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Costa 'demands an extra $245m' for school computers
Documents have revealed New South Wales Treasurer Michael Costa has demanded the Federal Government provide an extra $245 million towards the high school computer scheme.
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Recent Original Stories
This opinion piece gives 8 reasons as to why HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) is in its stone age. It talks of screen corners, visual attention, the spatial paradigm (oh my...) and much more.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jan 2006 21:43 UTC
In an interesting turn of events, Microsoft has said that the current Aero interface in the latest Vista build (the December CTP) is not the final UI , saying: "There are going to be GUI changes in Vista by the time the final release comes."
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Recent Original Stories
"If you want to run Windows applications on your Intel powered Mac, you will be happy to learn that there are three different ways. The first method is by using Crossover for Mac, the second is using Parallels, and the third method is using Boot Camp. Each has their own advantages and disadvantages.
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Linked by Christian Paratschek on Wed 16th Nov 2005 19:02 UTC
OpenDocument got a lot of publicity lately. StarOffice 8 and OpenOffice.org 2.0 finally arrived, and all the other makers of office suites (with the notable exception of Microsoft) have started implementing the new standard into their programs.
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Recent Original Stories
"Google Spreadsheets are in the 'sneak peek' phase. The two big questions seem to be a) why would anyone want to use a potentially non-secure spreadsheet with limited capabilities, and b) how will we refer to the primitive era before online spreadsheets, which revolutionized life as we know it (which, of course, leads to a related question: what kind of silver jumpsuit is most comfortable when ...
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Recent Original Stories
Windows Vista beta 1 is due out by August 3. So what can we expect to see? What are Microsoft's goals? Wincustomise's Frogboy shares his views.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Feb 2007 15:51 UTC
Forbes takes a look at Vista, and writes: "More than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump . The new slogan is: 'The Wow Starts Now', and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple's Macintosh.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Aug 2007 22:04 UTC
"We want to develop a free and complete set of user friendly applications and desktop tools, similar to CDE and KDE but based entirely on free software."
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NBC offers wide online access for Beijing Games
NEW YORK - NBC is making more than 2,200 hours of live competition from Beijing available online, giving Olympic junkies more action than they could ever devour in a day.
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Spray azaleas to boot bugs causing spots
Q. Recently the leaves on my azalea began to turn yellow. I also noticed brown spots all over the upper surface of the leaf. Can you tell me what’s going on? I searched on the Internet, and it looks like a leaf-spot disease to me.
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School computer plan 'at risk'
NSW threatens to pull out of computers plan Wants more money from the Federal Government Rudd says he gets the message of by-election loss
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School computer plan 'at risk'
LABOR's election pledge to put computers in schools may crash as one state demands more money.
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School computer plan 'at risk'
NSW threatens to pull out of computers plan Wants more money from the Federal Government Rudd says he gets the message of by-election loss
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Advice to workers: Make most of bad situation
CHICAGO — 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, to have a frank chat with his boss at the small computer communications firm where he worked.
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Cyber sleuths operate in the digital realm Computer crime unit has paid dividends, local police say
From the comfort of his North Andover home, Richard Disler trolled the Internet chat rooms, trying to hook up with underage girls. That's where the 43-year-old accountant met a girl named "Sara." They began chatting online, and she eventually suggested a place where they could meet.
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In other news, here you can read what various people have to say about the restructuring operation
"The amazing thing isn't that Windows beat the pants off Unix; it's that so many of the Unix companies survived until today. Linux came into the field though with two big advantages over the Unixes . The first was that it was open-source. The second advantage was it had Linus Torvalds."
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Dell's new E-Series gets first official mention
Filed under: Laptops , Tablet PCs At this point, there's very little you don't know about Dell's upcoming Latitude E-series of laptops thanks to our Week O' Dell Scoops . Only the official pricing and launch dates for these DisplayPort, eSATA, and Centrino 2 D-series laptop replacements (and new XT2 Convertible) have eluded us. While we expected the Mainstream and Essential ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Sep 2006 18:24 UTC
Two negative reviews of Vista RC1. First off, CRN says: "Microsoft is making its first Vista release candidate and pricing information more broadly available to partners and consumers this week.
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Windows Could Use a Rush of Fresh Air
Microsoft’s flagship software, Windows, built upon the same core architecture as preceding versions, seems to move an inch when its competitors take a lap.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 13th Sep 2007 08:14 UTC, submitted by Anonymous Reader
"My verdict: Even in the relatively slick Ubuntu variation, Linux is still too rough around the edges for the vast majority of computer users ", says Mossberg . Among others, he complains about one of the things I did too when I was writing my stream of Ubuntu reviews back in Spring.
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David Caminer, a Pioneer in Computers, Dies at 92
Mr. Caminer, as an employee of a legendary chain of British tea shops, found the earliest ways to use a computer for business purposes.
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HTML 5 introduces and enhances
"The web is constantly evolving. New and innovative websites are being created every day, pushing the boundaries of HTML in every direction.
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E-mail lawsuit could settle privacy issues at workplace
When he was fired, Scott Sidell was angry enough. Then he found out that his former employer was reading his personal Yahoo e-mail messages after he had left the company. In a lawsuit that he filed in May against Structured Settlement Investments, the finance company he used to run, Sidell claims executives at the company went so far as to read e-mail messages that he had sent to his lawyers ...
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