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San Marcos widow forms support network
Dozens of military wives who have lost their husbands have traveled to central Texas this weekend. They are part of the American Widow Project, an online community designed to help widows deal with the loss of their husbands.
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posted by Tyler Bancroft on Tue 25th May 2004 06:41 UTC
SuSE Linux 9.1 is the followup to an excellent desktop distribution. SuSE gave me the opportunity to use SuSE 9.1 Professional for a couple weeks. This is a review/personal thoughts on the distro.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Dec 2006 00:00 UTC
Microsoft has released a first draft of programming interfaces meant to help security firms create products that work with kernel protection features in Windows Vista.
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Game characters are getting smarter
Video games used to come preprogrammed with canned movements. But recent advancements in video game design — and new game consoles with dazzling computing power — have endowed computer-controlled characters with a sense of self-preservation and unpredictability not seen even a year ago.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Nov 2007 23:16 UTC
"A little over a week ago, reviews of Asus's Eee PC 701 started to trickle out onto the Internet. Some of the larger publications, like CNet and LAPTOP Magazine got their hands on the unit first, but as it has become more widely available sites like HotHardware and PC Perspective have now put out their own reviews of the Eee PC. The overall verdict is fairly unanimous: the device's keyboard is a ...
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Bishop Heber College wins
Karaikudi: Bishop Heber College, Tiruchi, lifted the Optra Computer Trophy defeating Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, by two wickets in the final of the State-level invitation Twenty-20 cricket tournament at Karaikudi on ...
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Microsoft
Microsoft is to introduce a new model Xbox 360 with a 60 GB hard drive, to retail for USD 349. The new SKU will go on sale in the US and Canada in early August. The price of the current 20GB model has now been reduced to USD 299.
gamesindustry.biz |
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‘Children should do more hands-on work’
Spending too much time on computers rather than working with their hands is threatening children's neurological and intellectual development, a report has found.
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The Top 7... games we want announced at E3
We know they're coming, you know they're coming, so announce 'em already! It's everyone's favorite time of the year again, when thousands of overcaffeinated journalists descend upon E3 with their live-blogged, 2000-word diatribes on the most minor of details.
Games Radar |
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Xbox 360 offers triple storage for same price
REDMOND, USA: Microsoft Corp. is giving consumers more gigabytes for their buck. The company announced an Xbox 360 console with triple the storage space of the original console, but for the same price of $349 (US) estimated retail price (ERP).
CIOL |
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Microsoft honours Blue Star Infotech
MUMBAI, INDIA: Blue Star Infotech has been named to the 2008 Microsoft Dynamics President's Club, receiving recognition from Microsoft Corp. for its dedicated commitment to customers.
CIOL |
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Microsoft cuts Xbox price by $50, plans 60GB model
(AP:SEATTLE) Microsoft Corp. is trimming the price of its Xbox 360 video game console to make way for a new model with a bigger hard drive. Starting Sunday, Microsoft's mid-range Xbox 360 console with a 20-gigabyte hard drive will cost $299 in the U.S., down from $350.
INO News |
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Microsoft Chops US 360 Premium Price [News]
$50 chopped from the price of a Premium Xbox 360 and 60GB model confirmed...
Total Video Games |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 18th Sep 2005 21:15 UTC
You're ready to be a card-carrying Linux geek, but with several different Linux distributions available, you don't know where to start. Which one offers the best balance of tools, performance, and price?
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Beyond Privacy 14 Jul 2008, 0000 hrs IST
Last year, media major Viacom slapped a $1 billion lawsuit on YouTube owner Google, accusing the latter of not doing enough to prevent its users from uploading copyrighted material. A US federal judge has ordered Google to release data about all users who have ever viewed a video on YouTube.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 20th Oct 2005 01:58 UTC
Although open source software comes with lofty (and sometime altruistic) ambitions, some developers worry that the model just doesn't present a practical plan for the future of the software industry.
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This is a long review
of modern Word Processors. Part 1 published today covers Open Office (open source cross platform), as well as MS Word 2007, and WordPerfect X3.
OS News |
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Android Hardware By Google Rumors Stirred Up Again: Ammunition Group May Be Behind the Design [Gphone]
Talk about an android phone made by Google died down after the release of Android, but it seems that you just can't keep a good rumor down. According to TechCrunch, an Android made by Google may...
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Software problems bug Apple's launch of new iPhone
By PETER SVENSSON The launch of Apple Inc.'s much-anticipated new iPhone turned into an information-technology meltdown on Friday, as customers were unable to get their phones working. "It's such grief and aggravation," said Frederick Smalls, an insurance broker in Whitman, Mass., after spending two hours on the phone with Apple and AT&T Inc., trying to get his new iPhone to work. In stores, ...
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Samsung MLC-based 128GB in production
SEOUL, KOREA: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd has begun mass production of 1.8- and 2.5-inch multi-level cell (MLC)-based solid state drives (SSD) with a 128 Gigabyte (GB) storage capacity. Mass production of the Samsung MLC-based 64GB SSD also began this month.
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Police impersonators flash a badge, fool a victim
A man forces his way into an apartment to rape the woman who lives there. A guy on a bicycle handcuffs and robs pedestrians, and another gropes random women on the side of the road.
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Reporter's Notebook: Miguel Contreras
We are witnessing an exodus of persecuted confidential sources of information (CSI), police officers, journalists, prosecutors, and businessmen from Mexico, showing-up at the U.S. – Mexico international borders asking for asylum application to enter the United States.
The Narco News Bulletin |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Feb 2006 15:14 UTC
"A lot of people complain about the Firefox 'memory leak(s)'. All versions of Firefox no doubt leak memory - it is a common problem with software this complicated. We look to fix the issues where we can. David Baron and others have done a huge amount of excellent work in this area.
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Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) is not going to survive
as a major standard programming model in the next five years, predicts Richard Monson-Haefel, senior analyst with the Burton Group, and SOA is part of the reason.
New Mobile Computing |
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"PSP online (and PS3 questions)"
What's the options for getting a PSP online? 1) Do you need a wireless router? Or can you use an PS3 (connected to the internet with a wired connection) to go online with the PSP?
EuroGamer |
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