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Sometime the most pesky things can drive you crazy. Evidence to that is the trial of a friend of mine to reset the “Always ask before opening this type of file” functionality for a specific file type. The problem was that she couldn’t find where the attribute can be reset. After saving a trip to
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Some black hat hackers are seeding Internet newsgroups that traffic pornography phtos with JPEG images that take advantage of a recently disclosed security hole in Microsoft’s system.
This is the first evidence of public attacks using the critical flaw, which Microsoft identified and patched on Sept. 14. Users who unwittingly download the hacked images could have
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I ended up with some available gmail invitations. So, if you’re in a dire need for a gmail address you can contact me and request one.

Anyone following the devleopments of new burning devices has already noticed that NEC made themselves a prominent player by being the first to issue new devices based on the most recent standards. Now NEC comes with the new ND-3500A.

Although some DVD writers have the capability to burn DVD+R at X12, NEC chose to skip
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PHP 5.0.2 has been released. This is a maintenance release that in addition to many non-critical bug fixes, addresses a problem with GPC input processing. All Users of PHP 5 are encouraged to upgrade to this release as soon as possible. Download is available here
PHP 4.3.9 has been released as well. This is
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GoogleRankings.com is a service which will help you find out your position in Google’s search results for a specific keyword or keywords. This is a very handy tool if you wish to promote you website.

One of the most famous and favorite FPS returns powered by id’s Doom 3 Engine.
Some of the known details are:
- Quake 4 is a direct sequel to Quake 2, takes place just hours after the last event of that game.
- During most of the game, you are
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SpamAssassin 3.0.0 was just released!
Features include:
- Wide-spectrum: SpamAssassin uses a wide variety of local and network tests to identify spam signatures. This makes it harder for spammers to identify one aspect which they can craft their messages to work around.
- Easy to extend: Rules, weights and user-visible text are stored in text configuration files
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Care to see how your website looks in the eyes of google? Poodle will do it for you. All you need to do is enter your URL and see what your site will look like in search-engine results. See how search-engine friendly your site is, can a spider crawl it easily? Will it get good
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Web designers occasionally need a color picker to help them find the exact color they want to use or just play around with color until they see the right one. ColorMatch 5K have just the right stuff, however, I do not recommend this online color picker since it works in IE only and not in
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GMail never stopped being an hot issue and there are still many people looking for invites, while others have many to give but no one to give them to. The solution to this problem comes from the folks at Isnoop.net. They went and designed an automatic GMail invite spooler. People with available invites send them
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PHP 4.3.9RC3 has been released for testing. This is the last release candidate before the final release and should have a very low number of problems and/or bugs.

Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Samba, which can be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) by the server.
1) An error exists in smbd within the ASN.1 parsing functionality. This can be exploited via specially crafted packets during authentication to spawn many new processes, which enter infinite loops. Successful exploitation may exhaust all
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Woohoo Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is out, and Thunderbird 0.8 as well.
Check out whats new in Firefox 1.0PR and whats new in Thunderbird 0.8 .
Even before version 1.0 almost all previous versions were full and very stable (Firefox NEVER crashed on me). With version 1.0 coming I hope more users will wake up and realize
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We’ve seen before some old games made available for free. But most of those are very old (classics) java based and are not of the more elaborate, complex and big games. Now, Liberated Games brings us a collection of games available for free, some of them are from recenbt years while others are older nad
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I encountered lately several individuals having problems setting up a multiboot systems that will load either Linux, BSD, and/or Windows.
In most cases this is not a big deal. Either one of the following guides will probably solve most of the queries regarding the issues:
Multiboot between Windows 95, Windows NT, and Linux.
Dual booting Windows XP
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The MySQL ComCon Europe 2004 conference will take place in Frankfurt from November 9th to 10th and will have a day of pre-conference power workshops on the 8th. The conference brings together the vigor and excitement of a community event with the structure of MySQL mission-critical business event.
Sessions on diverse topics such as “Performance
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Standard wars are known to happen frequently in the technology world. Now it’s time for the next generation wireless network standard war. While this is not entirely new technology (I had a wireless connection at home back in 1998) the arena is heating up with a lot at stake.
One of the weapons used in these
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Kevin Mitnick, the world’s most famous hacker, is allowed to use the internet again. Mitnick served five years in jail for breaking into computer networks. Although he was released in January 2000, he was banned from using a computer to go onto the internet as a condition of his bail.
It is unclear, however, whether similar
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troutgirl writes about Microsofts new XAML and why she believes it wouldn’t work (at least not too well). I must agree with her analysis.

Bruce Eckel, a prominent author of programming books, now offers many free books to download. Among the books you can find Thinking in C++, Second Edition (Volumes 1 & 2), Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition, Thinking in Enterprise Java, Thinking in Python and many more.

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