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Recent Original Stories
"Free software is great, and corporate America loves it. It's often high-quality stuff that can be downloaded free off the Internet and then copied at will. It's versatile - it can be customized to perform almost any large-scale computing task - and it's blessedly crash-resistant.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Oct 2006 21:01 UTC
"Eventually, we're going to see Vista come out. Yes, I know, even at this late date, Vista is still getting unexpected delays - it was set to go to manufacturing Oct. 25, but it's not going to make it - but it is on its way.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft planned this week to announce that it was broadening the virtualization rights for Windows Vista, but decided at the last minute to reverse course and stick with existing limits.
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Internet encounter
LENOIR - After meeting an underage girl online, John Anthony Thompson, 34, of Plymouth, Minn., traveled to the Grace Chapel area of Caldwell County to meet her in person. On Tuesday, the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office received a call about a suspicious person in the area. When the responding deputy arrived on the scene, the complainants reported that a local minor had been sexually assaulted, ...
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Senators object to laptop searches
US SENATORS are telling the US Customs and Border Protection to back off from searching laptops and other electronic devices without the need for reasonable suspicion of a crime or probable cause.
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Community Gallery - What's New
"I found out about Watsadler Campground from friends and on the Internet. I RV camped there in June 2008. Looking from our campsite #18 toward Lake Hartwell." ~ JjWatsadler Campground...
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How to save time and traffic upgrading with apt-proxy
June is Bandwidth Conservation Month (well, not officially, but let's say that it is), so if you have multiple machines running an APT-powered Linux distribution such as Debian or Ubuntu, you should take a look at apt-proxy, a utility that caches package downloads in a shared pool for all interested parties on your LAN. This saves you both the time and the bandwidth it costs to download the same ...
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Verbatim offering half a terabyte external drive
Verbatim has launched its new portable external hard drive range in the region.
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Google makes top 5 for hosting badware
Stopbadware.org refer to themselves as the “Neighbourhood Watch” fighting against badware. Badware being the term used to cover spyware, malware and deceptive adware. This week they have released the results of an Infected Sites Report, which used Google’s Safe Browsing initiative to track down more than 200,000 sites containing badware. This information was then reviewed [...]
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Is Web 2.0 changing the entrepreneur-VC dynamic?
In Web 1.0, a considerable amount of startup activity was centered on the notion that the internet was a " commercial " medium. It wasn't uncommon to see an e-commerce startup raise an eight figure round of funding early on in its lifecycle.
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Oracle Finishes Fiscal 08 with Strong Sales, Earnings
Oracle finshes fiscal 08 with the strongest sales and earnings in a decade....
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Open-E's Data Storage Server Solution Empowers VMware ESX Server 3.5
Open-E, Inc., a leading developer of storage management software, announced recently that its flagship Data Storage Server (DSS) IP-Storage operating software has now been certified to work with VMware ESX Server 3.5.
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Chrysler will offer wireless Internet in all 2009 models
Chrysler, the United States' third-largest automaker, is set to announce today that it is making wireless Internet an option on all of its 2009 models. The mobile hotspot, called UConnect Web, would be the first such technology from any automaker.
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NBA Notebook
Associated Press The NBA notebook ... INDIANAPOLIS — Larry Bird's rebuilding project with the Indiana Pacers faces a big step with tonight's NBA draft ...
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Judge rejects effort to suppress Fumo evidence
In a key ruling for federal prosecutors, the judge presiding over the forthcoming trial of State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo refused yesterday to throw out evidence obtained during FBI searches of Fumo's legislative office and computers.
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Monday, May 5th
The turnip that is Sprint Nextel is giving a little more blood. Qwest Communications, the Denver-based telecommunications provider, announced Monday it has decided to start reselling mobile phone service provided by Verizon Wireless.
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Monday, January 28th
Last week, I fantasized about a new Web site called WornOffNovelty.com, where you could list expensive gear that you wanted to buy, but planned to use only once or only temporarily (baby stuff, fancy toys, camera gear for a special trip, VHS-to-DVD converters, and so on).
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Friday, January 25th
David Pogue's technology column has appeared each Thursday in The Times since 2000. Each week, he also writes the Times e-mail column "From the Desk of David Pogue," creates a short, funny Web video for NYTimes.com, and posts entries to his Times blog.
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Yahoo fixes email cross-site scripting flaw
Webmail problem sorted. Yahoo has fixed a vulnerability that could allow a hacker to get access to a person's web mail account.
TechWorld |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th Sep 2005 21:04 UTC
"From its humble origins in the 'hacker' culture of US computer science laboratories in the 1970s, open source software has grown to become arguably the most influential and talked about phenomenon to hit the computer industry since the invention of the microprocessor.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 6th Nov 2005 11:50 UTC
UNIX was a terrific workhorse for its time, but eventually the old nag needs to be put out to pasture. David Chisnall argues that it's time to retire UNIX in favor of modern systems with a lot more horsepower.
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Recent Original Stories
It would seem that the upcoming release of Microsoft's Windows Vista does not seem like a good thing for the desktop Linux community. After all, this update to Windows XP is going to focus on two attributes which have pushed users to Linux for years- security and stability.
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Thursday, June 19th
In trying to buy Yahoo, Microsoft had a clear goal: To be No. 2 to Google in search and advertising. If things keep going the way they are heading, it may well achieve that goal without spending the $50 billion Yahoo would have cost.
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Wednesday, June 18th
In the ruckus about the Associated Press’s campaign to prevent blogs and other Internet sites from using what it considers too much of its material, one of the biggest sites that could be affected is Digg , the news site where readers determine that’s worth reading.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 22nd Apr 2007 02:30 UTC
FreeSoftwareMagazine has an article about burning software available for Gnome. Two more interesting choices are the GTK-based Graveman! and Nero which released NeroLinux 3.0 beta very recently.
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