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The Secunia PSI is a free security tool designed with the sole purpose of helping you secure your computer against vulnerabilities in programs.

Download: http://secunia.com/PSISetup.exe

If like many folks, you have switched your main OS to Ubuntu or some other Linux distro, you will find that performing a BIOS update is not as simple as it used to be. Or maybe, not as familiar, but still rather simple once you figure out how to do it...

Context: Dell Laptop running Ubuntu 9.04
Step 1: download the bios from support.dell.com

Step 2: install the wine firmware addon for DELL
$ sudo apt-get install wine firmware-addon-dell

Step 3: convert the bios update from a .exe to .hdr

Thanks to the folks at Stardock

You can download for FREE this very simple utility

LogonStudio XP:

http://www.stardock.com/products/downloads/logonstudio.asp

or LogonStudio Vista

http://www.stardock.com/products/downloads/logonstudiovista.asp

Still playing around w/ all my computers... Here is a quick trick I had to implement this AM: showing only the limited accounts which I have created and hide a few specific ones from the default Windows VISTA login screen.

By simply adding the username of the account to a special list in the registry, it will disappear from the Welcome Screen. For each account Just create a DWORD registry value at the following location:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Windows NT \CurrentVersion \Winlogon \SpecialAccounts \UserList]

France in 1st place ;)

Interactive maps: http://www.redhat.com/about/where-is-open-source/activity/

More info from Linux Watch: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS5223881177.html

Worio is a search engine tool that includes standard keyword searches via standard search engines with a personalized suggestion engine, tagging, bookmarking, and social networking (facebook).

What?

Worio is a discovery engine that works alongside keyword search to expose you to stuff you've been missing using search alone.

Why?

Keyword search can only take you so far. There is a vast amount of useful information that you're simply not aware of. Discovery is about helping you find it.

How?

Worio learns about you and populates your discovery feed (on the right) with stuff you like. Take a tour.

More info at: http://www.worio.com

Well, visit: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

Enter the name of the site and click on “or just me?”

and here comes the answer:

New Archos expected later on this year expected to run Windows 7:

More info: http://tinyurl.com/nqz3ws and http://tinyurl.com/m2mm86

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