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MIT has unveiled its $100 hand-cranked laptop computer to the United Nations technology summit in Tunisia and said that it hopes to make millions of the devices to give to the poorest people in the world.
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8 crazy years of Ottmar memories
What I'll remember are those road trips up and down the Central Coast, and late night deadlines huddled in a car over a laptop. Oh, and those bold predictions. I'm saying goodbye today to a colleague who I've spent the last eight years trying to groom into a sports writer.
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Recent Original Stories
"One of the hottest topics in all of IT today is the subject of virtualization. While it has been around for some time, it has just recently started to garner the attention of the biggest names in tech.
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Memories of China
Since departing for China on May 17, the San Jose Ballet has been maintaining an extensive blog site on the tour at www.
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GOOD QUESTION
Q: I don't like seeing lots of entries pop up when I plug my name into online search engines. Can I privatize my name? A: Not easily.
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Savor virtual vacation at Medici.tv
With gas at $4 a gallon and airlines redefining "customer service" by charging for checked baggage, you might be tempted to spend your summer vacation sitting in front of your computer. So how about taking a virtual vacation to, say, the Aspen Music Festival?
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S Korean Internet catches 'mad cow madness'
Angry South Korean teenagers, Internet-savvy and armed with gadget-filled cellphones, have helped turn a new conservative president's triumph into crisis.
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Connect with friends in times of serious illness
Julia McCarthy nonchalantly clicks through a photo gallery on her Web page. In the gallery, there are photos of the soon-to-be 6-year-old with her family and photos documenting the past couple of months, before and after her surgery to remove a brain tumor, which turned out to be benign.
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EU pushes open-source standard
The European Union's top antitrust official has called on member governments to use open-source software, an apparent jab at Microsoft's proprietary technology.
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Recent Original Stories
"This tutorial shows how to set up a PXE install server with Ubuntu 6.10 . A PXE install server allows your client computers to boot and install a Linux distribution over the network, without the need of burning Linux iso images onto a CD/DVD, boot floppy images, etc. In this article I show how to configure a PXE server that allows you to boot multiple distributions: Ubuntu Edgy/Dapper, Debian ...
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Recent Original Stories
"Can the ordinary computer user ditch Windows for Linux? The question came up when I decided that my six-year-old version of Microsoft's Windows operating system had to be replaced. My Sony Vaio computer was still too young for the trash heap.
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Recent Original Stories
This is a long review of modern Word Processors. Part 1 published today covers Open Office (open source cross platform), as well as MS Word 2007, and WordPerfect X3.
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In Hindsight: Fueled by Yahoo, Google and the new iPhone
Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports. Monday The iPhone is so magical, at least in In Hindsight's distorted reality, that we've written about it 30 times in this column (31 if you include this column), even though the combination mobile
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Tailored for short men
Finding a suit that fits is getting easier for the shorter man. National chains still don't offer many options, but legions of shorter men in the country are increasingly discovering specialty stores just for them. More Style news Blog: A&E Things to do
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A year later, victims of state blunder still wary
Stephen Boch remembers being "surprised and disgusted" when he learned that his Social Security number was on a backup computer tape stolen from a state intern's car last June.
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Microsoft Surface computers hit Las Vegas party scene
SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Microsoft's touch-screen Surface computers have debuted in a Las Vegas casino bar giving Sin City partiers high-tech tools for flirting and concocting cocktails.
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Nuclear ring reportedly had advanced design
Investigators have found blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon on computers that belonged to the smuggling network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, the rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist.
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Single-bid contracts for paving cost Kentucky millions
Kentucky taxpayers shell out millions extra for road work because of a lack of competition among state contractors, a Courier-Journal computer analysis has found.
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Louisville added to Google Street View images
If you live in Louisville or nearby parts of Southern Indiana, there's a good chance that a picture of your front porch -- and possibly much more -- is now available for the world to see at Google.com.
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How The Web is Enabling Consumer-Driven Healthcare
One of the most interesting aspects of Web 2.0 these days is how it's beginning to create change in 'the real world'. While geek-friendly apps like FriendFeed, Twitter and Google Reader get a lot of attention in our little world, there is a whole other world out there in which the Web is making a difference. One very important example is healthcare. Check out the video below. It's about ...
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Obama combats darker side of Internet politics
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Democrat Barack Obama has shown the stunning power of the Internet for political fundraising. Now he is fighting its darker side as a vehicle for "smears" against his bid for the White House.
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Cyber task force targets online child predators
Two days after Christmas last year, Marc Poeschel slipped into a Yahoo chatroom. Using the screen name “freakkid99701,” the University of Alaska Fairbanks police officer posed as a 14-year-old girl whose mother was at work.
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IT & Telecoms
ASIC has recently released Consultation Paper No. 93 which proposes the use of email and the internet to provide financial services information required under Parts 7.6—7.9 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Act). ASIC recognises that many financial consumers and product issuers are seeking to communicate through electronic means.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 28th Oct 2007 03:48 UTC
"I recently read this article about how the Linux device driver project needs more work to do. I pondered this for awhile, and came to a realization.
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Retired educators say pupils, classes are different now
Teachers who are now retired remember with fondness the good old days, when the Internet was not around, the typewriter was used in keyboarding classes, and chalk and blackboards were still the main tools used to give lessons, instead of PowerPoint and white boards.
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