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Zephyr: Ajax MVC Framework for PHP

zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement. you can deliver a full fledged ajax application with strong business layer in backend within some minutes.

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One sexy robot, hellooooo robot nurse!!!!.

akahashi, the most well known robot designer in residence at the Robo Garage, just introduced his latest robotic creation, the Female Type (FT).

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The end of privacy

The more wired and "integrated" this society gets, the less privacy it will get, see how would it be to buy a pizza in the near future.

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Rare Firefox promotional video

Just another reason to put the fox in your computer and set the other browsers on fire.

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Unexpected detail in first-ever Venus south pole images

ESA's Venus Express has returned the first-ever images of the hothouse planet’s south pole from a distance of 206 452 kilometres, showing surprisingly clear structures and unexpected detail.

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Griffin Itrip Nano Antenna Hack

Having reception problems with your Itrip or another FM transmitter? Well you are not alone! Jojoskarr (Joe) came up with an interesting idea that uses items that you probably already have collecting dust in a closet.

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Gaming LIVE-CD

I spent my entire Friday and half my Saturday in the SuperGamer-1 livedvd. I'm not a avid gamer as the definition goes, but I certainly love my 'shoot 'em ups'. Gaming in Linux is much easier of late than it once was.

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Dual Boot With Ubuntu

Having problems with breaking up with windows but still want to have an affair with Linux? Well not to sound like the love doctor but, just make a dual boot system . It is a lot easier and no divorce papers.

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Economic and Social Benefits of FOSS

What are the real benefits of using FOSS? Where and why does it shine? A nice opinion piece on why FOSS just makes a lot of sense and a lot of cents.

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The Gimp 2.2.11

Grab your new version here, fresh.

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In Search of the Real Dracula

I recently had the opportunity to travel through Europe in search of the reality behind some famous ancient legends. I was part of a team of investigators for a TV show called "Legend Detectives," which subsequently aired in December 2005 by Discovery Channel Europe.

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A look at GCJ 4.1

One of the components of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is GCJ, the GNU Compiler for the Java programming language. GCJ is a compiler that can generate both native code and bytecode from Java source files.

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Samsung prepares to ship first Origami PC

Samsung claims the unit will get 3.5 hours of battery life under typical usage, or 1.4 hours playing back a DVD—presumably ripped to the hard drive first, as there is no optical storage in the unit, which weights 779 grams (27.5 ounces) and measures 227.5 x 139.5 x 24.5 mm (9 x 5.5 x 1 inches).

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Keeping Your Data Safe in a Shared Home User Environment

Many home users do not have multiple computers available. Most homes only have one computer and it is often shared by everyone in the house. The problem with this situation is that it can become problematic when inexperienced users accidentally make setting changes or delete or damage files.

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KisMAC How-To

Macs are not just for designers. Another reason to buy a Mac.

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Mod your coffin

Don't die like the rest get a modded coffin from ghana and leave earth with style.

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How low can the RIAA go?

"I have NO words to describe the RIAA's latest actions. Targeting children, single mothers, and other people who have no clue what they did wrong."

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PayPal Working With The IRS?

Generally speaking, I am a huge fan of online privacy. So when I heard that the US Government was interested in using PayPal to catch tax cheats, I found myself having mixed feelings

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New On The Job - How To Make The Best Impression

Impressions are everything. With this in mind, you are definitely going to be making several first impressions if you are a new employee in the company.

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CSS Box Model Mastery

Box Model Mastery takes a look at how to understand the box model, which is the browser's model as to how it generates boxes for elements. With CSS, you can then control those boxes by modifying their margins, borders and padding to obtain space and style as well as move the boxes around the page.

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Put a New FACE on Your Web Site

In my previous article I introduced you to easy web site animation using a new technique I devised, entitled FACE: Faruk’s Animated CSS Enhancements. It is now time to roll up our sleeves and get down and dirty with the actual FACE script, so let me show you just how easily you can implement FACE into your web pages.

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Drawing in Flash

There are two types of graphical format predominantly on the Internet: raster and vector. The difference between the two can be seen through a simple experiment.

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ActionScript Fundamentals

his introduction highlights variables, objects, and methods, with an explanation on how to access externally shared scripts with the #include object. In the future, I intend to dig deeper into the technology to discuss more complex ActionScript features.

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Yahoo Maps goes Flash

This is a damn cool Flash solution. Check out what the new beta for Yahoo! Maps. A big chunk is in Flash. Way-ta-go!!.

