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An
excellent BLOG
of Open Source Desktop wins and articles about security, that you
really should read!
Branko's
Enthusiastic
Programming Pages Some useful software
and lots of documentation!
Open
Source Music, or Music as Shareware! The
Big Ideas
Listen to their stations on Shoutcast
such as Instrumental
World New Age - direct from the artist, no major labels.
Approximately
800,000 highly-skilled U.S. workers are now unemployed as a direct
result of Congress' H-1B visa legislation, which failed to include
ANY protection for U.S. workers. Click on the image to get more
information at this very detailed website. See also the
April 2003 IEEE PACE news item for a list of representatives
and others to contact.
Bowden's Hobby Circuits A small collection of electronic circuits for the hobbyist or student. Site includes over 100 circuit diagrams, links to related sites, commercial kits and projects, newsgroups and educational areas. A MUST visit if you like to tinker or need to get some obscure components.
“Dave's
Online Memory”. This is one of the most informative sites
you'll find on the Internet! Ranks 10/10 in my rating system -
check it out at http://www.grox.net!
How to get WiFi to work over 500 meters (and you thought your 300 foot driveway meant you didn't need WEP or IPSec?), other interesting projects ("Jon and I decided that it was time we made some cheese") and more articles of interest including one about Ongar.
http://www.workrobot.com/
- a wonderful site that always has something unique to offer. Some
of these links (especially the next one) were originally found
there.
Just
go there! If you want news about the IT business this is where to
get it...
Motion
is a software motion detector. It grabs images from video4linux
devices and/or from webcams (such as the axis network cameras).
Motion is the perfect tool for keeping an eye on your property
keeping only those images that are interesting.
The
source of everything free for Solaris on Sparc and Intel. A really
cool site well worth visiting - kudos to Steve
Christensen for a great site.
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This
may look like an ad, but we've had excellent results with this
package. This site is hosted on one of them, and another handles
email, runs Star Office (used to create this site) and eveything
else. If you get one and have any problems let us know and we'll
try to help you out. Of course if you get one and it works for you
let us know that too!
Check out the $200 PC running Lindows
(a Debian
distribution of Linux).
Available only at Walmart
of all places! You really should check this out! A great machine
built by Microtel.
Stick in a Hauppauge
WINTV card and for less than $300 you've got a stereo TV and FM
system that plays great games and runs StarOffice
($65 or so from Amazon)
or Open
Office (free) as well. Stop paying the Microsoft tax! Look at
the list of available packages
from Debian.
And how about a 2.9lb Laptop? The $799
Lindows Mobile PC is a featherweight, but it weighs in with such
features as LindowsOS, a 933mhz VIA processor, 256MB RAM, USB 2.0,
Firewire, Ethernet, and a crisp 12.1" TFT display, plus a
PCMCIA slot to add even more functionality such as wireless
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Speaks
for itself! Seriously, though, a good place to find out about
security problems with our favorite vendor's software. Lots of
links to articles in Zdnet and other publishers' publications.
Your
premier source for over 6,000 titles of Ambient, New Age, Space,
Tribal & Global sounds, and other fascinating music and videos
since 1981.
Public stratum 1 rdate servers at NIST
New Optical Clock at NIST.
FOR
PATRIOTS ONLY!
Click on the image to see it full
size. Have Winamp
(for you M$ WIndows fans) or XMMS
(for Linux/Unix aficionados) ready, and tune
in between noon and 3 weekdays (well, it's popular, so if you
are lucky...).
CIO.com
is a website for CIOs (Chief Information Officers) and other
information executives. CIO.com is produced by CXO Media,
publishers of CIO Magazine and Darwin Magazine. CXO Media is one
of the IDG (International Data Group) companies.
a recruiter with an interesting angle...
Cannot
vouch for this site but their business model seems to make sense.
At your own risk...
Seen
on a Monster forum:
"my job description use to be design, develop, test,
java/j2ee applications. i would implement business requirements
using java. my employer changed direction and has gone towards
using 3rd party tools instead of custom software. now my job is
now to analyze a business process and re-engineer it to use the
3rd party tool. of course, i have to learn the 3rd party tool and
implement the new process using it.
career wise, do you
guys think i am better off now? My knowledge of this 3rd party
tool will be useless as soon as the next version comes out.
java/j2ee knowledge would be useful longer and for more companies
but it is starting to be seen as a commodity. maybe the business
analysis skills are more valuable than java coding or knowledge of
this 3rd party tool? "
TECH_JOBS_EXPERT response:
"Well, I think you're interpretation is on the mark
-- the knowledge of the 3rd-party tool probably isn't so valuable
(though I guess that depends on how widely it will be used), but
what will be valuable (and, perhaps, more valuable than more
technical knowledge) is your skill/experience at
analyzing/interpreting/implementing business requirements. That's
especially true because you do have the deeper technical knowledge
to back up your business skills."
Watch this space! (last updated 04/01/04)
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