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Vacuum gloves for climbing buildings

Suction is incredibly powerful and can be put to use in several different ways. [Jem Stansfield] built a set of vacuum gloves for a BBC TV series to show how powerful suction really is. He climbed up the side of a 100 foot building, yet had to rely on his safety line near the top. The video of his daring ascension after the jump.

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Cisco Systems

links for 2009-07-24

Allowing DHCP Option 82 in Cisco DHCP Relay Agents | Slaptijack
If you are using your Cisco Catalyst switches to insert DHCP Option 82 information and you are also using your Cisco routers as DHCP relay-agents (via ‘ip helper-address’), you’ll notice right away that your Option 82 enabled DHCP requests are not being forwarded by your routers.
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Understanding DHCP Option 82 – CCIE Blog
Understanding DHCP Option 82
By Petr Lapukhov, CCIE #16379
The DHCP Information option (Option 82) is commonly used in metro or large enterprise deployments to provide additional information on “physical attachment”…

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Finance

5 Easy Steps to Rebuild Your Credit after Bankruptcy

Bankruptcy often is the last ultimate solution for many debtors who have unbearable debts. With filing a bankruptcy, you will get rid of your debts instantly and relief you from the harassing call of your creditors.
Although bankruptcy has many undesirable consequences such as your bad credit record will remain on your credit report for 7-10 years, but with a little work, you can improve your credit even before these negative records expire. Here are five easy steps you can take to rebuild your credit.
Step 1:
Get to know your current credit status
The first step to rebuilding your…

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Facebook

Developers Behind Popular Graffiti Application Launch TwitDraw

Graffiti has been one of the most popular applications on Facebook since the platform first launched. We actually did an interview with Tim Suzman in the first month of the platform. Since then, the team behind Graffiti has started a new side project called TwitDraw, which is an evolved version of Graffiti in that you can continue drawing based on someone else’s graffiti.

If you want to see an example of a series of drawings, check out the kill the pig series which has gone for a few rounds. It will be interesting to see if this new application gains…

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Finance

Online Banking Made Easy

Here’s a really simple way… to have your banking handled with no muss, no fuss… on the internet.
Traditionally you have been used to doing your banking by going in to a physical brick and mortar building and taking care of whatever banking business you had to take care of.
Whether it was opening an account, checking balances, depositing a paycheck, taking money out for living expenses, applying for a loan, paying a bill, moving money around from account to another or whatever.
Of course you had to make a special point of putting it into your schedule and arranging…

Facebook

Facebook Makes Half A Billion While Twitter Searches For A Few Million

Today there has been a fair amount of buzz today about Marc Andreesen’s comment, stated during an interview about his new venture fund, that Facebook should surpass $500 million in revenue this year. It’s not quite a surprise but what’s more interesting is that the company is on the fast track to billions while Twitter, the thorn in Facebook’s side, has yet to bring in any substantial revenue although a few initial advertisers have been buzzed about.

As I previously wrote, Twitter needs to implement Facebook Connect, not only to continue increasing their user base but also the potential for…

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Finance

Bad Credit Home Loans

Bad Credit Home Loans, Is it Appropriate for You?
By Antin. Bad credit home loans are loans that someone can obtain even though hold a bad credit rating. Some lenders provide bad credit home loans completely realize that their loan is protected, since it accept mortgage of your home.
Bad credit home loans are mechanism of opportunity for persons who retain bad credit rating and would like leave their debt and start to run good credit building. By purposing of bad credit home loans you can reduce your monthly payments by consolidating all your debts and also enjoy a lower…

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Facebook

Yelp Launches Facebook Connect

Today Yelp launched their implementation of Facebook Connect to enable users to share reviews with their friends on Facebook. After you post your review on Yelp, you are prompted to post it to your feed. That’s about the extend of the service but it’s definitely another large site to integrate with Connect. Aardvark, Etsy, oDesk, The Washington Post, and many more have also implemented Connect in recent weeks.

Facebook has invested heavily in building out Connect, attempting to get as many sites to implement it as possible. While millions of users have taken advantage of Connect, the company isn’t giving…

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Business

How to Succeed Online

Starting an online business is both very exciting & also extremely daunting.
Having the right attitude is essential if you are going to succeed, work with what you do know & build on it, don’t get caught up worrying about what you don’t.
Why Newbie’s Fail
Over Analyzing – Newbie’s will start their online career with a flourish & hungry for new information – Be very careful where & who you get the information from, I think internet marketing is infested with back seat drivers (failed marketers). Conflicting information will bring self doubt & lack of action it is important…

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Facebook

How To Get Your Facebook Username Back From A Squatter

Did you participate in the Facebook username land rush only to find out that your username was taken? So did many other people, but a few have figured out how to get their name back. Over the past week I’ve received a number of inquiries from companies that had their Facebook username taken on the site and are trying to figure out how to get it back. Two of the people that contacted were able to get their username within 24 hours from filling out a little known form.

By filling out the Facebook client username form, there’s a good…

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Software

WinZip Pro v12.1.8519 +

WinZip reg is the most trusted way to work with compressed files No other compression utility is as easy to use or offers the comprehensive and productivity enhancing approach that has made WinZip the gold standard for file compression tools With the new WinZip 12 you can quickly and securely zip and unzip files to conserve storage space speed up e mail transmission and reduce download times State of the art file compression strong AES encryption compatibility with more compression formats and new intuitive photo compression make WinZip 12 the complete compression and archiving solution Building on the favorite features…

Automotive

Practical realities of Custom Bike Building

For some motorcycle enthusiasts, their ultimate dream is tobuild their very own custom motorcycle. But most have the dreadof having to use up their life savings and feel overwhelmed byall the details of putting such project together. Let’s sayyou’re in the process of getting ready to start your bikebuilding project. Know that a complete and determinedunderstanding of the great undertaking you’re going to face iswhat you need to become undaunted by the practical, if notharsh, realities of custom bike building. First of all, you need to consider your financial status beforeyou begin the whole project. Aside from the financialpoint-of-view, you…

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