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Dictionary.com Word of the Day
A new word is presented every day with its definition and example sentences from actual published works.
Linux Today
Linux Today News Service
- Firefox To Get A New Default Theme, Other Enhancements
- Ubuntu in your pocket
- Linux Top 5: SCO Returns
- Apache 2.4 Delivers More Performance
- Developments mainstream projects are looking forward to
- What Greg Does
- The KDE Death Watch
- Help us Open Source NASA.gov
- What does Ubuntu want to be when it grows up?
- LibreOffice Foundation Symbolises Maturity
- Debian Position on Software Patents
- 4 Online Resources to Kickstart Coding
- Adventures in FPLing: The two-week mark, and what I do all day
- OpenStack Debuts TryStack
- Why 'Android fragmentation' isn't so bad
Boing Boing
Brain candy for Happy Mutants
- GitHub: hosting the Internet's collaborative projects, making money, and being awfully nice about it
- Luigi Anzivino: Science of Magic
- HOWTO make a 4,000-volt infrared "snooperscope"
- All the 1958 Fords
- FCC commissioner: don't let the Internet fall into the UN's hands
- Motörhead disavows new box set: "greed once again rears its yapping head"
- Fun beginner's electronic project - the Solder: Time LED watch
- Squid-shaped USB drive
- Have iPhone, can travel
- Pursuit Coeptis
- Meet more western companies that arm dictators and torturers with network spyware
- Scalable stylometry: can we de-anonymize the Internet by analyzing writing style?
- Printing human tissue for drug testing
- Tokyoflash's Kisai Stencil watch: telling the time with negative space
- Flowers grown from 30,000-year-old fruit
- Unicorn head mask
- Asimov t-shirt from Imaginary Foundation
- Bigott's "Cannibal Dinner"
- Everything is Dolphins: old homebrew RPG about dolphins to become a kickstartered product
- Dirty words of 1811
Very Demotivational - The Demotivational Posters Blog
New Demotivating Posters Every Day. It's A Lot of Work.
- HOW IS IT
- DEFINITELY
- CATCH 22
- VAMPIRES
- YOU MADE IT FARTHER
- A SHOTGUN
- THAT BACKPACK
- DISTORTION
- FLASHER BEAR
- SPOILER
Urban Word of the Day
A new definition every day from Urban Dictionary
- powerstreaming
- Presidents Day
- Dat shit cray
- Moon landing
- Grammatically Challanged
- credit card roulette
- let me know how that works out for you
Main News at A.P.Lawrence
Main feed at aplawrence.com: Thousands of articles, reviews, consultants listings, skills tests, opinion, how-to's for Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, networking, web site maintenance and more..
- OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion by Anthony Lawrence
- Email Archiving by Anthony Lawrence
- It was a good run by Anthony Lawrence
- SATA RDX backup cartridge report for BackupEDGE by BillMohrhardt
- Capture and report (Bash Scripting) by Anthony Lawrence
- Kerio Connect Archive Script by Anthony Lawrence
- Kerio Connect Automatic Index Maintenance by Anthony Lawrence
- Mysterious Duplicate IP problem solved by Anthony Lawrence
- Book Review - Michal Zalewski's 'The Tangled Web' by Anthony Lawrence
- Targeting customer interests with multiple Google Plus Pages by Anthony Lawrence
- Google Plus Business pages are open now by Anthony Lawrence
- I've given up on Panda by Anthony Lawrence
- Local printing in Synchronics by Anthony Lawrence
- Exploring Apple versions by Anthony Lawrence
- Kerio Connect Mailserver version 7.3 by for earlier.
The Google Weblog
new google news fast
- Launch: searchmash, an experimental site started by Google
- News: Google launches "Features, Not Products" initiative
- Launch: Google Code Search
- Preview: Google testing new site design
- Launch: Google Pages, new Geocities-style site-building software
- Launch: Google running AdWords in newspapers
- Launch: Google Music, search for bands and albums
- Story: Xooglers, Google's former Marketing Director tells his story
- Launch: Click-to-Call AdWords, Google will let you call advertisers
- Update: Blind test reveals Google offers best results
- Launch: Google Analytics, see the statistics on your website
- Announce: Google to unwire Mountain View, WiFi on street lamps
- Launch: Google adds Creative Commons support
- Launch: Google Local Mobile, get Google Maps and more on your mobile phone
- Preview: Google on the future of advertising
- Launch: Google Video adds 450 interviews with top television producers
- Update: Google "Smart Pricing" charges less for clicks from poorly-converting sites
- Launch: Frappr, place photos of you and your friends on a Google Map
- News: Google strengthens focus on Greater China
- News: Google donates $350,000 to open source projects at Oregon State
The Official Google Blog
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture.
