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This page introduces giant hogweed as a federally listed noxious plant and briefly touches on the hazards of it, what the plant looks like, it's distribution in New York state, and what to do if you find the plant.

When I wrote my post yesterday about QR codes I was just tossing around some ideas and putting some things out there that I had seen. I nev...

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I was always, wondering like what is the difference between the Android kernel and Linux Kernel, i had googled for it , recently i got it from one of the sites, Its extract is as follows :- courtes…

ejabberd is probably the first XMPP application server ever released. This article introduces this new concept and explains how to build a distributed event-based infrastructure for social networking. The example application that illustrate this article is a distributed Twitter-like microblogging platform. Introduction Since I designed the first version of the pluggable pubsub module for ejabberd […]

At first glance, the N-Control Avenger looks like the fevered dream of a quirky lunatic, destined for fame and failure as a legendary crapgadget.

Ordinarily, when villages are attacked by the rapists and murderers of the Lord's Resistance Army, the towns wither and die. The town of Obo, near the Congolese border, struck back.

Anacron is the cron for desktops and laptops. Anacron does not expect the system to be running 24 x 7 like a server. When you want a background job to be executed automatically on a machine that is not running 24 x 7, you should use anacron. For example, if you have a backup script

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This post gives a short description of how to suspend a VMware Workstation 6.5.x guest/VM on a Ubuntu 9.04 Workstation but it shouldn’t be any problem to follow it on other linux distribution…

What commands in Emacs can I use to insert into the text buffer of a file the current date and time? (For example, the equivalent in Notepad is simply pressing F5 which is about the only useful fe...

Squid Web Cache documentation

Author: Anže Vidmar I find myself not browsing the Web as much as I used to, thanks to Liferea, a Linux-based aggregator for online news feeds. A news aggregator eliminates the need for surfing the Web as much. Instead of going to all the Web pages you have bookmarked to read your favorite blogs, news, […]