Are you paying for Long Distance? What would you do if you could call Long Distance for free, any time, as much as you wanted?
I've written about Google Voice in the past, but I wanted to simplify the steps to use Google Voice to make free Long Distance calls for the common-day non-technical person.
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I wanted to invite everyone around Modesto to an "IT Geek Breakfast" at Huckleberry's this Saturday, Feb 6th, 8am. I've set up a Facebook Event to RSVP at.
If that link doesn't work, try searching Facebook Events for "IT Geek Breakfast".
Nothing formal, just a get-together breakfast of some Christians who
work in the IT/IS/computer field so we can fellowship.Everyone (non-Christians friends too) are welcome, but the topics will
probably be highly geek/techno in nature, and probably boring for non-technical spouses.
video tag, Ogg Theora & H.264About a month ago I went to a family memorial for my Aunt that passed. We had a ton of pictures and videos that I collected from everyone's cameras and I consolidated and made into CDs before we all went back home.
However, I've a very large family on my mother's side (she's got 12 bothers and sisters), and more than half didn't make it to the memorial. I wanted to put it all online to send links to all the family.
There has been much speculation regarding Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be shipped and support regarding RHEL5. Many of us speculated that RHEL6 would ship Q1 2010.
I wanted to clarify something I'd said in the past about VirtualBox. VirtualBox OSE (Open Source Edition) binaries are available via Fedora and other distributions are OSS via the GPLv2, but the binaries from virtualbox.org are Personal Use and Evaluation License (PUEL). Sun/VirtualBox.org does not provide OSE binaries. To clarify for less-technical folks, binaries are programs in executable code format (meaning your computer knows how to run it), vs. source code needs to be compiled.
I really feel for folks who have bad setups for their website. In this specific case, I'm referencing a problem where Tucows/OpenSRS was used to register the domain with one of their Registration Service Providers (RSP), acmeinternet.com. I say all this to warn folks regarding how bad this is when things go wrong. Use a company that you can call up and talk to a live body and that has been around for some time.
There are many tools and many ways to accomplish backups of systems. I find that the simpler something is, the less likely it is to fail, or if it does fail I can sort out what is broken that much easier.
There is no backup simpler at its core than a simple copy (cp in *nix or xcopy in Windows) with the right option flags. However, for many things this is too simplistic and isn't the most efficient.
There comes times where you need a feature not yet in the version of a Package that RedHat has released yet for Enterprise Linux (RHEL, or just EL). BIND is a perfect example of this.
RedHat still ships BIND 9.3 (with back-ported bug-fixes for security), but for full DNSSEC support you want Fedora's BIND 9.6.
My goal: don't go totally off the beaten path and compile from source from the BIND upstream, don't become a package maintainer, don't trust a non-RedHat source, but still don't want to even have to think much about any of these non-Official Packages I'm using until updates come out. Fast and proven aren't always compatible, so at least "tested" from RedHat/Fedora will work for me.
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