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Build your own DVR : Lifehacker guide

Build your own DVR : Lifehacker guide --
If you want to step into the DVR market, but don't want to be a slave to TiVo, then you can build your own. Lifehacker has a pretty good guide how to setup your PC as a DVR. The guide is nicely laid out, and contains screenshots.

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The 50 Greatest Independent Films!

The 50 Greatest Independent Films! --
Check out this list. Bound to find some of the coolest movies you'd NEVER seen...

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ParallelKnoppix: Create a cluster in 5 minutes

ParallelKnoppix: Create a cluster in 5 minutes --
"You can convert a room full of machines running Windows into a Linux cluster, and when you shut down, your Windows machines are in their original state. The computers in the cluster can be homogeneous or heterogeneous. Getting the cluster up and running takes about 5 minutes.."

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Kanguru's 64GB King Kong Flash Drive

Kanguru's 64GB King Kong Flash Drive --
Kanguru has dropped the bomb on the USB 2.0 flash drive market with a whopping 64 GB of storage space on a flash drive about the size of a pack of gum. The drive is called the Kanguru Flash Drive Max. Rumor has it, that it is only a mere $2,799.

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DvdShrink For Linux - How To Install On Ubuntu

DvdShrink For Linux - How To Install On Ubuntu --
Here's a quick tutorial on how to install K9Copy on Ubuntu. K9Copy is an awesome program much like DvdShrink, which helps you back up your dvds.

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270 Free Mini Pixel Icons

270 Free Mini Pixel Icons --
"These mini icons are designed at 14x14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commerical)."

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Why Boot Camp is the Beginning of the End for Windows

Why Boot Camp is the Beginning of the End for Windows --
Why Boot Camp is better for Apple and worse for Microsoft then anyone has thought

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Web Design from Scratch - Free web design course - basics, layout, free tutorials, case studies, how to guides and examples

Color Schemer - Online Color Scheme Generator

Tips for Linux Explorers

Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook

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Tweak3D.net - Tweaks for Windows and hardware and software

Surprising Expiration Dates : RealSimple.com

why americans should never be allowed to travel

How to See the World: Art of Travel; European and World Backpacking; On $25 a Day or Less

Okay, you would have to say that this is SMALL... picotux - smallest Linux computer in the World

Pretty cool history of computer languages...

Computer Languages History (preview)

List of Freeware Replacements for Commonly Warez'ed Programs

List of Freeware Replacements for Commonly Warez'ed Programs -- Don't steal when you can get the good stuff for free. Great list of free apps. Bookmark it.

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HOWTO: Setup your own VPN with IPCop and OpenVPN!

HOWTO: Setup your own VPN with IPCop and OpenVPN!
This is a great little tutorial for anyone looking to set up a vpn through the linux based IPCop firewall. A must read!

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Overview of the ten major Linux distributions

Good Overview of the ten major Linux distributions--
A review of the 10 major Linux distributions out there, giving the pros and cons of each and every one of them...

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Okay this just goes in the AWESOME CATEGORY --- 100+ systems running from 4 physical disks and one GRUB menu.

JustLinux Forums - A grub menu booting 100+ systems of Dos, Windows, Linux, BSD and Solaris

Linux tutorials and more Linux tutorials....
HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials | The Open Source Howto Development Web Site.

Open source isn't just for Linux/UNIX -- it's for Windows too ;-)
The OSSwin project: Open Source for Windows!

A good tutorial on GIMP --
GIMP - Tutorials

Script To Backup DVDs In Ubuntu

Script To Backup DVDs In Ubuntu

Awesome script which backs up your DVDs under Ubuntu Linux.

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History of the GUI

History of the GUI
This page shows screenshots, icons and sounds of dozens of GUIs past and present. A GREAT resource.

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A Picture Evolution of the Mac OS

A Picture Evolution of the Mac OS
On April 1, Apple celebrates it's 30th birthday. Having created one of the first personal computers and the graphical mouse-and-menu interface most PCs now use, it is now reshaping the music industry with the iPod and iTunes. To celebrate the company's birthday, Wired News has a series of special features this week that can be viewed here.

