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by (Staff) on Mon 5th Sep 2005 21:24 UTC in reply to " RE[2]: Xfce is what Gnome should be "
Yes, be careful indeed. Kongqueror start at least twice as fast when running in a KDE environment, as Nautilus does when running in a Gnome desktop. At least thati is what happens on my old 500MHz PIII 512MB RAM.
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Internet Resources Empower Long-distance Caregivers
(ARA) - John is 82 and lives in Manhattan. Since the death of his brother, he regularly checks on his 87-year-old sister-in-law who lives about 90 minutes away. She has dementia and needs help with daily needs. An aide lives with her, but John is concerned the help is getting burned out.
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Yahoo: Microsoft plan would destroy value
San Francisco - In a sharp letter to stockholders Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang said that the alliance between investor Carl Icahn and Microsoft would destroy shareholder value with a plan that they called stupefying. The letter ca...
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Government aims to slash its IT emissions
The government has announced a new strategy to cut its carbon footprint by radically reducing its computer emissions.
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Upset worker locks city's computers
SAN Francisco authorities are still locked out of the city's official computer network four days after a disgruntled employee removed access for everyone but himself.
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Madison, Wisconsin Awards Accela $2.2M Contract to Improve Customer Satisfaction
Madison, Wisconsin has selected Accela Automation® from Accela, Inc. as its primary e-government software solution for addressing its goals to focus on customer satisfaction and needs, coordinate public involvement, foster internal and external communication and coordination, and simplify complex regulations.
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China spends big on the internet
Online spending in China rose almost 60 per cent in the first six months of the year, new research reveals. Surfers spent $37.52bn on internet services in the first six months of the year, the Data Center of China Internet reported, according to the government-controlled Xinhua news agency.
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Google dominating UK search
Nearly nine out of 10 internet searches in the UK in June were powered by Google, compared to four per cent for Yahoo and just over three per cent for MSN.
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Mobile Tech News -- Opera Mobile 9.5, LogMeIn for N800/N810, and More
Opera Mobile 9.5 Public Beta Now Available LogMeIn Releases Beta of Plug-In for Nokia Internet Tablets Version of HTC Touch Diamond without the Faceted Back Casing Being Prepped
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Insurance.com Study: Auto Insurance Rates Continue to Climb
CLEVELAND----Auto insurance rates continued to rise for the second quarter this year, according to a study by Insurance.com, the largest online auto insurance agency in the United States.
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Intel's Second-Quarter Profit Beats Estimates
Intel Corp.'s second-quarter profit jumped 25 percent as blossoming sales of laptop chips helped the company cruise past Wall Street's estimates Tuesday. Investors viewed the chipmaker's favorable results as a sign that global PC demand is healthy despite a sputtering U.S. economy that has depressed some domestic spending. Intel CEO Paul Otellini said demand for Intel's chips remains strong ...
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Anonymity of Bloggers Is Clashing With the Law
There is no better way to get a blogger talking than by telling him what he cannot publish, although you might forgive a government prosecutor for thinking otherwise. A grand jury subpoena sent by prosecutors in New York this year sought information to help identify people blogging anonymously on a Web site about New York politics called Room 8. The subpoena carried a warning in capital ...
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Researchers Look To Air-Condition Computer Chips
Purdue University scientists have taken a page from air-conditioner technology in their quest for a new way to cool down ever-more powerful computer chips. Their experimental system, which flushes a refrigerant through tiny channels cut into chips, is intended for the high-power electronics found in radar and advanced weapons systems such as lasers, said Issam Mudawar, a mechanical engineering ...
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Valley, Lanett seek E-Waste
The Alabama cities of Lanett and Valley will partner with Electronics Recycling Services of Atlanta to provide a location to recycle office related electronics free of charge.
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Videogames getting more social
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Videogame makers are riding the social-networking wave with a flood of soon-to-be-released titles that let friends play online as teams and even create their own characters.
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GeoDecisions Reinforces Quality Client Service With ESRI Enterprise License
Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities
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U.S. Bank Offers Customers Mobile Access to Bank Accounts
MINNEAPOLIS----Millions of U.S. Bank consumer and small business customers who access their bank accounts via the Internet will have even greater flexibility as U.S. Bank now offers Mobile Banking to all U.S.
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Google's Ad Rates Push Profit Toward $17.07 a Share (Update1)
July 17 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. 's ability to raise the price of Internet financial-services advertising by an average 19 percent may help the most widely used search engine overcome a U.S. economic slump and lift profit to $17.07 a share this year.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 22:29 UTC, submitted by John Mills
Jeremy Allison (of Samba fame) has resigned from Novell in protest over the Microsoft-Novell patent agreement, which he calls 'a mistake' which will be 'damaging to Novell's success in the future'.
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Zmanda Named Among "Top 10 Storage Start-Ups"
SUNNYVALE, Calif.----Zmanda™, the leader in open source backup and recovery software, today announced that the editors of Byte and Switch have named the company one of the "Top 10 Start-ups to Watch."
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Yahoo says Icahn's agenda presents significant risk
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) on Thursday warned its shareholders that billionaire Carl Icahn's agenda presents a "significant risk" to their investment, and reiterated that it would only sell itself to Microsoft (MSFT.O) under the right terms.
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Government aims to slash its IT emissions
Rosalie Marshall, IT Week , Thursday 17 July 2008 at 15:30:00 Cabinet Office sets strategy for government's IT to be carbon neutral in four years The government has announced a new strategy to cut its carbon footprint by radically reducing its computer emissions. The Cabinet Office's new strategy calls on central government department's IT to...
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Amazon.com to launch new online TV, movie store: report
Web retailer Amazon.com Inc will introduce a new online store of TV shows and movies on Thursday, called Amazon Video on Demand, The New York Times said.
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Environment: Free to recycle
We’ve all heard of recycling, and many of us practice it. But are we doing it well? (or even doing it at all?) Chances are you have room for improvement, so novices and experts alike, keep reading. After reducing and reusing, recycling waste provides an effective, easy method to reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. Recycling decreases the waste stream and the energy and natural resources ...
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Cheerleaders gone wild
Raunchy pics of Blue Bomber cheerleaders circulating on the Internet aren't anything to get worked up about, says a local ethics professor.
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