Why windows takes so long to start up.

September 09, 2006

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Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It's a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren't so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems to take forever to load.

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Do Everything Right From the Command Line: the Internet

September 07, 2006

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UNIX provides hundreds, if not thousands, of commands with which you can manipulate a large variety of resources available in the kernel and user space. Martin Streicher, Editor-in-Chief, Linux Magazine, looks at three essential UNIX utilities that deliver the entire Internet to your command line.

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Have a spare working PC around? FREEnas it.

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What is FreeNAS ?

FreeNAS is a small (less than 32Mo) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).

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Wormy bots exploiting Windows Server flaw

September 01, 2006

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Wormy bots exploiting Windows Server flaw: "It took less than a week for underground programmers to modify their bot software to take advantage of the latest Windows flaw, described in security bulletin MS06-040."