- Google Public DNS: 70 billion requests a day and counting
- Roses are red, violets are blue...here are some Valentineâs Day tips for you
- Brazilâs Carnival goes social with Google
- European Commission clears Motorola deal
- Connect with people and places you love this Valentineâs Day
- Ship Wars@ Google Waterloo: A virtual battle of intergalactic spacecraft
- Celebrating our history, accomplishments and community during Black History Month
- An update on the Google bar
- Congratulations to Amit Singhal on his election to NAE
- Going gothic with bestselling author Anne Rice
- Introducing Chrome for Android
- Whatâs your X? Amplifying technology moonshots
- Supporting U.S. student veterans with a new scholarship
- Super Bowl XLVI: Mobile, Manning and Madonna
- Unicode over 60 percent of the web
- Mind the Gap: Encouraging women to study engineering
- Playbook for tackling the Super Bowl with Google
- 2012 global award winners RISE to the top
- Resources to support a new and open world for learning
- Google Earth 6.2: Itâs a beautiful world
Lifehacker
Computers make us more productive. Yeah, right. Lifehacker recommends the software downloads and web sites that actually save time. Don't live to geek; geek to live.
- The Tabbed Home Screen [Featured Home Screen]
- Notifications Are Evil [Information Overload]
- Remains of the Day: Ubuntu for Android is on the Way [For What It's Worth]
- How to Run Windows (and All Your Favorite Windows Programs) on Killer Mac Hardware [Emailable Tech Support]
- Attain Hotel Elite Status Without Spending Half Your Life Away from Home [Travel]
- Daily App Deals: Get Procreate for iPad for only 99¢ in Today's App Deals [Deals]
- Most Popular Professional Nameplate Site: About.me [Video]
- Make a Super Thin, Portable, and Cheap Boombox for Your Smartphone or Music Player [DIY]
- Find the Equivalent Wattage of CFL, LED, and Halogen Bulbs with This Cheat Sheet [Household]
- Right Inbox Schedules Emails for Later in Gmail [Video]
- Order Off the Secret Menu at Starbucks (and Other Coffee Shops) for Better, Cheaper, or More Powerful Drinks [Coffee Hacks]
- Brainwashing Techniques You Encounter Every Day (and How to Avoid Them) [Mind Hacks]
- Ask and Answer Questions About Making the Most Out of Downtime [Help Yourself]
- Do Not Track Plus Stops Ad Companies and Others from Tracking You Online [Video]
- The Best Global Hotkey Manager for Windows [Windows App Directory]
- What Can I Do with a Dead or Broken Laptop? [Ask Lifehacker]
- Apple's Start Developing iOS Apps Today Guide Is a Roadmap for Creating Your First App [Programming]
- The Best Times to Purchase Cruise Tickets, Train Fare, and All Other Travel for the Best Deals [Travel]
- How to Prevent YouTube from Keeping a Record of The Videos You Watch [How To]
- The Always Up-To-Date Guide to Rooting the Most Popular Android Phones [Android Rooting]
LXer Linux News
Linux and Open Source news headlines
- Ubuntu for Android
- Experts: RSA weak keys flaw restricted to network devices
- The Btrfs File-System Repair Tool Is Available
- Ubuntu for Android announced, first pictures inside
- Ubuntu for Android: Penguins peck at Nokia's core problem
- Linux Mint – the taste of success
- PlayOnLinux 4.0.14 has been released
- PCLinuxOS 2012-2 "Phoenix Xfce" has been released
- Ubuntu Global Jam 2012: 2nd - 4th March
- FlightGear 2.6.0 Released With Massive Changes
- Apple orphans Linux CUPS features- handicaps open source printing
- News: Linux Top 5: SCO Returns
- Introduction To The Linux Mint Cinnamon Desktop
- Desktop Switching in KDE Like Gnome
- Disable annoying bell in Gnome Terminal, vim, xterm, etc...
