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Virus loads child porn on unwitting users' computers - Boing Boing
by bouilloire
"Obviously, the next virus evolution would be to have one that downloads illegal mp3s to your hard drive and simultaneously tip of the RIAA."
^^;
Fat32Formatter
by rmaltete
(via)
Fat32Formatter is freeware and written by TOKIWA to format drive larger than 32GB to FAT32, which means it can walk around the OS restriction that you can format drive to FAT32 only the size up to 32GB on Windows2000/XP/Vista.
PortableApps.com
by wabaus
& 98 others
, 1 comment
Portable software applications that run from a USB drive. Windows only.
Traffic Server is finally here | Ogre.com
by karlcow
# A scalable threaded asynchronous state machine model. On a typical setup, 2 or 3 threads per core is enough to drive a large amount of traffic.
# Feature-rich HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 support. We fair well in various tests like CoAdvisor.
# Plugin architecture, making it easy (well, easier) to extend and customize your server.
# Well documented.
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October 2009
Corey Goldberg: Selenium RC with Python in 30 Seconds
by karlcow
Selenium is a suite of tools to automate web app testing across many platforms. It has various pieces (Core, RC, IDE, etc), and I struggled trying to figure out how everything fits together and works. At the end of the day, all I wanted to do was use Selenium from my Python code to drive a browser session.
technobabbler » Blog Archive » drive a webcam with python
by karlcow
I bought a USB webcam off of eBay quite some time ago, and I decided to connect it to my telescope with a little bit of hardware hackery. I'll have to see about posting a writeup on how I did that at a later time. Anyway, when I installed my camera software, I quickly found how horrible the program was. It gave a tiny preview of what the camera saw, and had no way of capturing images or video without waaaay too many clicks of the mouse. That's when I decided to write my own in Python.
Dell OptiPlex 780 Desktop
by danijelzi
(via)
The Dell OptiPlex 780 is the company’s new business PC, featuring Intel technology.
The system is based on the Intel Q45 chipset and features an Intel Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo, Pentium Dual Core or Celeron CPU and up to 8GB of Non-ECC DDR3 1066MHz memory. The OptiPlex 780 is configurable with up to two 3.5- or 2.5-inch storage units, including standard hard drives and solid state drives. The drives can be configured without RAID or in RAID 0 and 1 modes. Optical drive options include a DVD ROM or a DVD burner, but the system can be also configured without optical device.
Dell PowerEdge T310 Server Overview
by danijelzi
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The Dell PowerEdge T310 is the company’s latest single-socket tower server.
Along with a single Intel Xeon 3400 Series quad-core CPU, the Intel 3420 chipset-based PowerEdge T310 includes up to 32GB of registered (RDIMM) or up to 8GB of unregistered (UDIMM) DDR3 memory, and up to four 3.5″ cabled or hot-swap SAS or SATA hard drives for a maximum of 4TB of internal storage.
The system has an onboard SATA controller without RAID functionality, but there’s a variety of additional storage controllers supporting up to RAID 10. The basic network adapter is an embedded dual Gigabit NIC, which can be accompanied by various single-, dual-, or quad- port Gigabit cards. For server management, customers can use the baseboard management controller and one of optional iDRAC6 controllers.
Dell’s T310 features the Matrox G200eW GPU, a DVD drive, optional PowerVault tape or hard drives for backups, and five PCIe Gen. 2 slots: two x8 slots (one with x16 connector), a x4 slot (with x8 connector), and two x1 slots.
Power supply options include a redundant 400W and a non-redundant 375W unit.
On the front of the chassis, the 20.5 inches deep tower server has an optional LCD screen for system monitoring.
The new PowerEdge comes without operating system or with one of Windows Server, Windows Essential Business Server, and Small Business Server editions, as well as with optional Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The starting price for the Dell PowerEdge T310 is $949, with the 3Yr Basic Hardware Warranty included.
The server can be purchased at dell.com.
September 2009
Print Folder Free Download
by decembre
Print Folder awarded Softpile Most Popular Print Folder is a simple program for printing directories. It offers a drive/directory window and a file list, which can be arranged and sorted according to various criteria. This list can be send to any printer (printing preview and storage included). Export to HTML are now available
Daily Car Insurance
by newsniche
Insuring yourself to drive a car can be expensive, everyone wants to save money so here are a few options when it comes to getting car insurance
Searchable: Annotation-Driven Indexing and Searching with Lucene :: Drive-by Digressions
by karlcow
Searchable is a toolkit for Lucene that harnesses the power of annotations to specify what properties to index and how to treat them.
August 2009
Download Flickroom 0.03 - (Telechargement ) - An application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved - Softpedia
by decembre
An application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved You can now receive instant notifications for any activity on your photostream, upload photos by just drag-and-drop, add comments, mark faves, add notes, tweet about your photos and also view all info associated with an image from within Flickroom. Get Flickroom and take it for a test drive to see what it can actually do for you!
Duoh.com
by fabifab
Veerle, graphic design degree in hand, started Duoh! in 1992, focusing on freelance print work. In 1994, she was wooed by Geert Leyseele. Clutching her strong graphic design principles under one arm, and her heart in the other, she took the leap, and a little while later, beautiful little Duoh! n.v. was born.
Geert Leyseele
As it turned out, Geert wasn't just another pretty face. Veerle's hero brought superpowers to her business: X-ray vision to see around corners into the future of the web, a drive to move to Web Standards, an eye for project management, and the ability to leap wireframes and IA obstacles in a single bound.
When Veerle's blog became famous around the world for her tutorials and insights on design, CSS, and other subjects, fascinated readers saw the picture in the heading and asked, "Is that the designer's girlfriend?" No, it was Veerle, the other happy half of Duoh!
Life is our inspiration
We inhale the richness of life :
* sharing love, laughter, and knowledge with our friends and web community
* absorbing design (from galaxies to retro menus to bathroom faucets, we see it everywhere)
* putting our minds to design puzzles
* digging deeply into markup and code so our designs can sing
* delighting in chill house and progressive house music, art and artists, lovely sandy beaches, and biking through the countryside
and, then, we exhale websites.
Growing up but staying small
We love what we do and want to do it ourselves, not manage others. We create websites for some Big Clients (and fresh, little start-ups, too), and choose our clients just as carefully as they choose us. Each day, we throw ourselves passionately into the task of becoming better at work and at play. The rest of the Duoh! story? Look around; our work says it all.
July 2009
Stefano’s Linotype » On Data Reconciliation Strategies and Their Impact on the Web of Data
by karlcow
No matter what user interfaces will drive the user interaction, the dream of being able to search the web of data following relational connections (say, somehow looking for “the height of all towers located in Paris”) dies miserably when it’s powered by a vastly sparse and unconnected graph.
