R00Ting Public WiFi Networks: DHCP Name Poisoning Attacks

The hereby discussed approach haven’t been seen in attacks in the wild. I highly doubt that that many people are aware of it. If it is something new, please ensure that you make a note of it. The attack technique discussed here is developed from my personal experience with understanding and playing with DHCP.

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Hacking Video Surveillance Networks

Over the past week, I’ve been heavily involved with exploring several techniques for attacking IP-based video cameras. Apart from the usual vulnerabilities that you find across these types of embedded devices (XSS, CSRF, Authentication Bypass, Brute force attacks that really work, Overflows, ect)

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The Hobbit Name Generator

Get your Hobbit name here

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Java is Dead, Long Live SCALA

In this new series, Ted Neward introduces Scala, a programming language that combines functional and object-oriented techniques for the JVM. Along the way, Ted makes the case for why you should take the time to learn Scala — concurrency, for one — and shows you how quickly it will pay off.

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Python 3.0 to be backwards incompatible

Organisations using the programming language Python will be majorly affected by changes in store for the language over the course of the next twelve months.

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NASA's 'Chariot': New Lunar Hot Rod

New Moon Rover Will Be Used for Planned Moon Mission in 2020

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Easy way of Mount/Unmount .iso Images in Ubuntu

Gmount-iso is a small tool written using PyGTK and Glade. It allows you to easily mount your cd images. This is a frontend to the ‘mount -o loop -t iso9660 foo.iso /mountpoint’ command.

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A home made halo suit

This is the latest model that i have made but it is still being modified.

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Where Did the Word Gadget Come From?

The origin is rather obscure, but a plausible suggestion is that it comes from France.

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Lego promoted do-it-yourself in 1971

The 1971 German edition of the Lego catalog included suggestions for how to build a Lego tunnel using things other than the iconic plastic bricks. It was an early example of a company promoting a do-it-yourself philosophy.

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The Incredible Power of Thermite

Burning thermite put into liquid nitrogen and other things.

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Berlin Dig Finds City Older Than Thought

An archaeological dig in downtown Berlin has uncovered evidence that the German capital is at least 45 years older than had previously been established, authorities said Wednesday.

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Google introduces new views for searches

Company seeks user feedback on alternate search results

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Slashdot hates on Digg’s ‘tyrannical’ model

Slashdot’s spiritual leader, CmdrTaco, doesn’t like that whole “social news” model. It’s better when you have a clique of the enlightened deciding what is and isn’t news. You need to guard against the tyranny of the majority.

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Congress approves brief extension of wiretap law

The U.S. Congress voted on Tuesday to keep a controversial expansion of a wiretapping law alive for another 15 days.

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DIY Modular Water Jug Storage Bins

It basically involved drinking a lot of bottled water and using the jugs the water came in to store stuff. Using her method, not only do you get a $2 rugged modular plastic storage bin, but you also get 2 gallons worth of drinkable water for free.

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World's most powerful flashlight

Currently being reviewed by The Guinness Book of World Records, The Torch is the world's brightest and most powerful flashlight. It is easily capable of melting plastic, lighting paper on fire within seconds, and if you want, frying an egg

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HOW TO: Create Impact Strikes for your Videos

Many questions have been asked how to make it look like bullets are hitting the ground and walls, and while there are a lot of ways to do this, there aren't a ton of options if you unfortunately lack a budget, and a pyrotechnian to rig up hundreds of little charges for you in a fake wall.

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Air Sex Same As Air Guitar But With More Awkward

Sex without a partner,that's what you call air sex,like air guitar :)

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Oops!!! apple did it again...

Apple's MacBook Air Is Beautiful and Thin, but Omits Features

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Seth MacFarlane: 'Stewie Griffin Gay, ....

And The Parents TV Council Can Blow Me If They Don't Like It'

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The thin line that separates tasteful comedy from what's not

Some people fear that when comics don't delineate boundaries, it gives the public the impression that it can freely utter offensive comments.

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Israel: No apology for Beatles snub

More than 40 years after it barred the iconic British band from playing there, Israel said it wants the surviving membe

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Caught speeding? Crush a camera

A businessman is offering fed-up British motorists the chance to get their own back on hated speed cameras -- by crushing them with a 17-tonne tank, he said Tuesday.

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Slashdot Enters the Digg Fray

It seems like every other week there's a new headline: Digg Killer, Google Killer, Facebook Killer. This time, however, it's an old dog learning a new trick, with Slashdot adding a sideshow to throw its hat into the ring with Digg,

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A wiki without a server? Is it possible?

TiddlyWiki is a complete wiki in a single HTML file. It contains the entire text of the wiki, and all the JavaScript, CSS and HTML goodness to be able to display it, and let you edit it or search it. Without needing a server.

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Play Guitar Hero on the Commodore64

The Shredz64 project is an attempt to build an interface to connect the Playstation Guitar Hero controller (and any other PS controller) to the Commodore 64 computer, then create a Guitar Hero like game on the C64 utilizing the guitar controller.

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OpenOffice.org Base 101

This article provides an introduction to the most important aspects of Base that will help you to create databases with consummate ease.

