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10 things to learn from the almighty WWW today:
- Main page – Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is now available! Written by award-winning author Keir Thomas, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is a totally unique and concise guide for everyday Ubuntu use.
- What’s Your Resume Worth? | Employment | Career | Mainstreet
For most unemployed people trying to navigate an increasingly crowded job market, the idea of spending $500 on anything is probably unappealing. So, is it worth shelling out that kind of cash to hire a professional to write your resume?
Elizabeth Carpenter says yes.
She had been a police officer for 13 years when she decided to change her profession to nursing. She'd never written a resume and hadn't been on a job interview in more than a decade.
"I was so out of touch with the current format and really how to get out there and sell yourself," Carpenter says.
She scoured the internet and found Robyn Feldberg, the president of the National Resume Writers Association. Carpenter hired Feldberg as her resume writer and job coach. One thing Carpenter learned was how to show prospective employers how her skills as a police officer carried over to her new field. Within two weeks of sending out her resume, she had interviewed for and landed the job of her dreams.
- 10 Steps To Protect The Admin Area In WordPress | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine
The administration area of a Web application is a favorite target of hackers and thus particularly well protected. The same goes for WordPress: when creating a blog, the system creates an administrative user with a perfectly secure password and blocks public access to the settings area with a log-in page. This is the cornerstone of its protection. Let’s dig deeper!
This article focuses on defending the administration area of WordPress, meaning all those pages in the wp-admin folder (or http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/) that are displayed after a user a verified. We highlighted the phrase “after a user is verified” deliberately: it should be explicitly understood that only a simple query stands in the way of an evil hacker and the powerful admin area of your whole blog. The latter is only as strong as the passwords that are generated.
- 4 Tools You Need To Predict The Death Of Your Hard Drive | MakeUseOf.com
To help predict and protect yourself from these the inevitable circumstances of a hard drive failure, I have come up with four third party diagnostic tools, and a list of the all the major hard drive manufacturer tools. Most of these incorporate the built-in SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) feature with most of today’s hard disks. (Windows Only)
- Twenty-five people at the heart of the meltdown ..
The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. In the second part of a week-long series looking behind the slump, Guardian City editor Julia Finch picks out the individuals who have led us into the current crisis
- Windows 7: the untold story of how the enterprise gets snubbed | NetworkWorld.com Community
Don't get him wrong, there are cool, eye-popping features in Windows 7 for the enterprise –- unfortunately some are randomly tied to Windows Server 2008 R2 -– which is also in beta. If you want to yank out the VPN and let Windows handle a secure connection to the server (a new feature called DirectAccess), you can. But only if all of your clients and servers are using the latest operating systems from Microsoft. That's a shame in this economy when expensive, large-scale upgrades of the entire operating system infrastructure are not going to fly. (To be fair, enterprises that have opted for Microsoft's Software Assurance deal should be covered for the license fees of an upgrade from WS2008 to R2, but that won't cover the cost of man hours).
- Academic Earth
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.
- The ultimate portable PC troubleshooting toolkit | News | TechRadar UK
It's a hard life when you're the family PC expert. Visit any relative at Christmas and you've barely time to get through the door before they're telling you about the PC crashes, the unreadable CD, the forgotten password, and all the other computer problems they've saved up since your last visit.
There's no way to stop this, unfortunately, but you can at least solve their issues quickly by building the perfect portable troubleshooting toolkit, a collection of problem-solving utilities that you can take anywhere. It's easy. Just grab one USB flash drive (any cheap 4GB model will do), add our selection of free tools and you're ready to tackle just about anything.
- Devoted Geek » Blog Archive The ultimate guide to tweaking useless Windows XP services
Windows XP is made up of a bunch of different applications running side by side. These applications are broken down into services, DLL files, and registry entries. Before I get a bunch emails, I know it’s far more complex than this but I am trying to keep it simple. Today we are going to focus in on some default XP services that are completely useless, or close to it. These services run in the background and take up memory, so disabling some of them will increase the amount of available memory in your system.
I’m going to focus on Windows XP service pack 2 but if you’re running service pack 3 this article can still help you. If you are running on service pack 1 I strongly suggest you upgrade as soon as possible. There are major security updates implemented in service pack 2 that you need to keep yourself safer online. Services have three different settings you can apply; Automatic – Manual – and Disabled.
- 25 Free, Game Changing Open Source Resources
OStatic has recently been enjoying some very healthy traffic and growth, and I'd like to thank all of the members, readers and writers who make our site and this blog lively every day. It's a labor of love. One of our main charters on the OStatic blog is to regularly provide roundups and individual reviews of good open source software, tools and resources. We've done quite a few of these since our last uber-roundup, so here is an updated collection of 25 of our most popular roundups and educational resources for open sourcerors. We hope these help you.