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How To: Scanning For Viruses Using Knoppix...

How To: Scanning For Viruses Using Knoppix...
"Ridding a network of Windows computers of a virus or worm can seem impossible. Viruses may cause computers to reboot and infect new machines while you are in the process of removing them. Through the use of the live-software installer, Knoppix provides a solution to this catch-22"

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Here is the story on the out of control recording industy. This one is SO bad that the artists and the music industry even appear to be upset...
Boing Boing: EMI releases Brazilian DRM CDs that totally hose their customers

Here we go again. Why should ANYONE pay attention laws, ethics and morality when it is obvious that the big corporations think they are EXEMPT!!!! -- Time to add EMI to the boycott list...
Slyck News - EMI Repeats Sony BMG's Mistakes: Some may remember

HOW TO - SSL VPNs and Using OpenVPN

HOW TO - SSL VPNs and Using OpenVPN --

An excellent 4 part tutorial and discussion on the various ways of using OpenVPN for SSL VPNs on both Linux and Windows platforms, with tips, walk-throughs and further resources.

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SSH Tutorial for Linux

SSH Tutorial for Linux --

Great for starters. This is one of the top tutorials on SSH on the Internet. It was originally written back in 1999 and was completely revised in 2006 to include new and more accurate information.

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Fixing Linux with Knoppix

Fixing Linux with Knoppix --

First Windows, now Linux. ExtremeTech shows you how to fix Linux with Knoppix, which includes repairing boot issues, working with key system files, and working with Linux partitions.

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Linux distros for older hardware

Linux distros for older hardware --

Microsoft lately has been challenging Linux's suitability for older hardware, so it seems like a good time to look at Linux distributions that can run on older machines. I took six distributions for a test run on an old machine, and also tried software that turns old hardware into a thin client.

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vi Reference --
A good cheat sheet to have handy when you are editing on vi.

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Who said the Zaurus is dead?

Who said the Zaurus is dead?

For those of you out there that still consider the Zaurus a great piece of hardware; The newest version of OpenZaurus is out: Version 3.5.4 in the 3 different flavors of Opie, GPE and bootstrap.

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Wikipedia's List Of Portable Applications For Your USB Drive!

Even if this list is only half correct, it is an impressive list in the move towards being able to run an application off of removable media.

Wikipedia's List Of Portable Applications For Your USB Drive! -
Check out Wikipedia's comprehensive list of portable applications for your USB drive or other portable device!

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32 *GB* Flash Drive - No more HD's!

32 *GB* Flash Drive - No more HD's! --
Samsung's putting out a 32 GB Flash-based HD repaclement unit. 3X faster that a HDD. Connects on a UDMA SATA bus, 5% of the power of a normal HD.

While not enough to store all my music, I'd love to run Windows off of this sucker!

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How to Make a "Bob Clock"...uses 60 Multicolor LCDs

Okay, so this one from digg is just strange enough to be very cool --
How to Make a "Bob Clock"...uses 60 Multicolor LCDs the inspiration came to me in a dream sometime (I think it was arround 1997). This is the only time ever that I have really gotten an idea from a dream, and actually carried it out...The Bob-clock is a wall-clock I have built, which uses 60 multi-color LEDs arranged in a circle to represent the small and big arm of an analog clock.

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FreshDiagnose - Know EVERYTHING about your PC

FreshDiagnose - Diagnostic for your PC - Know EVERYTHING about your PC -
This diagnostic tool gives you tons of information about every element of your system, such as your CPU, memory (virtual, physical, and swap-file), display drivers, virtual devices, and interrupt-request list

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PortaPuTTY - Portable Putty for USB

PortaPuTTy - Portable PuTTy -
Finally, someone has hacked the venerable PuTTY ssh client to store its settings in the filesystem rather than the registry. That means, settings are easily copied to other machines and especially your USB flash drive.

