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Badmouthing the dearly departed
Column by Susan ReimerThe Baltimore Sun It didn’t take the bad guys long. It was only minutes after Tim Russert’s death was announced that someone apparently posted something so unpleasant on The New York Times’ Web site that it was taken down almost immediately by somebody in the control room.
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
The Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT-K) has blamed constant use of mobile phones and enormous internet surfing by the students for increasing number of suicides on the campus, officials said.
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Jordan: New service to use electricity network
29 June 2008 AMMAN - A new Internet service through the national electricity network seeks to provide web connections at lower prices and increase Internet penetration.
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Review: Strong, innovative Web browsers emerge
NEW YORK - With all the recent attention on the new Firefox 3 Internet browser, it's easy to miss two strong, innovative rivals. Add it all up, and Microsoft Corp.'s market-leading Internet Explorer has some impressive challengers.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 14th Mar 2007 22:10 UTC
"Today, the GNOME Project celebrates the release of GNOME 2.18 , the latest version of the popular, multi-platform Free desktop environment." The GNOME 2.18 start page has all the details, such as release notes, download locations, and screenshots.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Jul 2005 17:35 UTC, submitted by PapaPitufo
Asa Dotzler, from the Mozilla foundation, has just written an interesting analysis describing why Linux is not ready for desktops yet, and suggests four main categories that must be addressed to improve this.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Oct 2006 20:55 UTC
" Nvidia is making a CPU , but the only questions are what kind of CPU, and how the heck is it going to do it. Making an X86 based CPU is not a trivial venture, and there are enough problems to make even a company with the engineering bandwidth of Nvidia cringe.
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Recent Original Stories
"Late last week the One Laptop Per Child project had a media event in Cambridge, and while I couldn't make the event, I did tape a video interview for the BBC on the project.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 23rd Jun 2006 21:26 UTC
Linux isn't a threat to Windows on the desktop and is losing steam on the server as customers separate the operating system from the development model, according to Microsoft's chief platform strategist.
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Payson quilt show runs through July 3
Quilting is an age-old skill. Yet as old as the art is, the Internet is finding its place in the quilt world.
Deseret Morning News |
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Tara Wheeler crowned Miss Virginia 2008 in Roanoke
ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Now Tara Wheeler will find a new fact about herself when she types her name into Google: She's Miss Virginia 2008. This year's Miss Arlington admitted to Googling herself last week before the competition. Now she will represent Virginia at next year's Miss America pageant.
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Virtual moneymakers
Millions of dollars in state money for Idaho virtual charter schools - which teach classes over the Internet - can go only to schools operated by non-profit organizations, according to Idaho law.
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DAILY EXPRESS NEWS
VIENNA: Spain striker David Villa, who injured his leg against Russia, will definitely miss Sunday's Euro 2008 final against Germany in Vienna, the country's football federation said.
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In the aftermath, a city mends
Council Bluffs and Pottawattamie County residents hauled over 270-tons of tree debris to the Council Bluffs Recycling Center Saturday as citizens begin the long process of cleaning up after 80 mph winds ripped through the area Friday.
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Asia, Latin America may determine GM's future
Q: Any information about long-term prospects for our General Motors Corp. stock would be appreciated. F.R., via the Internet
Deseret Morning News |
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Tara Wheeler crowned Miss Virginia 2008 in Roanoke
Associated Press - June 29, 2008 2:25 AM ET ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Now Tara Wheeler will find a new fact about herself when she types her name into Google: She's Miss Virginia 2008.
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War without end
The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Hard not to laugh, for a brief second, when you're told about Claymore landmines.
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Full grocery cart for just $14?
On a recent grocery shopping trip, Rochelle Hamby and her husband filled up a shopping cart with items that included steaks and lobster. Her bill came out to $14. Hamby's pantry looks like as if could survive a zombie apocalypse. Using clipped-out newspaper coupons, deals she discovered online and her own aggressive shopping methods, she's filled the shelves with laundry detergent, toilet ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 14th Aug 2006 05:12 UTC, submitted by Shean Terry
A start-up called Movidis believes a 16-core chip originally designed for networking gear will be a ticket to success in the Linux server market. The Revolution x16 models from Movidis each use a single 500MHz or 600MHz Cavium Networks Octeon CN3860 chip.
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Vehicle renewals to cost $5 more at DMV offices
In-person fee aims to shift transactions to phone or Internet.
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Poll: Most Clinton supporters back Obama
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama has won over more than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s former supporters, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll that finds party loyalty trumping hard feelings less than three weeks after their bruising Democratic presidential contest ended.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 20th Mar 2006 17:16 UTC, submitted by Kap
News has leaked that Microsoft has enabled support for OpenGL to work with the Vista compositing desktop, as of the most recent preview build. Previously Microsoft's plan had been to force OpenGL to be translated to Direct3D, reducing performance by 50% and locking the OpenGL version to 1.4 only.
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PhysX layer running on AMD Radeon 3870, utility available "soon"
Filed under: Desktops As if overnight, Eran Badit of NGOHQ.com has PhysX running on the AMD Radeon 3870. Badit said that the hack was "easy," and NGOHQ.com will distribute the utility after a bit more testing. As for performance, he hit a 22,606 CPU score in 3D mark Vantage, which is nothing to sneeze at. He swears that AMD isn't involved in any of this, and that the utility release will ...
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From job benefits to business: The new HR
When the CEO of Qwest Communications International asked Teresa Taylor to run human resources a few years ago, she thought she was being punished. Taylor was running a Qwest unit that sold network capacity to other companies and had no experience in HR. “I thought he was mad at me for something,” she says. Her experience is becoming more common. Companies as diverse as Microsoft, athenahealth, ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 15th Oct 2005 15:55 UTC
"Today [14-10-05] just so happens to mark the third birthday of Microsoft's Media Center Edition of Windows XP, which is likely why the company is rolling out a major update to the MCE product. Dubbed Rollup 2, the update is available to current WMC customers via Windows Update.
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