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VirtuaWin - Virtual Desktops for Windows
VirtuaWin is a virtual desktop manager for the Windows operating system (Win9x/ME/NT/Win2K/XP/Win2003/Vista). A virtual desktop manager lets you organize applications over several virtual desktops (also called ‘workspaces’). Virtual desktops are very common in Unix/Linux, and once you get accustomed to using them, they become an essential part of a productive workflow.

Just changed from Vista/XP Virtual Desktop Manager which had some nice features but was a little slow & buggy. You may also want to get the VWPager plugin for VirtuaWin.

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Bring it back!

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Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networks
digsby is a multiprotocol IM client that lets you chat with all your friends on AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber with one simple to manage buddy list.

Testing this out instead of Miranda, my previous multi-chat client for windows. Digsby can monitor email (Gmail, IMAP, etc) and your Facebook or Myspace (:P) feeds as well. For windows only at the moment, but Mac & Linux are coming.

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If you get problems - uninstall, then run the Installer as administrator (right click on the installer) and follow the prompts.

Several years later The Orange Box should be installed.

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To get a pipe symbol on my keysonic keyboard used with a mac mini (g4 old-skool running leopard) I hit the key (shifted) above the return key which has a hash and tilde on it. Backslash is the same key un-shifted.

And to get the hash symbol on my uk-mapped keyboard, it’s alt-3.

Sorry, this isn’t very interesting - it’s a personal reminder.

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Guardian Unlimited: Arts blog - music: My five-year feud with Nickelback
The band sent me flowers for my funeral, then challenged me to a fight. None of it caused me as much pain as their music

How have they had a single in the charts FOR FOUR MONTHS?

And a fantastic comment from a reader:

Nickelback are just awful.
They have no redeeming qualities whatsoever.
They are the Barron Knights of grunge.

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BBC SPORT | Olympics & Olympic sport | London 2012 | London 2012 to shelve ship idea
Plans to promote the 2012 Olympics using a ship sailing around the world advertising Britain’s “cultural riches” have been ditched, the BBC has learned.

London’s successful bid team promised that the ship - named the Olympic Friend-ship - would spend four years travelling around the world.

The full-size ocean-going clipper had been due to set sail this August.

Crewed by young people, artists, philosophers and students, the ship was to be run by professional officers.

What a bad idea this was - sounds like something from a Simpsons episode.

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To enable your linksys router with DD-WRT firmware to log to syslog (in my case running on a Centos 4 box), first enable it in the router firmware and set the host address. Then

Method 1 - Vanillla Syslogd

Put this in /etc/syslogd.conf (NOTE: this may log more than you bargained for…)

# linksys
user.* /var/log/router.log
kernel.* /var/log/router.log

And add -r (enable remote logging - only do this if you know what you’re doing) to the SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in /etc/sysconfig/syslog

Then restart syslogd.

Then add /var/log/router.log to the list of logfiles in /etc/logrotate.d/syslog

Method 2 - Syslog-NG

Syslog-NG is an improved version of syslog, unfortunately it is not GPL. Anyway if you install it, stop & disable standard syslog, then add this to the (Redhat) conf it should work.

source gateway {
udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
};

source tcpgateway {
tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514) max_connections(1000));
};

destination hosts {
file("/var/log/syslogs/$HOST/$FACILITY.log"
owner(root) group(root) perm(0600) dir_perm(0700)
create_dirs(yes));
};

log {
source(gateway);
destination(hosts);
};

log {
source(tcpgateway);
destination(hosts);
};

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BBC NEWS | Have Your Say | Nick Clegg’s speech: Your reaction
I didn’t realise how many right-wing, neoCon, knee-jerk, DailyMail-reading, foreigner-hating, why-isn’t-it-1951 anymore-longing people read the BBC News site…

Jason A, London

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