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Recent Original Stories
"Yesterday, Microsoft let the other shoe drop in a two-pronged attack on the support that has been building for the OpenDocument OASIS Format. It's still far too early to say that the dust has settled, but I'll attempt to pull together here the most significant pieces of information that I've located since last night's post , and what it all means."
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Call them hitch-makers
They usually get ordained as a lark but find a lot of meaning and a mini ministry of their own Online ministers are usually ordained as a lark to help friends get hitched. But often they get hooked on the feeling -- finding meaning and sometimes even a mini ministry of their own.
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Couple's $1.65 ebay baby taken into care
A seven-month-old baby has been taken into care in Germany after his parents offered to sell him for $A1.65 on an internet auction site. The couple, from the south German town of Memmingen, posted the advertisement to sell their son Merlin on eBay last week after he became "too loud".
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[ Thanks to Michael for this link. ] "While our friends at DistroWatch only rate Zenwalk as the 19th most popular Linux distribution, we have been very impressed by their recent releases and have felt that it is a distribution worth trying as it is an unsung hero.
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Dire predictions
According to Blue Coat's latest release on security threats, enterprises will need to increase security training and best practices among web developers in order to ensure long term safety.
ITP.net |
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Yao appears at NASCAR race with heavy heart
Yao Ming wakes up each morning and immediately heads for the computer to get the latest on the earthquake that devastated China.
CBS Sportsline |
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Beware: your mobile phone’s voicemail may be at risk
MILLIONS of mobile phone voicemail boxes are at risk of being hacked into as the security of these accounts is not protected by proper legislation.
Irish Examiner |
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how did they end up with it ?"
"It's amazing how many people who have Microsoft Windows everywhere look flummoxed when asked whether Windows is their "standard" for desktop computing. The reason they are thrown by this question is typically because they haven't thought about it that way before.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Dec 2006 18:48 UTC, submitted by teigetje
"I'm a confirmed RISC OS user, enthusiast, promoter and what some may even say, evangelist. Why did I feel inspired to write this short article and share my views with people?
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Features and Case Studies
Recently, HP released its largest ever range of printers aimed at the SMB and enterprise markets at its Go Print 2.0 Conference in Shanghai. ZDNet.com.au 's photo gallery gives you the complete range, along with comparisons, prices and release dates.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-05-26 00:29 J.R. Simplot, potato and computer chip king, dies
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99.
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J.R. Simplot, potato and computer chip king, dies
Sun, May 25, 2008 (4:42 p.m.) Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99.
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Social networking's wall is starting to fall
NEW YORK -- Online social networking today is more about hanging out with friends behind gated communities than exploring the World Wide Web. Visit another site and you'll have to rebuild your profile from scratch.
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Features and Case Studies
It has competed hard with the likes of Microsoft and IBM, but over the years Novell has remained a smaller player than either of its two main rivals.
ZDNet Australia |
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Scots police awarded cash for hand-held computers
ALL of Scotland's eight police forces will benefit from a government grant to increase the number of hand-held computers issued to officers.
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Internet can save some '$721 a year' on fuel
The price of petrol is driving people in rural areas to use the internet rather than their cars, says rural broadband provider Farmside.
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Recent Original Stories
With Phonon , KDE developers will be able to write applications with multimedia functionality in a fraction of the time needed with one of the above mentioned media frameworks and libraries. This will facilitate the usage of media capabilities in the KDE desktop and applications.
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Recent Original Stories
"Microsoft's free Shared Computer Toolkit lets you configure a PC that can be used to search the Internet, look up resources, and run approved programs; it also stops users from making permanent system changes, running arbitrary programs, or introducing malware.
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Shopping and banking drive British web explosion
The rapid explosion of the internet into British life has been underlined by a survey showing that almost 60pc of Britons spend at least five hours online each week.
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Recent Original Stories
Abdel Benamrouche announced that he has updated the original 0.01 Linux kernel to compile with GCC-4.x , allowing it to run on emulators such as QEMU and Bochs. After applying his series of small patches, Abdel explains that the 0.01 kernel can be built on a system running the 2.6 Linux kernel.
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J.R. Simplot, potato and computer chip king, dies
Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99. Ada County Coroner Erwin Sonnenberg said Simplot apparently died of natural causes....
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'In the right place at the right time'
Although Google's motto is "don't be evil", the setting couldn't more closely resemble a Bond villain's lair. Amid rolling Hertfordshire countryside, a country house hotel is playing host to the company's Zeitgeist conference. Inside, shifty-looking men in dark suits whisper into their sleeves as they co-ordinate the arrival of luminaries including Gordon Brown and Queen Rania of Jordan. ...
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NZ Lotteries Launches Online Sales - mylotto.co.nz
NZ Lotteries has today launched its new online sales channel, www.mylotto.co.nz, that will enable lottery players to purchase tickets through the Internet.
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J.R. Simplot, potato and computer chip king, dies
Billionaire J.R. Simplot, the spud king of America whose wealth also helped create one of the world's biggest computer chip makers, died Sunday at his Boise home. He was 99. Ada County Coroner Erwin Sonnenberg said Simplot apparently died of natural causes. The quintessential Idaho farmer increasingly dominated the state's business and political landscape for 70 years, and the company that bears ...
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Millions of BT internet users 'open to hackers'
Millions of internet users with a BT system may be vulnerable due to a security flaw well known to hackers, it has been claimed.
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