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Ramallah Schools to Get 1,000 Laptop Computers
The American Task Force on Palestine (ATFP) asked for Israel's help in distributing 1,000 laptop computers to Ramallah schools in order to improve Palestinian children's learning techniques, Ynet reported Sunday.
Palestine Media Center |
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"Seeing" the energy used helps to save it
When Jeffrey Marchant and his wife, Brenda, power up their computer, turn on a light or put the kettle on to boil, they can just about watch their electric bill rise.
Denver Post |
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Security Fix Live
Security Fix blogger Brian Krebs answers your questions about the latest computer security threats and offers ways to protect your personal information.
Washington Post |
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In-home robbery numbers jump up
A man, beaten bloody in his home while robbers took his computer and cell phone; a gun held to a small child's head during another robbery; a woman tied up with T-shirts in her own apartment before being robbed.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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by hollovoid (2) on Tue 7th Mar 2006 02:15 UTC
what ive found about gentoo, is that not every group of maintainers is all that dedicated to thier port. some things suffer behind for many months after other distros have moved on (and this is even on ~x86 so I shudder at what stable is at) and the weakly supported projects keep other things that are stable otherwise hardmasked, because they dont support the old, outdated software that the ...
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Gore speaks to online activists
Last year it was about the candidates. This year it's the climate.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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JULY 20
DAILY BLOTTER ITEM: Fraud: Gillette: A 20-year-old woman listed a motorcycle on the Internet and an overseas buyer sent a $10,000 check, which she took to Wells Fargo. She took $4,600 from the check on Tuesday and wired it back to the buyer with the understanding that it was for shipping purposes.
Gillette News Record |
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SABIS uses Sun Ray in exam halls
SABIS School Network has acquired the Sun Ray solution to outfit it in the examination halls of its schools. Sun Ray installation streamlines the technology for students undertaking exams, replacing PCs with Sun Ray 2 clients on desktops and using the Sun x64 server for the back-end.
AME Info |
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Blotter: Man reports discovering thefts on lunch break
A man went home on his lunch break at 7:41 p.m. Friday and found multiple items missing, according to a police report. Among the missing items were a television, a digital video recorder, a laptop computer, a computer monitor and a web camera — items worth almost $4,000, the report said.
Denton Record-Chronicle |
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Libraries can still experience a success that surprises
RUSTON — The story goes something like this: Libraries are a thing of the past, anachronistic throwbacks to the days before iPods, plasma TVs and the Internet. It turns out that story couldn't be more wrong.
The News-Star |
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New offices take a cue from kids' preschools
It's not true that you must work 80-hour weeks, trash competitors and gouge your customers to get ahead in today's dog-eat-dog business world. Rich Sheridan and his gang of computer programmers and high-tech anthropologists at Menlo Innovations in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The Salt Lake Tribune |
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How to Add Video to Your Web Site
It has never been easier to add videos to a web site or blog - the evolution of cell phones, digital cameras, digital video recorders and other portable recorders allow you to easily record digital videos that can be placed on a web site quite easily.
BellaOnline |
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Pack prez Murphy backs GM, coach in Favre standoff
(Photo/Yahoo Sports) Brett Favre is trying to get his release from Green Bay. MILWAUKEE (AP) – Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy restated his support for general manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy on Friday in the standoff with Brett Favre.
Williamson Daily News |
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Arroyo, Reds snap Mets’ 10-game winning streak
(Photo/Yahoo Sports) Bronson Arroyo got the win in the Reds’ win over the Mets. CINCINNATI (AP) – A whole lot of little things ended the New York Mets' winning streak.
Williamson Daily News |
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Help needed to set up new computer printer
Cape Cod Times |
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Some local candidates more in tune with Web than others
Nationally, 2008 will be known as the year the Internet came of age in modern campaigning. But the era of cyberpolitics is off to a somewhat shaky start in the Third District Commission race in western Sedgwick County. Start with incumbent Tom Winters. Last week, visitors to his site, www.tomwinterscountycommissioner.com , were treated to two small graphic images of the Republican ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Around Livermore by Mark Tarte
LAST MONTH, LIVERMORE LOST A pioneer in the field of computer science. George Anthony Michael died at 82 after a long and full life. In high school, I knew him as the father of a classmate.
Contra Costa Times |
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Family targeted in cyberbullying after Lincoln High investigation
They shared the thrills of winning softball games together, and the disappointments of losing. But now things have soured and become unnerving for 16-year-old Jade McNeely and her family.
Tallahassee Democrat |
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A paperless society? We’re still far from it
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Thirty years ago, as new computing and communications technology started to come to the fore, technology researchers and analysts began to talk confidently about the coming paperless society.
Times Leader |
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Online party photos can affect court cases
Two weeks after Joshua Lipton was charged in a drunken-driving crash that seriously injured a woman, the 20-year-old college junior attended a Halloween party dressed as a prisoner. Pictures from the party showed him in a black-and-white striped shirt and an orange jumpsuit labeled "Jail Bird." In the age of the Internet, it might not be hard to guess what happened to those pictures: Someone ...
The Wichita Eagle |
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Web-initiated harassment of grandma continues
Web postings urging online and telephone harassment of Herald-Zeitung employees appeared Saturday morning on the Internet hours after an article was published describing similar attacks toward a New Braunfels woman.
The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung |
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Top Scoops
Through NATO, working with various Western European intelligence agencies, the CIA set up a network of stay behind “secret armies” which were responsible for dozens of terrorist atrocities across Western Europe over decades.
Scoop.co.nz |
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Recent Original Stories
"Google is experimenting with the open-source version of Sun's Solaris operating system as a possible long-term prelude to replacing its massive global network of Linux servers, according to sources.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 29th Aug 2005 16:27 UTC
A week ago the news got out that Microsoft had approached OSDL for a comperative study between Linux and Windows. OSDL confirmed this, however, they did not provide an answer to Microsoft's request.
OS News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 21st Dec 2006 11:38 UTC
In 2002, both KDE and GNOME released their last major revisions; KDE released KDE 3.0 on 3rd April , while GNOME followed shortly after with GNOME 2.0 on 27th June . For the Linux desktop, therefore, 2002 was an important year.
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