Many times you will have a thumb drive that you want to keep private. Here is an easy way to hide it in the open. This will probably void any warranty you have on the drive. Here is a pic of the finished product.
Link to the DIY article.

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Super Mario Bros. is arguably the best and most famous video game ever made. There is something about that simple little game that keeps Geeks’ fascination and attention for all of these years.

There have been many tributes to this game over the years. From costumes to spin-off games to artwork, there is always someone finding a new way to immortalize this game. Today I have come across a tribute to this game that I can’t figure out what to think about it.

Instead of describing it, I will just let you watch the video…
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Most “computer-minded” individuals have a certain knack for programming. For some it may be websites, for others networking applications, for others yet, microprocessors. I’ll admit, my passions are web applications and to a lesser degree stand alone desktop applications. But each end goal has it’s own means of allowing the adventurous programmer to reach that goal. Herein lies the question, is it fair to compare usefulness and therefore quality, of programming languages?

I am most proficient in .NET languages, C# and VB to be more specific. I recently got into a heated debate with a friend of mine over the use of PHP and Ruby on Rails. I brought up ease of use with the Visual Studio IDE, and the great ability for .NET developers to use the built in “intellisense”. His retort was
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Well I guess this counts as a mod right? Or is it just genius? Wow! I wish these guys were my neighbors… I particularly love the proud look on the masterminds face as his friend just stares in amazement…

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So a few months ago I went to visit a friend of mine who goes to school about 45 minutes from me. While visiting I stayed with him, in a house he and his roommates have dubbed “Doom House.” Now in today’s PC age everyone has a computer and everyone is on the Internet. However a trip to the Doom House, where all the residents are computer science or engineering majors this idea is taken to the extreme. In that house they have 6 computers, running 4 different OS’s, and a centralized “media” server that they can all get data from.

Now coming back to my own apartment where I’ve got 2 PCs and an XBox360 that makes me wonder how I could optimize my computing power. While I’m not quite worried about sharing media to machines running two different Linux variants, Mac, and a few PCs, I am looking to centralize and share my data. Per usual, Lifehacker has me interested in a possible solution.

I think this now is where I need to pull back and ask the readers a question or three. How do you use you computer(s)? Do you use just use the Internet and word processor, or are you an underground electronic music mixing guru? Me, my use ranges from Office, to the Internet, to doing some .NET development for my own coding projects. Anyone out there put together a theater PC? I’m wondering what your take on the link was, I may take a stab at putting one similar together.

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This weekend I was having some problems with the server that runs StopGeek.  As usual I went to my favorite web search engine to try to figure out how to solve my problems.  By chance, I ran across a site one of those free article submission sites called HowTo.fm.  I usually find that these kind of sites are just filled with articles that barely make any sense and don’t really solve my problems.  This one seemed to be different.  The “How To” articles on this site that I found actually walked me through an explanation and solution of the Apache problems that I was having.  The site has a good search engine built in so it was easy to find what I was looking for.  I am going to keep an eye on this site,  hopefully the owner will continue to receive high-quality submissions!

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