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Calling all problem-solving gamers
Your Microsoft Xbox 360 contracted a bad case of the Red Circle of Death — and you cured it. The copy of Gran Turismo you bought for your Sony PlayStation 2 just didn't look right on your PS3. You used something besides percussive maintenance to fix the stuck “R” button on your Nintendo DS.
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It Takes an Online Village
A D.C. eatery takes shape on the Web by putting the wisdom of crowds to work, or "crowdsourcing."
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Family wanted: Dallas, 10
DALLAS, 10, already knows she wants to take care of children when she grows up. Dallas is a happy girl who likes to ride her bike, play tag and dabble in computer games. When she’s a little older, she’d like to start baby-sitting.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 23:08 UTC
Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones, whose work has centered around the Open XML document format, now says the so-called format war with OpenDocument is officially over . The winner, he says, is both.
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Recent Original Stories
While newly minted Windows head Steven Sinofsky continues to play his cards close to his chest, we're seeing signs that Microsoft is rethinking its monolithic approach to not only the mass-market Windows operating system but the entire family of Windows products from servers down to CE-based embedded devices.
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Recent Original Stories
While I am not about to defend ME (I was a 98SE man, before the move to XP), ME was much better than 95 and 98. And ME still has a life today.
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Popular business directory searches
Network Administrator Needed!! For Motel in Enid. Competitive pay. Apply at NDA, Inc, PO Box 3304 Enid OK 73702 vpm1010@yahoo.com ... >MORE Dolese Bros. Co.
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Yahoo! Music Store Will Compensate Customers For DRM-ed Music [Closing Time]
Yes, Yahoo! Music Store's shutting down their DRM servers, but Big Purple's said that it'll definitely still be taking care of its customers. According to a Yahoo spokesperson, anyone who bought DRM...
Gizmodo |
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Unsecured WLAN networks can bring trouble with the law
Duesseldorf - Computer users who fail to properly secure their wireless local area networks (WLAN) run the risk of getting into trouble with the law. One recent case adjudicated by the District Court of Dusseldorf saw a pensioner convicted of music p...
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Lack of computer security hits 4 million people in Germany
Berlin - Germans no longer think twice about paying the rent or auctioning off an old tennis racquet online. The internet is now part of everyday life for 80 per cent of Germans. But a recent survey by Forsa, an opinion research institute, showed tha...
EARTHtimes.org |
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'Courier service' e-mail scams on the rise
Bonn - Internet users are currently being warned too look out for e-mail messages claiming to be from package courier UPS. The messages, delivered in English and in German, actually originate from hackers, the German Federal Agency for Security in In...
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Computer and internet briefs
Washington - Digital images or video files are fun to send as e-mail attachments, but what can you do if the file size exceeds the attachment limit imposed by your Internet service provider? Try YouSendIt.com (http://www.yousendit.com). Using the ser...
EARTHtimes.org |
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Social networking sites a bonanza for spammers
Berlin - Web sites for career networking are proving a virtual bonanza for cybercriminals. As the users of corresponding social network platforms often reveal many personal details, the pages provide a rich source for spammers to gather data, says Ka...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 3rd Aug 2007 23:10 UTC
"In the past, we've speculated on an early 2008 launch, and according to a recent Redmond Channel Partner Online article , Microsoft could be planning just that . "We're currently planning to deliver SP3 for Windows XP in the first half of CY2008. This date is preliminary, and we don't have any more details to share at this time."
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Daniel Phillips has announced the prototype design of a new linux filesystem
(implementation has only begun). The most interesting thing seems to be a different way of implementing versioning: "Unlike the currently fashionable recursive copy on write designs with one tree root per version, Tux3 stores all its versioning information in the leaves of btrees using the versioned pointer algorithm.
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Family history goes high-tech
Who are you? To answer that question you only need to go as far as the Internet. Members of the Victoria County Genealogical Society spent the day Saturday transforming hundred year old written records into high tech digital files.
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New life for historic track?
Hialeah Park, the star-crossed grand dame of horse racing, has an amorous and wealthy new suitor -- but it may not be mutual. Internet entrepreneur Halsey Minor, who founded CNET.com and last year purchased a 476-acre estate in Colonial Williamsburg for $15.3 million, is interested in buying the shuttered, 220-acre track that once hosted such greats as Sea Biscuit and Citation. He wants to ...
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'Dirty' Scottsdale-based Web site finds success
Nik Richie started dirtyscottsdale.com as a lark.
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Recent Original Stories
Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos said his company's technical and marketing agreement with Microsoft will help increase Linux adoption rates because users will have access to improved technology and won't have to fear lawsuits from Redmond.
OS News |
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Carnival of Healing #148
Today's Carnival of Healing is being hosted at Libido and Heath by Tonie Konig. This is Tonie's second go around hosting our carnival. The focus of Libido and Health Blog...
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This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup]
DropUpload Does Quick Drag-and-Drop FTP (Windows) "Free, open-source application DropUpload is a lightweight FTP client designed to provide simple drag-and-drop file uploads to any folder on your FTP...
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GNOME's Murray Cumming blogging on Jeff Waugh
Get out your popcorn, boys and girls, this is geek soap opera at its finest. "Jeff Waugh is a psychotic failure, obstructive and destructive. He is poisonous people."
OS News |
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Local organizer, other supremacists say Obama's run boosts their cause
The most influential white supremacist Web site in the world - Stormfront.org - has operated for more than a dozen years out of a run-down house near the Intracoastal Waterway in West Palm Beach.
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Recent Original Stories
For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now US Congress is preparing to do precisely the opposite . A proposed copyright law seen by CNET News.com would expand the DMCA's restrictions on software that can bypass copy protections and grant federal police ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Jul 2006 21:08 UTC
In a Q&A , Neelie Kroes, who fined MS for not complying with the EC's antitrust ruling, said: "I regret that the Commission has had to take such a step today, but given Microsoft's continued non-compliance to date, I have been left with no alternative.
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