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Perfume spraying leads to arrest
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posted by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 22nd Oct 2001 18:16 UTC
REBOL is a powerful software technology (ever thought that you could write a full blown GUI Instant Messenger in only 7 kb of source code ?) designed from the ground up to enable a new era of distributed Internet applications.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 28th Jul 2006 18:28 UTC
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Mariah Carey single at center of online contest
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Pakistan is behind Kabul blast, says India
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UK leads the way in fighting online crime
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Maine man pleads guilty to child porn charge
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posted by Nathan Mace on Thu 31st Jan 2002 18:45 UTC
By now, anyone who is even remotely related to an IT-type position has heard about Linux, and has most likely used it, if only to see what all the hype is about. However, GNU/Linux is not the only "free" Unix type OS available.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 21st Jul 2006 20:55 UTC, submitted by anonymous
The Linux world's very own version of Paul Thurrot, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, lists 5 things Linux can learn from... Microsoft . "Linux does a lot of things right - open-source, security, reliability - but it's far from perfect.
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"Microsoft and Rare, made in heaven?"
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