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Websites That Don't Need to Be Made Anymore 161

Posted by samzenpus from the do-not-want dept.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but there is a finite number of social networking or selling websites that the world needs. Here is a collection of the eight kinds of websites that absolutely don't need to be made anymore. I'd add dating sites and anybody who uses pop-up ads myself, but I think that would eliminate half the Web.
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Silencing a Hard Drive Using Household Items 275

Posted by kdawson from the bread-olives-and-silence dept.
Reader Justblair recommends his blog entry detailing how he made a hard drive silencer for a pittance. "This article demonstrates a very easy-to-make hard drive silencer that not only outperforms most commercially available devices, but is cheaper to implement as well. Requiring very little in fabrication skills, it is an ideal addition to a media PC or HTPC. It may even suit you if your head is aching after many hours of being whined at by your hard drive."

Comment Re:System requirements (Score 1) 364

by I_took_the_redpill (#4297005) Attached to: Novell Releases PostgreSQL for NetWare
Netware 6 has so many nice new features / advantages that it's worth the effort to upgrade.

I've also heard of a number of NT4 / win2K servers (where the company wasn't ready for Linux, and was tired of weekly or daily reboots and virus/worm attacks) moving to NetWare 6.

The new licensing by user - with essentially unlimited servers will mean a cost savings in most multi server installations.

NetWare 6 has "clientless" access from Linux using nfs. Mac's using appletalk. and (I'll say it quietly) those machines with evil software from Redmond using CIFS.

also of interest for those running window$

iFolder - think of an internet based "briefcase" on steroids that automatically keeps a sync copy of your files on the server.

iPrint - printing using internet protocols with browser based printer picking and automatic driver download.

Novell is supporting many open development projects like openldap.org and their announced development direction is to be "closer" to the open source community. Perl, , tomcat, apache are now part of the standard install, and I've heard that ports of python and php are either in the works or released. Java is also standard. The internal architecture changes in 6 and more changes in upcoming version(s) are supposed to make "porting" open source projects much easier.

Announced futures directions include a VM type of architecture where a NetWare kernel could run next to a Linux kernel bringing the strengths of both to the system.

Now if only they could figure out how to market around the redmond juggernaut.

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