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A cool game for Linux: Battle Tanks

Battle Tanks is a funny battle on your desk, where you can choose one of three vehicles and eliminate your enemy using the whole arsenal of weapons. has original cartoon-like graphics and cool music, it is fun and dynamic, it has several network modes for deathmatch and cooperative.

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the Picodore 64 - a Commodore PDA!

Here are a few pics of my own DTV Hummer project. I had an old PSOne LCD screen lying around and I thought I'd make a C64 laptop. Actually, it's more

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Creating a Mac-on-Stick using Mini vMac

Running Linux, Windows or applications like Firefox, Thunderbird, and AbiWord from a USB flash memory device is old hat. How about a Mac 128K or Plus on a USB key?

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Play Guitar Hero on the Commodore64

The Shredz64 project is an attempt to build an interface to connect the Playstation Guitar Hero controller (and any other PS controller) to the Commodore 64 computer, then create a Guitar Hero like game on the C64 utilizing the guitar controller.

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So Called Top Digg Users Cry About Digg Changes

"there are other important websites besides yours, there is other VERY important information to be read on Digg.com besides yours. This community desperately needs to reach out to the general webmaster community and offer a fair opportunity to all, new and old Digg users alike."

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Stars Dress Up For Disney Campaign

Over at the Disney Parks webpage, you can see celebrities from Julie Andrews to Jennifer Lopez living out all sorts of Disney movies, from Snow White to Pocahontas. They’re all advertising campaigns, of course, but the photos are of an amazing quality, and evoke the original movies while making you laugh at the absurdity that is Oliver Platt dres

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Using the full potential of Jython to build wsadmin scripts

Leveraging dictionaries, lists, functional programming, classes, packages, and more

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A Creative Way To Use Ajax

Use Ajax techniques to create input forms

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Build a customizable RSS feed aggregator in PHP

Realize the power of RSS in Ajax and Web 2.0 applications

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Use Audacity as a Spy Tool

It is A quick Trick , use it to spy , to record a phone call or simply to record your history class speech while you're out

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PeanutBot, The Audio Homing Robot

The PeanutBot robot consists of three microphone circuits, three servo motors, an MCU and a PC.

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Volcano Cams - Places too Hot to visit

These volcano cams are not operated by this website (Volcano Live). Any questions regarding their operation should be directed to the relevant operators.

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58 days of drawing with M$ Excel

Bored at work? Don't surf the Net. Make the next BIG master piece in Excel.

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The Worst: Stupid Engineering Mistakes

The kind of dirty secrets that would bring any well known engineering school to the ground.

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Body Graffiti is IN Tattoos are OUT //PICS NSFW

The best thing is they are not FOREVER.

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Vote for Super Bowl's Greatest Commercial

Sponsors air their best commercials during the Super Bowl, and we think the big game wouldn’t be quite the same without them. Our panel of experts has chosen the top 10 Super Bowl commercials of all time. Watch them all and vote for your favorite.

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Australia warns travellers of Canada's perils: terrorists

Despite a warning from Australian officials to "exercise caution" while travelling to Canada, our country remains a "dream vacation" spot according to the Australian High Commissioner to Canada.

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Anyone can get anything on Craigslist, even a hitman

A woman advertised on the popular Internet site Craigslist for an assassin to kill the wife of a man with whom she'd had an affair, authorities said Saturday.

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$85-a-night jail a hit with L.A. Celebrities

For well-heeled convicts sentenced to jail for relatively minor crimes, a cell at one of a handful of Southern California city jails is just a fistful of cash away - and Glendale's facility is gaining a reputation as an oasis.

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Google eyeing operations in Malaysia

Web search engine giant Google Inc is interested to set up operations in Malaysia, citing the country's technology infrastructure and strategic location, newspapers reported on Sunday.

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Computer Busted? Watch Your Mouth

Computer's Busted? Taking It out on Tech Support Might Land You in Trouble.

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Python: Myths about Indentation

There are quite some prejudices and myths about Python's indentation rules among people who don't really know Python. I'll try to address a few of these concerns on this page.

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A Response to Bruce Eckel

Bruce Eckel blogged about "Python 3K or Python 2.9?". A lively discussion ensued. Here's my response.

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PC vs Mac: The Beginnings

Seems like the Mac VS PC Debate has been going on forever, especially if this advert is anything to go by

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Working with a Database and PHP

The [Easy as Pie] series focuses on tasks that most people consider too challenging and presents it in a way that is easy (as pie!) to understand.

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Introduction to Debugging and Error Checking

This article will introduce you to some basic concepts such as error checking and built-in functions like var_dump() that will aid you in tracking down errors in your PHP applications.

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Install Apache Web Server on Windows Vista

A great tutorial that will make your installation a breeze

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You Used Perl to Write WHAT?!

We all know that when faced with a job to do, we usually tend to reach for the most familiar tool in our belt. And while perl is certainly a versatile tool, it isn't the right tool for every job.

