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Here comes another long and busy weekend… Have a great thanksgiving.

Software & Services

Do you have a hard time remembering to keep track of the progress in your diet, your budget or exercise program? You can try TracksLife - Keep track of almost anything - spreadsheets/databases that combine columns of money, numbers, words, paragraphs and
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We’ve all seen the Xbox’s Black Screen of Death on various demonstrations and some display kiosks. The common belief among industry professionals and gamers alike was that most of these issues will be resolved prior to launch. Latest reports indicate that these problems continue to hunt the system. First buyers of the system are very
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The hoopla around the Xbox 360 continues and a new Sober worm is circling around the net. Busy times call for short lists, short but sweet.

Information

first and foremost, a New Sober Worm Spoofs FBI, CIA Spreads Fast.

Nine principles of security architecture.
Secure remote file management with sshfs.
Balancing Connections Over Multiple Links.
Learn Lisp From MIT - for
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Seems like EVERYONE is talking about the shortages in Xbox 360’s and a suppose limited supply. It’s gotten to the point where people are blaming Microsoft for doing it on purpose to enhance the hype.
As of now, all my sources near the valley and all around northern California say there are some shortages but no
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I’m busy, busy, busy, there’s a lot of buzz about a lot of things, much of it coming from Microsoft. Dog and cat lovers have a little surprise today.

Hardware

Nokia N70 vs Nokia 6682: in pictures - Jason shows us the different in images.
Xbox 360 was lunched today, you don’t need me for that it’s EVERYWHERE.

Information

It’s
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I was walking today through the computers section at the local superstore, watching the recordable CD section. Finally I started accepting the fact that it’s time to retire the CD format as a personal data storage format and move on to a more efficient one (I’m actually thinking about it for almost two years). This
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Del.icio.us just put up a new design. And I say: It’s about time. Though simplicity is a large part of what made the service so easy to use. Whats the big deal? Recent bookmarks are now on the on the left and popular bookmarks are on the right. This will certainly hurt all
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The flickr website is down. They still serve images but the flickr website has this message:

The Flickr Blog has no information about this incident whatsoever.

More news from Wordpress, not only Wordpress 2.0 beta is out, but now Wordpress.com has been opened to the public. Up until now it was by invitation only and considered in Beta. A lot of it is similar to Wordpress but lacking some features like the ability to have several users/logins posting in the
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Ooh what a weekend. On Friday’s Daily Friction I was gettng ready for a busy weekend, turn out it was much more than I anticipated. A new beta of the big wordpress 2.0 which I’m testing on my home sever, some monking around with this site, a lot of news and some fun. Enjoy.

Software

The KDE
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A lot of people have been waiting for this. Wordpress 2.0 is now in public Beta. Users reports indicate that everything works flawlessly and 95% of plugins work just fine without any alterations.

Here we go again: “In the latest saga over online gaming addiction in China, the parents of a 13-year-old Tianjin boy are suing the makers of World of Warcraft, blaming the game for the death of their son, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. The parents filed a suit against Blizzard Entertainment on Wednesday,
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The Mozilla website Firefox product page indicates that the current up-to-date version of Firefox is “Firefox 1.5 Release Candidate 3″. The last version I had installed on my laptop until now was Release Candidate 2. After booting not long ago, Firefox started a new auto-update and I was expecting to check out Release Candidate 3.
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At first glance I thought this device was a practical joke of some kind, but it’s not. This is a a very real iPod mixer by Numark named iDJ (I wonder what Apple will think about it). The iDJ is a 2-channel mixer that enables mobile DJs and iPod enthusiasts to seamlessly integrate their portable
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Ready for a busy weekend? This installation of the Daily Friction includes a full tray of information and readings for the weekend and some other fun stuff. Wondering what this lovely Google logo is all about? Check the Community section.

Software

Groove Message Export is a handy tool for exporting Groove IM conversations to Word, Outlook, Excel,
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I’ve never been a big fan of the Opera browser. Not that I have anything against it, I simply never found the justification for paying for a browser when I have free alternatives that essentially give the same browsing experience (no I don’t want to argue about it). But this is not what I wanted
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A few hours ago I browsed around Google Base and what did I find? Techmount is the #1 result for the search term “technology blog” (with or without quotes). Wooooooot for us. For the term “blog” Techmount ranked either 8 or 112 depending on which search method used - free text search or as a
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OPML Search is a search engine designed to search within a centralized user contributed OPML files database. Users can upload their own OPML files, the system adds them to the database and it’s searchable for the benefit of the entire community.
Don’t know what OPML is? OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) is an XML format
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Well all knew it was coming and today it’s finally here. No more speculations, no wonderings, the Base has arrived. So what is it? Google Base allows you to sumbit all types of content or “items” that Google will host on in database like environment and make it all searchable. Based on the relevance of
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Nexenta is a new operating system. Aren’t well all ecstatic Some will not call it a complete new operating system, and I may tend to agree with them. So let’s see what we have here.
Nexenta is a complete GNU-based open source operating system built on top of the OpenSolaris kernel and runtime. It is a
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A new release candidate of Firefox 1.5, a new version of PostgreSQL, Damn Small Linux are only a few of the goodies we have in this installation of Daily Friction. Enjoy.

Software

Damn Small Linux (a.k.a. DSL) is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution. You can bootit from a business card CD as a
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I didn’t know what to expect when the Tivo blog launched three weeks ago. It’s a company blog, like Google’s, so you might think that not much is going at Tivo-land (if the blog is your sole measurement). Five posts in three weeks is pretty weak if you ask me. It shows either absence of
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I’m now upgrading and customizing some of the features on this site. If you notice anything strange, it’s probably the reason. If the strange/weird/awkward behavior lasts more than a single reload - Something is wrong.
If you see that something is wrong please let me know through commenting on this post or through contacting through here.
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To the guy who tests his spamming software on my blog, please stop. I will appreciate it very much if you just stop sending all these test spam messages. For now I’m just following your activity, as you can see, most of your messages are just getting blocked and going nowhere. Thank you.