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Fresh notes after taking Flex certification exam
Yesterday I realized that my Friday?s calendar is wide open, and I decided to take the test called Adobe Flex 2 Developer Exam?. Well, I knew plenty of other ways to kill Friday, but I had to take this exam. I had no choice.
SYS-CON Media |
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A Local Finder Is A Real Keeper
It started as a favor. Linda Rakita, 59, was asked to help find a friend's father 30 years ago. Armed with only a few details, such as a common name and a military background, Rakita was able to find her friend's father after more than a year of searching, before the age of the Internet.
Carollwood News & Tribune |
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Reuters Science News Summary
RIO DE JANEIRO – Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining “lost” tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.
San Diego Union-Tribune |
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Judge refuses to dismiss Entwistle murder charges
Judge Diane Kottmyer on Friday delayed ruling on whether prosecutors can introduce evidence that Neil Entwistle trolled the Internet looking for sex.
The Brockton Enterprise |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Jul 2005 17:32 UTC
Mike Nash, Microsoft's security business and technology unit corporate vice president, has said Longhorn would accord end-users certain rights and privileges apparently ending the concept that everyone using their PC is also the PC's administrator.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Sep 2006 20:54 UTC
Security researchers that carried out a code analysis of popular open source browser Firefox using automated tools, have discovered scores of potential defects and security vulnerabilities despite coming to the conclusion that the software was generally well written . A former Mozilla developer has criticised the methodology of the analysis and said it provides little help in unearthing real ...
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Scientists create brain scan reader
PITTSBURGH, May 30 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers said they're working on a computer model that could eventually read brain scans to identify what someone is thinking.
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Business Briefing
Entrepreneur who founded Horizon Air dies at 79 ... Brazil, India join protest of Microsoft standard ... Union reports layoffs at Times Co. papers in Maine ... More books to be available for Amazon's Kindle ... United Airlines, US Airways drop effort to combine ... plus shipping news.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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Viewing A Son's Graduation Thousands of Miles Away
To watch video online please click here to download the latest version of the Flash plugin. Graduation day is arguably the second most important day in your life--after your wedding of course.
WNCT Greenville |
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Recent Original Stories
"We've decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can . This decision is a change from what we've posted previously. Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Jul 2006 21:18 UTC
Castle director and Tematic boss Peter Wild has said RISC OS must become open source to compete in modern markets. ""Make [RISC OS] open source and encourage users to contribute to it, use it and drive its ongoing development.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Aug 2006 17:53 UTC
"I have been testing Microsoft operating systems since Windows 95, and this is the buggiest OS I've seen this late in development ," says Joe Wilcox, an analyst with Jupiter Research.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 23:26 UTC
"The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of the official Java Runtime Environment and Java Development Kit for FreeBSD. The Foundation negotiated a license with Sun Microsystems to distribute these FreeBSD binaries.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Aug 2007 21:37 UTC
In the wake of last week's ruling that Novell, and not SCO, controls the copyrights covering UNIX, Novell is reassuring Unix users that it has no plans to follow in SCO's footsteps . Given that the company is no longer in the business of selling UNIX, it has no reason to pursue any copyright claims.
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Avoid online scams when seeking furry friends
Some things you can't say too many times: Don't buy a dog online, sight unseen. It's also best not to buy a dog from a pet store - they often buy from middlemen who get the animals from puppy mills.
Colorado Springs Gazette |
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Man sentenced for buying child porn on Internet
A Kent County man has been sentenced for buying child pornography on the Internet.
WOOD TV 8 Grand Rapids |
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Thousands in area without Internet service Thursday
A cut fiber line near Carthage resulted in Internet outages for thousands of Frontier Communications Internet customers across Western Illinois Thursday.
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas |
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Polis injects $2.1 million into congressional campaign
DENVER (AP) - Internet entrepreneur Jared Polis has contributed $2.1 million more of his own funds to his congressional campaign. That brings his total for self-donations to nearly $3.7 million -- perhaps the most for any candidate seeking a U.S. House seat this year.
KJCT 8 Grand Junction |
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Recent Original Stories
"As we all know, the operating system is an essential part of any computer system, but what most of us don't understand are the intricacies of how OS environments operate.
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Publisher kindling interest in reader
LOS ANGELES Looks like the eighth habit of highly effective people will be reading digitally: Simon & Schuster will release Stephen R. Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and 5,000 other titles in Amazon’s Kindle format in the next six months.
The Kansas City Star |
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Rep: Angelina Jolie birth rumours not true
Despite reports to the contrary that are sweeping the Internet, Angelina Jolie's rep insists the star did not give birth to twins earlier this week.
Canada.com |
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Meat sales to go cross-country
By next year, JMG Wholesale Meats plans to start selling products on the Internet, to customers across the country -...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |
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Apple retail store coming to North Star Mall
Tech geeks and computer lovers who want to test-drive Apple iPods, iPhones and MacBook Air notebooks soon will have another place to do just that.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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Recent Original Stories
Bryan Varner, one of the core developers of the stalled port of Java 1.4 port to BeOS R5 has an interesting post on his blog . Recently he met up with Ian Murdock of Sun at a local Java Users Group, and as a result he is now looking to restart the port, this time for Haiku.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th Jun 2006 01:17 UTC
Apple sent a seismic shockwave through the Mac market a year ago when it announced that was ditching its long-time processor suppliers IBM and Motorola in favor of chips from occasional arch-nemesis Intel.
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