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"Beavis" goes portable on PlayStation format

The Universal Media Disc, a proprietary format for Sony's PlayStation Portable, may have failed as a movie format, but Sony's continued attempts to portray the PSP as a multimedia device rather than a game player now find the company trying again, this time with TV shows.

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Celebrity advice on keeping your Linux desktop

One of the main reasons people move from Windows to Linux is the promise of greater security from malware on the Internet. Everyone knows you need to add extra security to try to keep a Windows desktop safe, but what do you have to do to accomplish the same thing on Linux?

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Wood Chips, Peak oil, and the recession

Via Environmental News Network: Unofficially the United States is now in an economic recession. Investment bankers Merrill Lynch say so.

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YouTube’s mobile site goes live,

One of the key features of the iPhone that Apple has pushed has always been the integrated YouTube application. Helio’s line up of phones include a YouTube client as well, but for the rest of you there wasn’t much to play with.

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Use your Nokia N95 as a Bluetooth GPS receiver and modem

If you also own a Nokia N95 (version 1 (EDGE data in U.S.) or version 3 (HSDPA data in U.S.)) then you can add GPS navigation to the N800 through Bluetooth connectivity. Simply download and install the Symarctic ExtGPS beta application on your Nokia N95.

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The busy Java developer's guide to Scala

Find out how Scala leverages the best of both worlds

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Mastering Grails: Build your first Grails application

Java™ programmers needn't abandon their favorite language and existing development infrastructure to adopt a modern Web development framework. In the first installment of his new monthly series Mastering Grails, Java expert Scott Davis introduces Grails and demonstrates how to build your first Grails application.

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Gates calls for Creative Capitalism

Chairman Bill Gates called on Thursday for a new "creative capitalism" to help the world's 1 billion poorest who live on less than $1 a day.

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Applying Java Programming Skill to Flex

In an article published on Adobe Flex Developer Center, Bill Bejeck shares his experience creating components and enforcing separation of concerns with Flex, from a Java developer's perspective.

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SQL injection hole in PHP Nuke

An SQL injection vulnerability in the PHP Nuke content management system reportedly provides access to the underlying database.

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Zend Expands PHP Development and Deployment

For Zend Technologies, PHP is a lot more than just an open source programming language. Zend, the lead commercial backer behind PHP, is pushing its vision of PHP as a prominent platform for development and deployment of mission-critical applications with a pair of new products.

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16 years old gets wood.... big time...

In the shape of a bike.

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Virgin Galactic unveils spaceship

About 200 prospective passengers from 30 countries have made reservations, shelling out $200,000 apiece. Many were in attendance for Wednesday's presentation, including Ken Baxter, 58, of Las Vegas.

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Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP

This series was originally published in 2006 and 2007. Since its publication, CakePHP developers made significant changes to CakePHP, which made this series obsolete. In response to these changes and the popularity of this series, the authors revised each of its five parts to make it compliant with the version of CakePHP available in January 2008.

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Tip: Manipulate del.icio.us bookmarks with PHP

The del.icio.us service lets users collect and share bookmarks online. Manipulate these bookmarks with PEAR's Services_Delicious package that interfaces with the REST API of del.icio.us and build customized PHP applications.

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The REAL Itsy Bitsy Tiny Bikini //PIC

Girls wanting to wear this better start eating TONS of yogurt and nothing more.

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Sorry Moby, internet not for 'thinkers'

It has been heralded as the YouTube for "thinkers" but a glance at the results for BigThink.com suggests the internet is all but brain-dead.

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Glass ceiling becoming slightly thicker in Canada

That thud you may have heard from Bay Street and other centres of Canadian enterprise is the sound of women hitting their heads on the invisible but ever-thickening glass ceiling.

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Interview: Craig Newmark on Online Real Estate

How did Craig become craig of craigslist fame? At Pubcon, Craig Newmark told the audience how he and Craigslist became famous enough to get tips on how to flush out Al Qaeda.

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Price cut rumors for Xbox 360 and PS3

There have been some unsubstantiated, yet insistent rumours of price cuts for both the Playstation 3, and Xbox 360 over the past week. Whether any of them are true or not, it poses the question of how the pricing strategy of all three major consoles is affecting sales.

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Bitch getting nothing at home pays her frustration with kid

A student who called a school official's home to ask why the snow hadn't closed schools got a frosty response — and created an online storm.

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CLI Magic: Use ANSI escape sequences to display

When I'm in a Linux terminal, I often find myself typing date just to see the time. To make life a bit easier, I wrote a script to always display a clock in the top right corner of the screen.

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Criminal hackers turn on Mac users

Security experts warned today that hackers are fast extending their efforts beyond Windows and are actively targeting Mac users.

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Using Multiple JavaScript Onload Functions

JavaScript is one of the most popular programming languages in use on the World Wide Web. It can create interactive pages through the use of menus, forms and calendars. It can also be used to track a visitor's history on your site, play games and many other things.

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How to catch a mouse with a toilet paper tube

Awhile back Chris Glass had a mouse in the house. After the little critter got a little too cheeky, Chris decided they could not coexist. A toilet paper roll, a cracker and a dab of peanut butter and an hour later, the interloper was captured...humanely.

