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Solaris Express 10/2005 (derived from Nevada Build 23) was posted today, providing a variety of improvements. And for the first time, gdb and g77 are bundled with the operating system.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2007 23:16 UTC
"A little over a week ago, reviews of Asus's Eee PC 701 started to trickle out onto the Internet. Some of the larger publications, like CNet and LAPTOP Magazine got their hands on the unit first, but as it has become more widely available sites like HotHardware and PC Perspective have now put out their own reviews of the Eee PC. The overall verdict is fairly unanimous: the device's keyboard is a ...
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Recent Original Stories
"With the traditional Microsoft news media turning their collective ear to the rest of the industry, you have to suspect a changing of the guard. But Linux companies don't seem to guage their efforts by what the industry says about Microsoft. Linux just keeps chugging along.
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Recent Original Stories
Documentary evidence that Microsoft considered abandoning Office for Mac in order to cause 'a great deal of harm' to Apple has emerged. An emailed memo from Microsoft-founder Bill Gates to then Mac Business Unit chief Ben Waldman dated June 1997 talks about morale in the Mac Office development camp.
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Recent Original Stories
Friday Several kernel developers issued a position paper criticizing the GPLv3 drafts. That prompted Software Freedom Law Center chairman Eben Moglen to issue a 'renewed invitation' yesterday to kernel developers to participate in the GPLv3 process.
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British Web site puts the focus on the fix in sports betting
A recent gambling scandal has many people in professional tennis calling for a global anti-corruption body for sport, to run along the lines of the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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Recent Original Stories
"Earlier in the week, I conducted a lengthy phone interview with Aaron Seigo about the Open Source Desktop Workshop being held in San Diego on October 13th and 14th. Fast approaching, we discuss the workshop's inception, target audience and expectations."
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Anthony Doesburg: Battery of the future finally gets the hard cell
Fuel cells are an alternative energy source that have been getting attention since petrol prices went through the roof." That's what I wrote in this column two years ago. What's happened since?
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Investors wonder when website will show its face on stock board
Will it, won't it? If so, when? If not, why not? An entire cottage industry of speculation has built up around the public debut of Facebook.
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A shot in the arm for health records?
Use of electronic personal health records could increase substantially if Google Inc.'s consumer-driven model launched last week is successful, benefit experts say.
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Canadian Domain Name Registrants To Get More Privacy
An anonymous reader writes "The Canadian Internet Registration Authority, which manages the dot-ca domain, plans to change its WHOIS policy to better protect domain name registrants. Quoting the Canadian Press: '[Law Professor Michael] Geist said the changes have raised the ire of law enforcement and intellectual property lawyers, who have used the Whois search to track down sexual predators and ...
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Crash.net's Indy 500 blog: Carb Day.
The biggest open-wheel race in the United States takes place at Indianapolis this weekend, and Crash.net is there to keep an eye on happenings behind the scenes as the Brickyard. Stay tuned for developments.....
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Testing Web Services in a SOA Context – An Annotated Bibliography
Submitted by Klaus Berg on Sun, 05/25/2008 - 10:06. Tags: When testing Web services in a SOA context it may be good to have a guide. Perhaps this annotated bibliography can help you to get an overview of SOA and the related testing topics.
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Plot thickens in probe of betting machine flaw
A recently publicized software glitch in horse race betting machines used at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif., and other tracks around the country was first caught by their vendor in October 2007, according to documents obtained by the Palo Alto Daily News.
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Plot thickens in probe of betting machine flaw
A recently publicized software glitch in horse race betting machines used at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, Calif., and other tracks around the country was first caught by their vendor in October 2007, according to documents obtained by the Palo Alto Daily News. Scientific Games, a New York-based lottery and wagering giant, appears to have tried several times over the intervening months to fix the ...
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Recent Original Stories
"With Haiku getting closer and closer to an R1 release I think it is time for little review on the achievements of the development team in the last months. Haiku is being covered on various websites and blogs lately especially after attending SCaLE and the already famous tech talk at Google.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th Jun 2006 19:42 UTC
Computer systems that don't provide enough working time are worthless at best and disastrous at worst. But the fine distinction between "available enough" and "99.999% available" can end up hitting the bottom line pretty severely.
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Palm Beach County wireless plan shelved
A plan to bring wireless Internet service to all of Palm Beach County has been permanently shelved.
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Vodafone joins mobile internet scramble
Vodafone is likely to undertake more acquisitions to beef up its internet services for mobile phone customers, according to people familiar with the situation.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 1st Sep 2006 21:50 UTC
Microsoft's Windows Vista RC 1 is done . Now it's up to the estimated 6 million testers to which the company is planning to release the code to determine if it really is ready for prime time.
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Orion Health sets sights on sharemarket after big year
Orion Health will look at listing on the sharemarket now it is New Zealand's largest locally owned software exporter. On Friday the company reported a consolidated gross revenue of $53 million for the 2007/2008 financial year.
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Google Health aims for simplicity of use
Google Inc.'s personal health record within Google Health allows individuals to collect, store and manage their own health-related records online. Its purpose is to organize patient information and make it accessible and useful, according to the company.
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Telcos Compete For Education Broadcast Spectrum
palegray.net writes "A consortium of large telecommunications companies are competing to deliver high speed wireless Internet access over frequencies allocated for educational use. The schools who control the frequencies, long frustrated by difficulties in obtaining cost-effective net access, find the tables turned in their favor. From the LATimes: '... technological advances have made the ...
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Intel chief aims to chip away at mobile market
Considering that so many personal computers come with a sticker proclaiming there is “ Intel inside”, it is surprising that this dominance does not extend to mobile phones.
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ARM chief defiant over Intel
Warren East, chief executive of ARM Holdings , sounded a note of defiance in a developing battle with Intel , saying the company would be more than able to defend itself against Intel’s attempts to take a share in the market for chips that run mobile phones.
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