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TVTonic News » TechTonic: A Tekkie’s Paradise!

http://www.tvtonic.com/news/?p=71

PC World - The 30 Products and Services We Miss Most

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,127507-page,1/article.html

How to Exercise While Sitting at Your Computer - WikiHow

http://www.wikihow.com/Exercise-While-Sitting-at-Your-Computer

Star Wars: Kids | Trick or Treat Star Wars Style

http://www.starwars.com/kids/activity/crafts/f20041027/index.html

Humanity and The Pace of Change

http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/Pickover/pc/changing-pace.html

The Dilbert Blog: Good News Day

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/10/good_news_day.html

Animated Knots by Grog

http://www.animatedknots.com/

Wirefly X PRIZE CUP - Official Site

http://www.xprizecup.com/

11 Killer Freebies for Your Pocket PC - Lifehacker

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/pocket-pc/11-killer-freebies-for-your-pocket-pc-209413.php

Toppling Linux - Forbes.com - Magazine Article

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1030/104_print.html

Battery Free, USB Powered LED Torch

http://www.instructables.com/id/E1OSW5LM9YET9K4IMM/?ALLSTEPS

O'Reilly Network -- Open Tools for MySQL Administrators

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2006/10/19/mysql-tools.html

A Complete History of Tux - so Far.

http://www.sjbaker.org/tux/

PC-BSD - Personal Computing, served up BSD Style!

http://www.pcbsd.org/

Turning your laptop into HDTV | CNET News.com

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-6126742.html?tag=nefd.lede

ThinkGeek :: LED Light Bulbs

http://www.thinkgeek.com/clearance/7aa8/

The Big Picture: Dilbert's Unified Theory of Everything Financial'

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/10/dilberts_unifie.html

Keepers of Lists - Top 40 Things To Do When Your ISP Is Down

http://www.keepersoflists.org/index.php?lid=6094

Ten Mysteries of about:config | Linux Journal

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8004

Wikipedia jumps offline and onto mobile devices - Information World Review

http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2166069/wikipedia-jumps-offline-onto

The Bill of Rights (including the Preamble to the Bill of Rights)

http://billofrights.org/

YouTube - This Man can Move Anything

Stonehenge? No Problem... ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRRDzFROMx0

Cisco's Triple Threat - Telecom Blog

Cisco's Triple Threat - data - tv - voip
http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=103418

Computers and Cat Litter - Articles / Reviews | TheTechLounge

http://www.thetechlounge.com/article/301/Computers and Cat Litter/

404 Research Lab

http://www.plinko.net/404/

20 Things the average person doesn't know about XP

http://www.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?guid=A257968B-1247-46B8-8EAE-DF41C02E9D90

Metal Storm Weapons - Popular Mechanics

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281426.html

Ubuntu Kubuntu 5.04 Newbie Install Guide

http://www.mrbass.org/linux/ubuntu/install/

Backing up a Unix(-like) system

http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix

Jackfield - Widgets for Linux

http://www.kryogenix.org/code/jackfield/

DoItYourself! | zedomax.com - blog about emerging technologies, diy, gadgets, and more!

http://zedomax.com/blog/category/diy/

HOW-TO: Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Ubuntu - 10 steps! at PublicidadPixelada

http://blog.publicidadpixelada.com/2006/10/10/how-to-adobe-photoshop-cs2-on-ubuntu-10-steps/

Sending secret messages over public internet lines can take place with new technique

http://www.physorg.com/news79715127.html

Google Accounts - Sign up for Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Programming Designs | Community providing source code, tutorials, web design and software

http://programming-designs.com/page/ebooks

Spotted - The Geekiest License Plates | Geek 24: Gadgets, Technology and Geek

http://www.geek24.com/g/the-best-geeky-license-plates

SPACE.com -- New Bush Space Policy Unveiled, Stresses U.S. Freedom of Action

http://www.space.com/news/061007_bush_spacepolicy.html

Remember the DAK catalog?

I was perusing some comments about dubbing tapes to CD and...
I happened on their new site!
DAK Industries 2000 - What Happened to DAK 1?

http://www.dak.com/whathappened.htm

Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 2

http://www.solutionwatch.com/515/back-to-school-with-the-class-of-web-20-part-2/

WiFi GoogleMaps MashUp

http://wifi.earthcode.com/

From the mouths of babes. Dear God...

http://www.slibe.com/publicimage/abe78f10-1914_jpg/

How to build your own Jet Engine

Like the guy on Digg said: BE CAREFUL... ;-)

http://www.instructables.com/id/EEA99AAUR3EP28744T/

Skype for Linux goes public

http://nodalpoint.madfire.net/articles/2006/10/04/skype-for-linux-goes-public

Slideshare » login

http://slideshare.net/login

Google Code Search

http://www.google.com/codesearch

Quotes for Programmers

http://www.sysprog.net/quotes.html

Shooting yourself in the foot in various programming languages

http://www.reed.edu/~tuckers/jokes/foot.html

The NABS Gallery of Natural Arches

http://www.naturalarches.org/gallery.htm

Google Gadgets For Your Webpage

http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open

Huge 'launch ring' to fling satellites into orbit - space - 03 October

Someday, people will look back on this time and think, wow, our ancestors wanted to get into space SO BADLY, they strapped a giant BOMB on their rear-ends and rode it!

