Here is Computerwold’s Top 10 list of those old school elite skills that are going, going, almost gone.

Check out the article to see #1, it’s only fair to not steal their thunder, right?

1. ?????
2. Nonrelational DBMS
3. Non-IP networks
4. cc:Mail
5. ColdFusion
6. C programming
7. PowerBuilder
8. Certified NetWare Engineers
9. PC network administrators
10. OS/2

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Nice story from the ‘Great White Snark’, too bad it devolved into a cake war controversy with the Death Star baker.

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Google Trends is a new feature that enables you to compare the world’s interest with your favorite topics. Or you can simply browse the top 100, such as today’s Top 100 hot trends in searches.

Not surprisingly, today there are a lot of indicators that the top entertainment activities are on people’s minds. For instance the NBA Lottery was today, along with searches for some of the NBA teams like the Supersonics, Trailblazers, Greg Oden and ‘NBA draft’.

3. nba draft

7. nba lottery

8. 2007 nba mock draft

It appears there are happenings going on with ‘Dancing with the stars’ and ‘American Idol’ tonight based on the many variations on searches there.

1. dancing with the stars winner

4.american idol winner

5.who won american idol

I don’t see any GEEK related searches like ‘Vista Patch’ or ‘Linux Kernel’

But there are more than a few WoW searches like these samples:

26.wow mods

68.world of warcraft realm status

78. worldofwarcraft.com

83. wow auctioneer

99. wow interface

100. cartographer wow

Check out these cool Wii-mote attachments for some of your combat fun. Definitely adds a tad more realism to the game I suppose, but there’s just something about holding a 6 oz. version of a handgun that just doesn’t do it for me.

For product details, here’s the handgun for $19, here’s the Wii-Combat Pack that includes Sword, Knife and Shield, also for $19.

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Via Forever Geek.

If you use the Windows Command Shell a lot (cmd.exe) then you may already know that in previous versions of Windows if you put the focus on CMD and hit ALT+ENTER, that the command window goes to full screen mode, really nice. Especially for devices running Windows that want to replace the Explorer Shell with Command Shell.

In any case, I tried this the other day on Vista and this was the unpleasant response below, sigh. Looks like it’s not supported.

As long as we’re on the subject of CMD.exe, here’s a couple of CMD tips:

• To make reading the console easier I usually set green font on black background or yellow on black.
• Set screen buffer size to 9000 so you don’t lose important info off the screen
• Use the UP and DOWN arrows to walk up and down the command buffer