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Buy a new harddrive, get a virus

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Unbelievable.  Via MaximumPC comes the news that certain Maxtor harddrives sold since August 2007 come pre-installed with the Virus.Win32.AutoRun.ah virus.

It's always nice to get something for free, but Maxtor... you're trying too hard.


Pidgin IM: Houseforge Open Source Recommendation

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Pidgin IM runs on Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes.

It claims to support these IM protocols (copied from their homepage, (comments) added):

  • AIM
  • Bonjour
  • Gadu-Gadu
  • Google Talk
  • Groupwise
  • ICQ
  • IRC (ok, not really IM but oh well, it's used for chatting)
  • MSN
  • MySpaceIM
  • QQ
  • SILC
  • SIMPLE
  • Sametime
  • XMPP (a.k.a. jabber)
  • Yahoo!
  • Zephyr

Continue reading about Pidgin IM..


Tales of Mere Existence

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I discovered a great comic/film site today while procrastinating.

The artist, Lev Yilmaz, is great at taking the ordinary and mundane and making it hilarious....from the things he thinks about when trying to sleep to a typical conversation with his mom to selecting a video to watch with his girlfriend.

Be sure to visit his Youtube page for more.

http://www.ingredientx.com







Best way to track the time you spend on each project?

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I think this has come up before, but i couldn't find a good thread on it.

I want to do a more orderly job of tracking how much time i spend on each project.

  • I'm not really interested in a program that detects which programs i have open and assigns specific programs to specific projects
  • I am interested in something that lets me really easily manually switch between projects
  • Something that gives me good visual feedback about what project i am working on.
  • Makes reports suitable for text copy and paste

Any suggestions?

Read the many suggestions made by forum members..


David Seah - The Printable CEO™ Series

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In general there are lots of good blog entries and printable (duh) pages over at David Seah's website. He talks alot about making the most of your time, tracking what you are doing, tracking your progress on tasks and projects. It is especially good for people who prefer paper over computer screen for these things.

David Seah - The Printable CEO™ Series

On the page you'll find a series of printable PDF forms for tracking your time and other things:

  • Concrete Goals Tracker 2007
  • Compact Calendar 2007
  • Emergent Task Planner 2007
  • Emergent Task Tracker 2007
  • Resource Task Quantizers 2007
  • Task Order Up 2007
  • Task Progress Tracker 2007

Searching for the best read-aloud software?

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Can anyone recommmend a good text-reading software?  I want it both to hear things read to me while I'm doing something else, and to hear foreign text read in the appropriate language.

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

Read the software suggestions made by forum members..


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