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Linked by Stephen Reilly on Mon 12th Mar 2007 17:47 UTC
I have been both a Windows and Linux user for a long time (I started with Windows 3.1 and RedHat 5.1 kernel 2.0.x if I recall correctly) and have stuck with both for various reasons.
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Govt eyes music download levy
Internet users who choose to download music could pay a £30 annual charge, under new plans being formulated by the government.
Politics.co.uk via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 28th Mar 2006 21:49 UTC
"Theo de Raadt is the project leader for OpenBSD, a Unix-like operating system. We spoke with Theo about the upcoming release of OpenBSD, 3.9, the financial state of the project, and about companies that profit from free software without contributing back."
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Half a million people had communications monitored
Communications service providers (CSPs) were required to produce internet traffic data and telephone bill data on nearly half a million customers during 2007.
VNU Net via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News |
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Recent Original Stories
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 12th Sep 2006 13:51 UTC, submitted by Tyr. "The difficulties in developing Vista stemmed from its monolithic structure and the need for 'backwards compatibility', ie ensuring that software used by customers on older versions of Windows will work under Vista.
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Recent Original Stories
"Software giant Microsoft has named the day that Windows 98 and Millennium users will no longer have support. On July 11, the two operating systems will have their final breakfast before being wiped from Vole's support brain.
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Analysts familiar with Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Project Indiana say that as early as this week
the company could reveal plans to revamp the OpenSolaris operating system by incorporating key pieces of Linux software. And you know, ever thought that maybe I don't want to get rid of my WHOLE computer/laptop simply so I can run Photoshop?
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For McCain, Net deficit with young
Justin York is a 20-year-old college junior from suburban Orlando who has 848 friends on Facebook. In his free time, he can be found listening to his iPod, scaling an indoor rock-climbing wall, hiking with his girlfriend, or organizing for his favorite presidential candidate - John McCain.
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Microsoft's online woes hint at larger vulnerability
Microsoft has built its massive software business by watching other companies take the lead in emerging technology markets and then following fast with competitive products that eventually become dominant once those markets begin to pay out.
Macworld UK |
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Billionaires to help curb smoking
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates pledged $375 million ($NZ503 million) to fight what they called a global tobacco epidemic.
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Google opens doors to Knol
Google has launched Knol , its user-generated online encyclopedia, which it announced in December but had kept under wraps in private testing.
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EMC sales, net surge in 2nd Q
EMC Corp., the world's largest storage-computer maker, surged the most in almost six years after increasing its 2008 sales goal and reporting profit that exceeded analysts' estimates.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Google opens its online encyclopedia to all users
Google is taking the wraps off an Internet encyclopedia designed to give people a chance to show off - and profit from - their expertise on any topic.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Microsoft
Microsoft has said that it is "not focused" on competing with Valve's Steam digital distribution and community service for PC. "We're not focused on how we compete with Steam.
gamesindustry.biz |
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Bankstown Council streamlines their IT with Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008
Yesterday Toshiba unveiled its new line-up of consumer and business notebooks, with an ultramobile prototype stealing the show. This Toshiba ‘proof of concept’ is an ultraportable device with a 5.6in screen.
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ISPs warn customers over illegal downloads
Top broadband suppliers to announce BPI deal Six of the UK's largest ISPs are set to announce today that they've signed up to a government-backed initiative that's designed to clamp down on music piracy.
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Oki Electric Industry launches Polluxstar text-to-speech software - Quick Facts
(RTTNews) - Thursday, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. (OKIEF.PK) said it launched Polluxstar, a text-to-speech, or TTS, software that enables reproduction of a user's real voice complete with that individual's unique intonations and tones.
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Lexar Media Ships Ballistix DDR3 Kits
Lexar Media, probably best known for its flash memory devices, has launched the Crucial Ballistix PC3-10600 (DDR3-1333MHz) and PC3-14400 (DDR3-1800MHz) high-performance memory modules. Pitched at gaming nutjobs, these new modules expand on the company's Crucial ...
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Internet piracy deal will target parents
LONDON (Reuters) - Six of the biggest Internet providers have agreed a plan to tackle piracy within the music and film industries, pledging to send warning letters to users suspected of illegal file-sharing.
Reuters.co.uk |
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Google unfurls less laughable Wikipedia
Google has unleashed its Wikipedia killer, an anyone-can-edit online encyclopedia it insists on calling Knol.
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ROCHDALE-based business Zen Internet has plenty to celebrate at the moment. The independently-owned internet service provider has just moved into new offices and has been voted the UK’s best broadband provider.
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The aim of the Kimono project on KDE is to write a complete wrapper for KDE/Qt using the Mono framework and is based on early work by KDE bindings hacker Richard Dale. Kimono uses KaXul, a fully XML-based representation of the UI, the Dot reports . However, the changes made to KDE in preparation for Kimono has left the other binding effort, Qt# , orphaned with a dead dependancy: QtC.
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Gates, Bloomberg pool riches to fight smoking
NEW YORK -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg are pooling their piles of money to pour $375 million into a global effort to cut smoking.
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Venture capital eyes Chinese software sector
Alibaba Group, the largest e-commerce trading company in China specializing in global trading, announced it has established the "Investors' Alliance" in association with 20 domestic and overseas venture capital (VC) firms, targeting China's software market, the China Business News reported today.
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Digital ink: A pen that computes
As a former and now a recovering contributor to the Times-Standard blogs, I offer this gem from my next-to-the-last posting: This is a story about the greatest tech tool ever.
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