Archive for June, 2009
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
A home-grown company has come up with what it is pitching as a cheap alternative to Apple's tiniest digital-music player, the iPod Shuffle.
Barely the size of a thumb, the Kube (right) measures 23mm by 23mm and weighs 18g. The company behind the player, Blue Tree Electronics, wants to make MP3 ...
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Monday, June 29th, 2009
Lenovo has become the latest PC vendor to offer users a free upgrade to Windows 2007. The company said that all systems sold between 26 June and 31 January with the Home Premium, Business and Ultimate versions of Windows Vista would be eligible for the update.
Lenovo said that the offer ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
If you inspect the IIS web service logs you'll will see all the access logs, which include source IP address and username. This file is very cumbersome, however. A friend of mine, Tim McCarty, used the LOGPARSER tool with a little T-SQL script to take the data and reformat into ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
The MailMessenger Email Server is a high performance, multi-threaded email server for Windows 2000/2003/XP/Vista which supports IMAP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. Whether you are hosting your own email or collecting mail from your ISP, the MailMessenger Email Server will provide everything you need to run a secure and dependable ...
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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
The operators of The Pirate Bay launched a long-awaited VPN service Monday, promising to make file sharers and other internet users more anonymous online.The IPREDATOR Global Anonymity Service, at about $7 monthly, is named for Sweden’s IPRED law that went into force in April. That law empowers copyright owners to ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Hewlett-Packard on Monday introduced an Internet-connected inkjet printer that lets people print coupons, movie tickets, maps, and other items from Web sites without having to turn on a PC.
The HP Photosmart Premium with TouchSmart Web has a 4.33-inch touch screen for navigating to sites. The printer includes software for ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Source: thenorthcountyvoice.com
Want to save money while simultaneously saving the planet? Then listen up...
1) Power down your computers at night. A recent Gartner study measured carbon emissions from a variety of IT devices and found that the top three are PCs/monitors, data centers, and fixed-line telecommunications systems, in that order. ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
Google announced this week that it has launched a limited test of a new feature, which lets people add customization and automation to Google Apps, starting with spreadsheets in Google Docs. They call this Google Apps Script.
Google Apps Script lets users automate spreadsheet actions, like reading and changing values in ...
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Source: cyberciti.biz
Steps to diagnose the problem:
#1: Use ping command
Always ping the IP address of server and then try hostname. For example:
$ ping 75.126.43.232
$ ping cyberciti.biz
If you can ping by IP address but not by hostname, then make sure you have correct DNS servers setup in /etc/resolv.conf file.
$ less /etc/resolv.conf
Output:
nameserver 192.168.1.10
nameserver ...
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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Preparation: Intall and run 4Easysoft MP4 Converter
Step 1: Import files
Click “Add File” button, you are allowed to import versatile video/audio files.
Step 2: Select output formatClick the “Profile” button to select the output video format from the drop-down list button.
Step 3: Start conversion
Click “Start” button, you are allowed to start conversion. ...
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