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Samsung develops 256GB solid state drive
Company has created one of the largest-capacity and fastest solid state drives to date. Commercial production is set to begin by year's end.
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Bonus Interview: 'The State Of... Linux Gaming?'
[As a holiday bonus, we're featuring some offbeat articles from Gamasutra's sister sites that you might have missed - including Alistair Wallis chatting to the Linux Gaming Tome's Bob Zimbinksi about the state of gaming for the free OS.] With the release of Windows Vista, which has had some much-publicized issues (whether press-exaggerated or not) of late, we wondered whether it might be ...
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Fired Vietnamese Editor Launches Blog
A former managing editor who lost his job over a heated controversy in the Vietnamese community is out on his own.
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Recent Posts
French State TV Network Undone In al-Dura Libel Case - MOHAMMED al-Dura was killed by the Israeli Army in a shoot out with Palestinian militia. Or not: In a potentially ground-breaking ...
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French fry king, tech investor J.R. Simplot dies
BOISE -- 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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Bringing down software margins with the cloud and open source
Open source and cloud-based computing are focusing the software industry on customers and service there of, not software. It is a highly profitable future, but perhaps not as profitable as it has been. That's not a bad thing. It is, in fact, a very goo
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Novell's big opportunity
Novell could still crater. But it's looking increasingly unlikely that its SUSE Linux or Identity Management businesses will. These can provide the backbone for growth across the board. I still wish the company would dump the patent agreement as it fou
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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, has died.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 25th Aug 2006 20:54 UTC
Red Herring interviews Eric Raymond . "Open-source advocate Eric Raymond on winning over the iPod generation, the need for open source to conquer hearts and minds beyond geekdom, and why Linux advocates don't have much time to beat Microsoft."
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Nov 2007 19:46 UTC
Perhaps huffing at your computer might get you somewhere if research at the Georgia Institute of Technology comes to fruition. Shwetak Patel and Gregory Abowd from Georgia Tech have published a paper that describes how to use a computer microphone to determine where on a screen a person is blowing . The technique, which they call BLUI for Blowable and Localized User Interaction, can distinguish ...
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Max Brunning has posted a brief comparison
of how these three Operating Systems approach a number of basic kernel tasks. He has a brief look at: Scheduling and Schedulers, Memory Management and Paging, and File Systems.
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Recent Posts
What The Internet Is For - OH: "Here are most popular things people do on the internet (not counting looking at naked people)": 1) finding recipes for ...
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How everyone wins with open source software
Recently, I wrote a review of the note-taking application Tomboy. Though I find Tomboy exceptionally useful, I had a minor issue with the inability to create new notebooks from within a note. Within hours of the review appearing on Linux.com, Boyd Timothy, one of the app's developers mentioned in the article's comments that my idea had merit and said he would add the feature to an upcoming ...
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Addicted to Sex
It's no joke. The Internet has escalated a problem that's tearing apart families and lives.
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Manager Disables Web Server by Sneaking Away X-Box
nz17 writes "While the administrator is away the managers will play. A custom Web server went missing at an unnamed public university, but who was the culprit? The department manager. Thinking that the Linux Web server (which used a Microsoft XBOX for its hardware) was a normal game console, he snuck the device out of the server room and home for his son to play over the holiday weekend. The ...
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Put your ex in the past; put his old gifts online
By ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ When Delpha Ramos, 23, was in college, she fell for a passionate Italian student, and he gave her a silver promise ring. But in December, after three years together, he broke it off. The question, of course, was what to do with that ring. She couldn't bear to hang on to it but she didn't want to give it back. So in March, Ramos, of Hopewell, N.J., turned to ...
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The MAG: Lots to Google at - column by Bob Vaillancourt
Last week in The MAG, my colleague, Lara Bradley, wrote about what happens when you use the ubiquitous search engine Google, to Google yourself. Try it. It's really kind of interesting what you get back. But author Philipp Lenssen takes playing with Google to [...]
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SEC has begun looking into Moody's: SEC chairman
The U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has begun looking into possible computer glitches at credit rating agency Moody's , SEC Chairman Christopher Cox told Reuters on Monday.
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Mechel 2007 Full Year Results Conference Call to be Broadcast Over the Internet
Mechel OAO announces that it intends to release its results for the full year period ended December 31, 2007, on Thursday, May 29, 2008. In conjunction with this release, Mechel will host a conference call, which will be simultaneously broadcast live over the Internet.
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Democratic fund reporting blows computers
Democratic U.S. presidential hopefuls' campaign finance reports have grown so much that computer spreadsheet programs can't handle them, officials said.Federal election officials said the January fundraising report filed by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., overwhelmed spreadsheet applications such as Lotus 1-2-3 and Microsoft Excel 2003, which balk at downloading files with more than 65,536 rows or ...
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Online Storage Provider Diino Reaches Milestone - 1 Million Users Worldwide
Diino, a market leading online storage provider, now has more than one million users, and the demand for online based storage solutions is rapidly increasing amongst residential users and SMEs.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 1st Jul 2006 04:59 UTC, submitted by Tom Magnum
Red Hat watched its stock tumble 6.4% on Thursday as Wall Street digested the open-source software firm's latest results and details on the drag its recent JBoss acquisition will have on its profit this year.
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Recent Original Stories
Mozilla's Firefox web browser has made dramatic gains on Microsoft's Internet Explorer throughout Europe in the past year with a marked upturn in FF use compared to IE over the past four months, according to French web monitoring service XiTiMonitor.
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Democratic fund reporting blows computers
WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- Democratic U.S. presidential hopefuls' campaign finance reports have grown so much that computer spreadsheet programs can't handle them, officials said.
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US slowdown worries Satyam
Satyam Computers services today said it is worried about the impending slowdown in the US, however it has factored it in when issued the guidance last month for this year.
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