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Linked by Andrew Youll on Mon 29th Aug 2005 10:12 UTC, submitted by Nate Behlendorff
In this short interview , Ubuntu Linux founder and space tourist Mark Shuttleworth discusses the intended users of Ubuntu, why he chose to base it on Debian, and what the future holds for Linux on the desktop. Ubuntu is growing rapidly - and Shuttleworth is the man at the controls.
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City Would Contract With County For Tech Services
BROOKSVILLE City Manager Jennene Norman-Vacha began looking into the city's computer network last year and has not been pleased by what she found.
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Pop Star Snapshot Can Yield Lessons
Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Miley Cyrus' struggle with her controversial photo in "Vanity Fair" presents a great opportunity for parents to discuss how seemingly innocous photos posted to a blog or social networking site can be misinterpreted, experts say.
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Board of Supervisors agenda - with summaries - now online
The wait is over. Weighing in at more than eight times that of the last such document, the 1.8-megabyte agenda for Tuesday's Mendocino County Board of Supervisors meeting has landed -- agenda summaries and all.
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XG severs contract with first customer
XG Technology, a wireless technology developer traded on Aim, has terminated its contract with its first and only named customer.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Dec 2007 23:20 UTC
DistroWatch reviews Geubuntu , and concludes: "For Enlightenment and Ubuntu fans this distro is custom made for you. It takes the best of Ubuntu and combines it with a great desktop environment. If Ubuntu or Kubuntu is a bit too heavy for your equipment, then Geubuntu just might be what you need.
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Mystery Internet Girl Is Not Missing Bradley Girl
The parents of a girl some thought was Tionda Bradley have come forward to say she is not.
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Recent Original Stories
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Sep 2006 20:54 UTC, submitted by Tyr. "Any computer user that's owned and installed software onto their computer knows that the more you install, the slower the beast runs.
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Recent Original Stories
"I asked Microsoft for an official comment on Thurrott's XP SP3 post and received the following response: "SP3 for Windows XP Home Edition [and Professional] is currently planned for 1H CY2008 . This date is preliminary," said a Microsoft spokeswoman.
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posted by John Finigan on Mon 21st Apr 2008 19:00
Engadget got the chance to sit down with Jonathan Schwartz, the pony-tailed CEO of Sun Microsystems. Being the gadget blog that they are, Engadget asked Schwartz about the long-missing JavaFX Mobile platform Sun has promised, Java on the iPhone, and competing with Microsoft as an open source vendor.
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Recent Original Stories
"When Firefox launched in beta release five years ago, it burst on the open-source browser scene like a young Elvis Presley - slim, sexy and dangerous.
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Syphilis spike linked to social Web sites and anonymous encounters arranged online
Ithaca, NY - Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that seemed almost eradicated a few years ago, is on the rise and authorities say that using Web sites to arrange anonymous sexual encounters is partly to blame.
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Xbox 360 Finally Getting Blu-ray
Starturtle writes "Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer had admitted that Microsoft had been working on support for Blu-ray under Windows during this year's Mix08 conference. Rumors began to swirl and many began to expect Microsoft to announce a Blu-ray peripheral for the Xbox 360. However, Microsoft came out and denied all rumors, stating that they were not exploring any kind of Blu-ray ...
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David Duchovny on his ' X-Files' love affair
The actor is paired up and on the hunt again for aliens and freaky folk. But first (and unlike Mulder), he declares his feelings for his FBI partner. THE CAST and crew of the upcoming "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" were just a few weeks into filming in Vancouver when Frank Spotnitz, the co-writer and co-producer with creator-director Chris Carter, called star David Duchovny over to a laptop ...
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An Open Palette: Tux Paint's Bill Kendrick
Computerworld Australia: "Bill Kendrick on Tux Paint, Tux4Kids, the GSoC, computer games, KDE, Debian, the spread of Linux and open source software in education..."
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Two New Screens for Golden Axe: Beast Rider [Golden Axe]
SEGA America's blog gives gamers a look inside work at Secret Level, which just finished Iron Man for them and is cranking on Golden Axe: Beast Rider.
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Making Free Phone Calls With Google's GrandCentral
andrewmin writes with an enthusiastic pitch for Google's closed-beta call-aggregation service called GrandCentral, for which we non-beta-testers can at least reserve a number. Specifically, he's using GrandCentral in combination with Gizmo5 to make free VoiP calls. Excerpted: "Most of the time, I'm at my computer. Or near it. And if I had an internet device like a Nokia N810 or an iPod Touch, ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 6th May 2006 22:03 UTC
Various rumours from all around the web are saying that Apple will release the successor to its highly successful iBook product line coming Tuesday.
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More Technology News
Find breaking news, tech news & multimedia on the Internet, telecommunications, wireless applications, electronics, science, computers, e-mail & the Web.
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Linked by Adam S on Thu 20th Oct 2005 18:19 UTC
Today, we roll out the OSNews Meta Blog . We are trying something new. Whereas OSNews proper is moderated and logged, the OSNews Meta Blog is here solely to discuss the site, without bombing an unrelated news thread. It's unmoderated, anonymous, and, perhaps best of all.... XHTML compliant.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 31st Jul 2007 23:51 UTC, submitted by scott
Apple on Tuesday afternoon began informing a select group of developers that it plans at least one more maintenance update to its Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system ahead of October's planned release of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
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Recent Original Stories
In a series of articles ( part I , part II ) during the month of July, OfB's Timothy R. Butler explained why he felt that KDE needed to move beyond the Qt toolkit it uses as a foundation. In that series, he asserted that the licensing of Qt is becoming a stumbling block to the desktop's adoption.
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Recent Original Stories
"The next-generation of the KDE open source project, version 4.0, has been touted as the beginning of a new era in desktop computing, but only two months from the first release some users are wondering if it's just all hype . KDE 4.0 will bring a collection of new technologies to the Linux and Unix desktop, but there are uncertainties around how much of it will be included in the initial release.
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IT’s getting worrisome
Nitin Kumar, 28, is a software professional with a top-notch information technology company in Bangalore. A fat salary, a fancy apartment and a big car — he seems to have everything going for him.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Feb 2007 22:58 UTC
El Reg has reveiwed Windows Vista . "So, there's our first look at Vista. It does benefit from a lot of good ideas, many of them Apple's, of course, but good nevertheless. It simply doesn't work very well, unfortunately. There are serious problems with execution; it's not polished; it's not ready.
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