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If you are going to be unemployed in this economy, it sure helps to have a sense of humor about:

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Keyloggers can be a nasty bit of business.  They can spy on you and get everything that you punch into a keyboard.  including usernames and passwords.  So how can you get into your computer and excise that keylogger without giving your information to the keylogger?  Then answer is Neo’s SafeKeys 2008!

From the website:

Neo’s SafeKeys 2008 is a custom-made tool that allows for you to mouse-click your password on an on-screen keyboard.

You type your password by clicking each button on the keyboard of this application (with your mouse). Your password will appear, letter by letter, in the text box at the bottom of the window (within a “******” password mask). Select the text with your mouse and then drag-drop it onto the password box on your online form. That’s it!

ADVANTAGES:

• Unlike the Windows on-screen keyboard, Neo’s SafeKeys does not translate on-screen key presses to actual key presses (the Windows on-screen keyboard does not protect you against keyloggers)
• You don’t use your keyboard (keyloggers cannot record the password)
• The utility changes width and height each time, as well as its placement on the screen (to fool mouse-loggers, buttons will always be in different positions each time you use the program)
• Nothing is stored in the clipboard (clipboard loggers cannot save the password).
• You can use upper-case letters and symbols (such as !@#${}) by pressing the CAP button - no matter how complex your password is, the utility can type it.

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I have to admit that I am still pretty green when it comes to working with Linux on the command line.

Command-line-fu allows you to search through some pretty powerful Linux commands all in one spot.  It also lets you add your own so that you can keep track of those pesky but useful commands along with marking your favorites!

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If you are like me, you probably are a little daunted by this whole cloud computing thing.  Fortunately, there is a little savior out there to help us out.

EC2 for Poets is a tutorial that is supposed to walk you through setting up a computer in the clouds using Amazon EC2.

From the website:

The goal is to make cloud computing less mysterious by helping
people through the process of setting up a server on Amazon EC2. The
title derives from a class that was offered at the University of
Wisconsin, when I was a grad student there, called Computer Science for
Poets.

I loved the idea then, and still do. Engineers
sometimes mystify what they do, as a form of job security. I prefer to
make light of it, so more people will be tempted to give it a try. It
was easy for me, why shouldn’t it be easy for everyone?

Gonna go and get me a virtual computer!

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I have decided that today is going to be Awesome Finds Day!  What is awesome finds day?  Basically, I’m going to be posting a number of short, quick posts describing something that I have recently found which I think is basically awesome and then I’ll point you in the right direction.

But be warned!  The awesomeness is going to be coming fast and furious so be prepared!

BTW, the picture on this post fits the awesome category because if you have ever seen the northern lights, you will understand how awesome they are!

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