Were they CRAZY!?!

Here is one of several SANE ways:

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10180-huge-launch-ring-to-fling-satellites-into-orbit.html

Programming Designs Forums / Software Horror Stories

http://forums.programming-designs.com/viewtopic.php?pid=3354

wireless.itworld.com - Nokia develops a new, short-range wireless

http://wireless.itworld.com/4984/061003nokiawireless/page_1.html

eBay - most expensive items

http://search-desc.ebay.com/the_W0QQcatrefZC3QQfromZR2QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ3QQftsZ2QQsbrsrtZd

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/~fizikt/html/hawking/A_Brief_History_in_Time.html

PhishTank | Join the fight against phishing

http://www.phishtank.com/

FreeComputerBooks.com - Free Computer Books, Tutorials & Lecture

http://freecomputerbooks.com/webAjaxBooksIndex.html

Useful Free Windows Programs Under 2MB - Revision3 Forums

http://revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=234

Perspective

In case we find ourselves starting to believe all the
anti-American sentiment and negativity,
we should remember England 's Prime Minister
Tony Blair's words during a recent interview.
When asked by one of his Parliament members
why he believes so much in America , he said:

"A simple way to take measure of a country
is to look at how many want in
... and how many want out."

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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you:

1. Jesus Christ
2. The American G. I.

One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.

Fw: Ad In the Paper

Expire Date:Sep 6th, 2006

$10,000
06' Suzuki GSXR 1000
Farmington , UT 84025 - Aug 7, 2006
2006 Suzuki 1000. This bike is perfect! It has 1000 miles and has had its
500 mile dealer service. (Expensive) It's been adult ridden, all wheels
have always been on the ground. I use it as a cruiser/commuter. I'm selling
it because it was purchased without proper consent of a loving wife.
Apparently "do whatever the f*** you want" doesn't mean what I thought.
Call me, Steve.

Fw: Children in Church

A little boy was in a relative's wedding.

As he was coming down the aisle, he would take two steps, stop, and turn to the crowd. While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar.

So it went, step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR, all the way down the aisle.

As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing so hard by the time he reached the pulpit.

When asked what he was doing, the child sniffed and said, "I was being the Ring Bear."

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One Sunday in a Midwest City, a young child was "acting up" during the morning worship hour.

The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle.

Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out.

Just before reaching the safety of the foyer, the little one called loudly to the congregation, "Pray for me! Pray for me!"

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One particular four-year old prayed, "And forgive us our trash baskets as we forgive those who put trash in our baskets."

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A little boy was overheard praying: "Lord, if you can't make me a better boy, don't worry about it. I'm having a real good time like I am."

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A Sunday School teacher asked her little children, as they were on the way to church service, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"

One bright little girl replied, "Because people are sleeping."

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A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, looking at the old pages as he turned them.

Then something fell out of the Bible.

He picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that has been pressed in between the pages.

"Mama, look what I found," the boy called out.

"What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked.

With astonishment in the young boy's voice he answered, "It's Adam's suit."

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The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel mike, and as he preached, he moved briskly about the platform, jerking the mike cord as he went.

Then he moved to one side, getting wound up in the cord and nearly tripping before jerking it again.

After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the third pew leaned toward her mother and whispered, "If he gets loose, will he hurt us?"

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Six-year old Angie, and her four-year old brother, Joel, were sitting together in church. Joel giggled, sang and talked out loud.

Finally, his big sister had had enough. "You're not supposed to talk out loud in church."

"Why? Who's going to stop me?" Joel asked.

Angie pointed to the back of the church and said, "See those two men standing by the door? They're hushers."

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My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?"

I mentally polished my halos, while I asked, "No, how are we alike?"

"You're both old," he replied.

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A ten-year old, under the tutelage of her grandmother, was becoming quite knowledgeable about the Bible.

Then, one day, she floored her grandmother by asking, "Which Virgin was the mother of Jesus? The virgin Mary or the King James Virgin?"

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A Sunday school class was studying the Ten Commandments.

They were ready to discuss the last one.

The teacher asked if anyone could tell her what it was.

Susie raised her hand, stood tall, and quoted, "Thou shall not take the covers off the neighbor's wife."

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Of the world's 100 largest economic entities, 51 are now corporations

After reading this list, two things come to mind:

1. On recent walks, My oldest friend and I were wondering whether Wal-Mart
was the new GM. Apparently not, but just barely... ;-)

2. Why do we care what most of the UN thinks as opposed to our corporations
who PAY their way in taxes, plus employ the rest of the tax-paying citizens?

BTW, do you suppose the subtracted the corporate incomes from the US GDP?

But here is the real question:

What is wrong with this list?

http://www.corporations.org/system/top100.html

Answer: At least the corporations actually provide goods and services to
earn their incomes...

