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"Linux has a large amount of device drivers for hardware not supported on FreeBSD, especially USB devices. Not rarely, such drivers have been written based on information derived by protocol sniffing, reverse engineering and the like.
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Recycling Event Aims For TVs, Electronics
Hundreds of people in Kansas City gave away their TVs and electronics as part of a recycling event on Sunday. With the FCC mandatory conversion from analog to digital looming, many used the opportunity to ditch their old TV and upgrade. The event, hosted by WM Recycling, Nebraska Furniture Mart and Sony, allowed experts to recycle valuable parts worth saving.
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Ahmedabad blasts: No leads from Mumbai flat raid
Twenty-four hours after the police zeroed in on the posh Navi Mumbai apartment from where the Ahmedabad terror email was sent, a breakthrough remained elusive.
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Birthday bash, reunions kept the week hoppin'
What with cell phones and the Internet, it's almost impossible to keep a secret these days. But leave it to longtime interior design maven Betty Buck to do just that.
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AOL shutting down 3 services to cut costs
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) 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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Islamic Group Claims Responsibility for India Bombings
AHMADABAD, India — An obscure Islamic group claimed responsibility for a series of synchronized explosions that killed at least 45 people in western India, warning of "the terror of Death" in an e-mail sent to several television stations minutes before the blasts. Another unexploded bomb was found and defused early today, the city's police commissioner, O.P. Mathur, said. He said police had ...
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China's online population soars to 253m, overtakes US
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) China's fast-growing population of internet users has surpassed the US to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online at the end of June, the government said.
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Samsung's Q2 net profit surges on strong mobile, LCD sales
(Associated Press via NewsEdge) South Korea's Samsung Electronics said that second-quarter net profit grew 51% compared with the same quarter last year led by its liquid crystal display and mobile phone businesses.
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New Whitney Houston Song Leaked on Internet
Whitney Houston says it all in a new track making the rounds online. "I want you to love me like I never left," the legendary songbird trills in the aptly titled "Like I...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 19th Feb 2007 22:38 UTC
"D-Wave Systems has presented us with the perfect quantum conundrum. On Tuesday and Thursday, they presented their 16-qubit adiabatic quantum computer to the world. However, details were scarce, leaving us in the superposition of both believing and disbelieving their claims.
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Recent Original Stories
A review of one month's use of Mandriva Linux 2007 Spring on a Toshiba Satellite 2410, by Sam Bailey: " For the last month (and a bit) I've been running Mandriva 2007.1 Spring PowerPack on my Toshiba Satellite 2410. To avoid people having to skip to the conclusion, I'm sticking with Mandriva Linux Spring on my laptop permanently!
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Linked by Andrew Youll on Sat 4th Feb 2006 14:13 UTC
ATI Technologies said Friday it had employed technologies originally designed to reduce energy consumption of graphics processors for notebooks to trim power hunger of high-end desktop graphics cards, such as Radeon X1800 or more advanced.
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Japan Hot Stocks-NGK, Nippon Elec Glass, NTT DoCoMo, Yahoo Japan
TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) - The benchmark Nikkei average <.N225> rose 0.8 percent and the broader TOPIX <.TOPX> also gained 0.8 percent as of 0123 GMT on Monday.
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A Means for Publishers to Put a Newspaper in Your Pocket
Verve Wireless believes it can save the dying local newspaper by making it mobile.
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LG Display to cut output by 10pc in downturn
LG Display Co Ltd, the world's No 2 maker of liquid crystal display (LCD) screens, says it will cut its panel output by around 10 percent until August because of weakening global demand.
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IPv6… Unstoppable Road to Hyperconnectivity: Blame It On Opiates!
Some think IPv6 with its myriad addresses will accelerate the evolution of a hyperconnected world. But could a world where everything and everybody is sensed, monitored, located, to augment our quasi real-time interaction with the world outside our little selves, lead to total dependency, if not to gradual stupidity of the human race? Not surprisingly, a favourite topic for (late night) Internet ...
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 11th Oct 2006 21:34 UTC
"A desktop full of handy widgets to tell you about what's going on in the world and what's going on around your computer. This is Jackfield . Jackfield is an application for the Gnome desktop that plays host to widgets; small applications to do the things you need.
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Japan Hot Stocks-Nippon Elec Glass, NTT DoCoMo, Yahoo Japan
TOKYO, July 28 (Reuters) - The benchmark Nikkei average <.N225> rose 0.6 percent and the broader TOPIX <.TOPX> gained 0.7 percent as of 0054 GMT on Monday.
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NZ host to internet safety conference
The first ever International conference about safety online is being held in Queenstown this week. The conference, which began on Monday and runs for three days, hosts international experts from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia.
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Gates' foundation aids smoking ban for Games
The retired co-founder of computer giant Microsoft, Bill Gates, has earmarked $130,000 from his foundation to support a "smoke-free Olympics". "Awareness of the disease burden that smoking causes is not very widespread.
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Extremists claim responsibility for India blasts
AHMADABAD, India (AP) -- An obscure Islamic militant group warning of "the terror of Death" claimed responsibility for bombings that killed at least 45 people and authorities stepped up security Sunday after India's second series of blasts in two days.
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Recent Original Stories
In the latest episode of LugRadio , Eric S. Raymond suggests that the Linux community need to start integrating more proprietary software in order to get market share.
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Apple has given warning that it could be removed from the highly regarded Nasdaq Global Select Market , as the maker of iPod and Macintosh acknowledged for the first time that it was the subject of a federal investigation into its stock option practices.
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When Mac sales dropped off in 1985, Bill Gates personally wrote John Sculley suggesting that he license the Macintosh design to companies like Apollo, DEC and Wang, and establish the software as the industry standard. Apple declined, and Microsoft published Windows.
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Ya Heard Blog: Monica Throws Verbal Darts At Beyonce? Plus, Is Jacki-O Behind The Ricky Ross Leaks?
Written By SOHH Streetz [Ya Heard is SOHH.com's official Gossip & Rumor Blog] Did Monica throw shots at Beyonce and Jay-Z? And I've heard about f*cking for tracks, but what's this about Jacki-O having to f*ck for her paycheck??
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