Geekdom Link Dump

As per my usual every-couple-of-weeks routine, here are a bunch of geek links that are mostly for my reference but might be handy for somebody else.

• Western Digital debuts a 300gb 10,000 SATA hard drive that's stupidly fast.
• So when do we get folders in Gmail?.
• How to build a $188M submarine cable system.
• Mount flickr storage space as a hard drive.
• Fun little Physics toy.
• How to make a sawed-off USB key.
• Placing forced ads on your customers' sites with .htaccess (for folks who are considering hosting sites for free).
• What file system should I use?
• Torrents of traffic and the Internet backbone (good article considering what's been going on lately).
• Downloading YouTube videos as MP4 files.
• The WiFi Predator, a "modified wireless router connected to a high-powered antenna and running custom firmware to actively seek out open wireless connections. Once they are found, it will test them for internet connectivity and then join and repeat the one with the strongest signal to secured wireless connection that YOU control." Totally illegal, but totally cool.
• Dealing with Windows Vista Explorer screwing up auto-detection of folder types.
• Move email to Gmail with Google Email Uploader.
• What if Futurama was real?
• Dropclock motion clock screensaver.
• Linux remains unbeaten in pwn2own Hacking Contest.
• Best Firewall Software of 2008.
• Open Source classroom management with iTalc.
• Push the Freakin' Button (and Pro version).
• Left Behind: A fond farewell to 209 once-common things that are either obsolete or well on the way.
• Make your Windows XP start up screen look like Vista.
• Comparison of how 10 popular web sites have (and have not) changed.
• Where do email to "donotreply.com" go? They go to this guy.
• 10 Handy Numbers to Save In Your Cell Phone.
• Speed up Network File Copying While Playing Audiot in Vista SP1.
• ClamWin anti-virus for Windows.
• Embed your to-do list on your desktop.
• Run a management WiFi hotspot with a PayPal Payment gateway.
• UltraDefrag is much better than the built-in defrag in Windows.
• 10 JavaScript/Ajax effects to boost your website's fanciness factor.
• 101 Five-minute fixes to incrementally improve your Web site.
• CSS media selections for various browser types.
• 85% of all spam comes from six botnets, with 40% of all spam coming from just one botnet. Good luck shutting that down.
• How to find out where an exploit is running on cPanel.
• A bunch of Single-serving-sites, web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing.
• 21 Awesome (but lesser known) open source applications for Windows.
• 50 ways your Web site is discouraging conversions -- and how to fix it (Editor's Note: Step 1: Find more time....).
• Using CSS to do anything. 50+ creative examples.

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