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‘123456′ most used internet password

MELBOURNE: ‘123456’ is the most common password used by people on the internet. Obscenities, names of fast cars and even ncc1701 – the ship number for Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise, have made it to the list of top 500 worst passwords of all time.
Compiled by Whatsmypass.com, the list features passwords most commonly used by internet [...]

Report: IBM in Talks to Acquire Sun Microsystems

IBM and Sun Microsystems are reportedly in negotiations for a buyout.
IBM is now in negotiations to purchase Sun Microsystems, as the struggling company tries to survive in a very turbulent global economy.  The Wall Street Journal has published details about the proposed deal.
IBM is reportedly willing to spend up to $6.5 billion in cash [...]

Google offers a universal phone number

Approaching two years after Google bought GrandCentral’s VoIP service, it has been rewritten and relaunched with new features — including voicemail transription
Sometimes when Google buys companies they sort of disappear, and people were wondering what had happened to GrandCentral, which Google bought in 2007. The answer came today when Google’s Official blog announced: Here comes [...]

Facebook temporarily loses more than 10% of photos

Facebook temporarily loses more than 10% of photos in hard drive failure.
Facebook is working to restore access to the photos.
Popular social networking site Facebook.com admitted in a blog post today that over the weekend, a hard drive failure led to the temporary loss of 10% to 15% of the photographs stored by its users.
According to the [...]

Wordpress admin unable to add new post

Use the following steps to fix it.
1. Create a new user and give them admin rights.
2. Log-in as that new user.
3. While logged in with them, change your main admin account to “subscriber” and save it.
4. Now change your main admin account back to “administrator”.
That should do it!

SQL 2005 Database Mirroring with Failover Tutorial

Solution Using Certificates Authentication on Production Servers

What you need is:
2 Servers and 1 Witness
Create a database on Principal Server
Backup the database 2 times: 1st time do a “FULL” backup, 2nd time do a “Transaction Log” backup
Restore the database on Mirror Server, MUST use option “NO RECOVERY” !!! After restore, the mirror database will not take any request, that is [...]

Correct Postures and Exercises for Computer Users

Correct Postures and Exercises for Computer Users
Here are some correct postures which should be used while using a computer to reduce stress and other ill effects.

Adequate leg room should be available under the work surface. Materials should not be stored under the work surface. The work surface should accomodate all required materials. Items used infrequently [...]

Woman Sues Microsoft Over XP Downgrade Charge

A woman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft over a US$59.25 charge for downgrading her Windows Vista PC to XP.
In a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, Los Angeles resident Emma Alvarado is asking that Microsoft return the fee she paid for downgrading a Lenovo [...]

WHAT TO DO WHEN ISP’S DNS SERVER COULD NOT RESOLVE DOMAIN OF YOUR WEBSITE?

You have a website or a blog; you host it some where on the internet. Some time you cannot browse your website from your computer, but some how the website is online and can be seen from some one else’s computer. The problem is that the DNS server at your Internet Service Provider did not [...]

France says Dec unemployment rises 45,000

PARIS, Feb 2 (Reuters) – French unemployment jumped by around 45,000 in December, Economy Minister Christine Lagarde said on Monday and she warned that the economy’s troubles would continue into the first quarter of the year.
The rise in the jobless data, which will be released officially later on Monday, is smaller than the 64,000 increase [...]