be the first of NASA's three space shuttles to be retired, most likely in 2008, as the shuttle program winds down in four years, a senior agency official said Tuesday.

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The art of Linux and Unix patching

When developers come across shortcomings in their software, instead of repackaging the software with the changes, they can provide a patchfile that contains details of all required changes. Two important tools used in the process are diff, which creates a patchfile, and patch, which applies it.

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A cocktail-style MAME cabinet

There are a lot of MAME machines around, but very few cocktail-style cabinets - they seem to be mostly upright. I also haven't seen any side-by-side two-player setups.

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Avoiding Career Protection Faults-Tips for Programmers

A lot of valuable tips to tackle difficult to work with peers, teams and possibly doomed projects

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Sony denies PS3 delay reports

Sony Computer Entertainment spokesperson Kei Sakaguchi has officially denied reports from financial analysts at Merrill Lynch that the PS3 could be delayed by several months, reiterating that the console will launch this spring. M$ spreading hoaxes maybe?.

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Peek preview of tech toys for "kids"

The farm with plastic animals and the geometric figures are thing of the past, kids will see more tech related toys than never before in the months to come.

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Use Apple Remote Desktop to Install and Update All Your Macs

Ryan Faas shows you how you can leverage Remote Desktop to take some of the pain out of software rollouts and workstation deployments. This makes Macs administration a walk in the park.

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Linux: Execute commands simultaneously on multiple servers

This is a really cool hack. You could try writing a script to perform the task deploying configuration files automatically among many servers, but sometimes scripting is overkill for the work to be done. Fortunately, there's another way to execute commands on multiple hosts simultaneously.

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Top Java Books

If you are getting into java or are a seasoned pro, check this list of the best books to master Java, it comes from the community and it makes a lot of sense.

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Use a FREE disposable camera as a guerrilla projector

This device projects a graphic or text image when a button is pushed, using parts that can be obtained for free. It involves the reconfiguration of disposable cameras which you can usually get for free at any photo lab that recycles them.

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The Newb and the Golden Fish, A Complete Intro to OpenBSD

No more excuses on not giving OpenBSD a chance.

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Stop Paying for Ring Tones

Putting a snippet of a CD track or MP3 file on your phone is actually very straightforward -- not to mention free, if you already own the song. Following is a step-by-step guide.

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Buy Lego bricks by Bulks and Save a Bundle

Check this updated list of lots of lego bricks, very convenient for that project of yours.

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MySQL 5 Stored Functions and Cursors

Quick and nice intro on utilities that will make your life easier.

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Jakarta Struts: Seven Lessons from the Trenches

"a much faster way to get up to speed is to leverage lessons learned by others in the Struts community. Several of those lessons are offered here and are designed to increase your productivity and efficiency when building applications using Struts."

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2005: A HURRICANE SEASON ON EDGE

Millions of lives were changed by the record-setting 2005 Atlantic hurricane season�a �worst case scenario� for the United States. The 27 named tropical storms beat the old record of 21 in 1933.

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Can the workaholic scene of New York affect it's weather?

A recent NASA study reports that they do. Researchers have detected for the first time in an American city a workweek pattern of tiny particles in the air called aerosols, believed to be generated by the comings and goings of people working in the city.

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Use data URIs to include media in XML

implement data scheme URIs to embed media, such as binary content, directly into XML.

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Robot Kombat!!! Robot Kombat!!!!

Battle Beach, LLC, in partnership with Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, is pleased to announce that their next robot combat event, Battle Beach 4, will be held in Summer 2006. Stay tuned for the exact dates.

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PHP: b2evolution - a comprehensive blogging engine

B2evolution is blogging software (and more), written in PHP and MySQL, released under the GNU GPL, and it's what I use for my personal blog. It's definitely one of the few applications worth considering if you want to host and maintain your own blog.

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Hi Res Photo of Tropical Cyclone Vaianu

Tropical Cyclone Vaianu was threading its way through the Tonga Islands on February 13, 2006, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Aqua satellite captured this image at 1:45 UTC (1:45 p.m. local time).