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12 Helpful Hints To Make Meetings More Productive

This article examines the valid and invalid needs of a meeting, and presents in detail Twelve Helpful Hints To Make Meetings More Productive.

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Launching a Child Process

Multithreading and multiprocessing are two common mechanisms for implementing concurrency. Learn how to launch a child process pragmatically.

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Linux: IP Broadband Videophone

Linux embedded product software is application development platform for H.264 triple play videophone.

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Speed up your web server

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

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The Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) Project

Want to build an infrared remote control for your laptop, MythTV or hidden computer? Learn how.

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Start your own telecom with Linux

This article addresses these questions and compares the most popular Linux applications for calling and conferencing.

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The Rise of Media Independence

What happens when anyone can produce as easily as he or she consumes?.

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Smoke, Mirrors and SCO

The longer SCO's case against IBM and Linux drags out, the more it appears that there's nothing there at all.

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Managing Linux Users the Active Directory Way

So you want to manage Linux users, but your system administrators are lost without Microsoft's Active Directory? Centrify has an answer: Centrify DirectControl Suite 3.

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Building a FreeBSD Build System

When you finish this article, you will have an unbeatable update system. Even mergemaster will work faster. You will have an update system in which a machine update/upgrade will take less than 10 minutes.

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DIY Home Depot board

How to make a cheap surfboard from Home Depot foam and a few other materials.

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Creating simple PHP forum tutorial

Learn to create forum step by step, in this tutorials use only simple php code but powerful.

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Upload and Rename Filein PHP

You can upload multiple files with one time submittion. Array is a big role in this tutorial, let's see the scripts.

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PHP Multiple files upload

You can upload multiple files with one time submittion. Array is a big role in this tutorial, let's see the scripts.

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Dodgeball GPS

buddyPing is a great way to find friends, events and pretty much anything in your local area with your phone. Just text your current location to us and we will send you a text with the location of your friends and anything happening in your area for free.

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ACME Mapper

One of the benefits of an API is that people can add the features you forgot to build. Case in point: ACME Mapper. They've taken Google Maps and added a scale indicator (miles and kilometers), quick find, lat/long display, print button, link-to-this-map button, additional US imagery from the USGS, and lots of US geocoding built right into the map.

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Query Census Data with RDF

In his second Hacking Congress column, Joshua Tauberer shows us how to query open data from the U.S. Census Bureau using RDF and Python's RDFLib.

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Alka-Seltzer Rocket

What happens when you have a build-up of gas? Don't answer that question! The gas in question is carbon dioxide and the explosion is nothing short of fun.

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Logging JavaScript errors in webserver's log using Ajax

This was a crazy test to see if it'd be possible to log errors triggered by JavaScript (on the client side) in the logfile of the webserver (on the server side, of course). It appears to be possible.

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Replace Pop-Ups with dynamic includes using DOMinclude

Pop-up windows are a pain for both the developer and the users. Often enough a page needs to link to a terms and conditions document and as the client does not want the user to leave the page you are asked to implement them in a pop-up.

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Preventing spam when using PHP's mail function

his month's article looks at techniques that can be used to harden your mail form, and reduce the chances of it being misused.

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Behind Ubuntu

Have you ever wondered who the people behind Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu are and what they do? Or what they are like? You may have read emails from them on the mailing lists or talked to them on IRC. Hopefully you will find the answers to those questions in these interviews.

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Biometrics as security measure?, thanks but no thanks.

Police in Malaysia are hunting for members of a violent gang who chopped off a car owner's finger to get round the vehicle's hi-tech security system.

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Firefox speed increase + vi keybindings = happy user.

Browsing through other blogs on here recently, I came across a piece explaining how to set Firefox to use vi key bindings. Which sounded great; unfortunately, the method as advertised no longer works (Firefox 1.5.0.1).

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Interview with Debian Project Leader-elect Anthony Towns

The results are in, and Debian Developer Anthony Towns will take office as the Debian Project Leader (DPL) on April 17, 2006. Towns, also the secretary of Linux Australia, took the time to answer a few questions from NewsForge via email about his plans for the next year.

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Running Photoshop plugins in the GIMP, even under Linux

The key is a piece of software called pspi (for Photoshop Plugin Interface), written by GIMP hacker Tor Lillqvist. It is a GIMP plugin that acts as a bridge between the GIMP and Photoshop plugins; to the Photoshop plugin it looks like a full, running copy of Photoshop.

