“Self-Googling” — searching for your own name on the popular Google search engine — may seem like an innocuous act of vanity, but a University at Buffalo communications professor recommends it as a shrewd form of “personal brand management” in the digital age.
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For 14 years, Osama Bin Laden had a spy in America who was an officer in the US military, worked for the CIA and FBI and eventually betrayed all these strategic agencies.
He was the Triple Cross and the US was so complacent that it could not detect his designs till it was too late.
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By far the coolest illusions you will ever see
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Faster swithing is just a click away.
switchdesk is the command to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa. This command provides a simple method of choosing between the various desktop environments available under Fedora Core, Cent OS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Note this for setup a default desktop …
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Most of us have had a brand new computer at one time. It’s a great feeling. You boot up windows and within 30 seconds you are surfing the net, checking your email, or playing your favorite game. 10 months down the road things aren’t so nice anymore. You power up your computer and it seems [...]
Most of the other tutorials on Linux shell scripting are either too basic or skip too many important intermediate steps. The concept of this tutorial is to maintain a balance between these two. It covers many of the real life examples of shell scripting that are missing from many other tutorials.
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Time lapse graphic showing Google traffic around the world
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It is true that wget is ultimate command line downloader. However, when it comes to download acceleration wget fails to deliver the download speed. With axel and proz utilities, you can almost double your download speed. You will surprise to see how much difference these accelerators program can make.
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