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Give your Gmail account a skin

Gmail Skins is a Firefox extension that lets you change the look of your Gmail inbox (amongst some other things).

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WikiCalc = wiki + spreadsheets

If ever someone was going to merge two technologies as disparate as wikis and spreadsheets, VisiCalc creator Dan Bricklin might well be the person for the job.

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World of Warcraft Cheat Sheet

The World of Warcraft cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a WoWer's desk, to make life a bit easier. A description of what is on the cheat sheet follows, or if you are impatient, you can go straight to the full size World of Warcraft cheat sheet.

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Finally the FCC gets one.

Kevin Trudeau Banned from Infomercials. Check his profile http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau, one infomercial down 999.999.999 to go.

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Homemade model train control

I don't know what this is - I'm assuming that it's all a control panel for a model train set, as the right-most component says Lionel Trains on it. But I wasn't brave enough to plug it in and see what happens (reference my other picture where I mention that the sole fire exit was blocked by junk).

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The Geek Syndrome

Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?

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MENSA Members Invent New Words

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing of one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's {2005} winners

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OSS FREE Magazine

If you like to stay up to date with open source software this is the magazine for you, full of tips and news you should include thi is your list of subscriptions, if you like tuxmagazine you are gonna love this one.

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How Computers Work

Roger Young has a great free PDF on how computers work "This is a tutorial web book. All 152 pages of the large paperback book with 96 diagrams are on 38 web pages here. Even if you know nothing about electronics, you have come to the right place. If you are wondering how microprocessors work, you have come to the right place."

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The visual C alternative for Linux

The KDevelop-Project was founded in 1998 to build up an easy to use IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for KDE. Since then, the KDevelop IDE is publicly available under the GPL and supports many programming languages.

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Make a portable game with a 16x2 character LCD

A PIC implementation of Donkey Racer game.

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When your laptop screen breaks

Or a cheap way to get a cool computer.

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Holy Domimatrix: Sex Change for Larry Wachowski?

"The dominatrix's husband, Jake Miller, bitter over being left, guessed that Wachowski was wearing "bra and panties" under his suit at the premiere. Which then leads to speculation about Wachowski's sexuality/sexual issues."

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Watch out PIXAR, Planet One is En Route

Albie Hecht, the CEO of Worldwide Biggies have signed the Oscar-nominated writer of Shrek and Shrek 2, Joe Stillman, to pen the script. Ilion Animations Studios is the theatrical animation company started by the founders of Pyro Studios, best known as the creators of the international hit video game series Commandos.

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Remote control of Lego Mindstorms Over the Internet

WebBrick 2.4 is a program that lets you connect your Lego Mindstorm's robot to a web-page user interface. When anyone on the internet connects to your web page, they can press buttons on the page that activate your robot.

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Beating WiFi Interference

Help set up a wireless link in a really RF unfriendly environment. Nice use of old satellite dishes.

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DIY spy rock

Russia accused Britain of planting a �spy rock� in a Moscow park. Sean Hillmeyer decided that the US can�t be left behind in this rock based arms race and built his own.

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How to build a PS/2 based keylogger

We present the prototype version of the KeeLogger with full documentation, electrical schematics, and program. Operation of this device is similar to the KeeLogger Pro version, although download is initiated by a special button.

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HTML, FLASH, CSS and XML Tutorials

A good resource for the guerrilla web designer out there.

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Creating an SVG Component for Firefox

Build rich SVG based components using Firefox 1.5, AJAX and Mozilla's XML Binding Language.

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The Myth of a Linux Talent Shortage. Is it true?

"The article title has become an urban myth and from the comments I have read about it, most people took the title to heart and never read the article. So, let's set the record staright."

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Steganography in Computer Graphics

Steganography is the way spies hide data inside a file stream. It is both a complex and useful art requiring a lot of knowledge in file formats. There are several programs doing the job but I will present here the theories beyond the softwares. ALERT PDF ahead.

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Small backdoor written in PERL

perl shell: a simple perl backdoor script that listens for a plantext password and can run a shell. .

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Star Wars Opening Crawl in Blender

No Star Wars fan film can start without the opening crawl title. You don't need a fancy blue screen, some yellow type font and a long room. Blender can mash all of this in one shot.

