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HyperCard, What Could Have Been
bobwrit sends us to Wired for a look back by the author of HyperCard, Bill Atkinson. Quoting: "HyperCard is a programming environment that can create applications as diverse as utilities and games by linking 'cards' arranged into 'stacks.' Commands are executed through a natural-language scripting language called HyperTalk... The software has been phenomenally successful and highly influential. ...
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Of course the net is buzzing with reactions to the Novell-Microsoft agreement of yesterday. Bruce Perens is very negative about it all: "What aren't they telling you? First, you can be sure that Microsoft's not out to help a competitor.
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Vista's Despised UAC Nails Rootkits, Tests Find
Most users find it annoying, but Vista's Account Control feature proves most effective in security tests.
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Diller’s Words Don’t Stay In Vegas
Weeks after winning a sometimes-brutal court battle with Liberty Media, IAC/InterActiveCorp chairman Barry Diller was decidedly upbeat at the Goldman Sachs Internet conference in Las Vegas.
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High-tech devices are helping the elderly live at home
First thing every morning, Lynn Pitet, of Cody, Wyo., checks her computer to see whether her mother, Helen Trost, has gotten out of bed, taken
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German couple tries to sell baby on Ebay
German police said they have taken a seven-month baby away from a couple in Bavaria who are under investigation after putting the child for sale on Internet auction site Ebay.
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among the best there is ."
"The 17" iMac has almost everything a silencer could want. It's quiet, efficient, good value, and can even run Windows. the iMac is a computer for the connoisseur, just as Apple intended.
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Track your photos
It can be frustrating trying to remember just where you were when you photographed that beach, that building, or that exotic bird. GiSTEQ's PhotoTrackr Lite, a tiny global positioning system, records your location as you travel. When you get home, upload your digital photos and GPS data, and the PhotoTrackr mapping software syncs the information and tells you exactly where ...
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New Internet icons lift Silicon Valley from skepticism
"Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0" (Gotham. 294 pages. $26), by Sarah Lacy: Silicon Valley, that high-tech hub of innovation and occasional hubris, is rising again, driven by a new generation of idea men who learned from the dot-com crash or came of age after it.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 16th Nov 2006 12:49 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Would you have believed at the end of last summer that Microsoft and Novell would partner over Linux, or that Oracle would create its own brand of Linux? Yeah, I wouldn't have believed it either, but here we are. So, what does it all mean?
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Heh... looks like you really did him the "smackdown." Don't worry, though... Sbergman isn't a Vista User like I am. """ Don't worry, though... Sbergman isn't a Vista User like I am.
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The Super Soldier
Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11-inch, 180- pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds –that is, until he steps into an “exoskeleton” of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times. With the outfit's claw-like metal hand extensions, he gripped a weight set's bar at a ...
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GREGG ELLIS: Blogdog' nation knows big moments
TUPELO - My name is Gregg, and I'm a blogaholic. Yep. It's true. Every day, even on vacation, I wake up and immediately check the blog, and by lunch, I've repeated the routine several more times. Then of course, there are the mid-afternoon sessions, followed by the evening perusing.
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AMD, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker ATI for USD 5.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday. Any such deal would shake up the processor industry, which is witnessing a battle over market share between AMD and rival Intel.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Nov 2005 19:53 UTC
Were Apple to once again start licensing its operating system to third-party 'Mac clone' hardware makers, it could reignite the OS wars. Yet whether Apple will go this route - and whether doing so would be smart - remains to be seen .
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 27th Nov 2005 22:00 UTC, submitted by phaceton
"In 2005, Apple announced the Mac Mini. It was the answer to what I was looking for in a computer, so I bought one. This is a report about the early months with my new Mac, and how it compares to a Linux computer (I have never owned a Windows computer).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 31st Oct 2005 15:42 UTC
Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense . "We want to hire a couple of folks to help make OpenOffice better."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Sep 2006 18:00 UTC
Jerome 'Korli' Duval has adapted Haiku's MESA-based OpenGL subsystem to an addon format , allowing renderers to be plugged in, with the first one being a MESA software renderer.
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"When Red Hat announced its upcoming Linux desktop at its annual summit in May, the company predicted the Red Hat Global Desktop would be out by September.
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Patrick dominates media attention at Indy
(Photo/Yahoo Sports) Patrick has become the driving force behind Indianapolis 500 coverage. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Danica Patrick dragged into the room, her weary eyes hidden behind thick, black sunglasses.
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Lakers take 2-0 lead over Spurs
(Photo/Yahoo Sports) Kobe Bryant drives to the basket during the Lakers’ win in Game 2. LOS ANGELES (AP) — There would be no blown lead in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals. Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers saw to that.
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German couple try to sell baby on Ebay: police
BERLIN - GERMAN police said on Sunday they have taken a seven month baby away from a couple in Bavaria who are under investigation after putting the child for sale on Internet auction site Ebay.
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McCanns back Facebook scheme
The parents of Madeleine McCann are backing a scheme to trace missing children using the social networking websites Facebook and Bebo.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 21st Nov 2006 17:59 UTC
Novell's CEO on Monday issued a letter to the open-source community disputing Microsoft's contention that Linux infringes on Microsoft patents.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 3rd Jul 2006 22:07 UTC
Good as well as bad news for Microsoft on the legal front. Their good news is that a judge has rejected Go Computing's claim that Microsoft used dirty tricks to keep it out of the operating system market.
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