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Valpo man charged with eBay fraud
VALPARAISO -- A Valparaiso man accused of committing theft in the virtual marketplace of eBay has a court date set in the real world.
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Panel leans toward Comcast punishment
WASHINGTON — A majority of members of the Federal Communications Commission have cast votes in favor of punishing Comcast Corp. for blocking subscribers' Internet traffic, an agency official said Friday.
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Recent Original Stories
"In this article, I'll compare Ubuntu 7.04 with the upcoming release of PC-BSD 1.4 . Having used both operating systems extensively, PC-BSD is the one I recommend and the one I install in desktop environments. If you've used Ubuntu before, but haven't tried PC-BSD, give it a try.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 8th Sep 2006 20:54 UTC
Security researchers that carried out a code analysis of popular open source browser Firefox using automated tools, have discovered scores of potential defects and security vulnerabilities despite coming to the conclusion that the software was generally well written . A former Mozilla developer has criticised the methodology of the analysis and said it provides little help in unearthing real ...
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One extraordinary medal, and the price of bravery
The medal, which could be seen in the collectibles section on eBay, was silver, and struck with a maple leaf circled by a laurel wreath. Its simplicity of design spoke to its rarified nature. It was a Canadian Medal of Bravery, the highest such award a Canadian civilian can receive. They are not given out lightly.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 18th Jan 2007 23:42 UTC
Apple may not want the word 'computer' in its title anymore, but it's hard to ignore the impact of the Macintosh on the bottom line . Despite a report of flat shipments, plus all the attention given to the iPod, iPhone and Apple TV in the last month, the Mac had a solid quarter for the period that ended on Dec. 30. Apple reported selling about 1.6 million of its signature product during the ...
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Milpitas man again faces federal obscenity charges
A Milpitas man once dubbed "The Marquis de Cyberspace" has been indicted on federal obscenity charges, including the mail distribution of a bestiality-themed DVD.
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Livedoor founder's fraud conviction upheld
A Japanese appeals court upheld the conviction of a former Internet executive, Takafumi Horie, in a case that has come to symbolize Japanese efforts to deal with white collar crime at startup companies.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 12th Oct 2006 22:45 UTC, submitted by anonymous
Ext3 has become one of the most popular Linux filesystems. However, with hard drives sneaking up on a terabyte, concerns exist that ext3 won't be able to handle 21st-century storage requirements.
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Find loved ones on virtual Vietnam Wall
The Washington Times has partnered with the Internet company Footnote.com on a new project that transforms Washington's Vietnam war memorial wall into an interactive, personal journey on the Web.
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A handful of images for thousands of deaths
If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists, the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the Marines after he posted photos on the Internet of several of them dead has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the U.S. military to control graphic images from the war. ...
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Recent Original Stories
ARSTechnica took a new 64 bit laptop out for a test run using Gentoo Linux. How did it fair? Just that: fair , as it turns out. Lightening fast, but with more cons than pros.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft continues to gain share in the web server market , chipping away at Apache's commanding lead. The number of hostnames on Windows servers grew by 4.5 million, giving Microsoft 29.7% market share, a gain of 4.25% for the month.
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Seagate to provide a half-million gigabytes of storage for Olympics
Dedicated Olympics viewers will get to see more than they've ever seen of the world's most prestigious athletic event this year in Beijing, thanks in part to technology contributed by hometown disk drive maker Seagate Technology.
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Va. professor with cancer whose ‘last lecture' touched millions dies
PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Randy Pausch said obstacles serve a purpose: They “give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation, a best-selling book and a celebration of a life spent achieving his dreams.
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Papers still have power, pizazz
Guess who gets 1.6 billion hits a day? Prior to 1996, if you'd trotted up to someone and said, "Hey, so what have you 'Googled' today?", you would have been met with a blank stare and quite possibly a straight jacket.
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Police say blasts in Indian IT city were 'professional'
BANGALORE, India - Police in India's IT capital Bangalore were on Saturday looking for clues to a professional string of bombings that left one dead and seven wounded.
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`Last Lecture' author dies
The computer scientist assisted El Segundo cancer organization.
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AT&T may challenge Comcast for services
AT&T Inc. announced Friday plans to invest about $400 million over the next several years to bring fiber network upgrades, further broadband deployment and Internet-based technologies to several Alabama communities, including Tuscaloosa.
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Police say blasts in Indian IT city were 'professional'
A forensic experts collects bolts from a blast site in Bangalore. Police in India's IT capital were on Saturday looking for clues to a "professional" string of bombings that left one dead and seven wounded
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Dec 2007 16:27 UTC
Since my Cube could not run Leopard , and I did not have any other Macs, I was unable to delve into Leopard right away. Apple NL was kind enough to fix this problem for us, by generously loaning me a brand new MacBook with Leopard installed so I could review it for OSNews. Read on for the findings.
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Police say bombs used in Bangalore blasts "professionally assembled"
BANGALORE, India : Police in India's IT capital Bangalore were on Saturday looking for clues to a "professional" string of bombings that left one dead and seven wounded.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th Jun 2006 19:19 UTC, submitted by Yadav Ji
"Over the years, I've had a number of people asking me what I believe the problem was with further migration over to Linux by the public at large. To be frank, I don't believe that there is a simple answer to this.
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Judges question feds, Vermont Yankee owners
Federal regulators and the plant's owners testified Thursday about a computer model designed to predict the effects of aging on the plant's piping.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 13th Jul 2006 09:27 UTC, submitted by Eshton Browner
Microsoft revealed a software known as Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs , designed as a stopgap measure that turns older PCs that aren't ready to replace into more modern and secure systems, but in the process also makes them less than full-fledged computers.
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