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About FRAND (But didn’t know who to ask)
- KWin May Drop Support For Catalyst, Vintage GPUs
- You know what I’m excited about? Windows 8.
- How the CRTC Helped Stifle Internet Throttling
- Hackers In Space: Hackerspace Global Grid Interview
BBC News - World
The latest stories from the World section of the BBC News web site.
- Australia FM Kevin Rudd resigns
- Afghans protest at Koran burning
- Inspectors barred from Iran site
- Venezuela's Chavez faces surgery
- Greece braced for bailout protest
- New Zealand remembers quake dead
- Megaupload founder granted bail
- Trial of Mubarak enters last day
- Police storm Bali jail after riot
- S Korea urges China on refugees
- Cigarette linked to prison blaze
- Pink diamond found in Australia
- Mona Lisa copy on show in Prado
- Markets mixed on Greece bailout
- Race policy heads to US top court
- Mexico taxi drivers gunned down
- US and Mexico sign Gulf oil deal
- UN to boost Somalia peacekeepers
- Libya ethnic clashes kill scores
- Italy minister in Delhi for talks
Planet Ubuntu
Planet Ubuntu - http://planet.ubuntu.com/
- Ubuntu Women: Career Days! This Saturday! AkGraner!
- Michael Hall: Contributing to Unity for non-developers: Quicklists
- Greg Grossmeier: Ubuntu Global Jam – Michigan edition
- Omer Akram: I am Ubuntu
- Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman: Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team at Penang Matriculation ICT Day 2012
- Costales: Ubuntu MINI Computer Concept Design [Mockup]
- Nathan Haines: Ubuntu Hour Lake Forest, February 23
- Ubuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – February 21, 2012
- Mark Shuttleworth: Ubuntu in your pocket
- Andrea Grandi: Ubuntu: synchronizing settings among multiple computers using Ubuntu One
- Jorge Castro: Where are you Latin America?
- Daniel Holbach: Making Ubuntu better: the Italian team
- Launchpad News: Reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad (part 3)
- Michael Hall: Criticism: You’re doing it wrong
- Sridhar Dhanapalan: OLPC Australia Education Newsletter
- Daniel Holbach: Making Ubuntu development more personal
- Dustin Kirkland: Still Running Ubuntu in 2012
- Laura Czajkowski: New year got off to a good start
- Martin Pitt: power-usage-report: Find power drain causes
- Dustin Kirkland: Thoughts on Hiring Linux Hackers (in 2012)
Slashdot
News for nerds, stuff that matters
- Europe Plans Exascale Funding Above U.S. Levels
- Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down
- The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal
- Why Corporate Cloud Storage Doesn't Add Up
- Unconstitutional Video Game Law Costs California $2 Million
- How Google Is Remapping Public Transportation
- Pico Projector Adapts To New Surfaces, Uses Random Objects As Input Devices
- Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science'
- DHS Budget Includes No New Airport Body Scanners
- How Mailinator Compresses Its Email Stream By 90%
- New Opa S4 Release Puts Forward New 'ORM' For MongoDB
- Transparency Grenade Collects and Leaks Sensitive Data
- Electric Rockets Set To Transform Space Flight
- Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper
- Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers
Quotes of the Day
Four humorous quotations each day from The Quotations Page
- Thomas Mann
- Calvin Coolidge
- Jimmy Demaret
- Alfred Hitchcock
- H. G. Wells
- Donald H. Rumsfeld
- Senator Patrick Leahy
- Woody Allen
- George Bernard Shaw
- Fred Allen
- Henry Cate VII
- Ogden Nash
US-CERT Cyber Security Alerts
US-CERT Cyber Security Alerts provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits. Cyber Security Alerts are released in conjunction with Technical Cyber Security Alerts when there is an issue that affects the general public. Cyber Security Alerts outline the steps and actions that non-technical home and corporate computer users can take to protect themselves from attack.