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Anti-Google Protest Images

Students for a Free Tibet show their love for Google calling them Goolag.

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Web Forms and Untraceable DDoS Attacks

We analyze a Web vulnerability that allows an attacker to perform an email-based attack on selected victims, using standard scripts and agents. ALERT PDF Ahead.

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Download ringtones and pictures into your cell phone for FREE

Get your media content to you cell phone without paying any fees.

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Introducing Lua

What if you could provide a seamlessly integrated, fully dynamic language with a conventional syntax while increasing your application's size by less than 200K on an x86? You can do it with Lua!.

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Create a web chat powered by AJAX

This tutorial will walk you through the step in order to create an AJAX driven web chat program. This will be a very simple program, but will be expanded upon in future tutorials.

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Sony to cut down on UMD movie releases

Sony plans to cut back on the titles they bring over to the UMD format, the average number of units sold for movies on the platform just isn't high enough to support as many movie releases as they had been doing.

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Buy your classic games by the thousands. If you get busted, blame Canada!

how this site is getting away with selling thousands of ROMs per DVD over the internet. I've seen this site referenced a few times, and if you have no morals it's a great deal. Who wants to track down ten thousand games when you can pay under US$20 and get the DVD delivered to your door?.

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Developing games with Perl and SDL

SDL_Perl is a perl interface to the Simple DirectMedia Library. It is composed of a both a XS wrapper to the SDL libraries and a series of Perl modules that export SDL functionality in an object-oriented fashion.

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Java Or PHP?

This document compares PHP (4) and Java (1.4) features. Please note that the author has more experience with Java than with PHP. All the PHP information were obtained from www.php.net.

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WackGet, a download manager for windows.

WackGet is a download manager for Windows. It maintains a queue of files and downloads them (using wget) in the order you specify.

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The GNU project frees up your radio dial

'll look at the GNURadio project that implements SDR using open source code. One radio that can be configured any way you want, through software

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Mastering Ajax, Part 3: Advanced requests and responses in Ajax

Learn how to use data scheme URIs to embed media, such as binary content, directly into XML.

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If Operating Systems Were Beers

A funny look to operating systems through B E E R.

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Raymond Scott the father of electronic music

Maybe you don't know who he is but you listened to his work every saturday morning while watching cartoons, remember that catchy factory theme in Looney Tunes/Ren&Stimpy?. This guy was a musician, a geek and a hardware tinkerer. See his early idea of a sequencer and other inventions.

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Stealing data with your Ipod

The purpose of this project is to create a proof-of-concept application that copies office documents from a Windows computer to an iPod (or other removable storage device). The point of this exercise is to demonstrate (quantitatively) how quickly data theft can occur with removable storage devices.

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Hacking the XML in Your TiVo

"With some short stylesheets and a little help from the free wget utility, I wrote a simple application that puts onto my weblog a "TiVoRoll" of what shows our TiVo's been recording, and another app that gives me an Atom feed showing which episodes have been recorded lately."

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24: The Game is coming out

All your favorite characters will be in the game, President Palmer, Tony, Michelle. The game will fill some gaps and will bing more hours of entertaiment and suspense.

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The commodore 64 revival band

Yep, it takes a group of fans of the commodore 64 the get together and play music about the most beloved home PC ever, check this link for free and legal music downloads.

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O'reilly's site has a new face

O'reilly has a new web site design, is clean, simple and easier to navigate, good example to learn from

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Car tossing robot...

Catch the video and judge the robot in terms of execution and distance.

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Zengarage the CSS showcase tool

ZenGarage is a showcase tool that may help you to develop and present different visual styles for a single set of templates. All by the power of CSS.

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DIY Discrete LED Color Organ

Here is a new version of the classic color organ, where different color lights are triggered by different frequencies of sound, resulting in a display that flashes along to music.

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Maddog bites Microsoft

"He says Microsoft's release of its 64-bit Vista operating system and its new Office 12 product could be the point that will turn people away from the paying for commodity software model.". Go Maddog!!!

