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In The Shop: XBMC

In the shop today:

Playing with XBMC to see if I like it to stream media from a variety of sources including an HP MediaVault.  Check back in a couple of days and see how it is going.

From the XBMC website:

XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub [...]

All Freeware Index in Popularity Order

All Freeware Index in Popularity Order | Gizmo’s Tech Support Alert
All Freeware Index in Popularity Order

This is a list of all freeware categories on this site sorted in popularity order. To search for a particular category such as “editors” use your browser’s search feature – normally that’s [...]

Free books!

Free books! “The Future of Ideas” by Lawrence Lessig, on the corporate threat to the Net’s openness and innovation; “Trigger Happy” by Steven Poole, about the aesthetics of videogames; and the Association for Computing Machinery’s library of classic computer science books.

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Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs

Reinstall Windows and outfit your system with all freeware programs

Author: Samer

Description:
I recently clean installed Windows XP on my laptop, and this meant that
I had to re-install all the [...]

Time Machine for every Unix out there

Time Machine for every Unix out there – IMHO
Time Machine for every Unix out there
Using rsync to mimic the behavior of Apple’s Time Machine feature

rsync is one of the tools that have gradually infiltrated my day to day tool-box (aside Vim and Zsh).

Using rsync it’s very easy to mimic Mac OS X new feature called Time [...]

GParted — LiveCD

GParted — LiveCD
GPARTED-LiveCD

The power and simplicity of GParted on a biz-card size LiveCD.

The CD aims to be fast, small in size (~50mb), and use minimal resources
to get that disk partitioned the way you want it. GParted LiveCD is based
on Gentoo-catalyst, and uses Xorg,the lightweight Fluxbox window manager,
and the latest 2.6 Linux Kernel.

Being up to date is [...]

TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux

TrueCrypt – Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
T r u e C r y p t
Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
Main Features:

Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.

Encrypts an [...]