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Much of what we predicted about Home Server is true. It’s all about centralization and ease of use, and it’s targeted at users who want an easy way to back up all of the important data in their house. It’s built using a mix of new and not-new sever technology, but whereas we previously believed it was based on a client OS, Windows Home Server is in fact based off of Windows Server 2003. Dropped behind a suitable firewall, this should be a strong server product that meets many emerging needs in the computing household. Whether or not it can fight off competition from other products, especially the coming onslaught of consumer NAS products, remains to be seen.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070108-8573.html

Amazing collection of the best 300 freeware programs for Windows. Only a high quality applications, no cheap stuff. Find out what’s free and cool. Divided into categories for faster navigation! Enjoy and share!

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Ma Bell is back. Blown into eight pieces by an antitrust court in 1984, AT&T, like a self-repairing robot, has slowly put itself back together. Last Friday, the Federal Communications Commission, demanding net neutrality and other conditions, approved AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth. That will make AT&T—once again—the world’s largest technology company.

http://www.slate.com/id/2156918

Well, we knew it was likely to happen in 2006 or 2007: Hitachi has fulfilled their promise and broken the 1TB drive barrier with the introduction of Hitachi’s new Deskstar 7K1000 drive. Thanks to perpendicular recording and the average consumers’ voracious appetite for porn totally legitimate data, Hitachi’s new $400 drives — available in SATA II or PATA 133 varieties, with differing speed modes, a 32MB buffer, quieting accoustics, SMART, and a 7200rpm spindle speed — will hit the market running in Q1 of this year.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/hitachi-breaks-1tb-hard-drive-barrier-with-7k1000/

You can never be too safe these days. Viruses, spyware, rootkits, remote exploits, you just never know what security issue is going to be your downfall. Thats why it is important as a Linux administrator to have an understanding of some of the best Linux security tools available to you. In this article, you will learn about ten of the best Linux security tools, and resources on how to use them to your advantage.

http://www.foogazi.com/2007/01/03/the-best-linux-security-tools/

Microsoft has over 150 FREE Windows & Office Programs available for download — finding them all is extremely difficult . . . until now.

http://bhandler.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!70F64BC910C9F7F3!1231.entry

USB Knoppix 5.1 This is a revisit of the tutorial: ”How to install and run Knoppix Linux from a USB Flash Pen Drive through Windows”.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/01/01/usb-knoppix-510/

A stuck pixel is a point on a screen that does not display the correct colour. Stuck pixels are fairly common on high resolution LCD screens. Stuck pixels sometimes start working again with time unless they appear black on a white background, these are known as dead pixels.

http://www.jscreenfix.com/

The following is an instructional tutorial. I hope to show how easy it is to sniff people’s passwords in plain-text form on virtually any wired network. Common applications for this would be on a university, school or otherwise large network. This has only been tested on a Windows machine, but can be used to sniff passwords from any operating system.

http://www.antiriddle.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=266