Join many around the world for the 2010 edition of Earth Hour. Turn off the lights for one hour on March 27th at 8:30PM Local Time.
http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx

There are several addresses or range of addresses that are reserved or ’special’ in IPv6 (Internet Protocol version v6)

0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0 which is the equivalent of 0.0.0.0 in IPv4
0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 which is the equivalent of the 127.0.0.1 loopback address in IPv4
2000::/3 The global unicast address range
FC00::/7 The unique local unicast range
FC80::/10 The link local unicast range
FF00::/8 the multicast [...]

The VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) allows switches across a network to maintain consistency. VLANs can be managed, added, renamed and deleted using VTP. VTP was created by Cisco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_LAN

Howard Zinn 1922-2010, RIP.
Howard Zinn was most importantly anti-war. Author of the important A People’s History of the United States.
http://howardzinn.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn
Long interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMt7cFFKPeM
Shorter segment from The Real News channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mebqz79O6AA

December 10 is recognized as international Human Rights Day. It marks the date when the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) (Read more here).
Struggles and human rights violations still exist, even 61 years after it was voted for by countries big and small. Many of those same [...]

Pitaschio, not Pistachio!, is described by its author as
Pitaschio is a freeware which makes it convenient to use Microsoft Windows
Pitaschio is a utility that enables a user to automate many tasks or to simply be more efficient with the keyboard and the mouse. At the same time it can be perhaps too much since for [...]

Quick Key Launch is a launcher that can be used to launch any file quickly. To set up new commands one must drag any file, program or shortcut to its run or command box style interface. After doing so a dialog box opens where one names the command or shortcut and optionally adds any parameters [...]

Signo is described by its author as
…impressively complete hotkey manager…
Upon launch Signo slows the system (reviewed on a Windows XP computer) but then settles in the tray and provides a number of defaults hotkeys or what it calls actions to automate many tasks. Signo also provides the ability to add additional user defined actions. The [...]

File Hound is Described as
…Search for text inside any file on your computer. It can search all kinds of text files, including pdf, doc etc.

It is a simple program that does its job well and as mentioned in its description searches inside *.pdf files too. It is not limited to pure text files as [...]

Monitor Off Utility is described by its author as
…is a free program that allows you to take control of your monitors built-in energy saving features
Even though all computers and operating systems come with power management features that allow a user to turn off a hard disk or put a computer into standby or hibernate mode [...]