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After a month of using Firefox, Google Chrome is now stable with self-hosted Wordpress with new bookmark sync feature

QR Codes are two-dimensional barcodes created by a Japanese corporation in 1994. Differing from their repsective 1-dimensional barcodes, QR codes can store such detailed information as telephone numbers, Google Map coordinates, web addresses, hyperlinking, and URI direction for opening web pages. QR technology has much more data capacity than traditional barcodes.

Numeric only Max. 7,089 characters
Alphanumeric [...]

Nikto is a Perl script that scans and identifies potential risks on a server, website, or network.It is run completely from the command line and does an excellent job of digging out potential security holes. Download Nikto on their website. Specifically, Nikto tests for:

IDS Evasion
2300+ New RFI Tests
6100+ Files and CGIs
Outdated Versions of 950+ Servers
Version-specific [...]

Shall I dare say that the race to make the best tablet is on? Haleron Technologies, an electronics company out of Columbia, has available the iLet Mini Hal tablet. Even though the unit is back ordered until 19March2010, definitely deserves our attention.

For all of you that need to know the specifications right off the bat, [...]

PNW Tech Forums, or Pacific Northwest Tech Forums, is an ad-free user supported forums that went live on February 28, 2010. After searching around the many months, I realized that a local cross-platform tech forums site was not to be found. Site topics range from Mac and Linux to Microsoft Server. There is also a [...]

I had the opportunity to check out the Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC) today. The DRAC allows administrators to remotely boot and essentially take control of the system if it hangs or is turned off. As long as there is power, the DRAC is active and ready to work. Read more about the DRAC here [...]

Comcast, one of the nation’s largest Internet Service Providers, is offering all high speed internet users 2GB online storage and backup space. The service is operated by Mozy, a well-trusted third party backup service. The service currently supports Windows variants listed below, but not Mac or Linux. I would not suspect that a Linux client [...]

I was looking around for an external hard drive (hdd) enclosure and found the Sabrent on TigerDirect. After reading the reviews, it seemed like people either loved them or hated them. The top two complaints that I read about were the fan quality and the lack of hard drive installation ease. Out of 144 reviews [...]

When someone on the OlyLUG forums posted a link to YaCY, I was rather uplifted. YaCY is a scalable search engine and crawler. One of the greatest things about this engine is that the more people you have in your peer network operating YaCY, the more search results are returned. In other words, if you [...]