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Asus Ebox ready for launch
THE RUMOUR MILL has cranked up to defon 5 with the news of the desktop version of Eeeeeeeeee PC being launched at Computex.
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Missing Belleville girl found in Florida
The father of a 15-year-old Belleville girl found in Florida with a 49-year-old man she met on the Internet says he doesn't know when she will be coming home.
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To buy (or not) an extended warranty on computer?
Consumer Reports says that, in general, buying an extended warranty for your computer isn't worth the money. But there are exceptions...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Nov 2006 22:50 UTC, submitted by anonymous
It got little notice at the time, but Richard Stallman, the leader of the FSF, said at the fifth international GPLv3 conference in Tokyo on Nov. 21 that the Novell/Microsoft patent agreement is not in violation of the GPL version 2 . Stallman said, according to a transcript published by the FSF Europe, "What has happened is, Microsoft has not given Novell a patent license, and thus, section 7 of ...
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"Software giant Microsoft has named the day that Windows 98 and Millennium users will no longer have support. On July 11, the two operating systems will have their final breakfast before being wiped from Vole's support brain.
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Unmistakable lightness of Radiohead
Since self-releasing “In Rainbows” as a pay-what-you-want digital download last fall, Radiohead has moved with the tilt of innovation, and an unmistakable lightness.
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Hillary Clinton's Assassination Motive for Staying in Race Suspected by Pro-Life Webcaster Early On
WASHINGTON, May 24 / Christian Newswire / -- Before Senator Hillary Clinton made her explosive suggestion that Senator Barack Obama may be assassinated before Democrats choose their nominee at the convention, webcaster and blogger Paul Schenck told anchorwoman Day Gardner on the Daily Life News Show that he believed Clinton has stayed in the race because she suspects Obama will be assassinated.
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Patriot Act Dampening Cloud Computing?
Julie188 writes "Governments are turning the Internet into a cyberspace reflection of real-world geographic conflicts. One report says that the Canadian government is forbidding its IT organizations to use services that store or host the government's data outside their sovereign territory. They especially cannot use services where the data is stored in the United States because of fears over the ...
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German services seize 'eBay baby'
Authorities in Germany take a baby boy into care after his parents offer him for sale on eBay "as a joke".
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LinuxCertified today announced its next generation laptops optimized for engineering and scientific community. Powered with Ubuntu 7.04, these laptops focus on high performance and scalability. The laptops come pre-configured with many of the common tools used by technical users.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Aug 2006 22:50 UTC
"Finally. For years, the holy grail of the Linux desktop has been to get a major computer vendor to commit to preloading a Linux desktop. It finally happened . On August 4th, we found out that Lenovo Group, the company that has taken over IBM's Personal Computing Division, had made a deal with Novell to preload SLED 10 on its ThinkPad T60p mobile workstation.
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Parents List Baby On EBay
Authorities in southern Germany took custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, or about $1.60.
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The key to office ailments
E could stand for e.coli in your office. Tests conducted for the Herald on Sunday revealed computer keyboards are rife with bacteria, with "e" the filthiest letter.
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PCMag compared Ubuntu, Windows, and Mac OS X to one another .
"Now that the major OSs all run on Intel chips, the playing field is pretty leveled out. We compared the heavy hitters in an eight-point test to find who wins the OS battle."
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SeeFile 4.5 DAM software for sharing, replaces FTP
SeeFile this week announced the latest version of its digital asset management (DAM) software: SeeFile 4.5, due next week, reduces the cost of deploying a graphical replacement for FTP servers, the company claims. The latest version offers improved performance on Mac OS X 10.5, automatic User Expiration for temporary access, the ability to share an...
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by Get a Life (2.16) on Thu 6th Apr 2006 23:58 UTC
Interestingly Jean-Loius Gassée seems to be portrayed as a big force behind the "Mac as a luxury good" pricing. "Windows was not as good as Macintosh, but it was good enough for the average user."
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New Apple store opens
Tech heads hungry for the arrival of the i-Phone in Canada can now sample a bit of an appetizer. The very first Apple store in Western Canada opened its doors in downtown Vancouver this morning. It ...
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Cable Prices Keep Rising, and Customers Keep Paying
The resiliency of cable in the Internet age is remarkable considering that prices have risen 77 percent since 1996.
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Fans saddened by end of virtual Disneyland
For Walt Disney Co., the task of opening a virtual version of Disneyland on the Web was relatively easy. Closing it, though, proved to be quite a bit more difficult, thanks to the wrath of obsessive fans of Disney’s theme parks.
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Sans Digital offers Compact Flash RAID in 2.5" case
Sans Digital has introduced Compact Flash (CF) enclosures, a new class of storage designed around flash media. The CompactSTOR CS1T and CompactRAID CR2T convert the widely popular Compact Flash card to a single 2.5-inch SATA hard drive storage device. The CS1T houses one Compact Flash card, while the CR2T supports spanning and RAID 1 (mirroring) b...
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Vista Makes Headway into Business
Progress has been slow, but Microsoft says its patience pays off as the newest Windows finally finds a home in corporations.
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Bristol Festival Outpaces 20 Others In Online Poll
The Twin City’s Rhythm & Roots Reunion is the runaway leader in an online poll ranking the Southeast’s best music festivals.
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Based on information discussed at the OOoCON conference in Lyon, OpenOffice starting with version 2.0.4 may include Firefox-like extensions . Also on the board is to incorporate the use of Mozilla Sunbird and Thunderbird into the OOo suite, connectors for Sun Calendaring and Microsoft Exchange support, and even an eventual redesign of OpenOffice 3.0 to run on top of Eclipse, Netbeans or ...
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"Zeta includes quite a lot of open source software. YellowTAB was able to include software like bash, GCC, VLC, to name just a few, with Zeta and thus profit from the work of many thousands of developers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Mar 2006 15:38 UTC
Linux.com reviews GNOME 2.14 , and concludes: "GNOME 2.14 continues the steady improvement visible in the last few releases. It is an incremental upgrade, consisting largely of tweaks and the filling in of gaps in functionality.
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