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Carnegie Mellon Professor's Dream-Filled Life Ends At 47
Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well, died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va., of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47.
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AUDIO: UW players, Bielema, more
Note: Internet Explorer users may need to click twi...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 15th May 2007 12:39 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"This week, Microsoft laid out the next chapter in their plans regarding patents and open source Linux software, by going public with the claim that Linux infringes on some 235 of their software patents.
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Google nixing Digg deal? [Rumormonger]
A tipster tells us Google has backed out of talks to buy Digg, the popular news-discussion site fronted by Kevin Rose, the Web-video personality and San Francisco Casanova. There have been hints all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Jackson West, please come home -- all is forgiven [Recap]
Why did I let Jackson West take a vacation? While our associate editor was away, we actually wrote something nice about Gavin Newsom — and he only had to save San Francisco from a rogue IT guy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Glitch delays money to Medicaid providers
TALLAHASSEE - The state of Florida has sent out emergency payments to 5,600 Medicaid providers that haven't been reimbursed in a month because of a computer glitch.
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Oracle looking for programmers -- no experience necessary, or wanted! [Discrimination]
No olds allowed. That's the unspoken HR mantra of Web startups — but the noisomely discriminatory practice seems to be spreading to some of the Valley's largest companies. Valley engineers are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Google hits 1 trillion URLs, skips trillions more [Googletards]
The story isn't that Google has found 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs on the Web. It's that there are many times more that Google's engineers haven't bothered to chase after. Always remember that when... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Police search for victims of scam
Maryland State Police are searching for more victims of an Edgewood man accused of using the credit card accounts of people he met online.
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Updated Taneytown Web site to debut next month
TANEYTOWN — Taneytown’s Web site will undergo a makeover next month. Mayor James L. McCarron Jr. said the Web site was a sore spot for him and said one of the first things he did when he became mayor in May 2007 was to organize a focus group to revamp the site.
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4 schools hold summer classes
ELDERSBURG — Brian Fleming is not interested in history, but he found he could work at his own pace while retaking world history online during the summer.
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Uighur group claims China bus attacks, threatens Olympics
A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring threats by extremists on the Internet said.
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TECH CHRONICLES / A daily dose of postings from The Chronicle's technology blog (sfgate.com/blogs/tech)
China says it has 253 million using Internet - more than U.S. China has surpassed the United States in the number of Internet users, the Chinese government said Friday, showing yet again how rapidly it adopts technology. China Internet Network Information...
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Retired Police Officer's Computer Caricatures Draw Ire
In one, Mayor Rick Baker is wearing a pink dress with a matching pink hat.
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State 'Progressing' On Medicaid Glitch
State workers said Friday that the computer glitches that blocked state Medicaid payments will be identified this week and fixed soon.
The Tampa Tribune |
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Chattanooga: Reshaping the telecom landscape
Within the next couple of years, most Chattanoogans should be able to pick from at least three local providers to get any of their cable television, telephone or high-speed Internet services.
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Don't wait, prepare for digital television conversion now
People with older battery-powered televisions looking for emergency hurricane information probably will just get snow next year.
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Aimee Mann isn't smiling about state of the music business
Aimee Mann isn't laughing. The former leader of Boston's '80s hitmakers 'Til Tuesday believes digital technology and the Internet have stolen her livelihood....
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Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion
mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. To keep up with this ...
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Supposed airline e-mails are bogus, might carry computer virus
MINNEAPOLIS -- Airlines including Northwest and Sun Country are warning people who got e-mails saying they owe the carriers hundreds of dollars for a ticket that the messages are bogus and may contain a computer virus
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Inc.com Blogs: Randy Pausch, "Last Lecture" Professor, Dies
Randy Pausch, the computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon whose last l...
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NFL to stream Sunday-night football games online
The live feeds, which start in September, will bring the nation's most popular TV sport into the digital age. The National Football League, signaling a major shift in strategy, will stream live broadcasts of Sunday-night football games beginning in September, making the contests widely available on the Internet for the first time.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Aug 2007 22:40 UTC, submitted by LinuxFan
Continuing their historical series looking at the early Linux kernels, KernelTrap is discussing the 0.02 and 0.03 kernels released in late 1991. Though the actual source code has been lost to time, the article offers an interesting collection of emails by Linux creator Linus Torvalds about his new operating system, 'for hackers by a hacker.'
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Recent Original Stories
"This post comes at the convergence of a number of events. First, there was the story on OSNews titled ' Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst ?' That generated a number of responses, one of them from Aaron J. Seigo.
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This is a test airlines article
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