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Country Name and ISO 3166 Code MySQL Import File

What I wound up doing was making a table which listed the names and ISO 3166 codes of all the countries of the world. I then referenced this table in my main user registration table as a foreign key.

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US team explains near death experiences

A team of US scientists has come up with a plausible explanation for "near death" events, wherein individuals experience out-of-body sensations or an aura of clear white light - and it has nothing to do with ascending toward the pearly gates. No heaven for you?.

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Mastering Ajax, Part 5: Manipulate the DOM

Use JavaScript to update your Web pages on the fly.

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Jakarta POI - Java API To Access Microsoft Format Files

The POI project consists of APIs for manipulating various file formats based upon Microsoft's OLE 2 Compound Document format using pure Java. In short, you can read and write MS Excel files using Java. Soon, you'll be able to read and write Word files using Java.

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Path Validation Language

PVL is a simple language for expressing simple validation constraints and also information item stripping policy concisely. It is suitable for being derived from a schema, and being tightly integrated into an XML parser or SAX stream at a low level.

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Network Printer Hacking: Irongeek's Presentation at Notacon 2006

Yet another cool presentation from IronGeek, enjoy.

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Whistle-Blower Outs NSA Spy Room

AT&T provided National Security Agency eavesdroppers with full access to its customers' phone calls, and shunted its customers' internet traffic to data-mining equipment installed in a secret room in its San Francisco switching center, according to a former AT&T worker cooperating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit against the company.

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Sudoku used as bait for adware download

It's common practice for hackers to attempt to trick users into visiting maliciously constructed websites by offering either warez or smut. These pages are designed to exploit various software vulnerabilities in order to install malware onto victims' machines.

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XMLHttpRequest W3C Working Draft

What does this mean for us? Well, it gives you some documentation, has a few hints from editors on curent implementation notes, and let's us know that new XMLHttpRequest() will be the way to do things in the future (as it almost is with IE7 coming on board etc).

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Yahoo's instant search

Instant Search gives you answers as you type -- no more waiting!.

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Fast DOM Queries in Today’s Browsers

What follows is a janky hack. If you do not have the stomach for things that are useful in the real world, please stop reading here. “But it’s not standards compliant!” comments will receive no sympathy.

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Ajax and Your CMS

For the Web CMS world, Ajax offers the possibility for a better user experience for content authors as well as site visitors. But what of its limitations? While Ajax delivers many benefits, it also creates a few challenges.

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Single Page Ajax Store

HiDefDvd.com is a new ecommerce site that is implemented as a single-page Ajax application.

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DMR: Damn Small Routers

Share your hotel's broadband Internet connection--wirelessly. The pocket-sized Wireless G Travel Router from Belkin lets you wirelessly share your hotel's broadband access, even if it is provided through a hardwired Ethernet connection.

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Are Namespaces (and mU) Necessary?

Answer: Nope. Well, not in this case anyway...

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DIY Magnetic Card Reader

"The reader mechanism shown was purchased from All Electronics for $1.50. The unit provides the magnetic head on a spring mechanism along with low level head signal amplifiers and data slicers. Three signal lines comming from the unit provide card presence, clock, and data. "

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Thoughts on AJAX and Security

I'll be the first to tell you: AJAX does NOT substantially change the typical web application security audit methodology. However, if you are a developer or a security professional, there are a few issues to consider and watch out for.

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Simple Apache 2 Tomcat 5 mod_jk integration

The whole tutorial is based on many tutorials, but I made a very simple one, with no virtual hosts.

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Incredible Machines

See these concoctions at work and how they can accomplish some simple tasks with stuff available at home.

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Hosting of AJAX Application - introduction

I started in march a study about hosting of AJAX applications, and I received recently some feedbacks from hosting providers so I wanted to provide more explanation why this interest to hosting of AJAX application and what's the difference between other applications.

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Better Zebra Tables

In large tables it’s often hard to focus on one row, making it hard to extract data from the table. There are various scripts (client–side as well as server–side) floating around the net that provide the ability to style odd/even table–rows to aid readability of tabular data. Here is on approach to it.

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User-created innovation within robotics

While in Israel last week I met with Limor Schweitzer of RoboSavvy. Limor demoed the amazing KHR-1, a robot built from kits sold by Kondo Kagaku, a Japanese maker of digital servos which suddenly out of chance found itself at the center of attention of underground Japanese robot hackers.

