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ep0096 :: Xfce, Oh I how I love you

Hosted by droops on 2008-05-13
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droops rehashes a presentation he has given to his local lugs on why he loves xfce. you can download the presentation and follow along.
Link to presentation

ep0095 :: Security Wow!

Hosted by rowinggolfer on 2008-05-12
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parody episode

ep0094 :: Initrd and Initramfs

Hosted by Dann on 2008-05-09
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Systrhead.net Monolithic vs MicroKernel
Wikipedia - Microkernel
Wikipedia - Monolithic Kernel
Wikipedia - Initramfs
IBM - Initrd Overview
Linux Devices - Introduction to initramfs

ep0093 :: Newsgroups for Media

Hosted by deepgeek on 2008-05-08
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Deepgeek discusses using newsgroups to get media files. While using newsgroups may be old school, using them for this application is often faster than bittorrent

ep0092 :: bugs

Hosted by klaatu on 2008-05-07
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klaatu talks about bug reporting and bug triaging.

ep0091 :: Hosts File

Hosted by Xoke on 2008-05-06
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Hosts file locations
Linux: /etc/hosts
Windows: c:\windows\system32\drives\etc\hosts
Mac: /private/etc/hosts file

Example line:
127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

Example hosts file (blocking ads):
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm

Open DNS