Texas DOT signs warn of zombie apocalypse

Several Texas DOT signs were hacked to display warning messages about the coming zombie hordes. The DOT remains unamused.

 
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Oak Park, IL cancels PeopleSoft implementation

The village of Oak Park plans to terminate its under-performing PeopleSoft implementation amid accusations of consultant billing irregularities. The village spent $1.65 million in 2004 to purchase PeopleSoft - a computer system which helps organizations manage payroll and finances. But the complex program never took hold in Oak Park.

 
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The Google Drive, or "GDrive", could kill off the desktop computer

Google is to launch a service that would enable users to access their personal computer from any internet connection, according to industry reports. But campaigners warn that it would give the online behemoth unprecedented control over individuals' personal data.

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13 Plugins to Make Gedit a More Useful Text Editor

Gedit is the default text editor for most of the Linux distributions using Gnome as the desktop environment. Gedit supports some very useful plugins.

 
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xFruits: All In One RSS Feed Tools Website

One website to handle all your website RSS Feeds.

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Earth on the Brink of an Ice Age

The earth is now on the brink of entering another Ice Age, according to a large and compelling body of evidence from within the field of climate science. Many sources of data which provide our knowledge base of long-term climate change indicate that the warm, twelve thousand year-long Holocene period will rather soon be coming to an end, and then t

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Five Ways To Clone or Copy Your Hard Drive

To save time when completely restoring a disk you need to have a complete data and system backup available. Here are five of the best tools to clone or copy your hard drive.

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Keep your application installers updated with Ketarin

With Ketarin ( http://ketarin.canneverbe.com/ ), you can enter a list of applications you want to track, and it will automatically check the download locations to see if there are new versions available.  If there are, it will download the installer files to the directory of your choice.  To automate even further, use Ketarin with filehippo ( http://filehippo.com ) and start it with a a daily windows scheduled job that downloads updates automatically into a dropbox ( http://www.getdropbox.com/) folder, and then sends an Email update message using blat ( http://www.blat.net/ ).

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