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"It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message."
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Mad Penguin has published an excellent interview with Techmeister Leo Laporte. It's a two page review in which Leo discusses the possibility of a UNIX owned future.
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 22nd Oct 2005 14:16 UTC
Claiming that the iPod Nano has a widespread propensity for scratching easily, lawyers this week filed a class action suit against Apple Computer on behalf of those who have purchased the diminutive music player.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd Jan 2007 23:27 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"So I was a little surprised to receive email a couple of days ago from Microsoft saying they wanted to contract someone independent but friendly (me) for a couple of days to provide more balance on Wikipedia concerning ODF/OOXML. I am hardly the poster boy of Microsoft partisanship!
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Top-paid CEOs of 2006: Where are they now?
Of the 10 best-paid CEOs at Standard & Poor's 500 companies in 2006, six made less money last year. Three have since left their posts. Here's a rundown of how they fared. CEOs are listed with the companies they headed in 2006. 1. Terry Semel, Yahoo Inc. _...
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Browsing for Dollars: How to use the Web to save on groceries and more
The cost of groceries is on the rise, as is the price of auto fuel that it takes to get to the store. It’s enough to turn carefree spenders into coupon clippers. Luckily, the Internet is making it easier for consumers to scope out deals on groceries, restaurant meals and other necessities.
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Music Performance Fund Hits Hard Times
For 60 years, the Music Performance Fund, an unsung charity financed by a small fraction of record company sales, has "helped to bankroll thousands of free concerts annually all over North America.Now, though, the popularity of music downloads and file-sharing via the Internet has eaten away at record company revenues.
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Cyber crime feared more than burglary
ORLANDO, USA: AVG Technologies , a leading developer of Internet security software for consumers and SMEs , released the results of its own research study that showed US citizens are more concerned about being the victims of cyber crime than burglary or assault.
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Linked by Andy Tanenbaum on Mon 25th Sep 2006 05:41 UTC
How often have you rebooted your TV set in the past year? Probably a lot less than you have rebooted your computer. Of course there are many "reasons" for this, but increasingly, nontechnical users don't want to hear them. They just want their computer to work perfectly all the time and never crash.
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"Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 RC0 hit the Web earlier this week on the road to its scheduled February 2008 release, toting a new Internet Information Services role for the product's lean and mean Server Core incarnation and a laundry list of small fit-and-finish tweaks . However, the most significant component of the RC0 code drop is one that won't go gold until three or so months after ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Oct 2005 11:12 UTC
While Microsoft has no current plan to apply for Open Source Initiative approval of the new licenses that will govern its Shared Source projects going forward, the software maker has not ruled this out as a possibility going forward.
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Telecom does poorly in broadband survey
16 June 2008 The Commerce Commission has released its first report on broadband performance. It looked at 13 internet service providers and judged the companies on eight key factors which included the time to connect and send and receive emails.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 22nd May 2006 22:47 UTC
It's the hour of reckoning for Windows Vista . After five years of course changes, false starts and a host of beta and CTP builds, Microsoft is set to deliver a broad-scale build of Vista to two million testers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Jun 2006 22:24 UTC
The One Laptop per Child scheme is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the history of the IT industry, according to Tony Roberts, chief executive and founder of UK charity Computer Aid International.
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To Support Emergency Efforts, Verizon Wireless Launches Broadband Network in Iowa City
IOWA CITY, Iowa , June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon Wireless announced the rollout of its high-speed wireless network in Iowa City to support communications services for the University of Iowa and other emergency personnel during the severe flooding in the area.
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COLUMBIA: Skinny on recycling
Columbia hosted its annual recycling event June 7, a resounding success in the eyes of city administrators.
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Top-paid CEOs of 2006: Where are they now?
Of the 10 best-paid CEOs at Standard & Poor's 500 companies in 2006, six made less money last year. Three have since left their posts. Here's a rundown of how they fared. CEOs are listed with the companies they headed in 2006. 1. Terry Semel, Yahoo Inc. - 2006 pay: $71.1 million. - Status: Left company June 2007, now CEO of Windsor Media investment firm. Semel relinquished his post ...
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Run top supercomputers on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
WALTHAM, USA: Supercomputers around the world are running on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell . According to TOP500, a project that tracks and detects trends in high-performance computing, SUSE Linux Enterprise is the Linux of choice on the world's largest HPC supercomputers today.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 19th Apr 2007 18:13 UTC
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce version 7.04 of the Ubuntu family of distributions (more info here and here ). Ubuntu 7.04 is also the basis for new 7.04 releases of Kubuntu ( screenshots ) and Edubuntu. Ubuntu 7.04 will be supported for 18 months on both desktops and servers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Dec 2007 22:10 UTC
Opera, based in Norway, announced Thursday that it had filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by bundling IE with the Windows operating system.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Jul 2005 19:22 UTC, submitted by george
Reports of the death of Sun Microsystems' Java Desktop System with Linux combination are exaggerated , says its chief software executive.
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"Judge Dale Kimball has issued a 102-page ruling on the numerous summary judgment motions in SCO v. Novell. Here is what matters most: [T]he court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare Copyrights.
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Microsoft released Vista Beta 2 for public consumption. It does not require a Key but will expire on June 1 2007. You can download the 3GB ISOs (or from here ) for 32bit and 64bit architectures.
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Telecom does poorly in broadband survey
The Commerce Commission has released its first report on broadband performance.
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Web's Designer Praises Online Collaboration
Tim Berners-Lee describes the challenge of 'creative connectivity' in the Web's next phase.
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