This is going to be a reference to a really great site. I’ve used this several times and it’s wonderful. ss64.com Is a reference site that gives you a command lookup for (more…)
Author: Avery
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Laser Printer Buying guide
Last week cooltech had an article on an inkjet printer buyers guide. This week they follow up with a Laser Printer buying guide.
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Google now officially giving news feeds
For some time the only way to get an RSS feed of google news was through third party scrapers. Well, according to The Google Blog. Now there are two flavors of OFFICIAL news feed from Google.
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Google filtering some searches
It caught me by surprise at first. I had done a search and got the following…
“We’re sorry…
… but we can’t process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your computer is free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google. ”
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Web smarts is the main defence against spyware
Over at the Security Fix, Brian Krebs is talking about spyware and the fact that keeping up-to-date on patches, and running current antivirus with current definitions is not enough to protect your machine from spyware. He sums it up by saying common sense is the best defence.
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Siebel supporting Linux
This item is coming from infoworld. It looks as though Siebel will be supporting their CRM software on linux (Novell’s SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9). They didn’t comment on other supported distributions. They are among the last of the major enterprise software vendors to take the plunge of releasing their software for linux.
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Linux – ToVid for vcd creation
Linux.com has an article about ToVid, a utility to help convert video into VCD format. ToVid started out as just a VCD imager for mpeg files, but has expanded to be able to handle most video formats for input. It can also work with dvdauthor and other tools depending on whether you want to creat dvd or vcd’s.
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Good writeup on patents and standards
There is a good posting at the zdnet blogs talking about proprietary standards and why they are not a good thing in comparison to open standards. The talk specifically mentions Microsoft Word documents as an example of a de facto Proprietary standard and then goes on into a current example with cell phones.
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OpenSuSE site live
It looks as though the OpenSuSE site is open for business. Several days ago there was a story that Novell was opening SuSE up to build a community model much like Red Hat has with Fedora.
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$20 cell phones?
Cnet news is reporting a breakthrough in chip design that could reduce the cost of cell phones to the $20 mark. The chip design combines the function of several chips in just one.
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