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A good post about document metadata
Read it, love it: GCIH Gold Paper – Document Metadata, the Silent Killer.
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Pidgin (Gaim) needs your support!
The author of the free, open-source multi-protocol IM client Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim – OS X users might know it at Adium) have put up a survey. From the announcement: 2008 has been a slightly unusual year for the Pidgin chat client. Improvements were made, but the biggest news was caused by unhappy users.…
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(Re-)dial your connection automatically with Windows (XP)
Currently I’m on a quest of finding configuration options to make computers easier to use. One of my recent problems was how to make sure that internet connections “just work”, especially in a dial-up kind of situation (where there are usernames and passwords involved). Here is the method that I developed for Windows XP (probably…
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Booting FreeDOS with GRUB
To toy around, I decided to install FreeDOS on a real system running Ubuntu. This post will document the process of adding an entry to the GRUB menu loader to boot it. Some small notes: Resizing partitions with GPartEd is somewhat funky (no global progress bar) and can take some serious time (if you are…
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Anycast DNS and BGP
From /dev/random: Introduction to BGP. Also, some short videos on various networking topics from Infoblox.
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Packetlife.net challenge solution
I mentioned some time ago the packetlife.net contest. I’ve remembered to check back for the answer, which can be found here. Basically, one of the OSPF fields is based on a timestamp. Very cool. Also, it shows how many equipments will break after the 18th of January, 2038 🙂
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Disabling the Zoom plugin for Compiz
I was playing around with a 8.10 Ubuntu install and I must have pressed a key combination, because the screen magnification was turned on. It was all nice and smooth, the only problem was that I didn’t want it! (BTW, almost the first thing I turn off after a fresh WinXP install is the accessibility…
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KDE 4.2 videos
Via the All about Linux blog: videos showing off KDE 4.2. They look very nice, although the abundance of the options might be confusing…
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All things come to an end
I’ve woken up today to find that CastleCops is going offline (link from DISOG). From their website: Greetings Folks, You have arrived at the CastleCops website, which is currently offline. It has been our pleasure to investigate online crime and volunteer with our virtual family to assist with your computer needs and make the Internet…
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New years resolution for webmasters
Graham Cluley gives some advice on the Sophos blog on how to secure your website. Unfortunately he can’t resist touting the companies horn, rather than suggesting a much more effective solution for this scenario: whitelisting. First of all, files on a webserver need to change very rarely. Executables almost never and it is useful to…