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email archiving in the bush white house
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/bush-lost-e-mails.ars
Interesting and somewhat disturbing read, especially as this is something I deal with daily....
Minefield (aka Firefox 3 Beta Nightly Build)
I suppose I'm a glutton for punishment because for the last few weeks I've been running the Firefox 3 beta (v5). Under heavy load it was quite unstable (6+ tabs including Gmail, Gcal, etc). So I started using the *nightly snapshots* (aka Minefield), which for potentially explosive software is much more stable than b5.
BTW, the improved look and performance of v3, even in beta form, make it obvious this is going to be a significant upgrade for Firefox.
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Windows Terminal Server Thin Clients w/ LTSP v5 on Ubuntu Feisty
Overview:
The clients PXE boot to the LTSP v5 server which auto-launches the Remote Desktop (rdesktop) client that auto-connects to a Windows 2003 terminal server. The result is you can take a bunch of end-of-life P2 or P3 computers, remove their hard-drives, boot them from the network and give them new life.
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Beryl/Compiz on Kubuntu Feisty
As part of my fooling around with Linux, I recently upgraded my laptop to Kubuntu, the beta of 7.04 Feisty, with mixed experiences. I had problems even getting things to dist-upgrade, etc, which
Free IT Supporters Toolkit
Here's a good list of software for your geek toolbelt:http://www.runpcrun.com/free_IT_support_engineers_toolkit
Anything you use that is missing?
David Lynch on the iPhone
We all know David Lynch for his ground-breaking film-making and otherwise brilliance.
ico Photoshop plugin
http://www.telegraphics.com.au/sw/
Hey I'm sure you guys probably have this, but it deserves a post...saved me a lot of hassles....make ico files in Photoshop with this plug in.
Here is one i made for the AKgeeks...took about 5 minutes...hopefully Ry will post it up here
http://www.rockalaskarecords.com/images/geekicon.ico
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iTerm delete key when SSH'ing into Linux
I like using iTerm on the Mac (http://iterm.sourceforge.net) for SSH because it offers a number of improvements over the builtin terminal app. But one hassle is that the delete key (it's Delete on MacBooks, Backspace on Apple keyboards), when SSH'd into a Linux box, doesn't delete the character to the left but instead the character to the right. Here's how to change that:
Protect Web page displayed email addys
Just wanted to pass on a trick I use to foil spambots from harvesting email addresses that are displayed on my web pages.
Prove you are a robot
I am trying out a new design in my email forms that will prove that the user filling in the form is a robot rather than having the user type in funny looking letters from an image to prove that they a