Paper and metal money are being pushed out of business already. E-Banking transfers, credit cards and SMS payments are already widely used. What will come next? In this article I would like to give an overview about NFC based payment systems: what are they, how they work, what the status is and why we will use it.
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During last week I have been talking with some bright minds and have been alarmed by their misunderstanding regarding the peer-to-peer revolution, which has already happened and now we just experiencing ripple effect. They have been whining about “kids, who spend all their life online and what will they be when they will grow up?”. They already are and controlling huge market by short leash.
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Today I have tried to use Windows Vista speech recognition software, just to see how it has advanced and maybe, just maybe to use it for blogging. Imagine you are having a cup of coffee in the morning and just speak anything that comes to your mind. Blog entry is finished and you are off to work.
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Just today a collegue has asked about network bonding, which is sometimes called port trunking in Linux operating system, specifically:

• What it is?
• How does it work?
• How to enable it?

I will try to explain it in simple way and in the end you will be able to configure your Linux machine to have network redundancy and higher bandwidth.
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Hello all, this is my first post in XorBin, so I have thought to indroduce myself and give an overview of topics I would like to share with you. For the most of my professional life I have been working with Open Source products, such as Linux, FreeBSD operating systems, hosting software - Apache, Lighttpd, PHP, MySQL, Python and so on, creating solutions for different business needs or just giving advice to anyone who has been willing to listen.
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I hope everyone knows what AJAX is. For those who don’t, I have to disappoint You, this article will not give You any useful information. This article is about method which will help developers make forms which upload files to web servers asynchronously (without leaving/reloading current web page).
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Have you ever had a feeling that You can’t find and appropriate theme for You Wordpress blog? You know that You have a good design for it, or maybe You even have a finished xhtml template, but You don’t know how to make a Wordpress theme from it. What You really know is that You don’t have time to search for manual how to make one. Annoying isn’t it? :)
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