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Thursday, January 28, 2010

Download 150+ PowerPoint templates for free from Microsoft

by Lee Mathews (RSS feed) Jan 28th 2010 at 3:27PM

If you use Microsoft PowerPoint to create presentations, the crew from Inside Office has shared a series of downloads that may be of interest to you.

The goodies include everything from slide backgrounds to animated text effects and charts. There are eight categorized download sets in all -- and they're all provided free of charge! You can also preview each category (such as the combined picture and text effects) before you download.

As is usually the case with free templates, some of the stuff is a little bit on the cheesey side. There's still plenty of good content to be had, however, like the nice timeline slide in the header image.

If you have Silverlight installed, check out the freebies in action in a video clip suitably entitled "Everything in the video is a Powerpoint slide" after the break!

Need some tips on creating an effective presentation? Check out our post highlighting 6 handy PowerPoint tips!

Go there...
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01/28/download-150-powerpoint-templates-for-free-from-microsoft/

Don

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Linux Today - Apache SpamAssassin Takes a New Route in Version 3.30

Apache SpamAssassin Takes a New Route in Version 3.30
Jan 27, 2010, 23 :03 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (444 reads)
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

"Spammers beware! A new version of Apache SpamAssassin has you in its sights. After over two and half years of development, SpamAssassin 3.3.0 is now available, providing mail administrators with new features to better stem the flow of spam into their organizations.

"The popular open source antispam project, which is run either as a mail server or locally as a spam filter, uses a variety of techniques to detect unwanted bulk e-mail. Now with its 3.30 release, SpamAssassin (SA) is taking a major step forward in separating its rules engine from the core product -- a move that aims to improve the overall efficacy of spam detection.

""Removing the rules from the core product eliminates duplication of rule files and confusion about which rules on a system are actually used," Daryl O'Shea, Apache SpamAssassin's project management committee (PMC) chair, told InternetNews.com."

Complete Story

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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-27-032-35-SC-SV-NT

Don

Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny

Submitted by falko (Contact Author) (Forums) on Sun, 2010-01-24 18:05. :: Debian | Kernel

Building Kernel Modules With Module-Assistant On Debian Lenny

Version 1.0
Author: Falko Timme <ft [at] falkotimme [dot] com>
Last edited 01/21/2010

module-assistant is a tool for building Debian kernel modules from source, without having to rebuild the whole kernel. It fetches module-source packages that have been prepared for the Debian distribution via apt and produces .deb packages. This tutorial shows how to use module-assistant in command-line mode and in interactive mode.

I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

1 Preliminary Note

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to build the ndiswrapper kernel module for Debian Lenny. The procedure is the same for any other kernel module that module-assistant knows.