Wednesday, April 07, 2004

Turnitin: "The Internet has made plagiarism easier than ever before. From elementary schools to the highest levels of academia, the ease of downloading and copying 'untraceable' online information has led to an epidemic of digital plagiarism."
USATODAY.com - New software detects plagiarized passages: "an advanced plagiarism-detection service such as iParadigms LLC's makes a digital fingerprint of an entire document and compares it against material on the Internet and in other sources, including proprietary academic and media databases"
Chris Pirillo ~ Getting Screwed While Everybody Else is Getting Laid: "Getting Screwed While Everybody Else is Getting Laid"

Monday, April 05, 2004

RSS in Government Summary Page: " The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio shows us that RSS syndication is a great way to allow your customers to monitor what's new on your agency's website."

Thursday, April 01, 2004

EDN - Broadband Prices Too High for Many U.S. Consumers, Firm Reports: "Thirty-one percent of broadband households chose their high-speed providers because of bundled discounts for multiple services. Bundling allows providers to lower the monthly price of broadband without sacrificing subscriber profitability because of higher revenue per customer and lower churn"
EDN - Broadband Prices Too High for Many U.S. Consumers, Firm Reports: "Seventy-one percent of Internet customers claim they would switch to broadband if it were available at a lower price"
UCmore Search Engine Tool Cleans Up Image the Search Engine Journal: "Lavasoft, the renowned Internet security and provacy firm and a anti-spyware/adware vigilate, has removed the new version of UCmore from their product�s reference file as of January 3, 2004."
UCmore Search Engine Tool Cleans Up Image the Search Engine Journal: "In a time when more and more search toolbars and browser based web surfing enhancers are stirring up the controversy of secretly placing themselves on computers (Parasites) serving popup advertising (AdWare) and collecting personal information (SpyWare), one searching and surfing enhancer, UCmore, has done the opposite. UCmore has cleaned up their act and answered the privacy questions about their UCmore Toolbar which has sparkled their image among privacy groups."
Welcome to Gmail: "A Google approach to email" It look an interesting idea

Friday, March 19, 2004

Computing.Net - USB Pen drive 128Mb: "i want to play music at college but they do not have the audio player availible.
So i was wondering if anybody knows a piece of software that can be installed onto the removable media and play the audio that is also on it. "
e4engineering.com - Engineering news, engineering information and engineering jobs for engineering professionals: "The quarterly unemployment rate for computer hardware engineers jumped from 6.9 to 9.0 percent, and averaged 7.0 for 2003."
e4engineering.com - Engineering news, engineering information and engineering jobs for engineering professionals: "According to statistics from the US Department of Labour's Bureau of Labour Statistics, unemployment rates for US electrical and electronics engineers averaged a record 6.2 percent in 2003"

Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Chris Shipley on New Technology Products: Onfolio Liberates and Leverages Web Research: "The Web has changed all that, except, perhaps, the index card and term paper part. I still cut and paste notes and jot ideas into a Word document, then later struggle to remember where I found some bit of data as I attempt to synthesize it all into a cohesive report."
Onfolio: A Powerful New Web Research Assistant: "Onfolio: A Powerful New Web Research Assistant"

Friday, March 12, 2004

Mandrake Linux tips for free: "This page describes the installation I did with the 4cd Mandrake Linux 10.0 Community Edition set."
Linux Man Page for RESIZE2FS (8): "SYNOPSIS
resize2fs [ -d debug-flags ] [ -f ] [ -F ] [ -p ] device [ size ]
DESCRIPTION
The resize2fs program will resize ext2 file systems. It can be used to enlarge or shrink an ext2 file system located on device so that it will have size blocks. If the size parameter is not specified, it will default to the size of the partition. The size parameter may never be larger than the size of the partition.
The resize2fs program does not manipulate the size of partitions. If you wish to enlarge a filesystem, you must first make sure you can expand the size of the underlying partition first. This can be done using fdisk (8) by deleting the partition and recreating it with a larger size. When recreating the partition, make sure you create it with the same starting disk cylinder as before! Otherwise, the resize operation will certainly not work, and you may lose your entire filesystem.
If you wish to shrink an ext2 partition, first use resize2fs to shrink the size of filesystem. Then you may use fdisk (8) to shrink the size of the partition. When shrinking the size of the partition, make sure you do not make it smaller than the new size of the ext2 filesystem!
OPTIONS
-d debug-flags
Turns on various resize2fs debugging features, if they have been compiled into the binary. debug-flags should be computed by adding the numbers of the desired features from the following list: \ 1\ -\ Print out all disk I/O \ 2\ -\ Debug block relocations \ 8\ -\ Debug inode relocations \ 16\ -\ Debug moving the inode table
-p
Prints out a percentage completion bars for each resize2fs operation, so that the user can keep track of what the program is doing.
-f
Forces resize2fs to proceed with the filesystem resize operation, overriding some safety checks which resize2f"
LinuxDevCenter.com: Using and Customizing Knoppix [Nov. 20, 2003]: "Step 6: Test the installation"
LinuxDevCenter.com: Using and Customizing Knoppix [Nov. 20, 2003]: "Update the bootloader. In my case, this was:
bash-2.05# /sbin/lilo
Added linux *
Added knoppix
Added win2k
bash-2.05#"
LinuxDevCenter.com: Using and Customizing Knoppix [Nov. 20, 2003]: "Step 5: Update the bootloader (LILO)"