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Structure Data

GigaOM’s Structure:Data, now a two-day conference, will assemble the world’s leading technologists, practitioners and business leaders to offer solutions to the questions posed by the growth of big data, including storage needs, data analysis and the uncovering of new business opportunities.Canonical is proud to be a Primetime Sponsor of the event. Location:  New York City, [...]

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High Performance Computing and Open Source Linux Technical Excellence Symposium

The HP HPC & OSL TES 2012 is an EMEA technical knowledge transfer event, covering the High Performance Computing and Open Source & Linux portfolio dedicated to ExpertONE and Channel partners, HP EMEA presales people, HP Enterprise Integration centers people, HP Open Source and Linux Advocates, HP Open Source and Linux Profession Members, HP Enterprise [...]

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PyCon

PyCon is the largest annual gathering for the community using and developing the open-source Python programming language.Canonical is proud to be a Gold sponsor. Location:  Santa Clara, CA, USA Time:  Wed, 2012-03-07 (All day) – Thu, 2012-03-15 (All day)

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DIY Electronic Wire Stripper Gives Visual Feedback

This clever DIY wire stripper turns the razor blades into a circuit–the moment you slice through the protective sheath of the wire you’re cutting you get a visual indicator that the wire is ready to be rotated. It’s a rather ingenious design; assuming you cut slowly you’ll never risk over cutting and damaging the inner [...]

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Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes

Did you know that you can find out which operating system a networked device is running just by looking at the way it communicates on the network? Let’s take a look at how we can discover what operating system our devices are running. Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With TTL and TCP Window Sizes How To [...]

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IT: How to Install Hyper-V Virtualization on Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2008 R2 and later releases of the product ship with a virtualization platform called Hyper-V, which works quite well since it’s built into Windows. Today we’re going to show you how to install it. Note: this is part of our ongoing series teaching IT administration basics, and might not apply to everybody. Hacker [...]

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The Best How-To Geek Articles for January 2012

This past month we covered topics such as how to extend your wireless network using Tomato-powered routers, shared the best password tips to keep your accounts secure, how to fix Shockwave Flash crashes in Google Chrome, and more. Join us as we look back at the best articles for January. Hacker Geek: OS Fingerprinting With [...]

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How To Extend Your Wi-Fi Network With Simple Access Points

Last week we showed you how to extend your network without wires, this week we’re looking at how you can use use an existing hardwire network to easily and quickly extend your wireless network using simple access points. After we published our guide How To Extend Your Wireless network with Tomato-Powered Routers, we received a [...]

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Ask HTG: Checking Wi-Fi Signal Strength, Syncing iTunes to Android, and Backing Up Windows Home Server

Once a week we round up some of the great reader questions we get in the Ask HTG inbox and share the answers with everyone. This week we’re looking at checking your Wi-Fi signal strength from your phone, syncing iTunes to Android devices, and how to back up the Windows Home Server. How to Use [...]

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Geek Trivia: Which Film First Featured A Completely Computer-Generated Character?

Which Film First Featured A Completely Computer-Generated Character? 1) Tron 2) Young Sherlock Holmes 3) Looker 4) Superman Think you know the answer?

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