If you play computer games, at some point you’ve probably been stereotyped as the antisocial nerd. Well now you can be a social nerd! Learn to host a LAN party, and experience the joys of fragging your friends in your garage. Well follow this link and learn the secrets for a successful lan party.

Lan Party

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In this Internet-connected world it is an essential skill to know how to troubleshoot network problems. High-quality software suites exist to do the job but can easily cost in excess of tens of thousands of dollars. With a handful of absolutely free open source tools you can do it yourself  on any computer anywhere in the world.

Diagnose and manage your network for free with Linux and open source tools

SimplyMEPIS, a very popular desktop Linux, is going to change back to using Debian Linux for its core from Ubuntu. In March of 2006, MEPIS founder Warren Woodford, decided to switch to Ubuntu from Debian for the next version of SimplyMEPIS, version 6.0.

MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian

f you work at a fairly junior level in the typical corporate IT environment your bosses will probably be treating you as a technician of categorised skills whose opinions and expertise outside of the narrow job box they have you in are neither of interest nor of value. Basically they tell you to do your job and keep out of everybody else’s – and particularly theirs.

In my experience the less technically competent the IT management group is, the more harshly these role boundaries get enforced. Unfortunately, this behaviour is common, wasteful, and dishonest: the company has hired 100% of your applicable skills and directly or indirectly committed to helping you expand them, so restricting what you are allowed to do to the small percentage of your overall skill set that fits the niche they have you in both wastes most of what they’re paying for and breaks their commitment to you.

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The Firefox browser stores not only a user’s bookmarks, history, saved forms, and usernames and passwords, but frequently also several extensions and themes. When you’re switching computers or distro-hopping, replicating the browser environment can be tricky and time-consuming. But with the Firefox Environment Backup Extension (FEBE), you can back up and restore everything Firefox can hold, and then some.

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Back up and restore your Firefox environment with FEBE

Well have I found a site for you. Usa Today, yes that newspaper that is every motel in the world, has a great collection of Puzzles for you to peruse and enjoy. Crosswords,Sudoku,and Up & Down are just a few of the selections that are available for you to master. Have fun and enjoy folks.

Puzzles Galore

Have you wanted to see what the funniest and most unusual pictures coming out of Google Street View are? Well here is the site that you want to visit. Some funny and some well lets say they should not be there type of pictures as folks get caught at places they really don’t need to be. Take a peek and see who you know, hint Tom from Buzz Out Loud is in one of them. But have fun and see who you might know.

View all the Pictures

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A worm that has turned 100,000 MySpace users’ sites into zombies exemplifies a fluid new botnet architecture that evades security experts.

This looks really ugly, and a problem that could continue in other places and with other areas of interest, Baldy

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MySpace Worm Uses Fast-Flux to Dodge Detection

This tutorial describes how to edit the GRUB menu. It will also show how to add operating systems and how to add splash screens.

Source: Howto forge

~LC

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Thousands of open source advocates and enthusiasts from around the world are expected to take the message of free and open source software to the streets on September 15 for the fourth annual Software Freedom Day.

This is a great idea and a good way for you folks to start to spread the word about open source and Linux solutions in your area,Baldy.

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Software Freedom Day: Taking open source to the streets