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Ubuntu, NVIDIA and Two Monitors

I knew the latest Ubuntu had made advances in setting up monitors but I was also familiar with hacking on xorg.conf so I wasn’t too concerned with screwing anything up. I backed up my xorg.conf and started tinkering.

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Ubuntu Tweak has repository now!

A good news about Ubuntu Tweak: it finally has been added to the Launchpad PPA repository!

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Make your own Roll-Up Keyboard

Have you ever wanted one of those pricy roll up keyboard but didn't want to spend the money? Here is a quick and dirty way to make your own.

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Wii Sells 5 Million in Japan, outselling the SNES and GameCb

According to sales figures out of Japan, the Nintendo Wii is the fastest console to reach 5 million units since the Super Nintendo in the early 1990s.

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The DIY Macro Rail

This is a guest post by Ken Stewart, a real DIY pioneer. Having recently gotten into macro photography with a set of Raynox close-up lenses, I found myself wanting a macro focusing rail so I could smoothly and precisely vary the distance between my camera and the subject to get the focus right.

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Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo

Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an effort to increase its profitability, prop up its deflated stock price and narrow the focus of its sprawling Internet portal to a smaller number of crucial areas, people close to the company said Monday.

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Annvix: A stable, secure, no-frills server distro

Annvix is a distribution aimed at providing a secure, stable, and fast base for servers. Be warned, however: Annvix is not for everyone.

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The PS3 will ultimately win this generation because of BR

This is hard to think, and even harder to say, but if the editor of Next-Generation says it, I’m inclined to believe it: the PlayStation 3 will be the ultimate winner of this generation. And, like in an academic paper, the author actually defines what “winning” means (and what it doesn’t mean).

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Python Web Framework on the JVM

InfoQ recently had the opportunity to interview Jim Baker, a python evangelist and contributor to Django on Jython (DoJ), to find out what is expected and when.

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Fire family saved by trampoline

A mother and her two children were saved from their burning house in Norfolk thanks to a quick-thinking neighbour and a trampoline.

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Sub Teacher Fired For Showing 'Simpsons Movie' In Class

A substitute teacher fired for showing an alleged bootleg copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to students in third, fourth and fifth grades is suing New Haven's school board.

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MoD admits inquiry into 69 lost laptops

The Ministry of Defence is investigating the reported loss of 69 laptops and seven personal computers over the past year, officials revealed yesterday, as Whitehall staff were banned from removing laptops containing sensitive data from their offices.

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AJAX: Friend or FOE

AJAX can make Web pages feel like full-fledged applications, but beware weaknesses in security and accessibility

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Create rich applications with JavaFX Script

Your guide to JavaFX Script essentials

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Extraordinary Uses for Cat Litter

Surprise -- cat litter can be used for more than kitty's litter box.

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Spinning a Fedora Linux Live CD

Want to build your own live CD? Christopher Negus describes how you can use the Fedora Project's livecd-creator to draw from thousands of Fedora software packages, making the exact live CD you want.

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Software Engineering for Ajax Using the Google Web Toolkit

This chapter looks at how to use the Java software engineering tools in GWT to build nontrivial high-quality Ajax applications.

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One Clever T-Shirt

As seen on the road.

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Wood desperate to play Frodo again

Elijah Wood is desperate to sign up to the planned prequels to the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy so he can revive his most famous role.

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Marsupial lion was fast killer

The marsupial lion, Thylacoleo carnifex, managed the feat by using enormous slicing cheek teeth - the biggest of any known animal - to rip out the throat of prey like giant extinct kangaroos.

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Princess Leia goes to American Idol

The big star from Connecticut this year on "American Idol" may well be Christina Tolisano, 24, a self styled dork, who wore Princess Leia puffs on her hair and a Star Wars belt as she sang her way into bad audition history with a long segment on the season premiere.

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PS3's current competition is its predecessor

Sony is still struggling to break even on the PS3, the seven-year-old PS2 remains by far the company's most successful console. That's certainly a testament to the PS2's capabilities and top-notch game library.

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Optimizing Web Applications with AJAX and Spread

The use of AJAX in a Web Forms application provides many benefits and improvements. FarPoint recommends understanding AJAX before using it in any application development, especially in spreadsheet application development which has its own unique requirements.

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Top 10 Reasons People Hate Work

Follow dissatisfied peers around for a day and you’ll likely see one or all of these reasons people hate their jobs.

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BREAKING: Cheney Hospitalized With S.O.B.

If Bush is still fine, who is the SOB they are talking about.

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Google CEO: NASA Can Learn From Web 2.0-Style Collaboration

At a speech in Washington, D.C., Thursday commemorating the 50th anniversary of U.S. space exploration, Google CEO Eric Schmidt advised NASA to learn from what's happening online.

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Why are clowns scary?

Children are frightened by clown-themed decor in hospitals, a survey suggests. How did the smiley circus entertainers become a horror staple?

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UFO viewing tips

Ten days after the first sightings of lights in the sky over Texas, tales of UFOs are still sparking speculation. One of the witnesses, Steve Allen, is offering $5,000 for a good picture of the flying object - but he hasn’t bought any of the photos or videos offered so far. “The pictures weren’t worth a damn,” he told me.