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The online marketplace for people-to-people lending or Banks-B-Gone

Prosper, America's first people-to-people lending marketplace, was created to make consumer lending more financially and socially rewarding for everyone. Is the death of Banks close?.

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Digitizing VHS Tapes with EyeTV

By digitizing your old VHS tapes, you can move them from taking up precious shelf space to more readily available disk space. In this article, I'll show you a hack that lets you archive full-quality digital recordings from EyeTV to offline media, but still play them back easily in EyeTV.

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Managing Sessions in PHP

This tutorial will teach an alternative and effective solution to cookies in PHP which might actually be better for your website and security.

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Writing Meaningful Link Text

When building a hypertext experience on your website, follow this checklist to ensure that your links require as little effort from your visitors as possible in order to make them useful.

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Spray paint stencil for laptop

Make a stencil, and custom spray paint your laptop.

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Star Wars: Deleted Magic

Some shots that didn't make the final cut in Star Wars IV, The New Hope.

Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post at Google

The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s online search effort is leaving to join Google Inc., the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the search engine leader.

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Send Emails Using PHP (Basic)

Cool code trick to create mail proxies, feedback forms or get alerts.

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Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post at Google

The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s online search effort is leaving to join Google Inc., the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the search engine leader.

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Create a PHP Application that Stores Any Kind of Files in MySQL

In this article we're going to take a look at how to create a binary file repository using PHP and MySQL that can store several different file types. We will look at how to store each files binary data in a database, and then how to retrieve it... all using PHP.

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Windows XP: Command-line reference A-Z

All the comands you'll ever need in Windows XP, explained.

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Perl: Making a Process Look Like a File with Named Pipes

You want a process to intercept all access to a file. For instance, you want to make your ~/.plan file a program that returns a random quote. Here is your asnwer.

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Create a PHP Application that Stores Any Kind of Files in MySQL

In this article we're going to take a look at how to create a binary file repository using PHP and MySQL that can store several different file types. We will look at how to store each files binary data in a database, and then how to retrieve it... all using PHP.

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Mature Design Theory in Web Development

This article is intended for experienced web developers and development companies who are looking for a way to move from small applications up to medium to large projects, and are interested in improving the quality of their application design.

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GovTrack.us: the internet way to snoop on politicians

GovTrack.us is a nexus of information about the United States Congress, following the status of federal legislation and the activities of your senators and representatives.

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Java's Ultimate Knowledge Base Resource

All you need to know about Java in one place with code you can legally use.

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Podcast GMap

Tony Stubblebine, late of O'Reilly, now head of development at Odeo, plots podcasts against a Google map, with Odeo players embedded in the placemarkers. Nice!...

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Porn-to-go starting to take off

Call it pocket porn, mini-porn, even porn-to-go. I am sitting in an edit suite completely dazzled by the cultural trend that is racing across the screens in front of me.

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Client / Server Door Opener Using Parallel Port

"I sit about 5m from my office's door. So, every time someone ringed the bell I had to stand up and open the door. ....Thus my goal was to give a purpose for the simple life of this poor electric door opener (and, of course, to save a walk of 5m ten times per day)."

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Bending Spacetime in the Basement

"This page presents a "basement science" experiment which reveals the universality of gravitation by demonstrating the gravitational attraction between palpable objects on the human scale. The experiment deliberately uses only the crudest and most commonplace materials, permitting anybody who's so inclined to perform it."

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Make a BeeBuster

"This idea has saved me hundreds of stings and saved the lives of a lot of bees (I wouldn't pull feral hives without one). If you've ever tried to remove an existing feral hive without a bee-vacuum, I'm sure you've sworn off ever doing it again. Try it by vacuuming off the majority of bees first..."

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Make a 5++ in 1 Multi-Cable

"This straight through cable can transform into a crossover, serial, serial null-modem, cisco console, vga or vga extension cable by using four adapters, two links and one couple." Go Make magazine!!!, makezine.com

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Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy

I think the biggest enemy of an IT company is the human resources department.....

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Kick procrastination's ass: Run a dash

Procrastination can drive most of us into a spiral of shame that�s as mundane as it is painfully personal. We know what we should be doing, but some invisible hang-up keeps us on the line. Get out of the procrastination circle running a dash.

