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Did You Miss? Games Could Lead To ID Theft
Your children may be playing risky games online that could hurt their future finances, and you may not know about it until it's too late.
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College freshmen scoping out roommates-to-be online
Freshmen will find out in the next two months who their first college roommate will be. Ohio Wesleyan sophomore Rachel Spetrino has some words of wisdom: Don't “Facebook stalk†your roommate-to-be or read too much into their profile.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 14:53 UTC
The KDE team has released KDE 3.5.5 , a maintenance release. Main changes: "Version 0.12.3 of Kopete replaces 0.11.3 in KDE 3.5.5, it includes support for Adium themes, performance improvements and better support for the Yahoo! and Jabber protocols; support for sudo in kdesu; support for input shape from XShape1.1 in KWin (KDE window manager); lots of speed improvements and fixes in Konqueror's ...
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Business Respect - CSR Dispatches No 131 - 6 Jul 2008
An email newsletter with news and discussion focusing on corporate social responsibility globally, looking at the companies in the news and the emerging issues.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 22:01 UTC
"With the latest release of Apple's office productivity suite, iWork '08, the Pages application moves into the ranks of full-fledged word processing applications . Previously known more for its page layout capabilities than for its word processing capabilities, Pages now enables users to switch seamlessly between writing and designing documents.
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Free Speech Rights Not Guaranteed in 'Public' Online Spaces
You can generally rant all you want in a public park without being ejected by a police officer. But say it on the internet, and you'll find that free speech and other constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed.
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Recent Original Stories
"Unless you have been living in a cave somewhere in Redmond you would no doubt have heard of Ubuntu and its many derivatives, touted as 'Linux for human beings'.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 30th Aug 2006 20:22 UTC
"Apple today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple's board of directors at their meeting today. Eric also sits on Google's board of directors and Princeton University's board of trustees.
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As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll
As the Web has become an integral part of life, users have become less forgiving of even occasional outages.
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Talking with Ali Lohan
There are "Mean Girls," and then there are mean girls -- like two of Ali Lohan's former classmates, who made a catty video about her and then posted it on the Internet. Ali, 14, and a budding musician, calls herself a "nice girl, who wants to be friends with everybody." You just don't want to mess with the Lohans, she says, because then there may be trouble.
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Rob Van Dam Comments On Warrior, Chyna Update, Goldberg
Rob Van Dam posted a blog on his website last Friday updating up on the condition of his wife Sonya, who is suffering from colon cancer, his positive wrestling experience in Spain a few weeks ago, discuss "the power of the mind" with Ultimate Warrior and Chris Nowinski, and what happened during his recent encounter with Warrior.
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Sp@mX retired, replaced by Purify
Hendrickson Software Components has replaced Sp@mX, its spam tracing and reporting utility, with Purify. Purify can filter email, forward validated email, and both trace and report spam. It can support single users or a workgroup from a central computer and its spam-filtering can be used with Hendrickson's email-archiving Compass software. The sof...
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What we're reading
Starting this month, the Browser, our round-up of what's making Star Tribune staffers' current reading lists, makes its debut on the Artcetera page.
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Recent Original Stories
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is using Linux extensively... on the desktop! " At the JPL, it is common to see Red Hat Inc., SuSE or Mandriva Linux running on users' desktops alongside Windows .". On a side note, they don't trust Linux on the server: " Our personal view is that Linux, period, is only for the desktop.
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2008 Lexus IS
2008 LEXUS IS STYLING [8 out of 10] Cars.com: "wide stance help give the IS 250 a muscular look" Edmunds: "athletic poise" Kelley Blue Book: "lacks...the crisp visual tailoring of BMW's 3 Series " The 2008 Lexus IS bears the styling hallmarks of larger Lexus sedans , according to reviews from around the Web and the firsthand ...
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Ecstasy Makes Comeback In Clarksville
David O'Dell used to know what to look for when the Clarksville police officer would be searching for the so-called "club drug" Ecstasy.
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Cards are license to download
When CDs are too unwieldy, the Soundtrax card saves space.
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Linked by Agent Smith on Sun 17th Dec 2006 09:37 UTC
The Observer and GigaOM reveal the Google Phone, a device currently early in development that will integrate many of Google's services in a mobile manner. It is not expected to be released before 2008.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 24th Nov 2007 23:31 UTC
"The GNOME Foundation has issued a statement in response to recent accusations that it has been supporting the acceptance of Microsoft's Office Open XML format as an ECMA standard at the expense of the Open Document Format, the open standard used by OpenOffice.org, KOffice and other free software office applications.
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removed a licensing restriction
Microsoft announced two significant licensing changes around Visual Studio that will be a boon for partners. First, the company said it will soon initiate a shared-source licensing program for Visual Studio and make the IDE's source code available to ISV partners for debugging purposes.
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8bit MCU features dual-bus design
Silicon Storage Technology Inc. announced a new addition to its FlashFlex family of 8bit MCUs, the SST89C58RC, said to be industry's first 8051-based MCU to feature two system management buses.
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USB power manager stretches battery life
Linear has launched the latest in a family of compact next-generation, multifunction power management products for Li-ion/polymer battery applications.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Nov 2006 11:24 UTC
Microsoft will pay Novell USD 348 million up front , but Novell will return USD 200 million of that amount over five years. The specific numbers came in an a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made by Novell late Tuesday.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Oct 2005 11:44 UTC
Microsoft on Monday came closer to the final release of Windows Server 2003 R2, expected before the year's end, by making Release Candidate 1 available for download.
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Former San Antonio professor fantasized about his students
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- A University of Texas at San Antonio professor fantasized about his students in e-mails before he was fired for viewing pornography on his work computer.
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