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Google Maps Mashups & Examples

See for yourself how many spin offs of google maps are around on the net. Hey maybe there is something here of your interest.

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The way you draw a house says a lot about your personality

You can use this site to draw a house, answer some quesions based on your house then find out what your house says about you.

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Dumping MySQL information schema

Useful as it is, the information schema is becoming widely used, and many DBAs are learning how to use it as an administration and debugging tool. So useful, in fact, that it would be convenient, from time to time, to export its contents and pass it to a colleague to have a second opinion when a problem arises.

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Windows RSS Platform Download Engine

Microsoft RSS download engine addresses some of the issues of RSS publishing and it usage.

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Designing the Obvious, Part 4: Use Cases, Screenflows, and Wireframes

Okay, you know who wants the application and what they want it to do. Ready to start coding, right? Perhaps, but Robert Hoekman, Jr. has some suggestions about how to find problems in the design before it gets too expensive to fix.

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Programming with the BackgroundWorker Component in .NET 2.0

Most of the time, your computer's CPU is sitting idle. Paul Kimmel shows how easy it is to use multithreading with the new BackgroundWorker component in .NET 2.0, so you can stop your bored gadgetry from wasting all that idle time.

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Customizing Your .Mac Homepage With iWeb

iWeb makes it easy to create polished Web sites in no time, but can you make a site that expresses your personality instead of looking exactly like Apple's templates? You bet, says Ryan Faas, and it's not hard, either.

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Disaster Recovery Planning for Mixed-Hardware Environments

Laptops, PDAs, and other little proliferating gadgets now carry a great part of the burden of data for most organizations. Have you given any thought to how to protect such equipment? Leo Wrobel points out why our adorable little gizmos are deserving of high-end attention.

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Can Linux help Oracle beat IBM?

Oracle is duking it out with IBM for database market share, but Linux put Oracle over the top this year.

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Is Linux Killing The Enterprise Software Model?

Open source startups are changing the rules of the traditional enterprise software market. At least that's what a panel made up of MySQL, JBoss, SugarCRM and XenSource heads and moderated by VA Software chairman Larry Augustin was happy to proclaim loudly and clearly.

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Visual Verification in PHP

This article will demonstrate how to create a simplified image verification system or captcha.

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When To Use XSLT, When To Use XQuery, And Why

If you are someone who wonders “Should I use XSLT or XQuery?” or you are someone who is commonly asked this question, then add this entry to your favorites.

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Giant centipede eating mouse

So you thought that a centepede couldn't chase and eat a mouse?, think again.

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An introduction to Thunderbird

No more excuses to deploy thunderbird at your company.

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CMU robot walks on water

Inspired by the strange motion of the basilisk lizard, Carnegie Mellon University mechanical engineers have built a tiny robot that can sprint across land and water with equal aplomb.

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How To: NES Controller to Xbox Mod

NES Controller to Xbox Mod will show you how to prepare the NES Controller for use on the Xbox. This article includes complete descriptions, an easy to follow wiring diagram, and a break down of all the tools you will need (for the entire mod).

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The DIY Digital Photo Frame

Turn an old laptop into a digital frame that automatically displays new shots from your Flickr account—then give it to your mother.

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Family Guy Steals

"I've noticed for a long time that 'Family Guy' steals other people material, but this was finally enough. And so this blog began, to finally document every instance of Seth McFarland stealing jokes, and finally ending his completely undeserved reputation as some kind of genius."

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The Best Structure for your Flash Site

"Sadly, over 90% of the Flash sites I've seen are not structured efficiently; some are horribly inefficient. While there may be no one right way to structure a Flash web site, some ways certainly are better than others."

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DIY Homemade Flash Mini-Bouncer

Here Brian shows how to build a homemade cheap flash bouncer. The flash bouncer can be used to increase the size of a hot-shoe flash.

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OpenOffice zooms in on lagging performance

OpenOffice.org is working to iron out several performance bottlenecks following complaints that the application takes relatively long to start up, especially on Linux systems.

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Senator questions FBI on ChoicePoint contract

A top Democrat in the U.S. Senate questioned Wednesday why the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to do business with data broker ChoicePoint Inc. a year after the company announced a data breach potentially affecting 145,000 U.S. residents.

