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Passwords are like underwear. You shouldn’t leave them out where people can see them…

November 6, 2009

Passwords are like underwear. You shouldn’t leave them out where people can see them. You should change them regularly. And you shouldn’t loan them out to strangers.
Seen on thdonline.

PNG vs JPEG

November 5, 2009

Via: Daily Cup of Tech.

Google Wave Tutorial

November 5, 2009

I don’t know a heck about Google Wave, besides it is a webapp/communication tool and everybody is talking about it. Looking my RSS reader, I’ve foun a link to this manual from Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani and Adam Pash. I put it here just in case I decide to learn something of GWave…

Updating ISOs with zsync

October 29, 2009

Today is Ubuntu Release Day, so it’s a perfect time to learn how to use zsync in order to save some bandwidth. Of course, you can (and should) use it other days and for other purposes If you don’t know what zsync is, here’s an explanation: zsync is a file transfer program that allows [...]

A package management reference card for Linux distributions and FreeBSD

September 23, 2009

Here is a very useful article which sums up the commands needed to manage software packages from the terminal of many Linux distributions (it has also information about FreeBSD packages and ports).

IE6 sucks!

June 18, 2009

Thanks to John Martz, the author of the picture. You can get it in other resolutions here.
UPDATE: you can see the ‘development versions’ of this picture here.

How-To Videos Galore!

June 14, 2009

The WonderHowTo website has a community of people that find all of the interesting how-to videos across the web and aggregate them together into one place.
They have over 230,000 how-to videos indexed as of today, on every topic you would care to watch a video on…
The main categories are:

Alcohol 2517 Videos
Arts & Crafts 4955 [...]