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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 20:39 UTC
PatchGuard, a Microsoft technology to protect key parts of Windows, will be hacked sooner rather than later , a security expert said Thursday.
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6 Tips For Avoiding Housekeeping Hell cnn.com
Wilma Smith was vacationing with her grandchildren in Orlando when she met a maid on a mission. When she returned from one of the theme parks one afternoon, she found the door to her room at the Days Inn propped wide open. "We had cameras and laptops in there," says Smith, a retiree who lives in Darby, Montana. "The maid had been there. Nothing was taken, but we were a little put out by it." ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Jan 2007 22:59 UTC
Novell has begun a new element of a years-long effort to coax people away from Windows and toward Linux. It unveiled a Web site Friday that touts purported advantages that Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 has over Windows Vista.
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CSU launching Global Campus for online learners
Call it the next wave in online learning. CSU is launching Internet courses based on the needs of employers and employees.
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Linux for housewives. XP for geeks.
The computer proletariat is rising up - and computing will never be the same. Tiny, sub-$500 "netbooks" like the Asus Eee are the hottest thing going in notebooks today. And some surprising things are happening. Like housewives on Linux. Asus is forecasting worldwide shipments of 10 million...
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Apparently a lot of people care about carbon
Its not just celebrities and politicians talking about carbon, corporations and shoppers in the United States spent more than $54 million last year on carbon offset credits toward tree planting, wind farms, solar plants and other projects to balance the emissions created by, say, using a laptop computer or flying on a jet according to the New York Times.
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NEW: Court forces county to hand over porn found on employeeâ€s computer
Madison County has been told to surrender pornographic images discovered on the computer of a former top administrator accused of harassing his assistant.
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Blunt signs cyberbullying bill
Gov. Matt Blunt signed a bill into law Monday that is designed to better enable prosecution of Internet harassment.
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Over a million Indian SBs to buy PCs
KOLKATA, INDIA: Over 40 percent of SBs (small businesses, or companies with up to 99 employees) in India have indicated plans to invest in computers for the first time in the next 12 months, opening up a huge opportunity for hardware, software and solution vendors.
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DataCore sees Total Enterprise Virtualization take off
MUNICH, GERMANY: DataCore Software , the leading software provider of storage virtualization software, has announced that it gathered more than 70 distributor and reseller partners at its third Central European partner conference held in Hagen, Germany.
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Most recent posts
In June, 2002, two processor upgrade vendors announced G4 upgrade programs for the PowerBook G3 Pismo, and I posted the From The Archive selection republished here this week commenting on the welcome development.
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Stuck-in-lift video still popular
New York - A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an internet sensation, nearly a decade after the event in October 1999.
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Bittersweet Fruit
NEW YORK Just before Marie Brenner's brother died, he tried to eliminate as many traces of himself as possible. He schlepped his computer's hard drive to the dump. He spent hours erasing entries from his calendar. No correspondence that so much as hinted at intimacy would be left for his only sib...
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Recent Original Stories
"Google's PageRank algorithm assesses the importance of web pages without human evaluation of the content. In fact, Google feels that the value of its service is largely in its ability to provide unbiased results to search queries; Google claims, 'the heart of our software is PageRank'.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Nov 2007 15:45 UTC
"Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the Minix OS - a cousin of Linux [ I beg your pardon ?] - running on his homebrew minicomputer , today at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif.
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Stuck-in-lift video still popular
New York - A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an internet sensation, nearly a decade after the event in October 1999.
Pretoria News |
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Weekly audio: Windows Mobile related podcasts that have been published last week
July 07, 2008 [General] By Edward J. R. Websites and companies that don't offer podcasts nowadays are simply clueless and don't know what users/customers want! Interestingly several Microsoft divisions are making podcasts about their products, however not Windows Mobile division.
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Affiliated Computer Services may have new suitor
Perpetual acquisition target Affiliated Computer Services Inc. may have another suitor in the next few weeks. Experts say there is growing buzz that an unnamed private equity firm will soon make a pitch for the Dallas-based outsourcing company.
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Linked by Robert Austin on Mon 1st May 2006 20:11 UTC
Two years ago, on April 1, 2004 an article appeared here on OSNews titled " Will Open Source Come to the Rescue? " Two years later, I am proud to report that there is indeed an effort to bring open source software to the Emergency Service community.
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Technology reshapes America's classrooms
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA: From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves. Just ask 11-year-old Jemella Chambers. She i...
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Free speech not guaranteed by online providers
Rant all you want in a public park. A police officer generally won't eject you for your remarks alone, however unpopular or provocative. Say it on the Internet, and you'll find that free speech and other Constitutional rights are anything but guaranteed.
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Water & Waste / Perspectives
As the saying goes, no man is a prophet in his own land. This is particularly so when you try to change the world and rings especially true for the tech recycling firm Recycla.
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Web offers plenty of alternative treatments
Whether it's cleaning your ears with a candle or creating a vacuum to cure a cold, the Internet offers plenty of alternative treatments for whatever ails you. A Web search for "alternative medicine” returns millions of hits, but verifying how well these methods work often is difficult since anyone can post a Web site. The term describes treatments that don't fall into the category of ...
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Technology reshapes America's classrooms
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA: From online courses to kid-friendly laptops and virtual teachers, technology is spreading in America's classrooms, reducing the need for textbooks, notepads, paper and in some cases even the schools themselves.
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Nickelodeon star links to Internet generation
BLOOMINGTON, MINN.: Miranda Cosgrove appeared to be a typical 15-year-old shopper — applying the latest flavor of lip gloss at the cosmetics counter, fawning over designer sneakers, slipping on headbands — except most of the other Nordstrom customers on this crowded Sunday afternoon weren't accompanied by guards and didn't have the ability to make youngsters gasp as if they'd just spotted a ...
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