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Harassing calls more sinister than pool flyer
New Braunfels woman Mary Alice Altorfer became the center of an Internet and media furor this week when she complained to police that her biracial grandchildren were being victimized by a flyer posted at her neighborhood swimming pool.
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High court upholds conviction of local online sex offender
LEWISTON - Maine's highest court has upheld a Lewiston man's conviction for arranging to meet a 13-year-old for sex in a police sting operation set up by a civilian watchdog group.
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MILLER PULLS A YAHOO! SWITCH
The wacky boardroom brawl over Yahoo! has spilled over into a fight between two of its biggest investors - Carl Icahn and Bill Miller. Fund manager Miller, of Legg Mason, yesterday threw the first public punch against Icahn by switching sides to...
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Project puts Charlestown on information superhighway
The city of Charlestown has been selected as one of nine Indiana communities where a limited number of households will receive free high-speed Internet service.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 15th Jun 2007 12:11 UTC
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its upcoming Windows Home Server product; a sort of beefed up NAS based on Windows Server 2003 SP2. A few days ago, Microsoft released the first release candidate for Windows Home Server, and since I was admitted into the beta program, I downloaded this release and transformed my trusty desktop x86 into a Home Server.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Sep 2006 18:00 UTC
Jerome 'Korli' Duval has adapted Haiku's MESA-based OpenGL subsystem to an addon format , allowing renderers to be plugged in, with the first one being a MESA software renderer.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 12th Apr 2006 18:30 UTC
Will the delay in Microsoft's Windows Vista have a domino effect on other planned releases of Windows ? Partner sources close to the company said that Microsoft has sketched out plans for Windows 'Fiji' (also referred to by some Microsoft watchers as Vista R2) - the version of Windows set to follow Vista - as for Windows 'Vienna', the successor to Fiji, partner sources close to the company said.
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Recent Original Stories
Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about these small laptops (sorry, I don't participate in the hype of calling them netbooks or whatever) - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC. Just like Xandros with the Eee, Mandriva is providing the operating system for the upcoming GDium system, produced by Emtec . The first GDium will be a netbook with a 10", 1024x600 ...
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Area Calendar
View all items at www.bdtonline.com. BASTIAN, Va. — The Bland County Little League will host its first Goodfield Skills Camp on July 28-31 at the Bland Little League fields.
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Recent Original Stories
"I first demoed Versora Progression Desktop at LinuxWorld Boston in February of 2005, and was impressed by what it could do. Basically it takes all of your essential data and program settings (and even some decidedly nonessential settings) and transfers them to GNU/Linux.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Jul 2005 17:35 UTC, submitted by PapaPitufo
Asa Dotzler, from the Mozilla foundation, has just written an interesting analysis describing why Linux is not ready for desktops yet, and suggests four main categories that must be addressed to improve this.
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Recent Original Stories
Lately it's hard to avoid the buzz about these small laptops (sorry, I don't participate in the hype of calling them netbooks or whatever) - the small, cheap laptop systems that were popularized by the Asus Eee PC. Just like Xandros with the Eee, Mandriva is providing the operating system for the upcoming GDium system, produced by Emtec . The first GDium will be a netbook with a 10", 1024x600 ...
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Inca Son jury to continue deliberations
WESTBORO - The alleged victim of an indecent assault by a world-renowned Peruvian folk singer testified yesterday that she "froze up" after the 47-year-old man accosted her in the family computer room.
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Obama visits Afghanistan
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan, an unnanounced-but-somewhat-expected stop on a planned Middle East trip this week, the Associated Press is reporting. For more on the visit, check our sister blog, USA TODAY On Politics.
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The Web site coldhardfootballfacts.com provides an edge to NFL reporting that is much needed, writes The Plain ...
Im a CHFF-oholic. Help me. I try to put the most en tertaining and provocative pro football Web site around, coldhardfootballfacts.com, out of mind. I can't.
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The Web site coldhardfootballfacts.com provides an edge to NFL reporting that is much needed, writes The Plain ...
Im a CHFF-oholic. Help me. I try to put the most en tertaining and provocative pro football Web site around, coldhardfootballfacts.com, out of mind. I can't.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 24th Nov 2006 11:29 UTC, submitted by Kenasai
Consumers cannot run home versions of Windows Vista as virtual machines because virtualization is not mature enough for broad adoption, says Microsoft.
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Recent Original Stories
"Buried in a Knowledge Base article that Microsoft published to the Web on November 14 are details of Microsoft's plans to combat Office 2007 piracy via new Office Genuine Advantage lockdowns.
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Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users' knowledge
, even when the users have turned off auto-updates. Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses in this situation are objecting to the stealth patching.
OS News |
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Yahoo's biggest investors
YAHOO'S BIGGEST OWNERS Yahoo co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang are among its 10 largest shareholders, along with Carl Icahn, who is seeking to replace Yahoo's board.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Major investor backs Yahoo
A new actor took center stage Friday in one of the most unusual takeover dramas in Silicon Valley history with a message for Microsoft: Show me the money.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Major investor backs Yahoo
A new actor took center stage Friday in one of the most unusual takeover dramas in Silicon Valley history with a message for Microsoft: Show me the money.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Charter, Cox agree to block child pornography
State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said Nevada's two largest cable companies have joined a nationwide push to limit access to child pornography on the Internet.
Reno Gazette-Journal |
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DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iraqi al Qaeda-led group, the Islamic State in Iraq, has shot dead five abducted Iraqi army officers and posted a video of the execution-style killings on the Internet on Saturday.
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Online sex predator granted early parole by board
EDMONTON -- An Internet sex predator who approached hundreds of girls before blackmailing two Alberta teens into stripping for him online has been released on day parole. The National Parole Board released Joshua Innes, against the advice of his case management team, less than a year after he was sentenced to nine years in prison for his crimes. The 26-year-old native of Montreal used multiple ...
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