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Source: Consumerist

UPDATE: 9 More Hewlett-Packard Company Secrets From A Former Employee

A former Hewlett-Packard worker could barely wait for their non-disclosure-agreement to end so they could spill 14 company secrets to The Consumerist.

1: Many HP Printers, like their laser printers, have a built-in page-count after which they won’t work. This resides in the a transpart sometimes called image or drum kit. Rather than get the printer fixed, it’s often cheaper to buy a new printer, OR you can do a NV ram reset. It resets everything in the printer, including all the page counts, but it’s not without risks.

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Back in September I revived my MiniITX box to serve as a backup server. I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since. Ugh, I want backups to just work!

A few nights ago I decided to try again, this time dropping the constraint of not installing software on my laptop. Turns out I already had the building block I needed: rsync, installed in the form of Cygwin.

I began with these Rsync for Windows instructions, and everything went smoothly until the very end—rsync on Windows wasn’t connecting to rsync on Ubuntu. My gut told me rsync’s port 873 isn’t open on Ubuntu, but I had no idea how to open ports anymore. Luckily I found How to start rsync daemon at boot in the Ubuntu forums which told me exactly what I needed to know.

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Devshed articles have been a great resource for php-learners to learn php techniques very quickly and easily. A similar article on making a RSS (Rich Site Summary) has been posted on Devshed.

In this article we are going to discuss how to create a PHP-based RSS reader. It would be helpful if you know something about XML, but not really necessary. RSS documents have three main tags: Title, You can read the rest of this awesome article at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/MySQL/Creating-an-RSS-Reader-the-Reader/ 

 

Reporter’s Notebook: So Oracle isn’t going to create its own Linux based on Ubuntu to fight Red Hat. Oracle is going to have its own Linux based on Red Hat’s own binaries to fight Red Hat.Sort of like using a person’s own hands to choke them with.

Officially though, Red Hat is taking the same opinion that I expressed last week about the whole Oracle Linux issue. Namely that Oracle’s move is good for the open source market as a whole.

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Linux is the clear winner out of a dispute between the Russian legal authorities and schools over who should carry the can over the use of pirated Windows software. Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.

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If the company you work for spends more than an hour a week in meetings you just might have the organisational version of analysis paralysis. While it is perfectly natural to want to spend time planning, especially one with an element of risk, there comes a point where any more thinking is counter-productive and you need to start making progress.

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Wireless ZT is looking for Software / Support Engineer in to it’s growing team in Madrid Spain. Our product offering includes products like Push-To-Talk over Cellular, SMS Gateway, WAP Gateway, MMSC, Instant Messaging and Presence Server and several Mobile Content Delivery platforms. All our products are running in Service Layer, thus all are IP based applications and no mobile core network knowledge is required. Naturally You will have also full support from our product development teams.

You can send your resumes at henri[dot]hovi@wirelesszt[dot]com

I’m fortunate enough to have a job where I am able to contribute to open-source software projects when I can justify the business need. Recently, I’ve been contributing to SquirrelMail (http://www.squirrelmail.org), an open-source webmail IMAP client written in PHP. When I began contributing, I got listed as one of

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Half Life 2 and Counter Strike are two of the most popular First Person Shooters available. These games are available for Windows PCs in first place. A growing number of people uses Linux as their major operating system and does not want to renounce their favored games.
This HOWTO should make it possibly for anybody to get Steam working with Wine.

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While acknowledging that YouTube dominates the user-generated video space, InterActiveCorp CEO Barry Diller believes that its reign won’t last for long. “Those tools are going to be everywhere,” he predicts. YouTube is “not going to be one place to go.”

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