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Computer Security Tactic: To Catch A Snake, Become One

"The whole thing to understanding a hacker is learning about the hackers' tools and techniques and how to use those things against them."

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HAVP - HTTP Anti Virus Proxy 0.79

HAVP (HTTP Anti Virus Proxy) is a proxy which scans downloads for viruses with several scanners (ClamAV, F-Prot, Kaspersky, NOD32, Sophos) at the same time. The main aims are continuous, non-blocking downloads and smooth scanning of dynamic and password protected HTTP traffic.

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Securing a Web Site (PDF)

"I will address the various risks that are associated with web servers as well as the most effective methods of mitigating those risks through the design, implementation, and administration of public web sites."

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DriveImage XML: Image and Backup logical Drives and Partitions

DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to: Backup logical drives and partitions to image files Browse these images, view and extract files Restore these images to the same or a different drive.

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Perl:A Canary Trap for URI Escaping

When building web applications, one thorny issue is URI escaping and unescaping. This is especially important when passing data between different systems or through multiple redirects. It's possible to end up with double- or triple-escaped URIs, which the application might not handle correctly.

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Build-It: Save Money with a Linux Media Jukebox

The overarching design goal with this server was to make it cheap, give it a 10-foot UI, and have it be easy for anyone in the family to use without constant hand-holding by the sysadmin (you).

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Spreading misinformatios with XSS

Welcome to XSS Fools. This site allows you to create easy April Fools jokes by taking advantage of XSS holes on popular newspaper website so that it appears fake articles articles are posted there! Your imagination is the limit. The system is very easy. Just fill out the form below and you are done!.

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The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide!

Whether you have been using a computer for years, or if you are totally new to it all, this guide can help you get to grips with all the important parts of using Linux, as opposed to Windows (or Mac OS) in order to operate your computer.

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Prototype: Easing AJAX's Pain

This article describes Prototype, an open source JavaScript library to create an object for an AJAX application. I explain how to use Prototype by describing an environmentally oriented web application that displays an annual atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) level.

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Performance tricks for data-intensive applications

Increase system performance by improving your software's data flow.

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Testing legacy code

Extreme maintenance programming for legacy systems.

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Developers fast to fix open-source bugs

Developers have quickly fixed many bugs in popular open-source packages that were flagged as part of a U.S. government-sponsored bug hunt.

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Handling passwords safely in PHP

If you're ever going to create a script that involves users or passwords, which is very likely, you'll probably run across security issues with handling the passwords. You can't just store the passwords in clear text in your database, and great care must be used when managing the passwords (for example during login).

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PHP School

A great guy in the forum scene has pulled a cool tutorial to get you started on PHP, give it a try and if you like it drop him/her a line.

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Paint 3-D images with PHP

Dynamically create images with Image_3D, an object-oriented interface for creating and storing images in various file formats. Learn the limitations, and investigate solutions and practical applications of using 3-D images.

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Speed your code with the GNU profiler

Target the parts of your applications that take the most time.

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18 New Ajax Programming Patterns

I’ve uploaded full text for 18 new Ajax patterns, completing a first-cut draft for all Programming Patterns content, which will be one part of the book. This section bridges the gap between the very basics of Ajax - XMLHttpRequest, DOM, etc - and the high-level stuff like widgets and visual effects.

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Weighing in on the Gosling flame war over scripting languages

I want to way in on this flame war that James Gosling has triggered with his mild criticism of scripting languages. I think it is unfair and unhelpful. Here is my two cents worth.

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RAID 5 Network Storage DIY

Now you can have RAID 5 using cheap IDE drives.

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EasyRGB: real life colors matching computer generated RGBs.

This site is here to fill the gap in between computer generated colors and real world colored products.For professional in the color industry we also introduced a powerful color calculator to convert color data in different color spaces. If you don't know what XYZ are, don't worry, this is stuff for the color lab experts.

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101 Ways to Open A Bottle of Beer

No bottle opener?, no problem.

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Complete CarPC Installation

In here you'll find information about the Car PC / Carputer I've built and installed into my 2003 Ford Focus. Above you will see links to each distinct section, and to the right there are more links related to the page you are on. Some features Voice Control,Satellite Navigation,Cameras,Internet,Mobile Phone hands free

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Superb Amnesty International Spot

Thank god must of them are already in hell or en route.

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A stadium made out of Lego

One more reason to visit LegoLand, simply awesome.

