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Recent Original Stories
Here's a quick guide on how to install applications using various types of package formats in Linux. It is aimed at people new to Linux. "Installing software in GNU/Linux looks quite different to the way you're probably used to from Microsoft Windows. This is due to philosophical reasons.
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Comcast hires entertainment exec from Yahoo
Comcast Corp. said it hired Yahoo executive Karin Gilford to run Fancast and online entertainment.
Philly.com |
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Alleged SF Hacker Pleads Not Guilty
A San Francisco employee who allegedly crashed the city's computer network pleaded not guilty Thursday to four felony counts of computer network tampering, as well as one count of causing losses of more than $200,000, resulting from the tampering.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 27th Nov 2005 15:27 UTC
With speculation of a ship date for Windows Vista ranging in the second part of 2006, word has surprisingly surfaced that it can be expected much earlier.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 29th Nov 2005 14:28 UTC, submitted by Anonymous
The KDE Project is happy to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Many features have been added or refined, making KDE 3.5 the most complete, stable and integrated free desktop environment available.
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Dreaming in Code author Scott Rosenberg, provides an
After helping develop the Xerox Alto's Bravo word processor and leading Microsoft Office development for years, Charles Simonyi left Microsoft in 2002 to found his own company, Intentional Software.
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Recent Original Stories
Google vowed that its Linux-based Android mobile platform would empower enthusiasts and amateur developers, but today we have seen compelling evidence that this is an empty promise.
OS News |
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Spies Cash In
The Nation -- There's a brouhaha developing over the latest U.S. intelligence community funding bill, but it's not the right one.
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British teens free after Ghanaian drug sentence
Two British teenage girls left prison Thursday after serving nine-month sentences for trying to smuggle cocaine out of Ghana in laptop computer bags, prison officers and the girls' lawyers said.
The Kansas City Star |
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Kanye West - West Hits Back At Fake Blog Claims
Rapper KANYE WEST has published photographs of himself typing on his social networking page - to prove he writes his own blogs. The outspoken star often uses his ...
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Mentoring now available at TAMUK
Thanks to the Internet, students at Coastal Bend College-Kingsville can receive mentoring from The University of Houston-Victoria.
Nueces County Record Star |
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Texas AG: Sex offenders arrested for using MySpace
Investigators arrested five registered sex offenders earlier this month for illegally using the popular social networking site MySpace.com, including one person in Seguin.
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More MSM Finding Partners On Internet In Chicago, Contributing To Increase In Syphilis Cases, Report Finds
An increasing number of men who have sex with men in Chicago are finding sex partners on the Internet, helping to fuel a rise is syphilis cases among the group, according to a report recently released by the Chicago Department of Health, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Medical News Today |
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Verne Troyer - Troyer Tries To Evict Sex Tape Ex
Tiny movie star VERNE TROYER is desperately trying to evict the ex-girlfriend who leaked his sex tape on the internet. Troyer and aspiring actress Ranae Shrider hit ...
ContactMusic |
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'Secrets' revealed on the Internet
FORTY-FIVE years ago, before his capture and 27-year incarceration, he was David Motsamayi, a servant in blue overalls. Now kings and queens — real blue-blood ones and those of stage, screen and sportsfield — swoon like schoolgirls when they meet him.
The Natal Witness Group |
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17th USENIX Security Symposium Premieres Live Streaming for Greater Accessibility
The 17th USENIX Security Symposium, http://www.usenix.org/events/sec08/, taking place July 28-Aug. 1 in San Jose, once again delivers a top-notch conference agenda that covers the spectrum of today's most pressing security challenges, including a keynote address delivered by Debra Bowen, California Secretary of State, and talks by security experts from companies including Google and VMware.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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Cable Operators to Join Fight vs. Online Child Porn
National Cable & Telecommunications Association members team up with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, National Association of State Attorneys General.
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Preview The New ESRI ArcGIS 9.3 Software In A Web Seminar
Replete with enhancements, ESRI's new ArcGIS 9.3 software will help people using a geographic information system (GIS) accomplish more than ever before: manage spatial information more efficiently, perform better geospatial analysis, and serve maps and other information to the Web or intranet more swiftly. A no-cost Web seminar will update ESRI software users on these improvements and inform ...
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Yahoo Will Sell to Microsoft for $33 Per Share
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company will sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per share or more. Arnold reviewed the meat of the letter, so readers don’t have to run through it all themselves, but we wanted to focus on this phrase in the letter : … we [...]
Search Engine Journal |
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Markey to NebuAd: "When did you stop beating the consumer?"
The US House of Representatives' subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet held a hearing to look at the privacy implications of deep packet inspection, only to find out that Internet privacy can be a hard thing to define. Read More...
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Some Consumers Get a Break With State Tax Holidays, CCH Says
Back-to-school shopping will be tax-free for a few days this August in thirteen states and the District of Columbia, according to CCH, a Wolters Kluwer business and a leading provider of tax, accounting and audit information, software and services .
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Cuba To Get High-Speed Internet In 2010
The undersea fiber optic cable being built from Venezuela to Cuba represents a departure from prior Cuban policy impeding Internet access.
InformationWeek |
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Amazon.com Will Stream The Movie Right To Your TV
Amazon.com introduced streaming video capabilities to customers who want to avoid the video store.
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Eds: UPDATES throughout with additional background, quotes. ADDS byline, Internet note.
Hays Daily News |
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eMusic going Web 2.0
Sometimes lost in the hubbub about new MP3 stores, eMusic has been selling DRM-free MP3s for years, and is about to get a facelift.
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