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Mandriva 2007 will have support for 3D desktop effects through Xgl/AIGLX. The choice between AIGLX and Xgl will be made automatically according to the graphic card driver possibilities.
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Sky TV web service to be open to non-subscribers
Sky Television will make its internet television service, Sky Online, available to non-subscribers on a pay-per-view basis some time in the future.
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Kuwait World Travel Expo
Airline, Banks, Car Renting, Cruise ferry company, Embassy, Health Resort/Spa, Hotel/Accomodation provider, Insurance Company, Internet Support Services, Medical/Health Travel, Real Estate, Sport Tourism, Tourism Boards / Associations, Transport: Air/Road/Rail/Sea, Travel Agency.
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Microsoft Access 2003: Beyond Introduction
This class is designed to take participants beyond the 'Introduction' level. Students will learn how to create and format forms, subforms and reports. In addition, the course will cover how to manage data, add controls on forms and reports, import and export data.
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No deal
Rather as John McCain cannot be displeased to have seen Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama fighting it out, Google has for the past three months enjoyed watching its only two serious rivals, Yahoo! and Microsoft, tear each other to pieces.
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A clear path towards easy profit
WHEN Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo, irked shareholders by snubbing a $47bn (£24.1bn) bid from the mighty Microsoft last week, it was hard to credit that the internet search firm was only 13 years old.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 24th May 2007 20:59 UTC
"Those in search of eternal life need look no further than the computer industry.
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Recent Original Stories
"Apple Inc. surpassed even the most optimistic forecasts for its usually tepid second quarter, delivering an 88 percent increase in profit on strong sales of Macintosh computers and iPod music players," Laurie J. Flynn reports for The New York Times.
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UPDATE: 6 Killed In Pennsylvania Crash
A minivan carrying a group of Indian computer programmers who worked for a Troy company flipped and crashed in western Pennsylvania.
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4 Indian programmers working in Mich., 2 wives die in crash
EDITOR'S NOTE _ Donations for the families of those killed in the crash may be sent to Syntel Accident Fund, 525 E. Big Beaver Toad, Suite 300, Troy, MI 48032.
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Making Facebook safer for children
Attorney General Martha Coakley’s Office and 49 other Attorneys General this week reached an agreement with Facebook to better protect children from predators.
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Harley On The MTA
The public service announcement on the left is courtesy of the TTC. The public service announcement on the right is courtesy of the MTA . On Friday morning, Accordian Guy Joey deVilla juxtaposed the two on his blog, along with the question "who plagiarized whom?"
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Recent Original Stories
"It's been known that the Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) phones home for quite some time now. For most of us, we've come to live with Microsoft's decision to relegate the software to only contacting the company's servers once every few weeks .
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Recent Original Stories
Dell has given an overview of what customers can expect from their initial Ubuntu offering . "The default software from the Ubuntu media will be installed on the system, including kernel and applications.
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Recent Original Stories
The US Justice Department has said that internet service providers should be allowed to charge for priority traffic . The agency said it was opposed to 'network neutrality', the idea that all data on the net is treated equally.
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Microsoft warns of IE 7 lock in XP SP3
Microsoft has issued a warning that its latest service pack for Windows XP prevents users from downgrading from Internet Explorer 7 to older versions of the browser.
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Distributech to front PC vendor’s retail thrust
PC and notebook maker DTK is hoping to make inroads into the UAE's vibrant consumer culture with the appointment of Distributech as its distribution partner for the emirates.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:09 UTC
"Here, Jon Schwartz, UAC Architect, and Chris Corio, UAC Technical Program Manager, discuss, in detail, the history of UAC , the architecture and design of UAC, the new security model of Vista (we are all standard users, gone are the days of running as admin by default on Windows), what happens when a UAC security dialog is invoked, how UAC impacts developers, how UAC will evolve, etc."
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Recent Original Stories
Glynn Foster wrote on his blog that Sun's throwing away the desktop which is based on GNOME because of different problems they see in maintaining it. There is also a full article about it on LXer.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 26th Oct 2006 00:20 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
"No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat's trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue.
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Ebay considers sale of Skype subsidiary
Ebay will consider selling off its Skype internet phone subsidiary at the end of this year if it fails to find ways to use the fast-growing service to support its core e-commerce business, according to the company’s chief executive.
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Linked by Nathan J. Hill on Tue 24th Oct 2006 10:43 UTC
In the midst of the busy semester here at school, my fiancee's laptop, running Windows XP SP2, picked up some friends - adware, trojans, etc. It was a pretty nasty sight. I worked on it for at least two hours every couple of days, wiping it clean, doing my best to lock it down, and so on.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Oct 2006 23:11 UTC
"Quite a few new things are now in an alpha/beta stage for the next update of ZETA; one of them is the implementation of the latest stable version of SAMBA , v3.0.23. As you can see from the screenshot, ZETA is now 'dancing' beautifully with Linux servers."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 08:35 UTC, submitted by lomax
"Welcome to the home page of the finstall project , accepted for Google's Summer of Code 2007. This project aims to create a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD & FreeBSD-derived systems.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Dec 2005 13:01 UTC, submitted by anonymous
According to these blog posts from SUSE/Novell KDE developers that include bootcharts showing KDE startup, recent performance improvements in fontconfig and KDE/Qt have a noticeable effect on startup times.
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