I heard about Rails back when I was a programmer at BlueHost / Hostmonster since they are one of the “preferred” web hosting companies for Ruby on Rails type applications. There weren’t very many clients who used it, but when questions came in about it, I always seemed to be approached with them. I guess tech support people think that if you are generally willing to help them out and you know a programming language, you know them all. Well, I eventually got sick of saying I don’t know and got some basic knowledge going of Ruby on Rails, and was pleasantly surprised!
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Microsoft’s Remote Desktop is a decent application for allowing you to remotely control a networked windows computer. The Remote Desktop client which is included with Windows XP and Vista is only a small part of the larger Terminal Services package which is included with Windows Server. This tutorial will introduce you to the Remote Desktop client application.

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Tags: Windows Tweaks, tutorials by BrettW
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I found some free apps to add to your Windows mobile device that could make your experience with Windows mobile much easier to use and more enjoyable. With Windows Mobile approaching it’s ninth birthday there are tons of old and new software to enhance the user experience and make getting things done, or goofing off much easier.
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Tags: General Tech Info, Internet, Windows Tweaks by dustin
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PowerShell providers are .NET programs that provide a data access layer between powershell and the data. Providers abstract data so that the same mechanisms within powershell can access the various data stores. A number of built-in providers are included with powershell.

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It seems that Intel and Yahoo are teaming up to create a new version of the failed WebTV.  An article on bbc describes it pretty well.  The main difference here is this new chip from intel, designed specifically for web-connected devices, will allow you to use widgets (if you have an igoogle account, you’re probably quite familiar with widgets) and still view television as normal - something WebTV could not do.   I could see this actually catching on, depending on initial price, etc.  How many people do you know who watch television with their lap-top on the coffee table?  I can think of five off the top of my head.  One thing that is not mentioned, is if the ability to harness the internet outside of the widget capability will be included.  The picture-in-picture functionality could be quite fun; one screen playing the new season of Heroes, while the other is posting “OMG did you see that” in the fan-boy forums.  It could just be what WebTV was trying to do.

Tags: General Tech Info, Internet by jakob
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Ok we’re all living on a budget but need to get software to secure our computers, write up doc’s for school and work, send and receive emails or just free games to play when we got the time. So here’s another list of tons of free software just waiting for you to download and install.

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You will undoubtedly need to use variables in your PowerShell scripts from time to time fortunately PowerShell has you covered. There are many built-in variables you can use to provide such information as the home folder ($pshome) or the current working folder ($pwd).  If you would like to see a list of the built in and user defined variables available to the current session type;

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In 1986, Larry Wall invented a scripting language to solve the problems of generating reports for system administrators on unix. He called it the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language since that was its function. And it does do that. In a Unix based OS where everything is output in text, Perl has dominated somewhat because it so easy to use but mostly because of its powerful and easily used regular expression capabilities.
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There’s been a flood of emails around the net today pretending to be from MSNBC. According to MXlab, the “Subject starts with msnbc.com - BREAKING NEWS and can contain the following: ‘Google launches free music downloads in China’, ‘Plane crashes into prep school, hundreds of kids killed’, ‘Please give your opinions for change’, ‘US Dollar hits 6-year high, further gains expected’” and more. The URL does appear to be legit but the site it leads you to is not. Upon arrival you’ll be asked to download a spoof adobe flash update that is, in reality, a trojan horse.

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If you’re one of those people that all your friends and family come to when they’re having computer problems then i’ve found some tools that you can put on your flash drive to help you fix their computers. All these programs are free and take very little time to download and save to a flashdrive.
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