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Triad Residents Recycle Old Computers, Electronics
People across the Triad go to Winston-Salem to drop off old computers, laptops and other electronics as part of the Dell Community Green Day.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 31st Oct 2006 21:10 UTC
"The simple question 'what's wrong with software patents?' stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Aug 2007 22:21 UTC
A curious network performance reduction noticed by many Windows Vista users of the 2CPU forum that became the talk of Slashdot last week has been identified as having been caused not by DRM, as Slashdot users expected, but by a curious prioritization 'feature' of Vista that's intentionally biased toward Media Player at the expense of network and system resources.
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Recent Original Stories
Linux Format has an interview with Bruce Perens . Having founded the Open Source Initiative and Linux Standards Base, Perens is a well-known spokesperson for the Free software community, and in this interview he discusses the problems with his UserLinux project, the rise of Ubuntu, and why figureheads are still important in the open source world.
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Recent Original Stories
"When we launched Windows Vista in January 2007, we identified Windows Ultimate Extras as a unique series of add-ons that would be available to Windows Vista Ultimate customers.
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JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む
From MSI Computer comes this 1-kg mini laptop computer Wind Notebook U100 for the Japanese market. The U100 features the Japanese Windows XP Home Edition, Intel’s Atom CPU and 10-inch display.
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Going for a bike ride? Check the Web first
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AP) -- With the old gas-guzzler in the garage, you've got your bicycle ready and your sneakers laced up. Now all you need is a map of the quickest, safest routes for riding around town. Well, not so fast.
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16 bombs hit India's Ahmedabad, 29 killed
AHMEDABAD - AT least 16 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 88, a day after another set of blasts in the country's IT hub, officials said.
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posted by Zach Levin on Mon 9th Aug 2004 18:28 UTC
Quite frankly, I got fed up with my Windows XP. Everything was wrong with it - security, stability, and price. So, I took a new step in my computer experience and tried going Linux.
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We seek investors now
The Internet's ability to change the dynamics of business infrastructure and to have a dramatic impact on improving Chinese people's daily lives means that Internet companies in China stand to control much of Chinas future economy.
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Recent Original Stories
Pier Luigi Fiorini is the lead developer of Mockup . Mockup is an open source effort to create a modern desktop operating system. It is based on Linux 2.6 and supports native POSIX threading, hardware detection, automatic device creation and automatic network configuration.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 4th Nov 2006 21:56 UTC
Some interesting bits of his blog entry in which De Icaza replies to emails he has received concerning the Novell-Microsoft deal : "I do not know of any patents which Mono infringes. (...)
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Get real, we are living in a fake world 27 Jul 2008, 0043 hrs IST, Shashi Tharoor
We've all received those ubiquitous emails in our in-box, though mercifully most of them these days are caught by our spam filters.
The Times of India |
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Broadband Said to Hit 77% of US Households by 2012
Only about half of Americans have broadband now, but Gartner expects a speed boost soon.
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DNS Cache Poisoning Opens Doors for Internet Criminals
A new Internet threat dubbed DNS Cache Poisoning might allow hackers to redirect you to a malicious site without your knowledge, or consent. The electronic universe seems to get more dangerous all the time. A new systems vulnerability called DNS Cache Poisoning might allow an Internet bad guy (or gal) to redirect you to a malicious site without your knowledge. In the majority of instances, ...
Blogcritics.org |
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Give Vista Another Chance
Analysis: Upgrading to a new operating system is a traumatic experience, but you'll get used to Vista.
PC World |
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Dream ticket
my friend Ian, I have been eager to visit Arran. A year or so ago, Ian took redundancy and announced he would be relocating to Arran where he planned to set up a butterfly farm. There, he insisted, the butterflies would multiply like Microsoft millions and visitors would flock to look at them.
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For sale on the web: your identity ... for just 10p
details are being sold to the highest bidder on websites run by Russian organised crime gangs. A Sunday Herald investigation has uncovered a network of secret internet sites used to trade the identities of unsuspecting victims.
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In a series of articles ( part I , part II ) during the month of July,
OfB's Timothy R. Butler explained why he felt that KDE needed to move beyond the Qt toolkit it uses as a foundation. In that series, he asserted that the licensing of Qt is becoming a stumbling block to the desktop's adoption.
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Text messaging unlimited in TitleTown voting
Internet voting in ESPN’s TitleTown USA contest has been limited to one vote per computer. But text messaging is a different story.
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Recent Original Stories
After years of being relegated to server racks and the desktops of ultrageeks, Linux is finally making some headway as a viable alternative to Windows on the consumer desktop. That's the optimistic message delivered by a newly energized contingent of Linux proponents.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Feb 2006 22:03 UTC
"Windows Vista will eventually sport what has been called a 'sidebar' - a kind of taskbar-like user interface element designed to sit on the right or left side of a display and offer 'heads-up' information on a customizable basis.
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 8th Apr 2008 07:51 UTC
Each of the four writers is positive that his operating system is the best and will try his hardest to convince you of that -- and is not above taking a few swipes at the competition.
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How Dell Is Making Ubuntu Linux More Attractive
CWmike writes "Dell was the first of the major computer manufacturers to support pre-installed Linux, but it's not just pre-installing Linux. The Austin, Tex. company is also adding functionality to Ubuntu Linux on its desktops and laptops, writes Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. It began by adding DVD-playback to its systems shipping with Ubuntu 7.10. With the recent release of Dell PCs with Ubuntu ...
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Im using an IBM laptop R60e as the meda server [wireless]
Any one been using this on the PS3. I managed to get it working as media server for now, but ive had a few issues. Some video files dont play, but others of the same avi format play fine.
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