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New: Teens charged with allegedly threatening explosion at Follett
McHENRY – Two teens face felony charges for allegedly leaving a bomb threat in a voicemail system at Follett Library Resources last month.
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Cass County Officials Report Veterinary Clinic Burglary
Officials say someone may have broken into the Casselton Veterinary Clinic through its air conditioning vent system to steal a laptop computer and animal medication.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jan 2006 19:19 UTC
"Within the next few weeks, Microsoft will be releasing beta 2 of Windows Vista. The actual ship date of Vista hasn't been announced, but Microsoft's new OS is likely to ship sometime this Fall. Since Windows Vista was announced, some of the bleeding-edge features have been scaled back.
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Recent Original Stories
While there is a lot of buzz about Apple using ZFS , Solaris express of course uses it, and soon Solaris regular will use it (as of Solaris update 2). Yet there are many people that say ZFS is great for servers but people don't need it at home. This blog entry seeks to clear up this falacy.
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County workers face termination over sexual emails
Collier County employees were reprimanded after officials say the water department workers were using county-owned computers to share sexually explicit emails.
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Friends celebrate Aarushis life on website
Aarushi had scrawled a message on the 'wall' of her Facebook site the day before she died...
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SF's BART in talks for full Wi-Fi rollout
The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District is negotiating with a startup for a Wi-Fi network that would provide fast Internet access to riders throughout its 104-mile regional rail system. BART would not pay anything for the network, which would be paid for by rider subscriptions and advertising, according to Wi-Fi Rail, a company based near Sacramento, Calif., that says it has ...
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Developers: Facebook redesign risky but needed
Facebook's major overhaul of its core member profile pages is a risky but necessary move for the world's second-largest online social network, according to several developers of popular applications for the site. The move is risky because Facebook will alter the user interface significantly, which can clash against people's natural resistance to change and prompt them to complain. In ...
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New around the house
The CatMouse hopes to bury pet odor We're not sure how well this works, but the name is cool. CatMouse is an electronic gizmo designed to eliminate the odor from cat litter boxes without cover-up scents or fragrances. (It's CatMouse – because it's shaped like a computer mouse.) The maker says the device uses the balanced blend of ions and activated oxygen (O3) found in the environment to ...
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Indy notebook: Rain plays havoc with practice
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The final practice for the Indianapolis 500 was a lot like the rest of the month at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: cold, wet and short.
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Weekly Roundup: CeBIT hits Sydney as the national broadband race heats up
CeBIT’s three-day extravaganza debuted new products and plans for the future, and the names change as the bid for the National Broadband Network heats up.
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Horse racing betting terminal flaws known for months
The software company that owns the terminals in California and nationwide knew of a malfunction that may have costs bettors hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Facebook adds more services to Mini-Feed
Competing against the likes of FriendFeed, Facebook inserts YouTube, StumbleUpon, and Pandora into the service.
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Yahoo sets stage for showdown with Icahn
NEW YORK: Yahoo nominated nine of its 10 existing directors for re-election to the company's board, setting the stage for a showdown with billionaire investor Carl Icahn and other dissident investors at its annual shareholder meeting.
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Search warrant issued for man accused of operating illegal online pharmacy
Police are on the hunt for a Grove, Oklahoma man accused of running an illegal online pharmacy. Norman "J.R." Enyart faces drug charges related to prescription drugs. He was scheduled to appear in court
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Rapid City man caught with child pornography
Police arrested a Rapid City man Thursday after finding thousands of child pornography photos on his computer.
KOTA Rapid City |
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Toyota building $192m battery plant for gas-electric vehicles
TOKYO: Toyota is building a 20 billion yen ($192 million) plant in Japan to produce batteries for gas-electric hybrid vehicles, as it seeks to keep its lead in an intensifying race for green cars set off by soaring fuel prices.
Gulf Daily News |
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Trinamul targets CPM ‘tormentor’ in Nandi Man killed on way to work
Nandigram, May 23: A CPM supporter accused of leading attacks on Opposition houses was beaten and hacked to de- ath by nearly 100 triumphant Trinamul Congress supporters in a Nandigram village this morning.
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2 Books, 1 VU: Writing Couple Faces Double Deadline in Cramped Apartment
I imprisoned my husband in the bedroom of our four-room apartment for six weeks last fall. When, after spending hours writing on his computer at his sun-drenched desk, he emerged to relax and read the newspaper, I forced him back whence he came and, with some asperity, shut the door; evening was my...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 22:16 UTC
Almost two years ago, the FSF started work on the first update of the GNU GPL in over a decade. A last-minute hitch, though, is keeping the license from appearing . According to Peter Brown, the FSF's executive director, "We continue to work on the details of the GPLv3 as it relates to the situation presented by the Novell and Microsoft deal.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 8th May 2007 13:19 UTC
Months go, I reviewed Windows Vista, and concluded: "All in all, I am impressed by Windows Vista [...]. Windows Vista is better than XP, and definitely more than just an improved look as many say."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Dec 2007 07:43 UTC
Addictive 3D games for Linux users to fill their time with. These games are really good and some have won awards or have been featured on magazines. Most are cross platform and all of them completely free. You don't have to use 'Wine' to be able to play as they come with Linux installers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 10th Feb 2006 22:17 UTC, submitted by Jeremy
Roughly half of today's PCs won't be able to take advantage of the 'Aero Glass' compositor found within Microsoft's upcoming Vista software, due at the end of this year. The estimate was one of the conclusions cited in a report released late Thursday by Jon Peddie Research.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Nov 2006 20:03 UTC
" Novell is not SCO . Novell is not the great anti-GPL. Get over it. I'm getting a little tired of the constant Novell-bashing. Do I think that Novell made a smart long term move by partnering up with Microsoft? No, I don't.
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Somes schools see more than 200 truancy cases a year
Ohio truancy law works to make sure every child is in a seat, or behind a computer, to get an education, said Rob Clevenger, Butler County juvenile court administrator.
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