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Where do you work: Couch or cubicle?
Working from home might seem appealing – lounging in shorts, eating lunch with the family, saving on gas. But as telecommuting today is on the rise, experts and some people who do it say there are potential pitfalls to consider and that it's not for everybody. National survey results released in November from a firm called the polling company and sponsored by Citrix Online, a software company ...
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Linked by David Adams on Fri 27th Jun 2008 05:10 UTC, submitted by Ager Ignis
For any given release of Windows, there are companies that choose to skip it. But when the company is Intel, it's a big deal. Intel's IT department "found no compelling case" for upgrading to Windows Vista.
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Recent Original Stories
"Officially, Dell hasn't said a word yet about which Linux it will be preloading on its desktops and laptops. Several sources within Dell, however, have told DesktopLinux.com that Dell's desktop Linux pick is going to be Ubuntu . While unable to confirm this through official Dell channels, we have heard the same story now from several internal Dell sources.
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Recent Original Stories
Vista has an inbuilt undelete system based on Windows Server 2003's versioning file system, Microsoft has revealed. The technology, which is automatically switched on in Vista, will be a boon for anyone who has accidentally overwritten their PhD thesis with a BPAY receipt.
OS News |
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Body Armor for Your PC
(ARA) - We take the good with the bad: The same technologies that gave us the Internet and unprecedented opportunities have also brought us adware, spyware, viruses, phishing and a growing host of online threats. Malware - malicious software - is more than a nuisance.
Carteret County News-Times |
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The Next Generation of Sharing and Storage
(ARA) - Before Steve and Jennie Smith moved across the country, they gave Jennie's mother a computer and set up an e-mail account for weekly updates. After the couple had their first child, Jennie's mother enjoyed receiving photos and recent stories of her new granddaughter.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Americans outsource life's tough or mundane tasks
File photo shows a call centre office in Bangalore where many western companies are outsourcing IT-related work. A new breed of US company is using the internet to find someone else to take on the difficult and tedious tasks in life, like ending a relationship
TODAYonline |
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Ex-EW cop gets 4 years in Internet enticement case
Former East Windsor police Officer Darren Seligman was sentenced Thursday to four years in federal prison for engaging in sexually explicit online communications with an 11-year-old girl who was formerly his neighbor in a Mansfield condominium complex.
Journal Inquirer |
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Windows Middle East English edition
From converting media files and finding the right codecs, to selling your old tech and giving your brain a serious workout, these WINDOWS-selected websites should all be up there in your favourites list.
ITP.net |
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How to Save Money on Auto Insurance
(ARA) - Shopping online is an incredibly efficient way to explore different auto insurance options. Instead of sitting on the phone with agents or filling out forms on various Web sites, you provide information just once and get a variety of quotes instantly, saving you time and money.
Carteret County News-Times |
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Developers race to secure funding
Two downtown Jackson projects face funding hurdles that developers hope to resolve in the next month to move each plan off computer screens and into construction.
The Clarion-Ledger |
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Wisdom from the Web: A confused editorial board?
Our editorial “”Our confusing Second Amendment” about the Supreme Court ruling that a handgun ban violates the Second Amendment prompted a flurry of web comments on www.vaildaily.com . The editorial, while acknowledging that the Supreme Court’s ruling was consistent with constitutional law, question the relevance of the current Second Amendment language in modern society.
Vail Daily |
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In-school driver's ed runs its course
PORTAGE The simulators inside Portage High School are silent, and cars aren't circling the lots at Crown Point High School this summer. They're just two in a growing number of Northwest Indiana high schools that have put the brakes on driver education courses, leaving instruction to the private sector.
The Times of Northwest Indiana |
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ARNOLD: Surfing at City Park?
Wireless networks could soon be readily available in Arnold.
Jefferson County Journal |
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Use your computer to beef up birding skills
Bird watching is fun, but it can be frustrating. There's a CD-ROM ("Guide to Birds of North America") that makes it a little easier.
The Idaho Statesman |
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Life for sale falls short of target
A Perth man's life and belongings have sold on eBay - but for far less than he thought they were worth.
Sydney Morning Herald |
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Zimo: Use your computer to beef up birding skills
Bird watching is fun, but it can be frustrating. There's a CD-ROM ("Guide to Birds of North America") that makes it a little easier.
The Idaho Statesman |
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Network honors S. Jordan firm CEO
Amy Rees Anderson is an entrepreneurial hurricane. Since 2004, when Anderson took the reins of MediConnect, an online medical record retrieval service, the company has experienced more than 850 percent growth and been ranked in Inc.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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No 'Street View' for Madison County
The sedan with the Google logo and the mounted periscope cameras was probably trolling area streets in the fall, maybe earlier. The process of capturing thousands of 360-degree images over and over probably took a few weeks, maybe longer. And it almost certainly took several cars, maybe more, over a couple of passes.
Granite City Press-Record |
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.com, .net, .org to be joined by new domains
PARIS - Say goodbye to the limited world of .com, .net and .org. Get ready for a nearly infinite variety of new Web addresses in which companies or whoever will soon be able to pay extra for endings in words such as .
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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Recent Original Stories
"Imagine a customized GNU/Linux distribution, built to your specifications with a minimal amount of effort on your part. If you are running Fedora 7, that dream is now a reality, thanks to Revisor, a graphical interface for building custom install images for Fedora . Taking the shape of a GNOME wizard, Revisor comes close to being an ideal desktop tool.
New Mobile Computing |
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Bloggers' challenge: Why can't we all get along?
The Herald Journal is inviting reader input on the above topic. If we get enough comments with enough variety, a sampling of those comments will appear this coming Sunday in a "Bloggers Soapbox" column on the newspaper's Opinion page.
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Recent Original Stories
Steve McIntyre visited the LiMux team in Munich and has posted a small report about the visit on his blog. LiMux is the specially tailored Debian distribution City of Munich deploys.
New Mobile Computing |
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12-year-old's disappearance linked to MySpace, authorities say
BROOKFIELD, Vt. -- The search for a missing 12-year-old Vermont girl who triggered the state’s first Amber Alert centered Friday on the social networking site MySpace after divers discovered nothing in a lake near where some of her belongings were found, police said.
The Pantagraph |
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Hate your job? Don't burn those bridges just yet
Sam Glenn followed some wise counsel when he found himself in a bad job situation - his mother told him, first, don't quit. And, second, have a frank chat with his boss at the small computer communications firm where he worked.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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