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Laptop Security

For some reason I couldn't post a comment on Kevin's post about Backing UP, so I decided to start a new topic, which in a sense has it's own right.  This last week I was setting up an IMAP account on a MAC and got to the point of installing a SSL Certificate and it asked me for the Power User password, well the user didn't have any password setup. I still cannot believe  what I saw. I still hope I'm wrong in my judgment but how come a Power User is not Obliged to have a password? I mentioned to the owner that at any aiport wireless connection his computer was running a great risk of being hacked.

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Xmeeting. Ekiga and H323

Hey! I've been testing some OpenSource and Free software for using with Videoconferencing equipment and I was wondering if someone here have tested, tried or successfully used any of the following software.
Xmeeting - for Mac computers
Ekiga - Formerly known as Gnome Meeting ( for Linux and has a beta for Windows)
If you have used or want to try it and post some comments it would be greatly appreciated...
Also if you know of any other H323 (Video Enabled) software could you please post it here.
Thanks!

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Open Source Flash FLV player/decoder

I found this on this month Linux Magazine it's interesting and might be helpfull to someone here. It's not just for Linux but it makes reference to FLV free encoders for MAC and Windows also.

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Problems updating

Apart from the fact that I was very sick these last 5 days, upgrading from Drupal 4.7 t0 5.0.1 was a NIGHTMARE....

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Comments RSS

 Is this what we were loooking for?

http://drupal.org/project/commentrss

 

This module adds comment RSS serving capabilties to Drupal, which is
suitable for some tracking of comments for your users. The module adds
feeds for the following points:

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UBUNTU DHCP & LAMP

One thing we wanted to start doing again on our network is MAC filtering. I know on the security front it's not the top security measure but combined with other things it can help close most of the holes. 

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A Lesson from an Old Techi Guy

Extracted from: http://www.ywamafrica.org/Lounge/Articles/persev.htm

Thomas EdsonThomas Edison died several years ago, but his legacy lives on. More than an inventor, he remains the perfect example of what can be accomplished with perseverance and little else.

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E-Newsletter Engine

I've been asked by several people if I know of a good OpenSource (free) E-Newsletter engine. Well I've been using for myself a self-hacked plugin for wordpress, which I can live with for my personal blog but if I want to implement something bigger, like a ministry newsletter, I would like to have something more robust and user friendly. 

I'm just about to try and develop one, but before I head into this I thought it would be a good idea to ask you guys, because maybe there's something really good out there that everyone uses and I'm still in the dark about it..

"There are things that you don't know that you don't know!"

 

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