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What Not to Buy in 2009
"For the fifth year in a row, I present my annual "What Not to Buy" list. The format is pretty simple and relatively arbitrary. In other words, I'll tell you what to avoid, what you might consider buying, and, finally, a few sure things that shouldn'...
Console and PC mods you\'ll wish you owned
"As gamers of a hardcore persuasion, we form a very deep bond with our machines. Far more than mere appliances, they're as much part of the family as they are part of our homes' technological landscapes. Millions might be sold, but only one feels uni...
Make Social Media Work for Non-Consumer Brands
"Non-consumer companies realize there are clear benefits to implementing a social media strategy, but what do they need to do to achieve success? The truth is, the social media strategy, processes, and principles, don’t really change much depending...
MySQL Best Practices
"Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It's not only the DBA's (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring table...
Chrome OS like lightning from a USB key
"We finally got around to prepping a USB key so we could boot to Chrome OS natively, and let us tell you: it's a world of difference. Of course, running something natively instead of virtualized is always going to be a treat, but what we're seeing wi...
An Engineer\'s Guide to DNS
"The Domain Name System (DNS) is part of the "dark matter" of the internet. It's hard to observe the DNS directly yet it exerts an obscure, pervasive influence without which everything would fly apart. Because it's so difficult to probe people tend t...

