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Redundant Array Of Independent Disks, once a staple for servers only is becoming more common among the performance minded home machines. This is simply one of the best tutorials I have found for explaining the soup of numbers used to describe the features, benefits and drawbacks of deploying this fault tolerant disk management system.

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Despite all the hoopla about the introduction of Windows Vista, the truth of the matter is that the new OS isn’t due for at least another seven to nine months — and it will probably be even longer before most of us start adopting it. Meanwhile, we’ve still got to deal with Win XP.

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The surest way to reduce your taxes is to convert personal expenditures into allowable deductions. Turn even a hobby into a business and you’ll cut your tax bill.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Taxes/Taxshelters/P33572.asp

Iomega yesterday unveiled the latest two members to its StorCenter line of network storage products. The new StorCenter Wireless Network Storage 1TB ($899.95) and StorCenter Network Hard Drive 500GB ($499.95) are both available now.

http://news.digitaltrends.com/article10175.html

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A stupid, stupid law has been passed in Westchester County: Sometimes righteous technical indignation overcomes me and I must, like the mad prophet of the airwaves in Network, tell you to throw open your DVD drive doors and launch Windows and shout, “I’m firewalled as hell, and I’m not going to encrypt it any more!”

http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006500.html

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One New York county has solved the “problem” of unauthorized access to unsecured wireless networks by passing a new law. Businesses operating in Westchester County will soon need to turn on security settings for their WiFi networks if they are used to access financial information for their customers.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060421-6647.html

Well after over six months using WordPress to drive jappler.com, I thought I would report for anyone out there that might be interested, what plugins and modifications I have put in place to create jappler.com what it is today.

http://www.jappler.com/archive/2006/01/11/japplers-wordpress/

http://www.semiologic.com/software/static-front/

With the advent of blogging software, creating web pages has become so easy that anyone with the most basic computer skills can establish a presence on the web. However, in the best open source tradition, the most popular blogging software is evolving rapidly. In some cases, it is now as powerful as many of the content management systems (CMSs) used to build traditional websites.

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Linux Live CDs get all the fame, but what do you get when you combine BartPE forum users with a dedication to making the smallest Windows XP Live CD known to man? A 16 meg ISO and shrinking… FAIR WARNING: The thread should be read in its entirety to make sure you compile it correctly.

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(New - updated for Google Maps API v2 on 4/20/2006!)
Version 2 includes a number of enhancements, including elimination of memory leak problems and some new features.

Most people really like the embedded Google Maps, but don’t know how easy it is to add them to any page. I’ve had a few people ask me how it is done. With a little bit of HTML knowledge, anyone can quickly have a map up and running in just a few minutes.

Link here.