Small Business Servers you never heard of!

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Now be honest, what do you know about ClarkConnect, Astaro, Untangle. Chances are, you do not have any idea what they are. These are the Open Source equivalents of Microsoft’s Small Business Server. ClarkConnect is a piece of software built on the solid foundation of Red Hat’s code. The application manages to pack a lot … Read more

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Do you eBay?

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Survey: 40% of hard drives bought on eBay hold personal, corporate data
Buyers found data on everything from corporate spreadsheets to e-mails and photos

A New York computer forensics firm found that 40% of the hard disk drives it recently purchased in bulk orders on eBay contained personal, private and sensitive information — everything from corporate financial data to the Web-surfing history and downloads of a man with a foot fetish.

Kessler International conducted the study over a six-month period, buying up disk drives ranging in size from 40GB to 300GB from the United States and Canada. The firm, which completed its research about two weeks ago, bought a total of 100 relatively modern drives, the vast majority of them Serial ATA.

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Ubuntu 9.10 Named

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Mark Shuttlworth has announced that the next release of the popular Ubuntu Linux Operating System will be called Karmic Koala.

Here’s the whole message:

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the *Karmic Koala*, the
newest member of our alliterative menagerie.

When you are looking for inspiration beyond the looming Jaunty feature
freeze, I hope you’ll think of the Koala, our official mascot for Ubuntu
9.10. And if you’ll bear with me for a minute I’ll set the scene for

what we hope to achieve in that time.

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DiskDigger

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Did you just accidentally delete those important files for the boss’s conference? Oops! Not to worry, there is a new file recovery tool that may be able to help you recover deleted files. DiskDigger is a straight forward file recovery tool geared specifically toward recovering multimedia and document files. DiskDigger can recover files from any type of media that your computer can read. This includes USB flash drives, memory cards (SD, CompactFlash, Memory Stick, etc), and of course your hard drive. The types of files that it recovers includes photos, videos, music, documents, and other formats.

DiskDigger works by thoroughly scanning each sector of your media for traces of files. This has some advantages and disadvantages.

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How to use Gmail to manage email addresses

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A few weeks back, the Gmail team at Google launched a Multiple Inboxes feature on gmail which allows you to customize the different “in-boxes” you see in one view when you log into Gmail. The beauty of this new feature is that it allows you to control multiple email accounts in one “command station” – your gmail account. What with the gigabytes of space “and counting” that you have with your account.

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