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In the WAY COOL Category - 500-DVD server

In the WAY COOL Category - 500-DVD Changer - "I built a 5-terabyte media server with 20 250GB hard drives--it uses a pair of 500-watt power supplies and has 12 fans running full blast to keep cool. It stores more than 500 of my DVDs, categorized by title, director etc., which it streams to my home-theater PC over a gigabit Ethernet connection."

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Okay, so this site is just pretty cool. Full of fun pics and videoclips -- Ezprezzo.com

It's AMAZING that the people involved with these overloada actually thought that it was a GOOD IDEA at the time -- even briefly... If you have ever overloaded your vehicle OR have thought about it, look at these first.Ezprezzo.com - Overloaded

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Recording earthquakes on the sea floor by ZDNet's Roland Piquepaille -- The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has developed a new kind of ocean bottom seismometers (OBSs) to record both small and large earthquakes on the sea floor. Forty of them will be deployed at the beginning of 2007 in an area of the Eastern Pacific Ocean in order to better understand earthquake processes.

Editors' Top Televisions - CNET reviews

Here is an interesting article. Not often do I get on my 'soapbox', but it appears that Symantec has finally reached the place that they have been striving to reach for YEARS... Their products have been more and more ridden with issues over the last several years and they have all but virtually forgotten about the consumer market. Then, earlier this year there was a ROOTKIT discovered in SystemWorks, allegedly. Now, they think that they are going to fix that by committing to the consumer market (see the announcement below). I was a loyal customer for over a decade (until about 3yrs ago), now all I have to say is -- WAY TOO LITTLE, WAY TOO LATE. Maybe a company with an established committment to their customers will buy them and put us all out of THEIR misery.

Symantec's New Target: Consumers

Linux vs. Linux - Great article about the differences between Linux distributions - ComputorEdge Magazine - 10 Feb 2006

Really amazing stuff - Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer : Home Page

Understanding Digital RAW Format

NewsForge | Mozilla 1.8 spirit reincarnates as SeaMonkey 1.0

NewsForge | Disk usage analysis and cleanup tools

EFF sues AT&T to stop NSA spying

NewsForge | nmap 4.00 released

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American Book Review

Slashdot | Boeing Granted Patent On Mobile Wireless Lan

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OTA HD demystified - HD Beat

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Slashdot | How To Choose An Open Source CMS

Slashdot | Samba 4 Technology Preview Released

Linux Distribution Chooser [© 2005-06 - zegenie Studios]

Seders's grab bag - Tutorials

HOWTO Install GoogleEarth with wine - Gentoo Linux Wiki

Linux Tutorial - Linux Network Administration

Network Stability Resource, Article...

Grisoft Freeweb: AVG Free Edition News

MythTV, Ubuntu, Athlon64, WinTVPVR, Comcast Digital Cable, and a pcHDTV HD-3000 in a pear tree!

Linux Newbie Guide: Shortcuts And Commands

25 Reasons to Convert to Linux, compiled by The Linux Information Project

Free Software Magazine - issue 10 - Table of Contents

The Linux HTPC Howto - Basic and Advance Media Center Build Tips

Slashdot | Windows XP Service Pack 3 Not Due Until 2007

Slashdot | Building the Godzilla of PVRs

CONGRATULATIONS to the OpenOffice team... NewsForge | OpenOffice.org 2.0 released

Build Your Own PVR :: Why Tivo When you can Freevo?

Tom's Hardware Guide PCs & HowTo: Building The Ultimate Home Theater PC - Wishful Thinking? Silent Home PC For TV, DVD, Recording And Internet Connectivity

Slashdot | Building The Ultimate Home Theater PC

Latest rumor from the Apple arena -- Slashdot | Video iPod Oct 12?

This story has a personal "ring" to it since my great aunt was a nurse who died in the flu epidemic. I certainly hope they are VERY careful with the virus. Slashdot | Researchers Reconstruct 1918 Flu Virus