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Bionic eyes: Contact lenses with circuits

Movie characters from the Terminator to the Bionic Woman use bionic eyes to zoom in on far-off scenes, have useful facts pop into their field of view, or create virtual crosshairs.

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Microsoft puts its mouse in Mac clothing

Microsoft is looking to make its Bluetooth notebook mouse more Mac friendly.

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Case against PETA activists for blindfolding Gandhi statue

The Coimbatore City Police on Thursday arrested the founder-director of People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, for blindfolding the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Park on Wednesday as part of the organisation’s protest against the Supreme Court’s nod for jallikattu.

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Everybody plays while economy goes to hell

U.S. sales of video game hardware and software rose 28 percent in December from a year earlier as holiday shoppers snapped up new consoles like Nintendo Co Ltd's top-selling Wii, market research firm NPD said on Thursday.

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XL underwear smothers fire

From baggy briefs to the ultimate hotpants: A British woman's underwear saved the day by doubling as an emergency fire blanket when her kitchen caught fire.

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Computer Decodes Dogs' Barks

Computer software can distinguish individual dogs by their barks, and also suggests that certain barks act as a "universal language", carrying information about the dog's mind-set that is readily understood by their fellow pooches.

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World Bank Fraud Unit Head Resigns

The head of the World Bank's fraud unit has resigned, ostensibly to join the private sector.

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Practical Perl still a popular way of getting things done

Shipped with HP-UX, supported by AIX and included by Sun in its Solaris-based alternative to the Linux Lamp stack, Perl is a scripting language favoured by systems administrators as a "glue" language. From the mid-1990s, Perl was also the first choice for developing CGI (Common Gateway Interface) scripts.

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Create a site for e-commerce with PHP, MySQL, and PayPal

This how-to article offers step-by-step instructions for adding e-commerce capabilities to your existing Web site using PHP, MySQL, and PayPal. The method outlined here lets you add e-business functionality to your corporate portal without a major allocation of scarce development resources.

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LAMP performance for dummies

Where 'medium sized' means you have four or five concurrent users on ten tables with around half a million rows each and 'top' means that you've already done all the basic stuff - picking table types, adding indexes, designing the database properly in the first place etc.

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The 60 Image Digital Picture Wallet

This 60 Image Digital Picture wallet is great if you love showing pictures of your kids to anyone and everyone you meet.

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Slingshot Dragster Launch At 1,000 Frames Per Second

The best part of this film- well, aside from the general batshit insanity of slingshot dragsters, of course- is that you can see individual exhaust pulses blowing the smoke off the top of the tire as it spins.

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Oshkosh museum raffling off Batman costume

The Oshkosh Public Museum announced today it is raffling off a collector’s edition Batman costume styled in 1966 “Batman and Robin” fashion.

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Create dynamic Firefox user interfaces

Build an RSS reader that downloads data using Ajax and then creates XUL elements dynamically using XSLT

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Explore Ubuntu Mobile and Embedded

Linux on a handheld device? You bet!

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'MythBusters' is the stuff of legends, tall tales

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman have the kind of jobs that many science geeks and teenage boys would lust for

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10 tips for chasing the winter blues

No tropical destination in your future? Other tips to survive the season

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Disney teams up with 'Simpsons' creators in new series

"The creators were alumni of 'The Simpsons,' and it has the same wit and smarts of those shows, but with stories that are more appropriate for our audience in the 4-16 age group,"

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How to Write and Publish Articles on the Internet

Many people are beginning to see the importance of writing and publishing articles on the Internet as part of their search engine marketing (SEM) campaign. This is also a great way to answer client questions, drive traffic to your Web site and be seen as an expert in your field. The challenge is how to begin writing.

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A lame but determined duck

If George W. Bush is a lame duck, it's not only because this is his last year in the White House, but because of all of Ehud Olmert's friendly slaps on the back.

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Snort, Base, MySQL, and Apache2 Howto

In this tutorial I will describe how to install and configure Snort (an intrusion detection system (IDS)) from source, BASE (Basic Analysis and Security Engine), MySQL, and Apache2 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon). Snort will assist you in monitoring your network and alert you about possible threats.

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Simplicity PHP Framework Released

The Simplicity PHP Framework is a brand new application framework and development environment comprising a solid MVC OO framework with a powerful web-based application administration and development interface.

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Academic condemns 'University of Google'

Today's students are turning to "the University of Google" for instant answers rather than rigorous research of their subjects, according to a senior academic.

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Better DSLR Photography Intro

Digital SLR’s are perhaps the most versatile cameras ever made. Knowing how to utilize your camera is crucial. Here, I present a simple guide with tips for taking better photos.

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Sony PCM-D50 Portable WAV Recorder

For many of us who grew up on tape, Sony was the name to trust for rugged and dependable field recorders. That's why Sony's recent entry into the flash recorder sweepstakes, the PCM-D1, got my attention. But at $1,995, it's too rich for me.