- SA12-010A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA12-006A: Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Vulnerable to Brute-Force Attack
- SA11-350A: Adobe Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-347A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-312A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-286A: Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-284A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-256A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-222A: Adobe Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-221A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletins
US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletins provide bi-weekly summaries of security issues and new vulnerabilities. They also provide patches, workarounds, and other actions to help mitigate risk.
- SB12-051: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 13, 2012
- SB12-044: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 6, 2012
- SB12-037: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 30, 2012
- SB12-030: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 23, 2012
- SB12-023: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 16, 2012
- SB12-016: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 9, 2012
- SB12-009: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 2, 2012
- SB12-002: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 26, 2011
- SB11-360: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 19, 2011
- SB11-353: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of December 12, 2011
US-CERT National Cyber Alert System
The National Cyber Alert System provides timely information about current and emerging threats and vulnerabilities as well as advice about protecting your computer and networks.
- SB12-051: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 13, 2012
- TA12-045A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SB12-044: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 6, 2012
- SB12-037: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 30, 2012
- SB12-030: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 23, 2012
- TA12-024A: "Anonymous" DDoS Activity
- SB12-023: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 16, 2012
- SB12-016: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 9, 2012
- SA12-010A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA12-010A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alerts
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alerts provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits.
- TA12-045A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA12-024A: "Anonymous" DDoS Activity
- TA12-010A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA12-006A: Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Vulnerable to Brute-Force Attack
- TA11-350A: Adobe Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA11-347A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA11-312A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA11-286A: Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA11-284A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- TA11-256A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
US-CERT Technical Alerts and Bulletins
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alerts provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits. US-CERT Cyber Security Bulletins provide bi-weekly summaries of security issues and new vulnerabilities. They also provide patches, workarounds, and other actions to help mitigate risk.
- SB12-051: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 13, 2012
- TA12-045A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SB12-044: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of February 6, 2012
- SB12-037: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 30, 2012
- SB12-030: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 23, 2012
- TA12-024A: "Anonymous" DDoS Activity
- SB12-023: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 16, 2012
- SB12-016: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 9, 2012
- TA12-010A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SB12-009: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 2, 2012
US-CERT Cyber Security Tips
US-CERT Cyber Security Tips describe and offer advice about common security issues for non-technical computer users. Tips are restricted to a single topic, although complex issues may span multiple tips. Each tip builds upon the knowledge, both terminology and content, of those published prior to it.
- ST11-001: Holiday Traveling with Personal Internet-Enabled Devices
- ST06-001: Understanding Hidden Threats: Rootkits and Botnets
- ST04-024: Understanding ISPs
- ST06-005: Dealing with Cyberbullies
- ST05-002: Keeping Children Safe Online
- ST08-001: Using Caution with USB Drives
- ST06-004: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Online Trading
- ST06-006: Understanding Hidden Threats: Corrupted Software Files
- ST06-002: Debunking Some Common Myths
- ST06-003: Staying Safe on Social Network Sites
US-CERT Cyber Security Alerts and Tips
US-CERT Cyber Security Alerts provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits. Cyber Security Alerts outline the steps and actions that non-technical home and corporate computer users can take to protect themselves from attack. Cyber Security Tips describe and offer advice about common security issues for non-technical computer users. Tips are restricted to a single topic, although complex issues may span multiple tips. Each tip builds upon the knowledge, both terminology and content, of those published prior to it.
- SA12-010A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA12-006A: Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) Vulnerable to Brute-Force Attack
- ST11-001: Holiday Traveling with Personal Internet-Enabled Devices
- SA11-350A: Adobe Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-347A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-312A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-286A: Apple Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-284A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- SA11-256A: Microsoft Updates for Multiple Vulnerabilities
- ST06-001: Understanding Hidden Threats: Rootkits and Botnets
US-CERT Current Activity
The US-CERT Current Activity web page is a regularly updated summary of the most frequent, high-impact types of security incidents currently being reported to the US-CERT.
- Adobe Releases Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player
- Google Releases Chrome 17.0.963.56
- Cisco Releases Security Advisory for Cisco NX-OS
- Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update for February 2012
- Microsoft Releases February Security Bulletin
- Adobe Releases Security Bulletins for Adobe Shockwave Player and RoboHelp
- Mozilla Releases Firefox 10.0.1
- U.S. Tax Season Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns
- Google Releases Chrome 17.0.963.46
- Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates
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