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There is a growing trend that has companies trolling the net looking for people that steal content and call it there own without giving credit where credit is due. Software firms are bringing products to market which help these companies track down those that plagiarize. [Wired]
With the TSA doing everything it can to thwart terrorism they are considering putting RFID tags in your boarding pass. As a individual that has to do a lot of short notice one way flying if it keeps me from being screened the 34th time in less than a year I will put up with it but others I am
In my search for a coder in the past I had a heck of a time finding someone. Now there is a new site to help you and I find a coder and they actually bid on the job and you can check out their Resume. This is totally awesome. I will be putting in several job request proposals tonigt
I have been pondering for a couple of days the announcement of Gmail from Google and the more I think about it and the more others in the tech business way in I think Yahoo, Hotmail etc are in a lot of trouble. If Google keeps to their word and provides a Gig of storage with unobtrusive advertisements I think
For a very long time we where stuck with inexpensive CDR/CDRW and the leap to media that would handle large quantities of backup capacity was out of reach for many consumers. With the advent of cheaper DVDR consumers are still behind the power curve when it comes to finding inexpensive backup capacity. My solution has been to buy additional hard-drives
I have always built my own computers and up to a year ago had gave my kids the hand me down computer. Well with them getting a little older they need a machine that has more horses under the hood. Well after reading a story today about the woes a Gateway customer has had over the past 4 years I
With Google announcing that Gmail is for real and that they will be offering one GIG of storage with each account I wonder how many people are going to abandon the offerings of other on-line e-mail service. I have a payed Hotmail account that I barely use and with having another 20 or pop3 e-mail accounts across 20 or so
Those of you running a Unix server understand the importance of a Cron Job. We have added some services here at Geek News Central that we have to run a hourly cron job to have the application update a portion of the site. Turns out my Webhost does not allow cron jobs to be run but if I point my
I have been involved in one of the most difficult and challenging projects In my twenty years of working with Electronics. The amount of work we had to do to get the 1st phase of the project done was nearly impossible. If everything goes well I will be celebrating this weekend with the successful completion of phase 1. Everything from
Recovering from a bad case of Jet Lag will be back in action tonight. Geek News
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