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Got Game! Audience of Over-50 Players Grows

Cedar Ridge Inn nursing facility resident Mildred Secrest gets a spare while playing the Nintendo Wii Sports bowling game in Farmington, N.M. Activities Director Cyndi Bolen, left, and resident Myrna Mattern, 64, cheer her on.

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Google Android sneezes out new Linux apps

Google’s effort to build a mobile operating system based on Linux has received lots of fond buzz lately, but some think Android is more like a disease

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VoIP Hopper...Jumping from one VLAN to the next!

"VoIP Hopper is the answer to all voip solution providers who make people believe that VLANS is all you need to secure VoIP"

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If the Muppets hosted the View

We couldn’t understand why this photo made us feel like kids again. And then it hit us, MUPPETS! Each cast member on the view looks like a Muppet!

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9 Tips for the aspiring Emacs playboy

I now find myself quite nimble with key bindings and structured editing. And yet there’s still more to learn.

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XP Faster, More Stable than Vista

XP is consistently faster and substantially more stable than Vista. I have just been forced to that conclusion once again, on my Fujitsu Lifebook S6510.

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My Life as a (Pretend) Russian Sexbot

Russian computer program cyber-flirts to steal personal info. At least the robot got something out of the deal.

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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles - Pilot Review

The Sarah Connor Chronicles should probably be a major disappointment. You don't just take a billion dollar franchise known for some of the greatest action ever put on film, completely discredit the plot of one of the movies (Terminator 3), recast the protector Terminator by replacing Arnold Schwarzenegger with a pint-sized girl from Texas

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KITT Voice Box

This is a follow on from the other of my videos showing KITT's startup sequence. Here shows the first stages of development for my KITT Voice Box

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Pull parsing XML in PHP

Create memory-efficient stream processing

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3 Lights Studio for Under $100

The setup below is a twist on the 3 lights basic setup I got on the mail from Adam Hand. It is a great setup for starters, and HEY! it is under 100$.

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Open Source Code No Less Buggy Than Commercial Apps

These findings challenge the common assertion that the many eyes inspecting open source projects eliminate most bugs.

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Dope-smoking monkey needs new home

The rare Rhesus Macaque primate, whose pet name is Nobby, was caught up a police swoop in 1997 after being photographed puffing on a hash bong at an address in Southend, Essex.

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Guess Who Started to Look like Windows?

The K Development Environment announced yesterday the much-anticipated release of the KDE 4.0, the brand new version of the popular open source desktop environment that will mark a giant step closer to KDE’s goal of creating a powerful system for an easy-to-use desktop environment.

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Using Questions to Design Software Test Plans

Good questions can help you develop ideas and build stronger test plans.

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Power Your Gadgets by Sun and Water

We don't need no stinking grid--at least not all the time. These devices use the elements to charge your laptop, cell phone, and music player.

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Copycat Recipes

Make famous branded foods by a fraction of what you pay.

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Create graphics applications with Java 3D

This article describes a scene that is constructed using a scene graph, which is a representation of the objects that have to be shown. This scene graph is structured as a tree containing several elements that are necessary to display the objects.

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Speed deployment with automation

Leverage automation to move software through different environments quickly

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The Next BIG Apple like company

This year, however, one tiny New York company with a booth smaller than a bathroom managed to break through the clutter with a gadget called the Bug that consumers will actually want to buy.

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Get out of the house the wake up alarm went off

A loud way to wake up in the morning.

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Google's stock crash of '08 and other VC predictions

Google's stock will lose nearly a third of its value this year. Amazon.com will buy eBay. And no Washington companies will conduct initial public offerings.

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A Day in the Life of a WoW Addict

You see, six years ago I met this guy. He was a “gamer geek,” and he ended up bringing out the best in me. He helped free my repressed desires as a gamer girl. Since then we've been questing, killing, grinding, puzzle solving, pointing and clicking, and fighting side-by-side.

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Making the IE Voodoo Doll

Time for payback.

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Web site aims to increase absentee voting

The League of Women Voters of Orange County has launched a Web site aimed at increasing absentee voting.

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Sir Edmund Hillary, First to Summit Everest Has Died at 88

The BBC reports that Sir Edmund Hillary, the New Zealand native who, along with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay of Nepal was the first man to successfully summit Mount Everest, had died at 88 years of age.

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FBI Wiretaps Dropped Due to Unpaid Bills

Telephone companies have cut off FBI wiretaps used to eavesdrop on suspected criminals because of the bureau's repeated failures to pay phone bills on time.

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Top Online Marketing Techniques

ve been involved with Internet marketing for over ten years and have seen marketing techniques come and go. Some are still around and some are new and innovative. Below you will find what I believe to be the best and most effective online marketing techniques.

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A Piece of Nice 3D Image

This is not a photo, it is a totally artificial 3D drawing by Russian designer Makar Vertigo, he manually described each smallest detail of this picture, and the rendering took his computer 10 hours. Click on the pic

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Wacom's Cheap, Sleek New Cintiq Tablet

Wacom's Cintiq 12WX pen display, a PC peripheral that lets you draw directly on the screen with a pressure-sensitive pen.

