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Archive for August, 2007
Thursday, August 30th, 2007
A small edition of the Daily Friction today, watch streaming videos of TV shows and movies online (this might not be online very long since it’s legality is dubious, look at the PSP phone from Sony-Ericsson, read about broadband in Japan, and much not more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
Videohybrid 3.0 Read more …
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Looking at this video, if both phones from Apple and Nokia had the exact same features in spec and cost, which phone will you choose?
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Get ready for some over the top optical storage, for now you can look forward for some cheap HD DVD players coming out soon, check out what coming up next from Apple as a replacement for the iPod, find out another eason to upgrade you Windows Vista to XP, get some bargains and much more Read more …
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
A tiny friction, on of two in this double friction day. A few useful Linux guild and noting more.
Information
Monitor your servers with SNMP and Cacti - This tutorial will show how to configure the network manager to use Cacti and how to set up snmp on the managed host.
Restrict su command to superuser only in Read more …
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Seems like everyone heard of Robert Scoble Google killers videos and the fire they are still drawing over the past few days. A post over at Wired Online pushed Robert over the edge and he had to defend himself, mind you, he doesn’t shoot back to defend his opinions, but wonders how come this matter Read more …
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
I hardly ever watch online video shows or vlogs or videocasts, how ever you want to call them. I simply don’t have time for them. They require too much of my attention. I can read through a few blogs posts quickly and move on. I can listen to podcasts while doing some other work, if Read more …
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
speeds up your personal computing with Direct Access, create themes for SharePoint site, read your feeds with yet another online feed reader, learn why Apple can’t stop iPhone hackers, stand up to your email, get some bargains and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
Direct Access 1.6.5 - Direct Access speeds up Read more …
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Monday, August 27th, 2007
Get the new Mythtv 0.20.2, learn how big firms edit Wikipedia, Set up a Web server cluster in 5 easy steps, manage primary & secondary actions in web forms, beta test the new SMF 2.0 Beta, and not too much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
Mythtv 0.20.2 now available for download Read more …
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
Use the new installer, get the new release of wine, find out about Toshiba’s 32GB SDHC memory cards, learn how Apple can stop stolen iPods, check out ALT.NET, make water drops in Photoshop and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
Windows Installer 4.5 Beta released.
Wine 0.9.44 released - And in this Read more …
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Another spam wave just passed by.
I’m sure many blog owners noticed the nature of spam waves. For several days the blog get hit by hundreds or thousands of spam comments and trackbacks a day and a few days later it’s all over, things relax and go back to normal, which usually means only 10-40 Read more …
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
Check out the SanDisk’s new Sansa Clip, create replication and failover with VMWare Server and Debian, save traffic with Lighttpd 1.4, learn the Common Alerting Protocol, build your own video community with Lighttpd And FlowPlayer and not much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Hardware
SanDisk Announces the Sansa Clip.
Information
Virtual Machine Replication & Failover with Read more …
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Friday, August 24th, 2007
Search the last 4 day on Twitter, create thumbnail of any web address, read about blogs helping the small business, learn the what online newspaper must do online, participate in the Broken Code Challenge and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
Terraminds micro search - New way to search the last four Read more …
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Dont read the RFC, sometime reading the RFC only creates more confusion than anything else, Speed up your Windows XP installation for various purposes, learn how the LOLcats phenomenon started, sharpen your developers skills, use a new tool to estimate project time, and not much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
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I Knew How Read more …
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
A thin edition of the Daily Friction today, as it might be the next few days. Build your own long-distance listening device, check out Dell’s XPS 420, look at rsync examples, read Linus Torvalds thought about the future of Linux and more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Hardware
Build your own long-distance listening device - Read more …
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
Check out the new beta release of Gnome, or use Code Spaces to store your code. Are older coders are just too old for the industry? Get some nice bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Software and Services
Code Spaces - Online project hosting platform with Subversion.
GNOME 2.20.0 beta 1 released.
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Am I Read more …
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
So a few short weeks ago, I set myself to try the Ask Sponsored Listings offered by Ask.com. A service similar to Google’s Adwords, only on the Ask.com network of sites.
The registration process was pretty straight forward, that is until I had to key in my credit card, for some undisclosed reason the system Read more …
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Learn what to do with recycled computer ware, Check out about the new design for computer chips, read Rich Skrenta’s thoughts on Mahalo, know when to use email and when not to, find some bargain and not much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Hardware
A New Design for Computer Chips - An MIT spinoff Read more …
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
Every time I consider replacing my main working PC or laptop the question rises, To Mac or not to Mac? Do I finally switch my main workhorse to a Mac? The main issue during all this time was having all the tools I need for my work and hobbies available for the Mac. As Read more …
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007
It’s a jam packed weekend friction today. Convert your DVD using the new version of HandBrake, get the new sleek Belkin N1 Vision router, check out last year;s 10 most unreported stories, know why you should convert your web pages to CSS, read what cars programming languages would be, see some funny pictures and not Read more …
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Saturday, August 18th, 2007
Some good weekend readings, and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.
Hardware
Time for Microsoft to show some guts - Looking at the insides of a console can be revealing, but still nobody can work out what the Xbox 360’s problem is.
Information
IBM broadens its support for Sun’s Solaris software - IBM is expanding the Read more …
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
Some good readings for the weekend and not much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction. Enjoy.
Software and Services
dasBlog 2.0 Released - .NET blogging engine that now runs on Medium Trust.
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RIAA gets some class - The RIAA has been slapped by a class action lawsuit, filed by Tanya Anderson, a single mom from Oregon Read more …
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