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| Posted: 11 Oct 2010 07:30 AM PDT  Latest News, Blogs, Tips, and Reviews that I find Interesting and Useful: 1. Coffee, TV or Wi-Fi? The politicians have it all wrong. We are not addicted to foreign oil. We are addicted to Wi-Fi, the wireless networking technology that holds our youth in its wavy grip. More @ NYTimes 2. SpaceShipTwo flies free for first time Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket plane was set loose for its first gliding flight today, about 45,000 feet above California's Mojave Desert and landed to a chorus of cheers minutes later. That's one small step for gliders, but one giant leap for SpaceShipTwo and the future of suborbital space tourism. More @ MSNBC 3. What we're driving at Larry and Sergey founded Google because they wanted to help solve really big problems using technology. And one of the big problems we're working on today is car safety and efficiency. Our goal is to help prevent traffic accidents, free up people's time and reduce carbon emissions by fundamentally changing car use. More @ Googleblog 5. Ubuntu 10.10 arrives with impressive new netbook environment Canonical has announced the availability of Ubuntu 10.10, a major update of the popular Linux distribution. The new version introduces the Unity netbook environment, which offers a custom desktop shell that is optimized for ease of use on small displays and has a global menubar to conserve vertical screen space. More @ ArsTechnica 6. Set up an Inexpensive Beginner Home Recording Studio If you've been messing around with Audacity or GarageBand and are ready to take the next step in laying down some music, Lifehacker Australia has a simple list of must-have tools for a beginner recording studio. More @ Lifehacker7. Zeus Hackers Could Steal Corporate Secrets Too That's what worries Gary Warner, director of research in computer forensics with the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who has been closely monitoring the various criminal groups that use Zeus. Zeus typically steals online banking credentials and then uses that information to move money out of Internet accounts. More @ PCWorld9. How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Debian Lenny FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to accept TLS sessions on a Debian Lenny server. More @ HowtoForge 10. Top 10 Bizarre Weapons of World War II It is often said that necessity is the mother of all invention, and at no other point in a country's history is necessity greater than in war-time. As a result, the widespread, and often desperate, fighting led to many new inventions, from computers, to jet engines, to atomic bombs. More @ Listverse  |
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