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Over the past two years (its gotten really bad in the past 6 months) Facebook has steadily altered the default privacy settings to allow more and more of your personal data to be available to more and more people.

Currently, if you have never changed your privacy settings, the vast majority of the information you put on Facebook is fully viewable to the *ENTIRE* Internet*.

Here's my ASCII Owl, complete with Woodbadge Beads.

Andy
Owls, C-17-07

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/ / @ \/ @ \ \
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Another awesome XKCD... I wonder if our cats dream this dream....

Get it straight from the source at: http://xkcd.com/729/

I manage several Linux servers from (among others) a Linux desktop. Running X apps on a remote server locally via SSH is cool, very cool.

If you've every tried this with firefox, you've likely noticed that the firefox launching script is too smart for this kind of malarkey. Execute the script $/usr/bin/firefox on a remote ssh session with X11 forwarding enabled and it will cause the local firefox install to launch... and they call this a "feature."

Well, one can disable this "feature" with the counter-intuitive flag -no-remote.

Want to install a load of free apps all at one? This is great for installing that default loadout of apps you always have on every computer...

http://ninite.com/

Here's a link to the RACC No Pain software bundle:
http://ninite.com/installer/61bf073599692792c5665ad2c1fad409e7862caf

The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows is a truly awe inspiring tool. The absolute perfect way to build the tool is to create a bootable USB drive with a companion CD. The companion will boot the USB in the event you are working on a PC that is old enough to not support USB booting, the CD also has a full copy to the UBCD too... just in case.

The documentation on how to do this is pretty slim though. Here's my best attempt:

- Download and install the UBCD4Win build system
- Copy the source somewhere faster then optical media

Here's another interesting program to check out: http://www.todo-backup.com

I just stumbled across Zabbix (http://www.zabbix.com/index.php), an open source network/server monitoring/reporting server package. It is definitely worth researching; could be a replacement for the one-two punch of Nagios and Cacti that I am using currently.

Check this out:
http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.xhtml

If Windows Update ever fails to install an update, one possibility is that the download was corrupted.

To flush the download cache for Windows Update, follow these steps:

- Stop the Automatic Updates service ("services.msc" at the "run" prompt
- Browse to the "SoftwareDistribution" directory in the windir ("%windir%\SoftwareDistribution" at the run prompt)
- Delete everything in the "Download" directory
- Restart the Automatic Updates service