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Pride: a sense of one’s worth. To me, it’s pointless to be proud of being part of an ethnic group. Being proud of something should be reserved for an important or difficult act in which you, yourself have accomplished. Pride is often used as an unfounded term many people give to themselves to achieve a false sense of superiority, dignity, or importance. Racial pride actually aids racism. It’s one thing to be proud of individuals for what they have accomplished, but being proud of an entire ethnic group based on the acts of a set of individuals from that ethnic group is akin to stereotyping.

That’s my thought for today.

After searching a few minutes for a Microsoft Office product key viewer, I found a free program that does what I was looking for. But not until after several crippled demo programs found their way onto my screen, which require payment to work. I just wanted to help promote the free one that I found.

ProduKey is a small utility that displays the ProductID and the CD-Key of MS-Office, Windows, Exchange Server, and SQL Server installed on your computer. You can view this information for your current running operating system, or for another operating system/computer - by using command-line options. This utility can be useful if you lost the product key of your Windows/Office, and you want to reinstall it on your computer.

I just made a simple, crude Wood Fence Material/Cost Estimator. Motivation thanks to Hurricane Ike tearing down my fence. Thanks, Ike.

The Storm has been spreading steadily since last January, gradually constructing a huge botnet. It affects only computers running Microsoft Windows, but that means that more than 90 per cent of the world’s PCs are vulnerable.

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Basking in glory after orchestrating a record punishment for a petty file-sharer in the US, the RIAA takes its legal campaign to the next level. Many may want newsgroups to stay under the radar but it’s too late - major labels have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usenet.com and it won’t be going away.

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Ever wanted to see what your car would look like if a dummy drove it into a wall? Admit it, you think about it when you get a lousy trade-in price. Thankfully, there’s the Consumer Reports Crash Test videos, where you can see how your car will hold up against things like short concrete walls and other typical objects found along a highway.

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This is a list of places blurred out on Google Maps. What could possibly be here?

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Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than you think. Researchers have now shown that they can break 104-bit WEP, a common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as little as one or two minutes.
Note:
128-bit WEP is 104-bit key + 24-bit initialization vector.
In plain english: This attack is against 128-bit WEP, they just refer it by the actual key size.

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Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off before starting work on the box. Read on to learn how to remove that limitation in Windows XP SP2

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So you find out that everyone in on your block is using your network without your permission. Do you lock it down or…? Or maybe you want to have a little fun. A little creativity with squid and you could turn your everything they browse upside down (literally)

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