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Starting today, Linspire does not only offer a free OS, but also its CNR Basic service . " Linspire, Inc., developer of the commercial desktop Linux operating system of the same name and Freespire, the free community desktop Linux operating system, announced the immediate change in pricing for its popular CNR Service from an annual subscription fee based offering to a completely free service."
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Parents use online links to monitor students
More schools are taking advantage of computer systems that keep tabs on everything from grades and assignments to lunch money.
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Mobile devices stoke 'micro-blogging' fervor
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Mobile Internet devices and online communities are merging to a new kind of web diary: "micro-blogging," where people fire off terse missives about what they are doing or thinking at any given moment.
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Tanager AudioWorks Releases the Chirp Virtual MIDI Keyboard Controller
Tanager AudioWorks , Inc. today announced the availability of their Chirp Virtual MIDI Keyboard Controller software. Chirp turns a user's computer keyboard into a MIDI keyboard controller, allowing a user to write or compose music without the need for a physical keyboard controller.
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Mobile devices stoke 'micro-blogging' fervor
Mobile Internet devices and online communities are merging to a new kind of web diary.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 7th Feb 2007 22:20 UTC
Apple plans to crank up the anti-Vista rhetoric at its international chain of retail stores later this week, the latest move in a broader bid by the Mac maker to undermine the new operating system release from rival Microsoft.
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It appears that Sony has been putting nasty payloads onto its copy-protected CDs in the form of a rootkit. "Not only had Sony put software on my system that uses techniques commonly used by malware to mask its presence, the software is poorly written and provides no means for uninstall.
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"iXsystems announced today a distribution agreement with Fry's Electronics whereby all Fry's stores nationwide will carry PC-BSD Version 1.4, Da Vinci Edition. The agreement marks the first time that the PC-BSD operating system is made available for purchase at Fry's Electronics.
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JCC To Host Business Seminar Aimed At Enhancing Online Presence
As broadband internet access has become more cost effective and widespread over the past few years, many businesses have come to understand that the online marketplace can be beneficial to any business.
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Microsoft is to overhaul Windows' graphic driver model after realising that the one that will ship with Windows Vista - Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.0 - needs improvement in the way it shares GPU resources between programs and Windows itself.
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Mandriva Linux 2008 is now available for download on the official site ( release announcement ), and on the network of public mirror servers. 2008 includes all the latest software and enhancements over previous Mandriva releases.
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Start-up XenSource has succeeded in booting Microsoft Windows on top of Xen software, an important milestone in its effort to commercialize the virtual machine.
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by (Staff) on Fri 18th Nov 2005 16:47 UTC
The majority of computer users are stupid, mindless sheep. They are the ones whose eyes will glaze over with delight when they fondle the next Wintendo offering in the stores.
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School Computers Hacked in Williamsville
WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities say several current and former students broke into a school districts computer system in western New York last month and copied secure files that included the personal information of employees.
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10 new Lian Li cases to be launched
Lian Li will launch at least 10 new case designs before the Computex show in June of this year. The new cases will range from home theater cases all the way to high-end server cases. Some of these cases include the PC-C36/PC-C37 home theater cases. The PC-C36 comes with a TFX power supply and the PC-C37 supports normal ATX power supplies. As for their other desktop based cases you wont find ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 22nd Jun 2006 14:27 UTC
Earlier this year, Apple, after a long wait, updated its pro line of laptops by introducing the MacBook Pro, the Intel-powered equivalent of the PowerBook.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 16th Dec 2007 00:02 UTC
Apple and Linux are engaged in battle – a battle to win over disgruntled Windows users. But who will win, and what will the consequences be for the loser? The most commonly held belief amongst Apple and Linux fanboys is that both factions are engaged in some kind of a war with Microsoft.
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FAA Glitch Shuts Down Computer
BOSTON (AP) - A computer glitch is being blamed for delaying flights from air ports across the Northeast. The glitch occurred in the main computer of an air center in Virginia that handles high-altitude flights.
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During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement . "Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 9th Jul 2005 17:10 UTC
"Longhorn Beta 1 is still a few weeks away from release. And Office 12 Beta 1 isn't slated to debut until this fall. But that isn't stopping Microsoft from peeling back the covers on some of the new features slated for the pair of products due to ship in the latter half of 2006."
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" k3b is one of the most important applications for many Linux users. The immensely popular and fully-featured CD/DVD writing application has been a mainstay of the standard Linux desktop since its early releases.
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Bill Gates's Wish Is Homeland Security's Command
theodp writes "PC World reports that DHS has extended the time foreign graduates of US colleges can stay in the country and work to almost two-and-a-half years, an 'emergency' change that drew kudos from Microsoft and other H-1B visa stakeholders. Looks like when Bill Gates says 'Jump,' the government asks 'How high?' Bill Gates's Congressional Testimony, March 12, 2008: 'Extending OPT from 12 ...
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"Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system . Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code.
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Jailed terrorists are using the internet to contact supporters
Terror suspects held at one of Britain's most secure jails are secretly accessing the internet to contact their supporters. The discovery raises fears that some of the UK's most dangerous terrorists could be plotting new attacks from inside prison
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With an absence of fanfare, but otherwise on schedule, Microsoft opened up its download page for Service Pack 2 of Windows Server 2003 , both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
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