Posts Tagged ‘Money’

10 Essential Tricks For Linux Admins

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Learn these 10 tricks and you’ll be the most powerful Linux systems administrator in the universe…well, maybe not the universe, but you will need these tips to play in the big leagues. Learn about SSH tunnels, VNC, password recovery, console spying, and more. Examples accompany each trick, so you can duplicate them on your own systems.

The best systems administrators are set apart by their efficiency. And if an efficient systems administrator can do a task in 10 minutes that would take another mortal two hours to complete, then the efficient systems administrator should be rewarded (paid more) because the company is saving time, and time is money, right?

Link: IBM

30 Ways To Use VoIP

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

You probably know by now that VoIP calls can save you money on cell phone bills, landlines and Web conferencing. But is that really all your VoIP service can do for you? If you only knew. From giving your dating life a boost to earning extra cash from a side job, VoIP gives you the possibility to explore all kinds of new tools and mischievous shenanigans.

Link: VoIP News

How To Build A Poker Bot

Saturday, June 28th, 2008

Several years ago, a client asked me to come up with a prototype for a real-money online poker bot. That’s right: a piece of software you park on your computer while it goes out to a site like PokerStars or Full Tilt and plays no-limit Holdem for you, at 4 or 14 different tables, for real-money stakes.

If you’re a poker player, and particularly if you’re an online poker player, you’ve probably heard rumors about the rise of the poker bots. Unfortunately there’s very little hard information out there (for obvious reasons) about how to build one of these bots. In fact, many so-called authorities still dismiss poker bots as a relic of the overactive poker player’s imagination.

This article will show you how to build your own poker bot.

Link: Coding The Wheel

The Secret To Making Money Online

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Ruby on Rails designer David Heinemeier Hansson gives his insight on ways to make money online with a simple business model.

Link: 37signals