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No more Google answers gouging: Get answers for FREE

If you would like to help us test our answering systems simply send your question to q@askforcents.com, leave the subject blank and type your question in the email body. During this test the service is free, we hope you find it useful.

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Video: Want your car to do it all?

Watch a movie, browse through your photos, even get an e-mail if your car is stolen. Take a look at both the hardware and software for the StreetDeck with Rafe Needleman, of CNET, and Robert Wray, co-founder and CEO of Mp3car.com.

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Learn a way to upload images into mySQL databases using PHP.

Even though it sounds complicated, it is fairly simple and has many practical applications. One example of an application would be Forum User Images.

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Thinking out of the box: how to challenge conventional space systems

Spacecraft must evolve. Advancing space research is no longer just about swapping old components for new, now it is about entirely rethinking what a space mission can do and how it achieves its goals.

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Stonefridge: The Stonehenge of this civilization

Welcome to Stonefridge. Yes, this really is a replica of Stonehenge - made entirely from refrigerators. Built using only human-power, the monument is now 2.5 fridges high.

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Video: Want your car to do it all?

Watch a movie, browse through your photos, even get an e-mail if your car is stolen. Take a look at both the hardware and software for the StreetDeck with Rafe Needleman, of CNET, and Robert Wray, co-founder and CEO of Mp3car.com.

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No more Google answers gouging: Get answers for FREE

If you would like to help us test our answering systems simply send your question to q@askforcents.com, leave the subject blank and type your question in the email body. During this test the service is free, we hope you find it useful.

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A Sudoku Solver in OpenOffice

I have been wanting to do this for the longest time - ever since I became aware of this puzzle last year. So for the past week, I've been busy putting together this spreadsheet that will assist you with solving a Sudoku puzzle.

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Your IT Company's Biggest Enemy

I think the biggest enemy of an IT company is the human resources department.....

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Configuring Tomcat5 and Apache2 with Virtual Hosts using mod_jk

This tutorial explains how I was able to setup a web server in order to support Java Server Pages (JSP) and Servlets using virtually hosted websites.

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OpenOffice.org solutions galore

Multiple solutions for the myriad of problems you face in the office day by day.

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Robomaid Hacked

""This is my second robot after getting the kit for Christmas. No prior electronics experience. The robomaid redo I have been working on is complete. I call it Robomaid2."

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MSN TV Linux Cluster

"Where to start! I have been searching for a cheap device that i could use for a cluster.....After socketing the msntv bios and poking around. I managed to get Linux running and even better managed to get it running without any hardware modifications."

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Kick procrastination�s ass: Run a dash

Procrastination can drive most of us into a spiral of shame that�s as mundane as it is painfully personal. We know what we should be doing, but some invisible hang-up keeps us on the line. Get out of the procrastination circle running a dash.

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Turn your favorite team mascot into a robot

Dolls dont have to be dull, put some electronics insode and you'll get a functional robot. ALERT PDF ahead.

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Intimate Kissing Quadruples Risk Of Meningitis In Teenagers

Intimate kissing with multiple partners almost quadruples a teenager's risk of meningococcal disease, finds a study published online by the British Medical Journal.

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DIY Penny Slot Machine

For your personal use or gain, an interesting project to make or know the basics on how it works. ALERT: PDF ahead.

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Professor Discovers Better Way To Desalinate Water

Chemical engineer Kamalesh Sirkar, PhD, a distinguished professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and an expert in membrane separation technology, is leading a team of researchers to develop a breakthrough method to desalinate water.

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Why is Digg So HOT?

Digg�s popularity is not only illustrated by the graph above but has attracted a slew of copycats. And they seem to be multiplying fast. Below is a partial list.

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Hack Your Keyboard

An old keyboard lying around could turn in a different input device for multiple applications like an arcade box.

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Google Maps to carry ads

API developers will have the option to display the ads or to signup for a commercial relationship with Google. They will overlay blue markers on the map to highlight local business advertisements directly within the graphical search result.

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U.S. Concludes 'Cyber Storm' Mock Attacks

The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers. Do you feel identified with any os these groups?.

