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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 12th Jun 2007 00:39 UTC
Google Inc.'s privacy practices are the worst among the Internet's top destinations, according to a watchdog group seeking to intensify the recent focus on how the online search leader handles personal information about its users.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users' knowledge , even when the users have turned off auto-updates. Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses in this situation are objecting to the stealth patching.
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Yahoo CEO’s Big Boo-Boo May Set Microsoft Right
Numbers will tell whether Jerry lives or Jerry dies. Numbers alone. Many a pundit, in thumbing through press releases and press leaks aplenty the last two to three days, have repeatedly dealt fervent blows to the Yahoo head. Opinionators like Joe Nocera of The New York Times have done away with the garnish and are channeling [...]
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Couple hacked by girl's parents for 'honour'
Sources said Salwinder Kaur, a Dalit from Gajjukhera village, had fallen in love with Suresh Kumar, a Khatri boy, of the same village two years back.
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by dmrio (2.28) on Fri 30th Mar 2007 21:14 UTC
The author explains the main problem of Linux IMHO: lack of guidelines. At least in UI world. And that is because Windows users (not developers) have difficult to use and accept Linux (at least here in Brazil).
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 29th Jul 2005 19:31 UTC
I downloaded the ISO for the live CD, but had no luck getting it to work. Tried it on a HP desktop that normally runs Fedora 2, a Dell Inspiron 5000e and an old Pentium 1 clunker. In each case it hung after trying to start X, saying that processes were respawning too fast.
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Phoenix CPU Sets Low-Power Record with Extreme Sleep Mode
ANN ARBOR , Mich. — A low-power microchip developed at the University of Michigan uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Nov 2006 13:20 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Windows Vista RTM'd a week ago, and now, the beta testers have gotten their swag. If you (actively) participated in the Longhorn Beta program, this is your chance to get a free Windows Vista Business or Ultimate Edition product key . The only requirement to receiving this free product key is that throughout the duration of the beta program you submitted at least one bug - nothing more, nothing ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Jun 2007 22:14 UTC
"If you visited the Plasma project's outdated Web site in past weeks, you might have gotten the impression that the team behind the project to revitalize the KDE desktop hasn't been up to much these past months.
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Swapland
Bartering, especially of homes, has found a new, global life on the Internet.
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In the E-Mail Relay, Not Every Handoff Is Smooth
The basic Internet e-mail standard provides for the destination server to send back an error message if a message cannot be delivered but even in this case, mistakes do happen.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft has announced that it will not be releasing any new versions of its Visual FoxPro development software past Version 9.0, but the company will continue to support the technology through 2015. Instead of releasing new versions of FoxPro, Microsoft will release core portions of the FoxPro software to its CodePlex community development site , said Alan Griver, a group manager within the ...
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Microsoft looks for support against Google-Yahoo deal
Microsoft Corp on Friday sought to enlist support for its opposition to a new advertising collaboration deal between Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, sources familiar with the matter said.
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Filling Up for a Bit Less
A Web site offers tips and outside links to resources to help save money on gasoline.
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In a hurry to be tech savvy?
Everyone knows that babies crawl before they walk, and that tricycles come before two-wheelers. But at what age should children get their first cell phone, laptop or virtual persona?
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 19th Mar 2006 22:02 UTC
Fedora Core 5, 'Bordeaux', has been released to mirrors . The release notes [.html download] are posted, along with sets of screenshots of the installation procedure and the resulting desktop , by Linux-Noob, so boys and girls, rejoice.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 25th Jul 2007 22:22 UTC
Openbox 3.4.3 has been released . "Openbox is a minimalistic, highly configurable, next generation window manager with extensive standards support. Openbox lets you bring the latest applications outside of a full desktop environment.
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Microsoft Excel 2003 Macros
This class is designed to help students describe the concepts of macros, record and edit procedures, debug macros, assign procedures to menus, objects, and keyboard shortcuts, use function procedures, and objects properties, and methods. In addition, students will learn to use control procedures.
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CHP: One Dead In I-680 Crash In San Jose
One person is dead after a car barrels into a tree, then catches fire.
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To Get Noticed for a Job, Get Your Profile on the Web
The last time Phylise Banner looked for a job, she used a headhunter. But as someone who designs online distance-learning programs for a living, she knows the world has changed since she last pounded the pavement.
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16-year-old ruled cyber fraud gang from Mumbai
Ajay, a 16-yr-old Class X student from Mulund, was arrested from Mumbai in a hacking case that baffled Gujarat police with its sheer global spread.
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Linked by Neeraj Singh on Mon 23rd Apr 2007 19:02 UTC
If you shout something loud enough and many people are saying it, does it become true? Some groups of people (include tech journalists and Linux advocates, such as Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols) have a psychological need to find Vista lacking.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Apr 2006 18:53 UTC
Although it has done so subtly, Apple Computer has slowly been addressing issues with its new MacBook Pro notebooks and now appears to be shipping a fourth minor revision of the Intel-based computers.
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Origami Experience 2.0 finally coming to a UMPC near you
Filed under: Handhelds , Tablet PCs Microsoft pushed out its Origami Experience 2.0 to OEMs in January, but the purtied up interface for Vista-based UMPCs is finally available to all in the form of a free download. It's mainly meant to put a touch-happy skin on top of many existing Vista features, and includes Picture Password, Weather, RSS, email, calendar and other widget ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Jan 2006 18:20 UTC
Dell's Chief Executive Kevin Rollins said on Thursday that he is open to selling computers that run on AMD chips. Dell, the world's biggest manufacturer of personal computers, currently only uses Intel chips, and is Intel's biggest customer.
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