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Gift offer is in its own domain
Matthews resident Jeff Jones has offered first daughter Jenna Bush an unusual wedding gift to celebrate her nuptials, planned for today. Jones, 50, is offering the Internet domain name www.HenryandJennaHager.com to the couple for free, even though he describes himself as a "staunch Democrat." Jenna Bush, 26, the daughter of President Bush and Laura Bush, is to marry Henry Hager today on the ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 21st Feb 2006 17:57 UTC
Ignorance is bliss, as the saying goes, but users of Apple's OS X platform could pay a hefty price if they continue to live in denial, industry observers have warned.
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Recent Original Stories
"A genuine crack for Windows Vista has just been released by pirate group Pantheon, which allows a pirated, non-activated installation of Vista (Home Basic/Premium and Ultimate) to be properly activated and made fully-operational.
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Recent Original Stories
Linux Tech Daily reviews Arch64 and finds it to be a solid and fast system. Arch64 is committed to staying truly 64bit.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 23rd Oct 2005 03:30 UTC
In the few short years of its existence, Google has come a long way, simultaneously striking fear in the hearts of major players in the computer industry and also arousing their curiosity.
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Recent Original Stories
"Officially, Dell hasn't said a word yet about which Linux it will be preloading on its desktops and laptops. Several sources within Dell, however, have told DesktopLinux.com that Dell's desktop Linux pick is going to be Ubuntu . While unable to confirm this through official Dell channels, we have heard the same story now from several internal Dell sources.
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Photon 1.1 organizes, sorts photos quickly
Green Volcano has released Photon 1.1, the first major update to its high-performance digital photo workflow application for Mac OS X. Version 1.1 brings an enhanced caching engine and better filesystem support. Designed for both professional photographers and advanced photography enthusiasts, Photon enables users to review and organize large numbe...
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Data Recovered From Melted Columbia Disk Drives
Jon Edwards recovers data from computers wrecked in floods and fires. He has retrieved info from a melted disk drive that fell from the sky when space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in 2003. The drive held scientific data -- some was radioed to Earth during the voyage and Edwards recovered the remainder from "two hunks of burned metal."
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Dept. of Revenue Error Affects Taxpayers
A Wisconsin Department of Revenue spokeswoman says about 1,200 state taxpayers are affected by a couple of computer errors by the agency involving out-of-state taxes.
WEAU Eau Claire |
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Man sentenced for selling steroids over Internet
MISSOULA - The husband of a Missoula police officer who pleaded guilty to selling steroids over the Internet was sentenced Friday to five years probation and six months house arrest.
Billings Gazette |
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Just another challenge
Hacking, phishing, cyber crimes…they make news time and again. Unauthorised access into websites -corporate or otherwise - is common. With the IT industry broadening its horizon at a furious pace, security systems have also been beefed up to keep up.
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Recent Original Stories
Ars is contradicting the 60% claim made earlier today , stating: "Reportedly, the Media Center code in the OS is in shambles, and needs to be saved by the Xbox code team. Curiosity piqued, I contacted my usual sources. In short, the story is an extreme exaggeration.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Mar 2007 19:34 UTC
"Freespire version 2.0 Alpha2U (1.2.49) is now available for download. This is the second alpha build based on Ubuntu that might not be good for the health of a production machine. Expect improvements as future builds are released.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Aug 2006 23:29 UTC
There are some new clues that Mac OS X Leopard will drop G3 support. Its ReadMe file does not mention it, its web pages do not mention it and Apple even made a deliberate change to their 64bit webpage to remove the G3 mention recently.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Feb 2006 22:39 UTC
Apple has killed off the 17" iMac G5 - at least, the machine is no longer available from either the UK or the US online AppleStores, or stores throughout Europe and Asia-Pacific, though it remains listed on the main Apple website.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th Aug 2006 06:02 UTC
Mac OS Forge , a new community site hosted by Apple, is being created to support WebKit and other open source projects focused on Mac OS X, especially those looking to transition from OpenDarwin.org.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Feb 2006 22:21 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Goatherd
"Apple wants to make their switch to Intel chips seem like a no-brainer, but the reality of it was a lot more complicated than just faster chips for Macs. Apple's claims of their Intel systems being '4-5x faster' than their PowerPC systems is a little much to swallow, especially with Intel Macs landing in users' hands and failing to live up to the hype.
New Mobile Computing |
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Sun Offers Peak at Internet Apps Plan
Future designer tools will draw on a familiar environment and focus on the developer, a Sun exec says.
PC World |
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Just another challenge
Hacking, phishing, cyber crimes...they make news time and again.
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Current Newswire:
"PHP is already popular, used in millions of domains (according to Netcraft), supported by most ISPs and used by household-name Web companies like Yahoo!
Linux Today |
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FBI probes fake PC parts from China
The FBI said an investigation into the sale of counterfeit Chinese computer components to the US government has recovered about 3,500 bogus devices with a retail value of $3.5 million.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 13th Sep 2006 21:10 UTC
Contrary to popular belief, Mac OS X does have a 'blue screen of death', only it's grey instead of blue, and it's called the kernel panic screen, and it sure does scare the pajeezers out of you if you just bought a Mac (sadly, I can know ), and it has had this screen since 10.2; before that, the error information was spilled as raw data straight on the screen.
New Mobile Computing |
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Recent Original Stories
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.
New Mobile Computing |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th Sep 2005 01:54 UTC
Microsoft has released three papers designed to help mobile application developers from other platforms migrate their applications to Windows Mobile.
New Mobile Computing |
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New Web tools break barriers of ‘bhasha’
Bangalore: One statistic says it all: users of the English language Wikipedia — the online encyclopaedia written by Web users themselves — can access over 2.3 million articles. The Hindi version boasts just 18,000 entries. ...
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