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Create a comment board in PHP

This is a three-part tutorial that shows you hwo to make a comment/discussion board like those on this site using PHP and mySQL.

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Insecure IT hub

Why Bangalore call centre workers are buying pepper sprays.

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Intel looks beyond the microchip

Intel's new CEO, Paul Otellini, outlines new directions for a company best known for making computer chips.

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Bungie Won't Let You Play Halo 2 On Windows XP

For those of you looking for another reason to upgrade (or not to upgrade) to Vista, here is the latest from Microsoft.

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Time for an Object-Oriented Database?

Relational database management systems aren�t the only game in town. A growing number of Linux and Windows developers are turning to a more synergistic alternative: the object-oriented database. Among other benefits, an object-oriented database stores objects �as-is.� There�s no object-to-relational translation layer. Bugmenot friendly.

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Tame Your iPod with gtkpod

Learn how to manage your iPod with gtkpod and Linux. Login with bugmenot ;).

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A Short Tutorial on XMLHttpRequest()

This tutorial will show you how to build a web page that responds to asynchronous events. In five simple exercises, we'll show you the core of an Asychronous JavaScript And XML (AJAX) application.

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Re-compress your gzipp'ed files to bzip2 using a Bash script (HOWTO)

"So, having this nice shiny new USB external drive and some time on my hands, I wrote a Bash utility script to re-compress gzip files to bzip2, using the external drive. It takes an order of magnitude longer to compress, but at least I'll save some space and have a hope of recovering the compressed data if things go wrong... Right??"

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Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance

Apache server performance can be improved by adding additional hardware resources such as RAM, faster CPU, etc. But most of the time, the same result can be achieved by custom configuration of the server. Learn more here.

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Localizing Your Perl Programs

".. nowadays, computers are becoming part of daily life for much of the planet, and that means that the average user is less and less likely to be a native speaker of English. And software that doesn't work in your native language is very annoying, even if it does work in some other language you understand fluently."

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Make music with virtual every day items

The Pâte à Son is a sound toy and compositional tool conceived to encourage musical experimentation.Drag instruments, switches, and transporter pipes from the conveyor belt to the checkerboard above to make music. Rotate the pieces. Choose a melody. Change pitch, tempo and volume to fine-tune your composition.

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HP to launch Linux notebooks in SA

HP South Africa is to release a range of Linux-based notebooks at the end of February. In an interview with Tectonic HP's Sean Owen-Jones said the HP 6110 notebooks will sell for R5999-00 and will run the Linspire operating system.

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Jet Turbine Powered Toyota MR2 On eBay

Actually they took it off ebay mabe because is not street legal, but sure it makes heck of a ride.

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Crop Circles in Google Maps

Check it out: Google Crop Circles

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Yugo runs by wood-gas

Mr. Anton Peterka along with his team, made his '85 Yugo 45, using wood and coal for fuel. It's not a new technology, 125 years old. The process is based on incomplete combustion of wood: due to lack of air, gases are created: carbon monoxide, the main fuels, hydrogen and methane.

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Mambo Documentation Resources

All you wanted to know about Mambo - the dynamic portal engine and content management system.

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Macro Photography Lighting Hack

"While trying to get a good close-up photo of what may be the world�s smallest audio interface, I discovered a sweet lighting trick."

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Mouse Glove

Following the powerglove mod you get another example on how to build your own.

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Nmap by Phone

The idea is to call a number where you will be greeted by a friendly voice telling you to enter an IP address. You then enter the IP address which you want to scan via your telephone, Neat huh?

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X-Lite the FREE VoIP softphone

Make calls between asterik boxes with this great piece of software,

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An Introduction to SIP, Part 1: Meet SIP

Want to learn VoIP?, this should be your first read.

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An Introduction to the Asterisk PBX

"In this article I want to give a quick overview over the capabilities of the software and help you set up your own Asterisk server purely for VoIP (SIP protocol)."

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Portable 8-Bit Nintendo

"Some of the greatest games ever made were on the good 'ol 8-Bit NES of the late 80s. I had my original NES laying around and decided to bring it back to life...as a giant "Gameboy" like portable."