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Macintosh Home Monitoring

A home sentry, made from your Mac and a few home automation pieces, that sends a message to your cell phone the instant your important event occurs.

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SyncToy v1.2 for Windows XP Genuine Windows download

SyncToy v1.2 helps you copy, move, rename, and delete files between folders and computers quickly and easily.

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Why choosing iFrames over Ajax

Some reasons include: "Browser compatibility”, “Browser security constraints”, and “Response speed”. He bases his decision on the results from a presentation he attended that stated Ajax was fine for small requests, but an iframe can handle larger requests more easily and faster than its counterpart."

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Which Tetris block is the coolest?

In the computer game Tetris there are six differently shaped blocks or tetrominoes. Each block consists of four square, connected by an entire edge.These blocks, being of different shapes, end up being fitted into the tetris pit in a variety of different ways. Because of this, some may end up being considered more cool than others.

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Make your Mac a Bluetooth Zombie

"When I first got my k750i, I discovered there was a remote control feature for any paired bluetooth device". The next logical step was to control Itunes from his phone via bluetooth.

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Migrating from Microsoft Access to MySQL

The following article explores reasons to consider using MySQL instead of Access for data management, and provides guidelines for transferring information out of Access and into MySQL when you're ready to make the switch.

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Securing Your MySQL Installation

This article describes potential problem areas about which you should be concerned as a MySQL administrator, and provides guidelines for dealing with them. The issues covered here fall into the following broad categories, which include both local and remote exploits.

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Writing MySQL Scripts with Python DB-API

This article begins by discussing driver installation (in case you don't have MySQLdb), then moves on to cover how to write DB-API scripts.

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Google Maps API Version 2 is out

The Google Maps team just released Version 2 of the Google Maps API. It includes a number of new features and friendlier usage terms.

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Digging Secure Tunnels with IPsec

In this article we will explore how we can use IPsec to build encrypted data paths between networked machines.

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Reusing XMLHttpRequest Object in IE

In the current project I am doing, I implemented AJAX technique and using one instance (yes, you heard it right, only one instance) of XMLHttpRequest object without abort calls and I use IE 6, XP SP2.

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Linux wireless LAN support online database search

Will my wireless usb/card device will work under Linux?, sure there are a lot of resources but this simple and straight to the point site will make things a lot easier, hey you can contribute and make it even better.

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Collaborative Document Editing-Never Write Alone Again

Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

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Debian-Ubuntu Cheat Sheet

The 101 most important things when using a Debian based distro,

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Website helps users locate Debian-based apps

A new website, devoted to making it easier for users of Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions to find application software, has just launched. Month-old LinuxAppFinder.com is ready for action, and is busily adding new apps and new features.

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India killed the radio star.....

India's authorities are being urged to relent after shutting a popular community radio station in northern Bihar state for not having a licence. They took his job!!!!.

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Next Stop for Bill Gates: utility companies

Have you played Monopoly?, Bill Gates seems to be a fan of the game, he has chugged his way to the top of another list as the largest shareholder in Canadian National Railway Co.

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Links to PHP Games

PHP is also for on-line gaming, here are some well known classics.

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Tutorial: Writing Classes in PHP

Some consider classes one of the hardest components of PHP to figure out, but the reality is that classes are extremely straightforward and easy to use. The trouble comes from the fact that not all programmers have worked with Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) before.

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Tutorial: Text file data storage in PHP

Most PHP tutorials involving data storage are aimed at databases, usually MySQL. However there are many people who, for one reason or another, want or need to store data in a plain text file.

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Learning SQL Using phpMyAdmin

This tutorial is aimed at programmers, analysts, and designers of dynamic Web sites who want to learn the basics of SQL.

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Open Source 2D Animation Toolkit

After a lot of hard work, the KToon development team is very proud of announcing the release of the first binary (and sources) of the 0.8 branch. Although this is a beta version, it have a lot of improvements and new tools.

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What I've learned from failure

"...I've taken a little time to jot down some thoughts about situations where I've personally failed. I'm not going to tell you about some theoretical anti-pattern, or relate some broken thing I've fixed, I'm going to share things that caused me to leap from the deck of a burning boat to avoid drowning."

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IBM poop heads say LAMP users need to "grow up"

According to Daniel Sabbah, general manager of IBM's Rational division, LAMP -- the popular Web development stack -- works well for basic applications but lacks the ability to scale.