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Eight Photoshop Tips for Product Shots

Here are my best tips for using Photoshop to prepare photos for your e-commerce Web site.

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Configuring NTP Server

NTP or Network Time Protocol in Linux is used for atomic time synchronization on system’s clock using correct time source.

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How to Use Digg to Go Viral

There are places, though, where content can go to flourish. Like Digg.com -- a social media website that can serve as a launch pad for a surge in your Web traffic. Learn how Digg.com works and how to craft content that “diggers” will love to discover and share.

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Will Boeing's 787 Be Safe From Hackers?

Before Boeing Co.'s new 787 jetliner gets the green light to fly passengers, the aircraft maker will have to prove that offering Internet access in the cabin won't leave the flight controls vulnerable to hackers and hijackers.

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Shuttle's $199 Linux PC

Shuttle introduced its $199 KPC Linux PC here on Tuesday. The company didn't have it on display on the actual floor of the convention halls here at the Consumer Electronics Show (too late did I find out you had to zip over to a private suite at the Bellagio for a look-see), but booth representatives were happy to talk details.

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Use Project Zero's data access APIs to build a simple wiki

Create a simple wiki application using the classic Model-View-Controller pattern

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CES: Awesome air guitar gizmo!

The coolest find of the day: Nitrous Roxide's air guitar gadget.

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Google Developer Courses on YouTube

We're just getting started, so subscribe to the Google Developer Courses playlist for updates. There are many ways for you to keep up to date

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Time for Pats’ ‘D’ to match amazing offense

Unit’s age starting to show, which hurts N.E.’s chances vs. playoff teams

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Convert Atom documents to JSON

This article describes those issues and demonstrates a mechanism implemented by the Apache Abdera project to convert Atom documents into JSON and produces a result that is readable, usable, and complete.

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Easy command line processing with the DITA Open Toolkit

The DITA Open Toolkit can transform your DITA files into a wide variety of output types. When you first install it, it's easy to get the impression that you need to know Ant well to use it, but you can pack most of its available options into a single Java™ command line.

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How to Build a Web Design Business

With all of the free HTML editors available, building a Web site is a snap. For those less savvy (and with a bit of money) there's Website in a Box, Website Wizard and Mr. Site Takeaway. Just think, with a little money and time, you too can build Web sites for profit. Are you ready to start a small business? No!

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Apache Tips & Tricks: Hide PHP version

to not disclose un-needed information. As shown in “Discover the web server software and version of a remote server” anyone can find our valuable information from our apache server banner… This will show you how to suppress the PHP banner X-Powered-By.

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Wine bottles + roller-skiing = musical instrument

Michel Lauzière, Master of the Unusual plays the "Toreador Song" from the opera Carmen using wine bottles while roller skiing past them, nice!

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Adding Fan Speed Control to Your PC

Here is a simple mod to allow the speed of any 12V fan to be varied.

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Securing Linux laptops

While you can find dozens of products to secure Windows laptops, security products for Linux laptops are scarcer -- but they do exist. We found a range of products and fixes ranging from security patches for the operating system to encryption to the equivalent of computer bicycle locks which can help keep your Linux laptop or notebook safe.

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J2EE Servers Stink

I had a glorious 11.5 hour day at work today. Indeed, nearly the entire server/network team had an 11.5 hour work day today.

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Sorting 2D-arrays in PHP

One of the many problems with PHP that detractors are eager to point out is the fact that the language has thousands of global functions. Without the awesome CHM version of the PHP manual - finding your way in this jungle would be a mess.

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The Sweetest Racing Simulation Rig

One advantage of being a geek is that our habits-- as such habits go-- are not terribly expensive. I've written before about my interest in auto racing. Instead of spending $100,000 on a sports car, I've built a nifty racing simulation rig that delivers many of the same thrills at a tiny fraction of the price.

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Remembering Challenger: Shuttle Disaster and Others Refocus NASA

Friday marks the beginning of a somber time of year for NASA, commemorating the first of three spaceflight disasters that have claimed the lives of 17 astronauts over the last 40 years.

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A Swinsuit Calendar that Breaks the Beauty Mold

Shot entirely in the Hamptons, New York, in the early weeks of August, the calendar is a salute to the South Asian-American woman who is as brainy as she is sensuous.

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African Inventor Makes Clean Energy

A man from the African nation of Malawi invented his own home-made windmill powerplant, giving electricity to his small village.

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Wii vs PS3: 3-1 ADVANTAGE NINTENDO

Nintendo Co. sold three times as many Wii game machines in Japan last year as Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 consoles, researcher Enterbrain Inc. said.

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Installing Ubuntu on an External Hard Drive

A cool way to get Ubuntu on the go.

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How to Make a TRON Style Lamp

have recreated this effect on a cube in order to explain the main mechanism.The goal here is to achieve reproducing this effect in any other object of everyday's life; like a coffee table, a Plexiglas chair, PC modding etc. I have a list of objects I am already working on .

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Electronic Components 101

These pages are intended to help you to identify components, find out their values and learn about their function in circuits.

