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"This howto offers a simple way of creating DVD images of Debian or Ubuntu http/ftp repositories
. Ubuntu doesn't offer DVDs ready to download with its main, universe, multiverse and/or restricted repositories. With the contents of this howto you can do it yourself.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft Australia's Office chief today delivered a frank retrospective on how badly bloated Office had become over the years.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 21st Sep 2005 16:17 UTC
Google's one-of-a-kind computer network gives it a chance to surpass Microsoft to become the most dominant company in tech, according to the author of a recently published book on the search giant.
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Google execs hope for long-term ad deal with Yahoo
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. — a deal that would lower the odds of Microsoft Corp. renewing its attempts to buy Yahoo.
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CodeGear intros VDE for PHP
CALIFORNIA, USA: CodeGear, provider of developer tools, has announced Delphi for PHP 2.0. Delphi for PHP is the only PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for building interactive web applications using visual drag-and-drop design capabilities and a powerful PHP component framework.
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Great finds at Multiply stores
Two weeks ago, The Daily 10 discussed web shopping—the convenience it brings and the perils it comes with. One of the things I pointed out was that sometimes, shopping at networking sites is safer than online stores and made Multiply an example. A lot of people seem to agree with me.
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Wall St ends up; ADRs weak
The Dow Jones industrial average advanced 52 points to 12,867. The Nasdaq gained 13 points at 2,451. Indian ADRs, however, ended mostly in red. ICICI Bank plunged 2.7% to $43.06, and Patni Computers slipped over 2% to $12.65. Infosys, Genpact, MTNL and Tata Motors were down around 1% each.
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Johnson County online system that tells who has warrants out on them is popular
Apparently a lot of people want to know who has arrest warrants out on them in Johnson County. So many people clicked on the Johnson County sheriff’s new online warrant checking system that the site crashed, said Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Erickson. And computers at the Johnson County District Court slowed.
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AP Financial NewsBrief at 11:41 p.m. EDT
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) _ Google Inc.'s top executives expressed hope Thursday that the Internet search leader will be able to form a potentially lucrative advertising partnership with Yahoo Inc. _ a deal that would lower the odds of Microsoft Corp. renewing its attempts to buy Yahoo.
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Review: 'Speed Racer' Limps Around the Track
The flick is flashy but too long for kids and too frenetic for parents.
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BART to sell youth discount tickets on the Internet
BART will begin selling discount tickets to high school students on Web this September
Contra Costa Times |
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Fla. mom to promote safe social networking for teens
Forty Corners Church of God at Massillon will host Talisa Lindsay of Lakeland, Fla., as a speaker Saturday during a program featuring WheelzNorth, a Christian stunt motorcycle team.
The Times-Reporter |
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Amazon shoppers may have to pay sales tax soon
Texans who shop Amazon.com to avoid paying sales taxes may not have that luxury for long.
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Germany: Telekom Earnings Up
Deutsche Telekom said first-quarter profit rose more than 33 percent on the sale of its media and broadcast unit and lower interest expenses. The company, which provides landline, mobile phone and Internet access, earned 750 million euros ($1.16 billion) in the period, compared with 563 million euros in the year-earlier period. Revenue fell 3 percent to 15 billion euros ($23.2 billion) from 15.5 ...
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Facebook Partnership With Attorney's General
Virginia has been a national leader in the area of youth internet safety. And Thursday some in local law enforcement and education chimed in on social networking website, Facebook's decision to partner up with attorneys general in 49 state, plus the District of Columbia, to keep kids safer online.
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Cartoon character Hector teaches children about the danger of online paedophiles
LONDON Child abuse experts are addressing children as young as 5 for the first time to teach them about the dangers of online paedophiles.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jan 2006 00:21 UTC, submitted by george
"More than five years ago the launch of Microsoft Windows XP - and its considerably improved features and reliability compared with Windows 98 and 2000 - made a comprehensive desktop rollout a no-brainer for companies. The other options were all far from desirable.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Oct 2005 15:45 UTC
Sources close to the joint efforts between Google and Sun say rampant speculation about hosted desktop productivity offerings and common operating systems is way off base . Insiders with knowledge of the joint plans to promote and enhance the OpenOffice.org desktop productivity suite say it is far more likely that Sun and Google will find ways to promote both OpenOffice.org and Google Toolbar, ...
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Popular business directory searches
Office Computerized Accounting Asst. Full Time, Must be computer literate. Apply in person at A to Z Carpet, 205 E. Broadway, Enid. ... >MORE Assistant Director of Nursing.
The Enid News & Eagle |
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Popular business directory searches
Office Computerized Accounting Asst. Full Time, Must be computer literate. Apply in person at A to Z Carpet, 205 E. Broadway, Enid. ... >MORE
The Enid News & Eagle |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 05:05 UTC, submitted by anonymous
After a year from last 1.0.4 version, new one brings a lot of changes, new features and bugfixes. Details about changes and download links can be found here .
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Clarendon man arrested in Internet predator sting
COLUMBIA -- Attorney General Henry McMaster announced Thursday that Orlin Franklin Morris Jr., 24, of 1962 Newman Branch Road in New Zion, was arrested on May 6 in an undercover Internet sting conducted by the Sumter County Sheriff's Office.
The Times and Democrat |
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NZ animations used to warn against paedophiles
New Zealand computer animations in which a dolphin named Hector warns children as young as five about the dangers of on-line paedophiles are to be used in Britain.
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Alaska joins 48 states, ups social networking safety
Attorneys general from 48 states, including Alaska, say they've reached an agreement with popular social networking site Facebook that would make it more difficult for online predators to target the site's under-18 users.
KTUU Anchorage |
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F.B.I. Says the Military Had Bogus Computer Gear
The prospect of an electronic Trojan horse, lurking in the circuitry of a computer and allowing attackers clandestine access or control, was raised again recently by the F.B.I. and the Pentagon.
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