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26 January 2012
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Free website monitoring from all over the world

There are quite a few online companies that offer to monitor your website and alert you when it becomes inaccessible from different places around the globe. They send you email and SMS messages along with reporting features. And there are a few good ones that offer this service in a limited function for free.

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26 January 2012
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Fieldrunners Tower Defense Strategy and Tactics

First off, the long twisty path you create doesn’t have to start out by turning 90 degrees, zigzagging back and forth as tightly as possible. In this case you’re taking advantage of the fact that even the cheapest turrets will hit planes while still allowing you to wind a path back and forth later. Guns are so cheap, just think of it as the zerg rush of tower defense.

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23 January 2012
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Fix ntp time sync in virtual machines with kvm-clock

If your host system uses Time Stamp Counter and Virtual Machine guests use kvm-clock, then you should not use ntp on the guest. But what if you sync the physical host to a good Internet time source and just sync the virtualized guest to itself?

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20 January 2012
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Play Steam Games without connecting to Steam

There are many reasons why forcing people to play their games through services like steam is wrong. But let’s save that for another day and get you playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim without connecting to steam.

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18 January 2012
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Websites blackout in protest of SOPA and ProtectIP censorship

Many sites are blacked out today in support of banishing SOPA and ProtectIP. Here are some front page examples of sites participating in the protest

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18 January 2012
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Internet Goes on Strike against SOPA and PIPA

SOPA and PIPA would censor the web and harm American businesses. Senate voting begins Jan 24th. Sign the petition urging Congress to vote no on SOPA and PIPA.

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17 January 2012
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Rant about why tethering is stupid and what you can do about it

I love a good rant, especially when it’s well justified. The carriers want to rip you off. When it comes to paying for tethering on top of your data plan, Mike Elgan hits the nail on the head telling you how it is.

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13 January 2012
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How to Create samba users and Verify they can connect

This is the simplest way I know to get samba up and running. This isn’t the most secure, best, smartest, etc. It’s just for testing and getting up and running as quickly as possible.

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12 January 2012
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Autostart a KVM virtual machine from the console with virsh

virsh won’t let me query information, but I do know the vm names I wish to start and I have a simple ssh shell on the host machine. So lets give it a shot.

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9 January 2012
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Edit hosts file on Windows 7

This goes for just about all versions of windows. The file you are looking for is %systemroot%system32\drivers\etc\hosts.

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