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Pick a lock with a Banana

Make a monkey out of that lock.

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Anti-cartoon protests go online

Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers protesting about controversial cartoons mocking the Prophet Muhammad.

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Open-source open-hardware toolkit for low-cost real-time eye tracking

The purpose of openEyes is to provide a hardware design and a set of software tools useful for the analysis of eye movement data.

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Pirate Web Camera

This sure ain't your tipical web cam.

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Convert your Pocket PC into an iPod in seven easy steps

Here's a project for those of you who dislike functionality love iPods, but are cursed with PocketPC ownership. You can convert your Pocket PC into an iPod in just a few simple steps. I am going to walk you through it.

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Spanish hacker jailed for two years

A Spanish hacker who launched a denial of service attack that hobbled the net connections of an estimated three million users has been jailed for two years and fined �1.4m. Santiago Garrido, 26, (AKA Ronnie and Mike25) launched the attack using a computer worm in retaliation for been banned from the popular "Hispano" IRC chat room.

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Borland quits the IDE business

Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for the portion of its business associated with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), including the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi(R), C++Builder(R) and C#Builder(R)) and JBuilder(R) product lines.

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Macro Photography Lighting Hack

"While trying to get a good close-up photo of what may be the world�s smallest audio interface, I discovered a sweet lighting trick."

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Borland quits the IDE business

Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for the portion of its business associated with the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), including the award-winning Borland Developer Studio (Delphi(R), C++Builder(R) and C#Builder(R)) and JBuilder(R) product lines.

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PI Movie trivia

For the lovers and followers of this "cult" film IMDB presents you some trivia you maybe didn't know about.

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Pirate Web Camera

This sure ain't your tipical web cam.

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X graphics get a boost

Xgl is an X server architecture that runs on top of the OpenGL API, making it possible to allow hardware to render effects. The Compiz compositing manager is essentially a window manager that allows plugins to add new effects made possible by Xgl.

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Stockdigg, the digg of investment news

StockDigg is a financial website that provides investors access to major financial news as well as user-submitted stories (e.g. stock picks and analysis) and individual stock rankings by investors.

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The four most common Unix security mistakes

Everybody talks about computer security as if the term had a clear meaning, but it doesn't. So, to be clear, what I mean by it here is the maintenance of information integrity in a system - something that's very difficult to define clearly but is essentially a matter of being able to assure senior management that things are working.

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Make a Matchbox Pinhole camera

My first couple of 35mm pinhole cameras attempted to be panoramic, wide angle jobbies but this time I thought it would be nice to get back to the classic square format.

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Anti-Microsoft images galore

A lot of images making fun of the corporation many love to hate: Microsoft.

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Vonage Files for IPO, Names New CEO

After a period of mystery regarding what steps it would take, VoIP start-up Vonage has filed for an IPO.

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NASA lists Challenges Program rules

NASA's Centennial Challenges Program officials Wednesday released draft rules for six new prize competitions, including spacesuit and vehicle challenges,

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Star Wars like 3d projector

Japan�s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) has developed a device that uses lasers to project real three-dimensional images in mid-air. The institute unveiled the device on February 7 in a demonstration that showed off the device�s ability to project three-dimensional shapes of white light.

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Eruption on Augustine Island view from Space

The Augustine Volcano in Alaska continued erupting on February 2, 2006. The Alaska Volcano Observatory (AVO) reported a continuous plume of volcanic ash emitting from the volcano, accompanied by low-level explosions and pyroclastic flows of hot ash and rock fragments.

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Computer to help hospitals in emergencies

ornell University is joining the Lockheed Martin Corp. in developing a computerized system for hospitals to plan and deal with mass casualty events.

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Microsoft Challenges Linux's Legacy Claims

News Analysis: Tests run in Redmond's Linux lab seek to dispel the myth that Linux can run on anything, especially older legacy hardware.

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Hacking a Remote Control

"It's true, thanks to a chip expert who discovered how to talk to the remote through the 6-pin connector, we can now add our own device codes and do lots of other custom programming,"

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NASA POST-HURRICANE KATRINA IMAGES AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE EARTH

NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have published detailed aerial imagery of the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Internet viewable on Google Earth.

