Computer news
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Arstechnica
Well researched news from technology and related politics.
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Osnews
News about programming and operating systems including some less popular ones
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Newsforge
News about open source.
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Digg
Community regulated news site
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Slashdot
The infamous community regulated news site
Encyclopedias
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Wikipedia
Encyclopedia which is editable by everyone. Suprisingly good quality, but don't use if your life depends on it.
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Uncyclopedia
One of the best sources of missinformation.
Nostalgy (games)
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Dos Games Archive
Seems like this in not the usual abandonware site, no commercial games downloadable unless they are really released as freeware.
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C64.com
Largest collection of C64 games I have seen. Site owner has not contacted the copyright owners (if it's in all cases even possible), so downloading is actually illegal, but nobody doesn't care.
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Home of the Underdogs
Large collection of games that are not sold anywhere anymore. Most of the games are still copyrighted, so downloading is actually still illegal.
Podcasts
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Sourcetrunk
"a weekly trunkload of open source"
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bsdtalk
"Talking about the BSD family of free operating systems."
Free TV-shows
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Systm
How-to about technical topics such as MythTV or building high quality A/V cables.
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Diggnation
No time for reading Digg? Best stories from the Digg.
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DL.TV
Show about various technical topics, twice a week.
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The Scene
Were do all that pirated material come from? Find out at The Scene.
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Cranky Geeks
Fresh news and heated discussions.
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Tiki Bar TV
Every problem is solvable with a cocktail, at least in this show.
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Hak.5
Interested in modding or security? Then this one is for you.
Security and privacy
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Stopbadware
Information about which applications include spyware like features.
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A Day in the Life of an Information Security Investigator
Blog with security news and half true stories about security investigations.
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Virustotal
Scan suspicious files with number of anti-virus scanners.
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Best free (Windows) utilities
Quite good list of Windows security software and some other useful utilities not related to security
Open source
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Wikipedias free software portal
Good place to start looking, if you're interested in open source.
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Distrowatch
Good place to start looking for suitable Linux distributions.
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Compare open source operating systems
Detailed comparisons of open source operating systems.
OSNews
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Why could you close the Windows 95 Start button?
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing - one of the best Windows blogs on the web - has a very interesting item up about a certain bit of behaviour in Windows 95 I was unaware of. Basically, there's a neat little trick where you can close and move the Start button. It wasn't a feature, but a bug.
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Yet another menubar might land In Ubuntu 12.04
It looks like a new "locally integrated menu" will make it into Unity, starting with version 5.6.0. There's basically no information about the new locally integrated menubar, except for two bug reports which link to some custom Unity, Compiz, Metacity and Light Themes branches so to see "LIM" in ...
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Samsung doesn't think Apple can compete in the ...
Today Samsung AV product lead Chris Moseley had comments about Apple's rumored entrance into the television marketplace that sound eerily similar to that which Palm CEO Ed Colligan's said a few years back about how Apple's ability to simply walk into this market and figure it out like they had m ...
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Samsung doesn't think Apple can compete in the ...
Today Samsung AV product lead Chris Moseley had comments about Apple's rumored entrance into the television marketplace that sound eerily similar to that which Palm CEO Ed Colligan's said a few years back about how Apple's ability to simply walk into this market and figure it out like they had m ...
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Why Microsoft developers need a style guide
What your interface communicates to users can be just as important as what your software does, writes Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister in discussing the latest edition of the 'Microsoft Manual of Style,' a style guide aimed at designers and developers who create Microsoft software, as well as t ...
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Antero Hytönen
2010-12-07 21:14:31I haven't done any certifications. One way to get rough idea what it is about is to check if some program you like has already has some activity in testing side of things. Otherwise you can just install latest version of the software and file bug reports.

Afreen(افرين)
2010-12-07 17:48:18:)..hmm, have you done any certifications in testing? also am interested in testing, want to move in that domain, so..trying to see things online, just in case if i find something to learn