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Hack any website box model

XRAY is a free cross browser tool that lets you see the box model in action for any element, letting you see beneath the skin of any web page.

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100 Portable Apps for your USB Stick (both for Mac and Win)

This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school, or any other place where you can plugin your device. Check them out, you can either scroll-down for relevant category, i.e office software, email tools, messengers, games, etc.

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The myth of 1% human-chimp genetic differences

As if trying to suggest that those who question human-chimp common ancestry are ignorant, PBS asserts that “a schoolchild can cite the figure perhaps most often called forth in support of [human/chimp common ancestry]—namely, that we share almost 99 percent of our DNA with our closest living relative, the chimpanzee.

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Facebook widget installs Zango spyware

Fortinet Global Security Research Team discovered a malicious Facebook Widget actively spreading on the social networking site which ultimately prompts users to install the infamous "Zango" adware/spyware.

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Beware of IT stalkers

But like the heady rush of alcohol, it is so easy to let your guard down and lose composure in the pixilated microcosm of the World Wide Web. After all, when humans are transformed into thousands of pixels staring back at you from a 21-inch monitor, complete strangers will begin to look and even feel like long-lost friends.

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Using MySQL Programs

Let the creators of MySQL give you a brief overview of the command-line programs provided by MySQL. They also discuss the general syntax for specifying options when running these programs.

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Microsoft Office Access 2007 VBA: Using Built-In Functions

This chapter explains many of the most used functions to give you an idea of VBA's power.

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Routing the Rails Way

This chapter introduces you to the principal techniques for defining and manipulating routes.

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Meet the spammers latest weapon: a stripper called Melissa

Melissa is the star of a new trojan doing the rounds, and just like a real life stripper, she’ll remove an item of clothing each time you give her something. But instead of ten pound notes, Melissa’s currency is captchas.

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Developing AJAX Applications for iPhone and iPod Touch

The iPhone is transforming the Web as we know it and compelling every Web designer to consider handheld portable devices

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Subverting Digg for Fun and Profit

Subvert and Profit runs an ever-expanding black market for votes on social media sites. We are simultaneously the easiest way to make money online and the cheapest form of advertising in the web 2.0 sphere.

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Lego NXT + wiimote with MSRS tutorial

Controlling a Lego Mindstorms NXT robot (but the code would also work for any other differential drive robot supported by MSRS

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First Serious Facebook Hack?

Researchers at security gateway vendor Fortinet uncover an adware-distribution scheme on Facebook, considered to be the first attack propagated on the wildly popular online portal.

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How to Paint a Picture With a Car

This is a three minute documentary where I crash a brand new car into a concrete wall to make a painting

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Asterisk awakens open source love in telecom entrepreneur

Marc Fribush, a former "Microsoft guy," is a telecommunications industry entrepreneur who discovered the benefits of open source when he launched a turnkey SAAS telephony business based on Asterisk. "It's really powerful stuff," Fribush says.

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20 Ways to Eliminate Stress From Your Life

Sources of stress can be eliminated with a little thought. Here’s how.

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Male monkeys pay for sex

Macaques pay for intercourse by using grooming as a currency

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Apache Wicket 1.3 set for Java Web development

Looking to make Web development easier for Java developers, the Apache Software Foundation began offering this week Apache Wicket 1.3, an open source component-based Web framework.

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Scribus: Professional page layout for Linux

A great alternative to inDesign and QuarkXpress.

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Mastering regular expressions in PHP

Perl may be the king of regexs but PHP can slice input too.

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Networking scalability on high-performance servers

How to avoid problems with Linux networking scalability.

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How to prevent pipes from freezing as cold approaches

Protect your plumbing.

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Cool UNIX Commands

There are so many commands in Solaris that it is difficult to separate the cool ones from the mundane. For example, there are commands to report how much time a program spends in each system call, and commands to dynamically show system activities,

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Handy One-Liners For SED

See all you can accomplish with these useful one-liners

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All what diggers have in mind //PICS

Enough said.

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Labor warned on porn filters

Labor's plan to introduce mandatory internet filters will send Australia down a censorship path similar to China's and Singapore's, but will not stop computer-savvy children looking at banned sites, according to the NSW Council for Civil Liberties.

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Arab teen suspected of 'Internet terror'

After an 18-month-long investigation, the Israel Police revealed late Monday night that they had arrested an Israeli Arab teen suspected of participating in what they called "Internet terror" - hacking in to Israeli Web sites and causing millions of shekels worth of damage.

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Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill

Working full time at Microsoft through June 2008, Gates then will continue as chairman and advisor while increasing Foundation efforts; Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie to assume expanded roles.

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Death to LCD? Samsung unveils 31-inch organic screen

South Korean display screen maker Samsung SDI Co (006400.KS: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it had developed a 31-inch ultra-thin organic screen, raising the stakes in an accelerating worldwide race for organic displays.

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Happy 2008 guys!!!

The new year is here guys, best wishes to all.

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Hope to see you all this year

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How to Enter the Ghetto Matrix (DIY Bullet Time)

The following is a tutorial on how to build your own cheap, portable and hood-style bullet time camera rig on the cheap and the fly.

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