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Version Control with Subversion, Second Edition
New from O'Reilly: The Standard in Open Source Version Control
Kansas City InfoZine |
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Google's Adsense for Games
Every week, over 25% of Internet users worldwide play online games, which amounts to over 200 million people. This number is growing at a rate of almost 17% each year.*
Kansas City InfoZine |
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Cisco ships Mexican drug runner music on VPN CD
Bootleg bootup CD features Narco Corridos tune A sysadmin looking to set up a VPN network was surprised to discover that a Cisco installation CD contained Mexican music instead of security software. Cisco has acknowledged the issue and said that affected customers will be offered replacement CDs.…
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Land Warrior soldier-puter to get hoverbot vid hookup
'Get that droid outta the girls' showers' The US Army's techno-revolution push is making some progress, according to reports. Small military hover-droids in Iraq will be increased by 60 per cent, and there are unspecified plans to integrate footsoldiers' wearable computers into the wider military net.…
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TOTALLY RANDOM: Zach Gosling, Cocalico
Football and the Internet take up most of Zach Gosling's time these days.The 16-year-old Cocalico High School junior, the son of Tom and Lisa Gosling, of Denver, has played football since second grade and is a right tackle and inside linebacker for the CHS team.But Zach's greatest accomplish...
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Paraguay se suma al proyecto "Una laptop por niño"
Este mes Paraguay se sumará al proyecto internacional "Una laptop por niño" (OLPC, por sus sigla en inglés) cuando reciba las primeras computadoras portátiles para repartir gratuitamente en escuelas públicas.
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Remote workers do care about IT security
Feel the love, Mr IT Manager. Contrary to some IT perceptions, that remote workers are reckless security risks, a new survey has found that remote and mobile workers do actually have their business's best interests in mind when it comes to network security.
TechWorld |
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Microsoft: Xbox 360 Best for Japanese Publishers
9 Oct 2008: Microsoft touts 360's Japanese connections
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Range of predictions for Flyers this season
NOT THAT IT matters to anyone in the locker room, but scan through the Internet and have a look at what hockey watchers are saying about the Flyers.
Philly.com |
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Adopt a Scientist: Geology of Other Worlds
While we yearn to walk on other worlds, SETI Institute scientist Cynthia Phillips strolls the surfaces of distant planets each day at her computer. She's a planetary geologist on a quest to understand how liquids change the surfaces of other worlds. She studies Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system, mapping the evolution of their surfaces. It's all part of the search for life beyond ...
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U.S. Stock-Index Futures Climb; IBM, Intel, AIG Gain in Europe
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stock futures rose, indicating the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will rebound from a six-day drop, as International Business Machines Corp.
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Putting Your Trust in the Cloud
Regardless of all its hype, security in cloud computing is not a revolution; rather it's an evolution of the age-old business model of outsourcing. The concept of cloud computing has evolved from the concepts of grid, utility, and SaaS, and these models evolved from the application service provider in the mid-early '90s.
LinuxInsider.com |
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HP to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo
Is your IT Infrastructure holding your business back? Do you need to regain control of the virtual and physical server sprawl that can dominate today’s datacenters? See how you can develop a virtualization strategy that will enable you to transform your datacenter into a cost-effective, energy efficient and responsive IT environment that can dynamically adapt to the changing requirements in your ...
Linux World |
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Tourism chief resigns
Embattled Hawai'i Tourism Authority chief Rex Johnson resigned late yesterday from his $200,000-a-year post, ending two months of controversy over using his state computer to forward racist, sexist and pornographic e-mails. Johnson, who survived a previous attempt to oust him over the e-mails, stepped down after Gov. Linda Lingle, civic leaders and several prominent tourism executives called for ...
Honolulu Advertiser |
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HCC adds computer degree
An agreement between Honolulu Community College and the University of Hawai'i-West O'ahu allows computer science students to earn a bachelor's degree while completing most of their credits at the community college.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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'India is top spam sender in Asia'
New Delhi: India is the top spam sender in Asia and the seventh largest in the world, accounting for over four percent of the total global spam, says a study.
SiliconIndia |
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Prima Data: Google Chrome has a long way to go
Hello Heather,
Savannah Morning News |
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Multitasking Teens May Be Muddling Their Brains
Many teens today bounce between computers, music, cell phones and homework. They might appear superproductive, but science says otherwise: Every time we switch tasks, the brain shuts down connections to key information.
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Mozilla locks in Firefox 3.1 feature list
Mozilla will use a several-week delay it recently added to the Firefox 3.1 schedule to build a private browsing mode and beef up the browser's address bar, the company said.
Macworld UK |
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Double your view with extra computer screen
How'd you like to increase your office productivity by as much as 50 percent? Add a second monitor to your computer setup. You'll never go back to using only one monitor again.
Honolulu Advertiser |
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Global Stocks, U.S. Futures Advance; IBM, Dexia, ICBC Rally
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks rebounded in Europe and Asia and U.S. index futures rose after International Business Machines Corp. reaffirmed its profit forecast and investors speculated the worst five-day rout since 1987 was overdone.
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Poll results: Install computer chips to limit teen drivers' speed?
Do you think Ford Motor Co.'s new feature on many 2010 models that uses a computer chip in the key to limit teen drivers' speed is a good idea?
The Herald-Mail |
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WEbook: Turning Publishing on Its Ear
"Claiming itself to be a next-generation publisher, WEbook has successfully roped in venture capitalists to invest in their business," Deepak Thakur, senior research analyst in ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan told the E-Commerce Times. If the dot-com burst and the more recent Wall Street fiasco have taught us anything, it is that investor confidence is not necessarily a harbinger of success.
E-Commerce Times |
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Fire damages computer lab at Anne Arundel Co. school
A fire believed to have been caused by a malfunctioning air-conditioning unit at South River High School in Edgewater last night caused nearly $100,000 in damage to a computer lab room and its contents, said a spokesman for the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. A group of parents were meeting in the school when the fire was reported at 7:06 p.m., but all got out safely, said Robert Mosier, a ...
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UPDATED: Microsoft Names Halo 3 Expansion
9 Oct 2008: Details dished up
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