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Groklaw reports that a company called IP Innovation, LLC, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat. Groklaw goes into black helicopter mode, trying to find a tie between this IP Innovation thing and Microsoft - and it finds it too.
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Microsoft will launch several projects around Linux and other open source technologies for allowing Indian customers the option to run its products on different operating systems and technologies.
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A simple way to avoid being the next Star Wars Kid
Fifteen years ago, the world wide web was the playground of boffins. Its design reflected the open ethos of those users: it had no central managers, no main menu and no investment in content – indeed, no business plan whatsoever.
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McCorory clocks fastest collegiate 400-meter time this season
Hampton University sophomore Francena McCorory clocked the fastest collegiate 400-meter time in nation this season on Saturday, when she ran 51.54 seconds to win the event at the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships in Baltimore. According to the TrackShark.com - an Internet site that follows collegiate times daily - McCorory's time surpasses the previous best this ...
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PCs Go on Sale in Cuba for the First Time
Another restriction on daily life falls away under new President Raul Castro: Cuba's government allows desktop computers to go on sale to the public for the first time.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Feb 2007 17:38 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Last September, some of the Debian Linux distribution's leadership wanted to make sure that Etch, the next version of Debian, arrived on its December 4th due date.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Nov 2006 23:20 UTC
During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Vista without antivirus software installed . ...
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Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise
New companies are trying to trying to solve a problem that the Internet itself created gathering the dense jungle of user-generated content across several platforms into one stream.
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County offers appliance recycle program
BUTLER COUNTY — The county offers recycling programs, starting this month, that have been created to make it easier for residents to get rid of their old electronics, freon appliances and household hazardous wastes.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 4th Sep 2007 22:00 UTC
Palm CEO Ed Colligan has posted a letter to Palm Customers, Partners and Developers on the official Palm blog.
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Recent Original Stories
Kaj de Vos made two big announcements at SylCon 2007. The first was a new web browser, based on a port of WebKit. The second is Syllable Server, which will bring together the Syllable GUI with the Linux kernel to create a server operating system that compliments Syllable on the desktop.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 4th Feb 2007 00:13 UTC
Salon's Scott Rosenberg explains why even small-scale programming projects can take years to complete, one programmer is often better than two, and the meaning of "Rosenberg's Law."
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Students accused of hacking into grades
Four Texas high school students are accused of hacking into school district computers to change the marks of at least 60 pupils, school authorities said.The four suspects are students at Hightower High School in Missouri City, Texas, where the altered grades appeared, the Houston Chronicle reported Saturday.The Fort Bend Independent School District has suffered a monetary loss of at least ...
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Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell
Global oppression has intensified as Indigenous Peoples are organizing at the international level to control their resources and halt oppression. Maori leaders in the sovereignty, environmental and peace movements have been arrested. Tame Iti is in prison without bail.
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Reporter's Notebook: Brenda Norrell
The International Indian Treaty Council has asked the United Nations to intervene on behalf of Marois being subjected to arrests, detentions and raids in violation of their human rights.
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Reporter's Notebook: Bill Conroy
Message from the Earth: Free Opitz and Lehmann Now! The oil rich Niger River Delta of southern Nigeria is a murky swampland where men are at war with the Earth — and each other.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Feb 2006 22:17 UTC, submitted by Jeremy
Roughly half of today's PCs won't be able to take advantage of the 'Aero Glass' compositor found within Microsoft's upcoming Vista software, due at the end of this year. The estimate was one of the conclusions cited in a report released late Thursday by Jon Peddie Research.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Jul 2007 21:33 UTC
Even though patent talks between Microsoft and Red Hat broke down last year before Microsoft went on to sign a technical collaboration and patent indemnity deal with Novell, Red Hat is still willing to work with the Redmond software maker on the interoperability front.
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Linked by David Adams on Tue 12th Jul 2005 15:52 UTC
The Tor Desktop Virtual Privacy Machine is a USB JumpDrive preloaded with a complete Linux OS and a roster of useful applications. Plug it into a Windows or Linux machine and launch a virtual Linux desktop that routes all network traffic through multiple network proxies using the Tor network.
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Recent Original Stories
Mark Russinovich has started a series of articles regarding Vista's/Longhorn's kernel changes . "This is the first part of a series on what's new in the Windows Vista kernel.
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Purdue set for supercomputer 'barn-raising'
200 employees will help build a machine that will be the size of a semi trailer and will be able to perform more than 60 trillion operations in one second.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 21:03 UTC
Wouldn't it be great to just get a PC with Linux already installed and ready to go? Novell thinks that's a grand idea too, and on Oct. 25 announced agreements with four white-box PC manufacturers who will globally distribute PCs preloaded with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10. Novell's new PC vendors are European manufacturers ETegro Technologies, MAXDATA and Transtec, along with the U.S. PC OEM ...
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Students accused of hacking into grades
MISSOURI CITY, Texas, May 3 (UPI) -- Four Texas high school students are accused of hacking into school district computers to change the marks of at least 60 pupils, school authorities said.
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Police: Antioch Woman Used Craigslist To Advertise Sex Services
Antioch police have arrested a woman on accusations she was advertising sexual services on the Web site Craigslist, according to the Police Department.
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