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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.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 20th Jan 2006 21:39 UTC
Apple Computer's announcement of new Macs based on processors from Intel raises an interesting question: Since both the Mac and Windows operating systems now run on Intel-based hardware, shouldn't it be easy to run both on the same computer ? That simple question deserves a simple answer.
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Laptops banned in Bhutan assembly over gaming fears
THIMPU, Bhutan (Reuters) - The national assembly in newly democratic Bhutan has stopped lawmakers from bringing laptop computers into the house for fear they might spend their time playing computer games.
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FAYETTEVILLE : Taking a byte out of research
FAYETTEVILLE — More supercomputers are showing up at Arkansas’ four-year universities, helping researchers tackle increasingly complex scientific problems. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
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Recycler collects attention
HORSESHOE BEND — The idea for an award-winning volunteer recycling program in Izard County was sparked by a California Boy Scout project 25 years ago. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Northwest Edition)
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Police raid groups who led beef protests
Associated Press - June 30, 2008 7:43 AM ET SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korean police have raided the offices of some civic groups that have led weeks of protests against a government plan...
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Verizon offers over-the-air MP3s, Rhapsody
Following on the heels of Real's Rhapsody MP3 store, Verizon today expanded its VCast Music store to include both MP3s and the Rhapsody subscription service. The former lets users of Verizon's PC software as well as any MP3-supporting cellphone on the company's 3G network download unprotected songs that can be used as the customer likes; that incl...
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Laptops banned in Bhutan assembly over gaming fears
The national assembly in newly democratic Bhutan has stopped lawmakers from bringing laptop computers into the house for fear they might spend their time playing computer games.
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Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday
Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into using XP's successor, Vista.
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Windows Vista, meet my Mother-In-Law.
Every weekend I return home from traveling the country working at the 10,000 foot level of enterprise architecture for Fortune 500 customers, there is at least a fifty percent chance that I may be called upon to do some in the trenches desktop support work. Such drudgery...
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Goodbye, XP. Hello, Midori
June 30 is the day that Microsoft begins phasing out Windows XP by no longer providing copies of the operating system to PC makers and retailers for preloading on new machines. It's also a good day thanks to a recent New York Times opinion piece to start looking ahead to...
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Current Newswire:
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]The execution of a full-text query failed. "The content index is corrupt." "If you work some of the time on your laptop and some of the time on your desktop box, making sure that your work is updated on both machines is a must.
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Post-Gates: How Apple and OSS Are Making For a Better Microsoft
A lot of us are focused on Microsoft and Bill Gates this month as Bill's last day at the company he founded and ran to dominance passed last Friday. I've met Bill several times but only really once spoken to him. From a personal aspect, he has mostly been cordial and he once personally came to my rescue back when my career as an independent analyst first started, something I'll never forget.
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Windows 7 is coming. Will your PC be ready?
Windows 7 is coming. Will your PC be ready?
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SKorean police raid civic groups leading rallies against US beef imports
SEOUL, South Korea - Police raided the offices Monday of civic groups that have led weeks of street rallies against South Korea's resumption of U.S. beef imports, after the government said it would not tolerate illegal demonstrations.
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AP Top News at 7:42 a.m. EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid has arrived in North Korea, after the communist nation agreed to expanded international assistance for its impoverished people, the U.N. food agency said Monday. The World Food Program said the American ship that arrived Sunday carried 37,000 tons of wheat, the first installment of 500,000 tons in promised U.S. aid that ...
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Screenshots made simple for saving multiple images
Ever come across something cool on your computer screen that you want to take a picture of to save and share? If it's just a single image on a Web site, you can usually right click on the image to save it. But if you want to capture more than just one image, take a screenshot.
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AP Top News at 7:34 a.m. EDT
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) _ A U.S. ship carrying thousands of tons of food aid has arrived in North Korea, after the communist nation agreed to expanded international assistance for its impoverished people, the U.N. food agency said Monday. The World Food Program said the American ship that arrived Sunday carried 37,000 tons of wheat, the first installment of 500,000 tons in promised U.S. aid that ...
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Software group to promote Macs in the enterprise
A consortium of five companies has announced the creation of the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) to promote the deployment of Macs in the enterprise. The five founding companies -- Centrify, LANrev, Atempo, GroupLogic, and Parallels -- are all focused on integrating the Mac operating system and infrastructure with Windows and PC-based network infrastructure for enterprise-level companies. ...
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Marketing firm in award finals
A HAMPTON woman who started a business in her conservatory with nothing more than a laptop has reached the Southern Regional Finals of the 2008 HSBC Start-Up Stars Awards. (30/06/2008 12:58:35)
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by netpython (2.28) on Thu 6th Jul 2006 09:05 UTC
The latter is long since gone, but the still deserves a place in the list, even though others (ahem) were spawned from it. Corel linux was one of the worst distros i ever encountered.
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Matrox M-series graphic cards go 4-up natively
Filed under: Desktops , Displays Matrox just announced er, last week, it's new M-Series of graphics cards powered by the industry's first QuadHead GPU. All the PCIe X16 cards offer 512MB of graphics memory and support up to 4x widescreen monitors (DVI or analog) simultaneously as one large desktop or as independent resolutions. The cards can connect a pair of monitors at a max ...
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 8th Jul 2006 07:57 UTC
The newly released Xandros Desktop Linux 4.0 is one of the few remaining for-pay Linux distributions on the consumer market. The Home Edition is available for $40, or $80 for a Premium Edition. What do you get for your hard-earned cash?
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Dismissed deputy head launches legal fight
Computer says no... In the week that a Civitas report slammed new government legislation on vetting, the case of John Pinnington provides a scary reminder of where we could soon be heading.…
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Off limits to online?
In terms of widening their access to information, to goods, services and even jobs, the internet promises to be a revolution for the 1.5 million people in the UK with learning difficulties.
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