7th Son: Book One: Descent by J.C.Hutchins, Science Fiction.

From Podiobooks.com, ” Three weeks ago, the U.S. president was murdered by a four-year-old boy.

Today, seven men stare at each other in a locked conference room. Kidnapped and brought to this underground facility, the strangers are sitting in silence, thunderstruck. Despite minor physical differences, they all appear to be the same man, with the same name … and the same childhood memories.

Unwitting participants in a secret human cloning experiment, these seven “John Michael Smiths” have been gathered by their creators for one reason — to capture the mastermind behind the president’s assassination.

Their target? The man they were cloned from; the original John Michael Smith, code-named John Alpha.

Soon our heroes — John, Jack, Michael, Kilroy2.0 and the others — realize the president’s murder was merely a prologue to Alpha’s plans. As the mystery deepens and the implications of Alpha’s scheme are slowly revealed, the clones decide to stand against John Alpha. The outcome will unearth a conspiracy larger than they could have ever imagined.

Descent is the first novel in J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son thriller trilogy.”

1. Prologue, Chapter 1. Download

2. Chapter 2. Download

3. Chapter 3. Download

4. Chapter 4. Download

5. Chapter 5. Download

6. Chapter 6. Download

7. Chapter 7. Download

8. Chapter 8. Download

9. Chapter 9. Download

10. Chapter 10. Download

11. Chapter 11. Download

12. Chapter 12. Download

13. Chapter 13. Download

14. Chapter 14 - 15. Download

15. Chapter 16. Download

16. Chapter 17. Download

17. Chapter 18. Download

18. Chapter 19 - 20. Download

19. Chapter 21 - 22. Download

20. Chapter 23. Download

21. Chapter 24. Download

22. Chapter 25. Download

23. Chapter 26. Download

24. Chapter 27. Download

25. Bonus Episode #1. Download

26. Bonus Episode #2. Download

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Earthcore, by Scott Sigler, Science Fiction.

From PodioBooks.com “Deep below a desolate Utah mountain lays the largest platinum deposit ever discovered. A billion-dollar find, it waits for any company that can drill a world’s record, three-mile-deep mine shaft.

EarthCore is the company with the technology, the resources and the guts to go after the mother lode. Young executive Connell Kirkland is the company’s driving force, pushing himself and those around him to uncover the massive treasure.

But Kirkland and EarthCore are not the first to find this treasure. The mountain’s history reveals two centuries of disappearances, murder, and insanity.

The discovery of ancient platinum knives, razor-sharp despite lying untouched for 1,000 years, reveals evidence of an ancient culture. If the artifacts are genuine, they show a pre-historic empire that once spanned from the Southern tip of South America all the way up through the American Southwest.

Wealth and fame lie under that Utah mountain, but at three miles below the surface, where the rocks are so hot they burn bare skin, something has been waiting for centuries. Waiting … and guarding. Kirkland and EarthCore are about to find out first-hand why this treasure has never been unearthed.”

1. Prologue - Death from below. Download

2. Chapter 1 - 4. Download Platinum, Cutthroat, Saddlebags and The Whiner.

3. Chapter 5. Download Herbert gets his.

4. Chapter 6 - 7. Download The Mountain is Hungry.

5. Chapter 8 - 10. Download Funeral Mountain.

6. Chapter 11 - 13. Download A short episode.

7. Chapter 14 - 15. Download Kayla Meyers is mean for a reason.

8. Chapter 15 - 16. Download Busy Little Bees …

9. Chapter 17 - 18. Download A line in the sand.

10. Chapter 19 - 20. Download Into the tunnels at last.

11. Chapter 21 - 22. Download Thumbs Up.

12. Chapter 23 - 24. Download If you want blood … you got it.

13. Chapter 25 - 26. Download Lost in the caves.

14. Chapter 27 - 28. Download The Old Soldier and The River.

15. Chapter 28 - 29. Download Tentacle Gods and Monsters.

16. Chapter 30 - 31. Download Attack of the Rocktopi.

17. Chapter 32 - 34. Download Phalanx.

18. Chapter 35 - 37. Download Who dug the tunnels?

19. Chapter 38 - 42. Download Rocktopi history revealed.

20. Chapter 42 - 45. Download The Good, The Bad, The Dead ….

21. Chapter 46 - 55. Download The Finale, Part One.

22. Chapter 46 - 55. Download The Finale, Part Two.

23. Appendix A. Download EarthCore Questions and Answers.

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Welcome to Zimbra, a powerful Open Source Messaging and Collaboration Application offering email, group calendars, contacts and web document managing.

Benefits

The overwhelming complexity of managing high volumes of email communication with legacy systems is painful. Which administrator really likes getting yelled at when messages or mailboxes are lost? How many employees enjoy scrolling through of hundreds emails because searching is too hard?

Zimbra Collaboration Suite 5.0 solves the problems faced by administrators and their end-users:

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Zimbra homepage

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Project Dakota: is a CD that contains all the Windows XP updates found on the Windows Update Network. It includes a small program that runs the updates in order specified by Microsoft.

This will definitely save bandwidth costs, especially for people in Africa. Lets just hope that the install script is good enough and does not cause more issues.

One more question, does the program know if patches are installed? Which patch needs to be applied? or does it just try install everything?

Anyways, it’s a step in the right direction!

Go to theatticnetwork.net

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Nagios is a free, as in Open Source, network and service monitor designed to pro actively inform on network problems.

Some features from nagios.org;

• Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING, etc.).
• Monitoring of host resources (processor load, disk and memory usage, running processes, log files, etc.).
• Monitoring of environmental factors such as temperature.
• Simple plugin design that allows users to easily develop their own host and service checks.
• Ability to define network host hierarchy, allowing detection of and distinction between hosts that are down and those that are unreachable.
• Contact notifications when service or host problems occur and get resolved (via email, pager, or other user-defined method).
• Optional escalation of host and service notifications to different contact groups.
• Ability to define event handlers to be run during service or host events for proactive problem resolution.
• Support for implementing redundant and distributed monitoring servers.
• External command interface that allows on-the-fly modifications to be made to the monitoring and notification behavior through the use of event handlers, the web interface, and third-party applications.
• Retention of host and service status across program restarts.
• Scheduled downtime for suppressing host and service notifications during periods of planned outages.
• Ability to acknowledge problems via the web interface.
• Web interface for viewing current network status, notification and problem history, log file, etc.
• Simple authorization scheme that allows you restrict what users can see and do from the web interface.

Nagios also offer an Enterprise option that includes professional support at nagios.com.

Links:

Nagios.org

Nagios.com

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