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Quiz stops downloads the low-tech way
A tech-savvy university near the Missouri Ozarks is resorting to an old standby to reduce illegal music downloads by students: the pop quiz.
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Do Macs last longer than Windows PCs?
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Michael Loeffler has announced the release of OpenSUSE 10.2 to the ftp servers. "As usual, we ship all the latest open source packages available at the time.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 27th Mar 2006 19:30 UTC
Phil Sim, a professional with technology editor journalist background, has written three interesting blog posts recently, discussing the much-rumored Google OS ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). He speculates that all user's data will be stored online on Google's servers and so one's desktop and files can be retrieved exactly as left by any other PC station, anywhere in the world, by simply using his Gmail ...
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Shotgun, laptop stolen in burglary
A 12-gauge pump shotgun worth $600 was stolen Friday from a residence in the 200 block of Cedar Street after someone kicked open the back door. A $1,200 laptop, a $1,000 laptop and a $40 stereo were also taken.
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Survey: Record Number of Americans Use Net for Politics
A newly-released survey from the non-partisan Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that a record percentage of Americans use the internet, e-mail or cell-phone text messaging to participate in the political process.
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AT&T looking at charging heavy Internet users extra
NEW YORK (AP) _ AT&T Inc., the country's largest Internet provider, is considering charging extra for customers who download large amounts of data. "A form of usage-based pricing for those customers who have abnormally high usage patterns is inevitable," spokesman Michael Coe said this week.
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Yahoo ends all talks with Microsoft, shares plunge
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, setting the stage for the Internet pioneer to turn over a piece of its advertising platform to online search leader Google Inc.
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China cracks web hacking case spreading quake rumor
Police in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China have detained a man who allegedly spread earthquake rumors by hacking a government website after the May 12 disaster in Sichuan Province.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 26th Dec 2007 09:50 UTC
There is a controversy in the Linux world. It doesn't have to do with Microsoft, or anything overtly technical. It may seem, to the outsider, the open source equivalent of the question, "Boxers or briefs?" But it's much more serious than that.
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While the US courts recently reaffirmed Microsoft's FAT patents, the German Patent Federal Court has just dismissed the patent for use in Germany . According to a report in the German news publication Heise Online, the court has denied the protection that the European Patent Office granted to Microsoft under EP 0618540 for a "common namespace for long and short filenames".
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Local Civil Rights Organization Plans Press Conference About Greenville Police Chief
An email petition-- demanding the immediate firing of Greenville's Police, Chief William Anderson, has prompted a response by a local civil rights organization.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th Dec 2005 19:28 UTC
Microsoft has decided which icon it will use for RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7. Now, I hear you say, so what? Well, the funny thing is, Microsoft teamed up with the Mozilla team on this one.
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Video calling seen as popular 3G draw
Mobile users can talk and see each thanks to the technological breakthrough third-generation (3G) high-speed mobile broadband.
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Study: Americans Turing To Net For Politics
A new study suggests Americans are dissatisfied with sound bites and turning to the Internet to get a more complete picture of this year's presidential campaign. More
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Officials fear design of nuclear bomb went to others
Four years after Abdul Qadeer Khan's atomic black market operation was declared over, inspectors are wondering who may have received the blueprints for a nuclear weapon found on his computer network.
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IIJ Research Laboratory and ALAXALA Networks Agree to Joint Research of Network Configuration Automation
(AP:TOKYO, June 16, 2008) (PRIME NEWSWIRE) _ Internet Initiative Japan, Inc. (IIJ) (Nasdaq:IIJI) (TSE1:3774), one of Japan's leading Internet access and comprehensive network solutions providers, and ALAXALA Networks Corporation (ALAXALA) today announced an agreement to jointly develop technology that makes network use both simple and flexible for the user.
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Linked by Adam S on Tue 7th Mar 2006 23:29 UTC
I recently set up my new Macbook, and I was upset to see that my Windows Media video files no longer worked. The Flip4Mac player that Microsoft endorsed after they officially killed Mac Windows Media Player doesn't install or run on Intel Macs , but it can be easily circumvented with a little tinkering.
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The purpose of cryptography is to scramble data to the point that it cannot be recognized. But that makes it difficult if not impossible to use, so it has to be decrypted, creating the risk of exposing the data you wanted to protect.
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Match the server to applications. Does it need a lot of local storage, or will it boot off a storage-area network? Is it memory- or compute-intensive? Specify the disk size, speed, processor and memory, taking future growth needs into account.
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FROM TIME TO TIME, every network administrator needs a little extra storage — more than key drives can handle but not nearly as much as a dedicated storage server provides. That is when an external hard drive comes in handy.
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This humorous article depicts the computing world without Microsoft-- Apple has the biggest marketshare (15%), HP bought Commodore, IBM thinks text-based interfaces are the best thing for customers, and hardware-accelerated 3D is a no-go because all the various parties cannot agree on a standard.
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University and industry researchers are embarking on the seemingly Sisyphean task of determining how much information there is in the world.
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Apple deals: refurb MacBook Air, iMac, more
Appleís online store has refurbished MacBook Air models starting at $1549, Apple Extreme wireless cards for $29, the Mighty Mouse for $59 and refurbished 4GB iPod Nanos for $99. Two MacBook Air models are available, a 1.6GHz version with an 80G 4200-rpm PATA drive for $1549, and a 1.8GHz model with a 64GB solid-state drive for $2699. Both include 2...
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Intel has found itself embroiled in yet another processor battle, this time with VIA Technologies, a company long known for its chipsets. The battlefield? Low-cost processors for mobile devices and even desktop PCs.
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