Dear First Data (online payment system ( Read more... )

At work we are going to be required to change to a different tool for source control. We use a tool that works very well for us, but the rest of the company uses a different one. The argument I've heard is economic but leaves out the fact that conversion will cost more than, probably, the next 20 years of support contracts for our current tool. ( Read more... )

( fish-fest, Mac software, marketing, assorted links )

The g'mara discusses cases of group loss. If a caravan is travelling ( Read more... )

Query to the brain trust: I have USB headphones that include a microphone. What free software can I use to record voice from that microphone (preferably on Windows XP but I also have an iBook with OS 10.4 available) and produce something like WAV files? (I know I'm not going to get stellar audio quality from this setup; that's ok. The immediate ( Read more... )

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We use BitDefender for anti-virus protection. Once it's running ( Read more... )

A coworker pointed me to these cartograms illustrating election results geographically. Nifty!

Dear LJ brain trust,

I'm looking for virtual-desktop software for Windows XP with the following
properties:

• Supports six or more desktops. Microsoft's Virtual Desktop Manager
  fails here, being limited to four.
• Can switch desktops with a single click on a grid (or something similar ( Read more... )