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http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html#comments post by Jeff Atwood about troubles involved in setting up your own mail server (i.e. in case you actually care that mail you send will actually reach the recipient). While I don’t agree with the post, post and comments (especially comments) do contains good info and suggestions on what it takes to maintain a good email server. /PS: in Jeff’s case, his code is just an email client, all the stuff he writes about is sysadmin’s job and has nothing to do with programming/ ...

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/panels.php Info, tests, specs and other info – this URL is a must when you are in a process getting a new flat panel TV or monitor

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12450_na/12450_na.HTML full specs on HP L2465 monitor, older HP high quality 24" monitor, currently sold “certified” (aka used) at various places around $200-250 ( example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176144&Tpk;=LP2465 ) . [PS: current version of HP 24" pro series is LP2475w, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824176104&Tpk;=LP2475w )

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/07/whats-wrong-with-the-american-university-system/60458/ Interesting interview with Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, the authors of “Higher Education”

http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2 A great presentation [from google] about how people interact socially in the real life and how current social networks represent them. (Needs about 30 min to read)

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/?p=1994 Excellent article, shows some aspects why ppl do not accept silence – main cause: due to human nature emotions win over reason

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-7715 CPU Identifications in linux kernels (2.6.18 + rhel patches) , NOTE that this is not applicable when you are running linux kernel on top of virtual hardware (i.e. Dom0 and DomU kernels won’t show proper CPU info because they use “virtual CPU” as set by XEN )

http://openvswitch.org/ right now ppl are using linux bridges as virtual switches for XEN/KVM VMs. Open vSwitch is an improvement over linux bridge that supports industry standard protocol and features and IOS-like CLI – [when project matures] ]you should be able trunk your VM server with cisco switch and expand it into the server with all features supported and backed by a standard config.

http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-recognition An excellent article providing an overview and history of speech recognition technologies. For geeks looking into more tech details, pls see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639412&cid;=32079936

http://www.techradar.com/news/audio/linux-audio-explained-685419?artc_pg=1 Excellent article explaining linux audio stack, describing which component does what and why