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Court backs firing of teacher for one-minute peek at porn
MADISON — In a case closely watched by public employees unions, a Wisconsin appeals court today upheld the firing of a teacher who briefly looked at pornography on his work computer.
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Apple 'Product Transition' Chatter Sparks Web Speculation
Popular theories about Apple's "state-of-the-art" product, hinted at Monday, include an update of the MacBook and a multitouch tablet computer.
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Fornication on the Wii is Great for Parties (NSFW) [Wii Sex]
We've seen plenty of naked/half-naked/non-naked ladies playing the Wii, but you can't make a night out of just jubblies on the computer screen—not socially, at least. Dark Room Sex Game is an...
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Virginia Tech's Supercomputing Site Gets InfiniBand Upgrade
Mellanox Technologies adds 40-Gbps interconnects to the university's 29-Tflop computer systems research cluster.
InformationWeek |
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Apple's App Update Mechanism Needs an Update
One of the best parts of the 2.0 software update for the iPhones and iPod touch is its support for third-party software via...
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Merscom and Starz Media to Co-Publish Righteous Kill Game
Merscom announces its first downloadable casual game based on a major theatrical release.
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FarFinder update adds iSight, Spotlight remote access
Flying Mac has updated FarFinder 1.1, with remote Spotlight and iSight support. FarFinder offers an interface similar to the Mac's Finder across multiple operating systems and web browsers. Users can search a Mac from a remote location, running both Finder, and now Spotlight, searches -- all over a secure connection. Version 1.1 adds the Spotlight ...
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SecuTech adds Mac, Linux support to UniKey security
SecuTec has added enhanced Mac OS X and Linux support to its line of UniKey USB dongle-based software protection products. The company says the UniKey line now offers support for "all major operating systems." Using "driverless techology" UniKey HID USB security dongles now work with Power PC and Intel Macs running OS X, as well as most versions o...
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First look at OpenMoko software
— Jul. 14, 2008 — The OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner lives up to its billing as a completely open source, hackable hardware platform, says an Ars Technica first look. Yet that very openness, including its choice of three mobile stacks, adds to the confusion for Linux developers, says the article. ...
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Janz emPC-M
Janza's emPC-M industrial computers use passively cooled Intel Core Duo, Pentium, Celeron, or AMD Geode LX800 CPUs.
Linux Devices |
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Apple prepares iPhone Apps beta program
Apple is preparing to offer a beta-testing program for iPhone applications in its App Store, according to an app developer. The beta program will allow developers to distribute beta versions of their iPhone Apps to registered iPhones for testing, according to TechCrunch. Currently, there is no easy way to put apps on an iPhone other than distributi...
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Review: TextBuyIt fun, easy to use, but limited
TextBuyIt, a recently launched shop-by-cell phone service from Amazon.com Inc., seemed like the ultimate comparison shopping tool _ perfect for an unabashed bargain hunter like myself. As it turns out, TextBuyIt is fun to play with and useful for getting...
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Arrow shares jump as 2Q results beat views
Shares of Arrow Electronics Inc. jumped Wednesday after the electronics and computer products distributor posted better-than-expected profit and sales for its second quarter despite the economic downturn.
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MindTouch Releases MindTouch Deki "Kilen Woods"
MindTouch today announces a new version of its award-winning open source collaboration and collective intelligence platform. MindTouch Deki (formerly Deki Wiki) "Kilen Woods" delivers new workflow capabilities, new enterprise adapters and usability improvements to help information workers, IT professionals, developers and others to collaborate and connect disparate enterprise systems and data ...
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No use crying over spilt vases - Tupou coming up roses
A spilt vase has put Anthony Tupou's budding career as a hip hop producer on hold, with the Sydney Roosters international losing thousands of tunes he had mixed up on his laptop.
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Hands-on with Samsung's new holiday lineup
Filed under: Digital Cameras , Displays We got a gander at Samsung's fancy new tellervisions and other stuff, and while the basic design language hasn't changed a whole ton in recent years, there's always something new going on. We're particularly enthusiastic about the new Series 8 LCDs , which manage a standard complement of ports in 2-inch thick form factors -- none of that ...
Engadget |
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Top 10 Printable Paper Productivity Tools [Lifehacker Top 10]
There's a reason there's still so much paper around in this hyper-connected, everything-online age: the stuff is cheap, portable, compatible with all your applications, and everyone masters the...
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Double Driver Backs Up Your System's Drivers [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Backup utility Double Driver lists all the hardware drivers installed on your system and creates backups of both the actual drivers and lists of the driver names. While handy with any...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 19th Jul 2006 21:16 UTC
"Canonical's Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is an excellent Linux-based operating system - so excellent, in fact, that it not only earned eWEEK Labs' Analyst's Choice designation but has also become our clear favorite among Linux desktop distributions.
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Would You Buy a Touch-Screen MacBook?
Are you an Apple super-fan? ABC News wants to hear from you.
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KuKu Klok Wakes You Up from a Web Browser [Alarms]
KuKu Klok is a pretty straightforward webapp—you set a time for an alarm to go off, you choose a sound to wake up to, and you hit "Set Alarm." Kind of like the Online Alarm Clock, but the neat...
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Otago University forges research partnership with Sun
New Zealand's fledgling "supercomputing" data processing industry could receive a boost through a research partnership between Sun Microsystems and Otago University.
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Windows Search 4.0 Available on Windows Update [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Windows Search 4.0, an updated version of the desktop/web search tool that was introduced with Vista, is now officially available for Windows XP and Vista through Windows Update. As was...
Lifehacker |
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David Sirota
The Uprising: An Unathorized Tour of the Populist Revolt Scaring Wall Street and Washington ... By David Lee Simmons Back then, dot-com celebrations were happening everywhere. From Silicon Valley, to Boston, to Austin, to Portland, to Seattle, the geeky Lambda Lambda Lambda frat brothers from Revenge of the Nerds were suddenly big men on campus, starting new computer companies, swimming in cash ...
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Review: TextBuyIt fun, easy to use, but limited
TextBuyIt, a recently launched shop-by-cell phone service from Amazon.com Inc., seemed like the ultimate comparison shopping tool - perfect for an unabashed bargain hunter like myself.
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