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[random-quote]
10 things to learn from the almighty WWW today:
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is now available! Written by award-winning author Keir Thomas, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference is a totally unique and concise guide for everyday Ubuntu use.
For most unemployed people trying to navigate an increasingly crowded job market, the idea of spending $500 on anything is probably unappealing. So, is it worth shelling out that kind of cash to hire a professional to write your resume?
Elizabeth Carpenter says yes.
She had been a police officer for 13 years when she decided to change her profession to nursing. She'd never written a resume and hadn't been on a job interview in more than a decade.
"I was so out of touch with the current format and really how to get out there and sell yourself," Carpenter says.
She scoured the internet and found Robyn Feldberg, the president of the National Resume Writers Association. Carpenter hired Feldberg as her resume writer and job coach. One thing Carpenter learned was how to show prospective employers how her skills as a police officer carried over to her new field. Within two weeks of sending out her resume, she had interviewed for and landed the job of her dreams.
The administration area of a Web application is a favorite target of hackers and thus particularly well protected. The same goes for WordPress: when creating a blog, the system creates an administrative user with a perfectly secure password and blocks public access to the settings area with a log-in page. This is the cornerstone of its protection. Let’s dig deeper!
This article focuses on defending the administration area of WordPress, meaning all those pages in the wp-admin folder (or http://www.yourblog.com/wp-admin/) that are displayed after a user a verified. We highlighted the phrase “after a user is verified” deliberately: it should be explicitly understood that only a simple query stands in the way of an evil hacker and the powerful admin area of your whole blog. The latter is only as strong as the passwords that are generated.
To help predict and protect yourself from these the inevitable circumstances of a hard drive failure, I have come up with four third party diagnostic tools, and a list of the all the major hard drive manufacturer tools. Most of these incorporate the built-in SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) feature with most of today’s hard disks. (Windows Only)
The worst economic turmoil since the Great Depression is not a natural phenomenon but a man-made disaster in which we all played a part. In the second part of a week-long series looking behind the slump, Guardian City editor Julia Finch picks out the individuals who have led us into the current crisis
Don't get him wrong, there are cool, eye-popping features in Windows 7 for the enterprise –- unfortunately some are randomly tied to Windows Server 2008 R2 -– which is also in beta. If you want to yank out the VPN and let Windows handle a secure connection to the server (a new feature called DirectAccess), you can. But only if all of your clients and servers are using the latest operating systems from Microsoft. That's a shame in this economy when expensive, large-scale upgrades of the entire operating system infrastructure are not going to fly. (To be fair, enterprises that have opted for Microsoft's Software Assurance deal should be covered for the license fees of an upgrade from WS2008 to R2, but that won't cover the cost of man hours).
Academic Earth is an organization founded with the goal of giving everyone on earth access to a world class education.
It's a hard life when you're the family PC expert. Visit any relative at Christmas and you've barely time to get through the door before they're telling you about the PC crashes, the unreadable CD, the forgotten password, and all the other computer problems they've saved up since your last visit.
There's no way to stop this, unfortunately, but you can at least solve their issues quickly by building the perfect portable troubleshooting toolkit, a collection of problem-solving utilities that you can take anywhere. It's easy. Just grab one USB flash drive (any cheap 4GB model will do), add our selection of free tools and you're ready to tackle just about anything.
Windows XP is made up of a bunch of different applications running side by side. These applications are broken down into services, DLL files, and registry entries. Before I get a bunch emails, I know it’s far more complex than this but I am trying to keep it simple. Today we are going to focus in on some default XP services that are completely useless, or close to it. These services run in the background and take up memory, so disabling some of them will increase the amount of available memory in your system.
I’m going to focus on Windows XP service pack 2 but if you’re running service pack 3 this article can still help you. If you are running on service pack 1 I strongly suggest you upgrade as soon as possible. There are major security updates implemented in service pack 2 that you need to keep yourself safer online. Services have three different settings you can apply; Automatic – Manual – and Disabled.
OStatic has recently been enjoying some very healthy traffic and growth, and I'd like to thank all of the members, readers and writers who make our site and this blog lively every day. It's a labor of love. One of our main charters on the OStatic blog is to regularly provide roundups and individual reviews of good open source software, tools and resources. We've done quite a few of these since our last uber-roundup, so here is an updated collection of 25 of our most popular roundups and educational resources for open sourcerors. We hope these help you.
Related posts: