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Yahoo Pipes

I started playing around with Yahoo Pipes earlier, because I wanted to merge both of my blog feeds into one so that it could be imported into my facebook account (which only allows one external rss feed to be imported into Notes).
So far, it works really well.
I imported the feeds for my two blogs: zenandjuice.com/word [...]

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omg lol

this Joy of Tech comic really made me laugh out loud:

been there. done that.

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Linksys Hacking

So I finally took the time to re-flash my Linksys WRT54G Router so that it can act as a Wireless Bridge.
Why?  The house is too big to have a decent wireless signal while I’m sitting in the front living room, or on the patio.
Our wireless router is in the back part of the house, and [...]

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Get Vista and Samba to work - Blogs - Code Monkey Business - Builder AU

Get Vista and Samba to work
By Brendon Chase | 2006-12-11 17:11:22
Early adopters of Microsoft’s new Vista operating system may notice that it will not connect to Samba share folders out of the box. This will be a bit of a pain for many enterprise customers. The technical reason is because Microsoft Vista’s default security policy [...]

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i hate technology

big issues over the last couple of days on my webserver. it kept crashing… too many processes.
it came down to a combination of issues with spamassassin and apache.
Instead of having spamassassin called via procmail whenever emails came in, i turned on the spamd daemon so that will improve performance. I also have automatic [...]

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The IT Gigolo

This is crazy. Found at www.syncmag.com/article2/0,1895,1887761,00.asp
Name: Ray Digerati
Age: 34
Occupation: IT Gigolo
So, how long have you been a tech-support manwhore?
A few months. A friend was having trouble connecting to the Internet, this really attractive girl, and the idea just popped into my head: “Wow, it would be really nice if I could get sex [...]

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duuuude… sweet !

Microsoft’s Gates faces off with Napoleon Dynamite
Tuesday September 13 10:12 PM ET
Pick your favorite geek: Napoleon Dynamite or Bill Gates?
Seeking to capitalize on the popularity of the 2004 cult movie “Napoleon Dynamite,” Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday screened a video spoof for software developers in which the film’s celebrated anti-hero reports to work as a programer [...]

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l33t

Are you tired of playing word games designed in the VICTORIAN ERA??
L33T is the slang of a new computer-savvy generation. Breathe some life back into your word games and test your L33T knowledge with this frickin’ sweet set of tiles. Use the L33T dictionary (provided below) to expand the available plays, use L33T letter replacements [...]

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Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP

Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP
another great powertoy from microsoft ! I use this one to view the RAW images that I take with my Canon G6.
RAW image capture is preferred by many serious-minded photographers to preserve all the subtle color and detail possible from digital cameras. However, until now it [...]

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SyncToy v1 Beta for Windows XP

a new Microsoft Power Toy !
SyncToy v1 Beta for Windows XP
Overview
Increasingly, computer users are using different folders, drives, and even different computers (such as a laptop and a desktop) to store and retrieve files. There are new sources of files coming from every direction: digital cameras, e-mail, cell phones, portable media players, camcorders, PDAs, and [...]

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