I work at a place that blocks most outgoing ports, including Google Chat (port 5222). While I don’t use chat much at work it is nice for me and my wife to communicate short messages quickly. Of course I’ve never let a little thing like a firewall stop me, so I figured a way around [...]

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This site now allows OpenID logins. I think OpenID is a great idea. All your information and credentials are maintained in one location, which you can give a secure password. On any site that support OpenID you can then log in. The cool thing is that your password is kept safe. The OpenID enabled sites [...]

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My desktop computer at work is basically held hostage by the powers-that-be. It is part of a NIS managed network, where all the user accounts and login info is on the network. I am running Ubuntu Linux 7.10 which defaults to having the audio device belong to the audio group. That’s fine for normal operation, [...]

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In this months (November) issue of Software Test & Performance magazine there is a good article about a test automation framework. You can download the PDF of the magazine from their web site. In a nutshell, they create several modules that each accomplish one task. At the end of the task they return the system [...]

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