Old Fogey's Guide - AIM Acronyms

http://www.aim.com/acronyms.adp?aolp=0

The Unix Acronym List: Unix Commands

http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/acro/Cmd.htm

THE UNIX ACRONYM LIST

Unix Commands

A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Acronym	Meaning
adb	Algol or absolute or assembly or advanced debugger (see here)
ar	archiver
as	assembler
atob	ASCII to binary
awk	Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (names of program authors)
bash	Bourne again shell
bc	better or basic calculator (in early Unix versions: B compiler)
bsh	Bourne shell (name of program author)
btoa	binary to ASCII
c89	1989 (ANSI/ISO-)C compiler
cal	calendar
cat	concatenate
cb	C beautifier
cc	C compiler
chgrp	change group
chmod	change mode
chown	change owner
chsh	change shell
ci	check in
cmp	compare
co	check out
comm	common
cp	copy
cpio	copy (archive files) in and out (of an archive)
cpp	C pre-processor
cron	Chronos (greek god)
csh	C shell (resembles the syntax of the C programming language)
...d	daemon (e. g. inetd = internet daemon)
dbx	extended debugger (?) or DBX (=extended decibel, noise reduction system; see here)
dc	desk calculator
dd	Optinion 1: Dataset Definition (named after the OS/3x0 JCL DD command who's syntax it also ripped off as a joke; see here) Opinion 2: Copy and convert (called dd because cc is the C compiler; see here) Opinions 3-n: data, device, disk, dump in various combinations
df	disk free
diff	difference
diff3	differences of three files
dirname	directory name
du	disk usage
ed	editor
egrep	extended grep
elm	electronic mail
emacs	editing macros Sometimes: Eight megabytes and constantly swapping or: Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift or: Emacs makes any computer slow
eqn	equation
eval	evaluate
ex	extended editor (?)
expr	expression
fc	fix command
fgrep	fixed-string grep
fmt	format
fsck	file system check
ftio	fast tape input/output
ftp	file transfer protocol
fuser	file user
g...	GNU
getty	get tty
grep	global regular expression print (from the ed subcommand g/RE/p where RE is a regular expression)
id	identity
imake	interface to make
irc	internet relay chat
jsh	job-control shell
ksh	Korn shell (from David Korn, program author)
ld	link editor or loader
lex	lexical analyser
lint	not an acronym (removes lint from programs)
lharc	Lempl-Huffman archiver (algorithm authors)
ln	link
logname	log-in name
lorder	library order
lpc	line printer control
lpd	line printer daemon
lpq	line printer queue
lpr	line print
lprm	line printer remove (from queue)
ls	list
m4	macro processor version 4 (successor of M3)
man	manual
mkfs	make file system
mknod	make node
mv	move
mvdir	move directory
mwm	Motif window manager
nawk	new awk
nl	number lines
nm	names
nn	no news
nohup	no hang-up
nroff	new roff
oclock	O shaped clock (?)
od	octal dump
passwd	password
pax	portable archive exchange
pcc	portable C compiler
pg	pager
pgp	pretty good privacy
pico	pine composer
pine	first pine is nearly elm, later pine is no longer elm and finally program for Internet news and e-mail (see here)
ping	not an acronym (named after the sound that a sonar makes, see here)
povray	persistence of vision raytracer
pr	prepare (for printing)
prs	print revision summary
prof	profiler
ps	process status
pwd	print work directory
qdaemon	queue daemon
r...	remote (e. g. rsh = remote shell)
ranlib	(create) random access library
rcp	remote copy
rcs	revision control system
rlogin	remote login
rm	remove
rmdel	remove delta
rmail	restricted mail (see here)
rmdir	remove directory
rmt	remote magnetic tape
rsh	remote shell or restricted shell (sometimes Rsh)
roff	run-off (similar program)
rz	receive Z-modem
sar	system activity report
sdb	symbolic debugger
sed	stream editor
sh	shell
shar	shell archive
stty	set tty
su	superuser (see here)
sync	synchronize
sz	send Z-modem
tar	tape archive(r)
tbl	table
tclsh	Tcl shell
tcsh	Tenex C shell (see here)
tee	T pipe fitting (plumbing device)
telnet	terminal over network
tex	tau epsilon chi (greek letters)
tr	translate
troff	typesetter roff
tsh	trusted shell
tsort	topological sort
ttt	tic tac toe
ulimit	user's limit
uname	Unix name (?)
uniq	unique
uucp	Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
vi	visual (from the ex subcommand vi that switches into visual mode)
vim	vi improved (previously: vi imitation)
wall	write all
wc	word count
wish	windowing shell
...wm	window manager
xargs	extended arguments
xdm	X display manager
xdpr	X dump print
xfd	X font display
xmkmf	X make makefile
xrdb	X resource database
xwd	X window dump
xwud	X window un-dump
yacc	yet another compiler compiler
zip	Ziv packer (algorithm author)

A B C D E F G I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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© 2006 Wolfram Rösler
wolfram@roesler-ac.de
Last update: 20 May 2006

Shake it like a Tic-Tac!

http://www.instructables.com/id/E5BLCRZ178ES9J6A88/?ALLSTEPS