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How NOT to go about a programming assignment

Computer programming students invariably fall into more than one bad habit. It can be extremely difficult to eradicate them. I wrote this when, in the days leading up to an assignment deadline.

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Robot Assisted Surgery More Accurate Than Conventional Surgery

A new study from Imperial College London shows that robot assisted knee surgery is significantly more accurate than conventional surgery.

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Get a MySQL Database of Baseball Player and Team Statistics

Get a free database of historical baseball data from the Internet (covering every major league game from 1871 through today) in MySQL format. ALERT: PDF Ahead.

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Java Powered Web Images Gallery

Java Web Images Gallery is a server-side application that generates Web image albums on the fly. Users need only upload images by FTP. It provides a navigation tree, a simple way to manage and customise image gallery views, and basic image manipulation.

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LAMP & JVM: Chocolate & Peanut Butter, or Oil & Water?

The why LAMP can't compete with Java.

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Writing cross-browser CSS

Almost without exception, web professionals new to CSS run into problems trying to get their CSS to work as expected in all browsers. It doesn’t have to be like that though.

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Alternatives to innerHTML

The focus of this article will be to show you ways of doing things commonly reserved for innerHTML with only DOM methods. In each example, the innerHTML method will be shown, followed by its DOM based alternative.

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Camping, a Microframework 4 Ruby on Rails

The idea here is to store a complete fledgling web application in a single file like many small CGIs. But to organize it as a Model-View-Controller application like Rails does. You can then easily move it to Rails once you’ve got it going.

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Escaping the Matrix

"In Plato’s famous parable about the shadows on the walls of the cave, true reality is at least reflected in perceived reality. In the Matrix world, true reality and perceived reality exist on entirely different planes." Get ready for a trip.

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Depression May Be Lifelong Parent Trap

A study by Florida State University professor Robin Simon and Vanderbilt University's Ranae Evenson found that parents have significantly higher levels of depression than adults who do not have children. Even more surprising, the symptoms of depression do not go away when the kids grow up and move out of the house.

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A Bathroom That Cleans Itself

Cleaning bathrooms may become a thing of the past with new coatings that will do the job for you.

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How Vista Will Handle IPv6

"...the Next Generation TCP/IP stack, which is the completely re-architected TCP/IP protocol stack in Vista and Longhorn. This article continues by examining changes to IPv6 in these platforms and how these changes enhance the manageability, usability, and security of Windows-based networks."

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Easy php webmail interface

Telaen is a webmail interface written in PHP. It does not require any database and is compatible with POP3 or IMAP so it runs under any Server supporting PHP with Sendmail or QMAIL. Additional skins and languages can be easily integrated.

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Preventing SSH Dictionary Attacks With DenyHosts

In this HowTo I will show how to install and configure DenyHosts. DenyHosts is a tool that observes login attempts to SSH, and if it finds failed login attempts again and again from the same IP address, DenyHosts blocks further login attempts from that IP address by putting it into /etc/hosts.deny.

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Running Apache2 With PHP5 And PHP4 At The Same Time

This tutorial shows how to install and configure Apache2 with PHP5 and PHP4 enabled at the same time.

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FREE DDR Game for PC

StepMania is a rhythm game for Windows, Mac, and Linux. It features 3D graphics, keyboard and "dance pad" support, and an editor for creating your own steps.

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Linux Network Interfaces CLI Tips

Ifup and ifdown are normally hidden from view and used only in scripts run at startup and shutdown time, so why would we care about them? Well, grasshopper, interfaces happen, that's why. Equipment malfunctions may leave you in need of these commands in between power on and power off.

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Distribute software on a Linux LiveCD

Linux® LiveCDs contain the operating system and applications all on a single CD and are a handy way to distribute software when compactness, portability, and/or security matter.

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The next big user interface: The Proactive Desk

Proactive Desk II, developed by Shunsuke Yoshida, Haruo Noma and Kennichi Hosaka of ATR Media Information Science Labs, is a "digital desk with force feedback" that can simultaneously apply different forces on multiple physical objects on it.

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