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Online diploma option coming to NorCal
The Reporter, Vacaville High school students in Northern California will soon have the opportunity to receive their diplomas online, just as many working adults are using the Internet to receive their college degrees. This new opportunity comes from a program instituted by
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Computer game to ease ADHD symptoms
COMPUTER games may have received a bad rap for fostering behavioural problems among young children, but one child psychologist has discovered some games have therapeutic benefits.
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What Makes Amarok the Most Popular Audio Player on Linux?
eBook: VoIP For Dummies Sponsored by Avaya This Avaya limited edition of "VoIP For Dummies" shows how converging your traditional voice and data networks can save money and increase efficiency and productivity throughout your organization just what it takes to remain competitive in today's marketplace.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Oct 2005 17:43 UTC
Microsoft has rejected porting its Office productivity suite to Linux anytime soon, despite the growing popularity of open source on the desktop. Speaking at the LinuxWorld conference in London on Wednesday, Microsoft's head of platform strategy, Nick McGrath, said that the software maker had no intention of porting Office to any of the Linux desktop distributions.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 25th Apr 2006 20:45 UTC, submitted by Mel Bayers
Starting Tuesday, the Microsoft will push out a test tool that checks whether the copy of Windows a PC is using is properly licensed. It will be sent to millions of people in the United States, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand.
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Advertisers gather in Cannes as tough times loom
Online advertising will be a key topic when world advertising leaders gather in Cannes on the French Riviera from Sunday as the industry tries to weather tough economic times.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th Jan 2007 21:09 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Today, you can do everything you want with a Linux desktop, except play the latest games. Even there, Linux is catching up. So, why do only a handful of people run Linux instead of Windows? Here are my top-four reasons why Windows wins and Linux loses."
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Get In Touch With Old Friends Through Social Networking
Perhaps one of the most amazing things about the Web is that just when you thought all the possibilities have been exhausted, something new turns up. Social networking is definitely one of those innovative ideas.
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The Art Of Manliness Rates TV Dads
The blog The Art of Manliness declares itself to be “Dedicated to uncovering the lost art of being a man,” with regular features on “Manly Skills” (“The Mechanics of the Man Hug”) and ruminations on “A Man’s Life.” So when it comes to men, they’re probably as close to an authority on the subject as you’ll find on the Internet. For Father’s Day, TAOM has assembled its list of the all-time best ...
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Kimbo Slice: The Paris Hilton of MMA
Mixed Martial Arts Ryan Lambert All the talk the last few weeks from non-MMA fans has been about the great Kimbo Slice. He's been everywhere: on TV, radio, the internet, magazines. It's understandable.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2005 17:54 UTC
Sun and Google today announced an agreement to promote and distribute their software technologies to millions of users around the world.
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Recent Original Stories
It's that time of the year again . "If 'a year of GNU/Linux on the desktop' is defined as a year when GNU/Linux has finally started its steady encroachment to the desktop then 2006 is the year.
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Recent Original Stories
Are there too many Linux distributions currently available? Can there be too many? This article explores the effect of the large number of distros out right now and suggests that progress could possibly be made through a consolidation .
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Recent Original Stories
Haiku has its first distribution, but it's not coming from the Haiku development team. Pingwinek has just released GNU/Haiku 0.1.0, what is claimed to be (probably?) the first distribution of the Haiku operating system , coming from Poland.
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Recent Original Stories
"I put up my review for iWeb , the newest part of iLife from Apple Computers. My enitre personal page was designed with iWeb and a few royalty free images I found scattered around the web to give it an atmosphere that I haven't been able to create before on my own.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:00 UTC
Proponents of the free and open-source software development model are using the recently announced delays in the shipping of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 products as an example of how the company's software engineering process simply does not work well . They are also pointing to how it stands in direct contrast with the way software gets developed in the free and open-source ...
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Gin Kings beat Tigers
MANILA - Barangay Ginebra came back to its true form as they hacked out a pulsating 91-84 win over Coca-Cola yesterday in the second round of eliminations of the 2008 Smart-PBA Fiesta Conference at the Araneta Coliseum.
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Sanctuary Leaps From Net To Network
The science fiction series makes its move to Sci Fi in October. Sanctuary won't be the first series to make the leap from web to television, but executive producer and director Martin Wood hopes it's learned enough from its broadband run to make the most of its cable run. "When you're that far in front of the wave, you're sitting on the foaming edge of it. Everybody looks at you and says...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Apr 2008 22:40 UTC
"Intel's next generation laptop platform, code named Montevina, has a nice feature that remains quite unheraleded , Displayport . Not only does it allow you to drive an external DP monitor, it uses it internally."
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Recent Original Stories
In a recent interview with the online edition of the Austrian daily Newspaper Der Standard, Mono project-lead Miguel de Icaza pleads for a cooperation between Mono and Microsoft's .Net : "I think that the deal should include a technical Mono/.NET collaboration, and even go as far as Microsoft recommending Mono for all of their developers looking at migration."
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 18th Apr 2006 17:49 UTC
Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fueling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux? The issue involves software modules called drivers, which plug into the kernel at the heart of the open-source operating system.
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Recent Original Stories
Sun Microsystems plans to offer support for the Ubuntu server Linux distribution on its T1 server line, the company said at the JavaOne industry conference in San Francisco.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 10th Apr 2006 03:58 UTC
An ex-Microsoft employee is arguing that Linux is ready for the primetime and that only thing keeping it away is the number of bugs it has. He claims that if these few high-importance bugs are fixed one way or another, Linux can become a dominant power in the desktop OS world.
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Ax and Mound games moving to new Dallas Cowboys stadium
Attention all Farmer, Jaguar and Marauder football fans. Consult the internet for directions and get ready to fight your way across the Metroplex to Arlington in 2009.
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Mike Gravel, politician turned YouTube star
By now, we've all heard about the ways political candidates have used the Web to raise money or connect with voters. But former presidential candidate Mike Gravel turned viral Web marketing into an art form this year.
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