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Even if you don't know what BSoD means, you've undoubtedly come across them before. They're the really annoying blue screens that appear whenever Windows crashes (and lets face it, that's quite often). I just came across a gallery of some very visible (and very funny) BSoDs. Enjoy!

Here's the gallery.

Ever wonder what would happen if you suddenly and unexpectedly lost your internet connection? I know, it's a frightening thought! Fear not, though, this site has the answer. My personal favorite quote:

10. Use Your Emergency AOL Disk

If you find that your connection to the Internet is going to be longer than you can possibly stand, as a last resort, pull out an emergency AOL CD, the one with 910 free hours of connection to the AOL service. Take the CD in one hand...and slash it across your wrist! Suicide will probably be a better alternative than connecting to that service.

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Ever wondered how to create your own bootable Linux distribution? Check it out!

There's a pretty short but to-the-point tutorial on using Qt Designer to create quick and easy GUI apps over on DevChannel (part of IBM's wonderful developerWorks network). This tutorial is primarily intended to give you a quick overview on how to create a very basic application, but it gives you a good introduction to the development environment as a whole, and well worth a look if you've ever considered developing with Qt.

Here's the tutorial

SecurityFocus has a great article on transparent firewalls. It doesn't cover many technical details, but it provides a great introduction to what they are, why they're useful, etc.

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