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UNITED STATES INTERNET AOL to close three data-storage services
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Professor's dying message inspired millions
The Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose "Last Lecture" became a worldwide sensation died early Friday of pancreatic cancer. He was 47.
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AOL to Close Three Internet Data Sites
AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet?s earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities.
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Microsoft released several updates to Windows Vista Monday, the day before the new operating system debuted for consumers and landed on retail shelves. None of the updates were security fixes.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Sep 2006 13:59 UTC, submitted by anonymous
In a move that some may have sensed was coming, Eric S. Raymond - one of the co-founders of the open-source movement - has joined the Freespire Leadership Board . Raymond believes desktop Linux is entering into a critical period, noting that historically, users have shifted operating systems during periods of fundamental changes in hardware platforms.
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Sunday night NFL games to stream online
Partnering with the NFL will be NBC, which broadcasts the league's games on Sunday nights. NBC will make its television feed -- including Al Michaels' play-by-play and John Madden's color commentary -- available on the websites of both the network and league.
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Software Group Contemplates Suing eBay
The SIIA is frustrated with eBay because so much pirated software is sold on the site that the group can't identify all the offenders.
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Trenton man robbed of computer, phone
TRENTON -- Two city residents were arrested yesterday on charges of possession and distribution of illegal drugs including heroin.
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Can TSYS grow?
Credit-card processor TSYS finds itself at a crossroads, having mastered a maturing U.S. market and now casting its eyes to undeveloped territory overseas.
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Nude Photos Traded For Video Game Pts.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Child predators offering game points in exchange for nude images through Internet-connected video games have prompted a warning for parents.
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Postal station open at Vero Beach's Computer Limits
A new contract postal unit has been opened at Computer Limits, 518 21st St., Vero Beach, and offers a full line of postal produces and services, such as priority mail and stamps.
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Illegal garbage growing problem
City bylaw enforcement officers are being kept busy with calls about piles of garbage illegally being dumped around the city.So far this year, they've responded to about 80 complaints, according to bylaw services manager Ken Craig.Many complaints involve grass clippings and other types of yard waste, but also a fair share of household junk, such as old computers and unwanted clothing. ...
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Georgia College Student Accused of Hacking School Computer
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (MyFOX Atlanta) – A college student was behind bars Friday night, accused of stealing his professor's identity to change his grades.
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More stolen metal making its way to recycling centers
As the price of metal continues to soar, thieves are trying to cash in on scrap metal. But a crackdown in Charlotte County is making it much tougher for them to get away with it. In fact, law enforcement officers have already arrested three people in the last two days.
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"There is one huge difference between the free and non-free software that has some very practical implications in the way we use it. One of those implications are the dependencies between single software packages in the free software model.
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by djangoxl (2.04) on Mon 4th Jun 2007 17:14 UTC
Well, maybe I shouldn't care because I'm mainly a BSD user (with two Debian boxes around), but why would these Linux companies work together with Microsoft?
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The Sad Truth About Pancreatic Cancer
Nearly 35,000 people will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year and nearly all of them will die. Sadly, one of those patients is a woman we introduced you to a few weeks ago. And the professor from the East Coast who became an internet sensation with his inspirational "last lecture" also passed away from pancreatic cancer. FOX 31's Deborah Takahara has more information on this deadly ...
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Microsoft Research Hits on Google’s Page Rank
“The more visits of the page made by the users and the longer time periods spent by the users on the page, the more likely the page is important. We can leverage hundreds of millions of users’ implicit voting on page importance.” And so claims the findings of some Microsoft researchers in partnership with some [...]
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 6th Dec 2006 20:02 UTC, submitted by anonymous
" Mandriva Flash is meant for all those who want to have a complete OS and their personal data handy at all times without the hassle of carrying a laptop around. It is a full workstation, packed with all the latest technologies.
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Adobe sees potential in e-learning
THE local electronic-learning (e-learning) sector is a huge market for Adobe Systems Inc, says its Asia-Pacific education director John Treloar. E-learning is the delivery of learning, training or education programmes via electronic means.
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This Week's Best Posts [Highlights]
If any of Lifehacker's best posts this week passed you by, catch up with a quick recap: Jailbreak iPhone 2.0 with PwnageTool "When you don't want to depend solely on the official App Store to get...
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ProcessQuickLink Makes It Easy to Find Out What a Process Does [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free application ProcessQuickLink adds small icons to the left of every running process in the Windows Task Manager that—when clicked—tell you what that process does. The...
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"DirectX 10 would not work with XP, and that was fine and dandy. It was an honest technical reason why you could not backport DX10 to XP without a major rip and replace operation. Microsoft wasn't going to bend on this one at all."
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Microsoft funded Apache so I am going on vacation next week
Pigs are flying through the cold frozen hell
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:09 UTC
"Here, Jon Schwartz, UAC Architect, and Chris Corio, UAC Technical Program Manager, discuss, in detail, the history of UAC , the architecture and design of UAC, the new security model of Vista (we are all standard users, gone are the days of running as admin by default on Windows), what happens when a UAC security dialog is invoked, how UAC impacts developers, how UAC will evolve, etc."
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