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Storing images in MySQL

This article is an introduction to using the blob column type in MySQL. The concept is introduced by familiarising users with uploading and storing images in a MySQL table.

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Searching Google with the Google API

This article covers performing search queries on Google using their API. This means you can transparently run a Google search in the background, and then present the results to your users however you want to.

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Anti-spam techniques in PHP

This short series of articles provides a few simple techniques for protecting yourself and your web site from spammers.

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Don't fall victim of iJacking

The San Francisco Bay Guardian is reporting on a new crime: people who grab laptops out of their owners' hands and then run away. It's called "iJacking," and there seems to be a wave of this type of crime at Internet cafes in San Francisco.

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Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere

I've been mulling over these ideas for quite a while, and I think I may still have more thinking to do, but recent events have gotten me thinking again about the increasing urgency of the need for a professional code of conduct for computer programmers.

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Web UI Design for Data Entry-Oriented Users

How to create Web UI Design for Keyboard-Based, Data Entry-Oriented Users of DOS and Mainframe Apps.

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The Laptop Is Not Enough

Last week, FingerGear upgraded its Computer-On-a-Stick (COS) to include an LCD and Onboard Fingerprint Authentication for added security. The Professional Edition COS uses a USB Flash Drive to allow users to plug into a host computer and, well, take it over-with your own background and instant messenger to go with it.

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Installing PHP 5 on Linux

Make a flawless PHP 5 installation in Linux, save time and hit the ground running.

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Keeping It Secret as the Family Car Becomes a Home

After being evicted from his apartment last year, Larry Chaney lived in his car for five months in Erie, Pa. As he passed the time at local cafes, he always put a ring of old house keys and several envelopes with bills on the table to give the impression that he had a home like everyone else.

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How to make a Computer Game

"I flew out to the States to visit Red Storm Entertainment Studios and saw the level of work that goes into creating a next generation computer game."pd

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SVG, Digging Animation

SWF has its limitations, dynamic publishing being a big one. If you are reading this column, then you have probably already heard a little bit about the emerging XML vector graphics format called SVG. Today we will start our foray into the neat world of SVG animation.

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Java Programmer Certification Mock Exam

This is my mock Exam No 2 based on the Objectives for the Sun Java Programmers Exam.

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Browser fuzzing for fun and profit

"Inspired by Michal's work, I created a javascript COM fuzzer to locate common flaws in ActiveX controls. After a weekend of tweaking and testing, I compiled a list of nearly 60 flaws in Internet Explorer."

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The XMLHttpRequest Reuse Dilemma

One thing I see popping up over message boards is people want to reuse the XMLHttpRequest Object instead of creating a new instance every single time. Some developers think this will help in memory leaks.Here is a how to.

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You Know it's April Fool's Day When...

You have to love April 1st on the net. I know there’s many other sites pulling fast ones today.

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Canvas tutorial, learn how to get more from Firefox 1.5

is a new HTML element which can be used to draw graphics using scripting (usually JavaScript). It can for instance be used to draw graphs, make photo compositions or do simple (and not so simple) animations.

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Learn the differences of DHTML and DOM scripting

In this article we will try to help JavaScript beginners to spot old and outdated JavaScript techniques and explain what their issues are. We do this with development ideas that were good at the time (DHTML), but result in inaccessible or even broken pages in today's web environment.

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SmooksXML, an alternative to XSLT

Smooks is a framework for transforming or analysing streamed data e.g. markup (XML/XHTML/HTML), images etc. It can be used as a Java alternative to templating solutions such as XSLT, or simply as an XML analysis tool.

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Avoiding Common Java Mistakes

Some wise soul once said, "The only people who never make mistakes are the people who never do anything at all." If you're into object-oriented programming, you know all about the agony you can experience with your applets and applications.

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101 Fabulous Freebies

The best things in life aren't just free--they're indispensable. Case in point: these outrageously useful downloads, sites, and services.

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How to Buy a Plasma TV

Everyone loves a thin TV with a huge screen. I'll show you how to find a plasma display with a picture that looks as good as the set it comes on.

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Director Tutorials and Technotes

The tutorials in this site cover Director basics as well as advanced use of 3D and Lingo.

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Secure Programming in GNU/Linux Systems

This article is a first in series that deal with secure programming and related issues.

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Introducing Foreskin Linux

If you like changing the look of your desktop every 5 minutes, then a new distribution might just be for you.

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