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posted by Zach Levin on Mon 9th Aug 2004 18:28 UTC
Quite frankly, I got fed up with my Windows XP. Everything was wrong with it - security, stability, and price. So, I took a new step in my computer experience and tried going Linux.
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Calif. National Guard joins firefighting effort
ALBION, Calif. (AP) - Sweat rolled down Lisa Mirander's forehead as she hacked a tangle of saplings and brush down to bare dirt to prevent a wildfire from spreading. It was a tough job, but no harder than the 13 months she served in Afghanistan.
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Wis. paper to publish mainly online
In a bid to offset slumping ad sales and rising costs, The Daily Telegram in Superior, Wis., said yesterday that it would publish the majority of its 118-year-old paper on the Internet starting this fall. The afternoon paper, which has a circulation of about 6,000, will print only two issues a week. That was down from six issues a week, said Ron Brochu, executive editor.
Baltimore Sun |
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Odeo Giving It Another Go
Odeo, a podcast directory founded in 2005 by Evan Williams of Blogger and Twitter fame that was acquired by SonicMountain over a year ago, has relaunched with a completely new design and slew of features. The biggest addition to the site is video. Odeo now features millions of syndicated audio and video episodes aggregated from [...]
TechCrunch |
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FCC says Comcast broke Internet rules
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission will recommend that the nation's largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of a certain type of software that allowed them ...
Baltimore Sun |
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AT&T and AOL to fight child porn
AT&T and AOL signed agreements to remove child pornography Web sites from their servers and block access to child-porn newsgroups, joining three other Internet service providers, according to New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.
Baltimore Sun |
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Levy slapped on electronics
TORONTO - Ontario is set to add a green levy to televisions and computers sold in the province, as a way to offset the cost of recycling electronic equipment that is dumped when outdated.
Windsor Star |
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An Imminent Victory for 'Net Neutrality' Advocates
If regulators penalize Comcast for blocking some Internet file downloads, it would be a victory for advocates of an open Internet. But it could end up accelerating the move by Internet providers to make heavy users charge more.
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Apple's new iPhone hits shelves
Apple's international launch of iPhone 3G has begun, as a freshly-opened "App Store" tempted fans with independently created mini-programs for the coveted devices.
News 24 South Africa |
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Will new iPhone be cool enough?
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Apple Inc.'s iPhone has had a remarkable run over the past year, shaking up the stodgy design of cell phones and securing Apple a lucrative slice of the wireless business.
The Columbus Dispatch |
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Google open sources data-moving tool
Protocol Buffers 'simple' alternative to XML
Silicon.com |
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Joss Whedon's a hero with 'Dr. Horrible'
Joss Whedon screened his latest creation, "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog," to an invitation-only crowd of cast and industry professionals Thursday night.
The Hollywood Reporter |
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Apple's iPhone 3G goes on sale
The long-awaited second version of the iPhone, now with GPS, faster mobile broadband connectivity and several enterprise friendly features, goes on sale
ZDNet UK |
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PC Maker Takes Preorders for Quad-core Intel Laptop Chip
An Australian PC maker is taking preorders for an unannounced quad-core laptop chip from Intel.
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Apple's New IPhone Debut Draws Crowds, Helicopters, Across Asia
July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. 's debut of its iPhone 3G today drew thousands across Asia, creating a half-a-mile-long queue in Tokyo and forcing New Zealand stores to use security guards for crowd control.
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After reading about Canonical Software's philosophies upon September 15th's Ubuntu Linux preview release, I knew my dial up was about to be hurting. Three days later when I had the ISO in hand and Ubuntu installed, I knew the experience had to be shared.
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SKorea's Lee calls for law and order after weeks of protests
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak, whose new conservative government has been rocked by weeks of street protests, vowed Friday to listen more humbly to the people but also stressed the rule of law.
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New iPhone hits shelves
TOKYO/WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Apple's new iPhone made a glitzy debut on Friday as frenetic buyers in New Zealand and Japan, some of whom had camped in line for days, stormed outlets to get their hands on the gadget.
Gresham Outlook |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Aug 2005 17:04 UTC
The X Window System (commonly referred to as X or X11) is a network-transparent graphical windowing system based on a client/server model. Primarily used on Unix and Unix-like systems such as Linux, versions of X are also available for many other operating systems.
New Mobile Computing |
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Dear Sir or Madam: Lottery scams proliferate
In 15 &17 Jun 2008 I have receipt two defference mail . One mail from austpromo.com Lottery in Nigeria ,they sent the mail ' YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS HAS OWN $600,000.00' .
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From Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe
"Information engineering." had nothing to do with engineering, but tried to use the PC to draw, store, and link models of complex applications and auto-generate some of the COBOL code needed to implement the models using database products like IMS. by Paul Murphy
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NEWS: Daily Debriefing
Photos of an Iranian missile test distributed to journalists on Wednesday by officials with the country's Revolutionary Guard were altered to show four missiles launching instead of three, according to a Scientific American interview with Dartmouth computer science professor Hany Farid published on Thursday. Farid, an expert in digital forensics, said he believes similarities among the missiles' ...
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MEDIA: NBC's mass-consumption Olympics
NBC was thinking of a number between zero and infinity. It came up with 3,600. That's how many hours it and its extended cable and online family tallied up this week in announcing what it will offer up from the Summer Olympics next month in Beijing, spread over a 17-day period.
Los Angeles Daily News |
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Buyers line up for Apple's new iPhone
Latest version is faster and flashier, but $199 price tag can be deceptive
The Tennessean |
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School computers to be security-marked before summer holiday
INFORMATION technology equipment at schools across East Sussex is being protected with state-of-the-art security marking in time for the summer holidays. (11/07/2008 08:13:45)
Bexhill Today |
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