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The FCC on Comcast: Confusion in spades
Good that the FCC found Comcast in the wrong over Web usage. But the FCC still doesn't know its own mind on the more fundamental question at stake here.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 25th Jan 2007 21:04 UTC
"The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.5.6 , a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced, powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Sep 2007 18:40 UTC
Eric S. Raymond writes on his blog: "There's been a lot of debate in the community about how OSI should properly handle Microsoft's planned submission of some of its licenses for OSD certification. That debate has been been going on within OSI, too.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 4th Nov 2005 14:47 UTC
If Microsoft makes good on its self-destructive threat to pull Windows from the South Korean market rather than accede to local damands to un-bundle its proprietary media and IM apps, there's a safe harbour waiting in the form of blanket, country-wide licenses for the OS formerly known as Lindows.
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Hail to the Twitterer
Should the computing habits of a nominee have any bearing at all on his fitness to be commander in chief?
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Internet giant upsets privacy groups
Privacy groups are keeping a close eye on internet giant Google as it prepares to publish images of thousands of Kiwi homes on its Street View website.
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GeekPatrol puts their new cross platform benchmarking tool to work and compares 12 machines
including the new iMacs, PowerMacs, an Athlon64, a P4c, and a Xeon. "The PowerPC G5 is still a good processor. In fact, it's still a great processor. Apple isn't switching to Intel chips because Intel chips perform better, but rather because a G5 would melt through the bottom of a laptop.
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Gateway P-7811 FX gaming laptop coming August 14 for $1499
Filed under: Laptops If you've been waiting for Gateway 's P-7811 FX gaming laptop, the wait is almost over: it will begin shipping August 14, that is, if an open-lipped Best Buy is to be believed. As for specifications, you're looking at an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26GHz, 3MB L2 cache with 1066MHz FSB), PM45 Express chipset, 15-inch WUXGA display at 1920 x 1200, Nvidia GeForce ...
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Recent Original Stories
"Trolltech has released the Qt 4.4.0 technical preview, a pre-release that allows software developers to begin experimenting with the new features that the company has implemented for the next version.
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Firefox to open up to video...but not (yet) the video you want
Firefox is getting video, but it's getting a format that few care about and even fewer will notice.
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Lawmakers Demand info on Web Tracking
A congressional committee wants the nation's largest telecommunications and Internet companies to explain whether they target online advertising based on consumers' search queries and Web surfing habits. More
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Aug 2006 21:49 UTC, submitted by anonymous
DesktopLinux.com has launched its 2006 Desktop Linux survey , asking users of Linux desktops to identify what distributions they use, as well as their choice of windowing environment, web browsers, email clients, and Windows-on-Linux solutions.
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Franklin dismisses township building inspector after child porn arrest
An inspector in the township construction office was fired Friday for "conduct unbecoming a township employee." Robert Scheer, who was arrested in March on a charge of endangering the welfare of a child by printing child pornography off a computer at the office of Fire District No. 1, was dismissed Friday by Township Manager Kenneth W. Daly. Although a Somerset County grand jury had returned a ...
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Recent Original Stories
"This week's release of Ubuntu 7.10 is a significant win for the free software community.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 8th Jan 2006 21:31 UTC
"Familiarity breeds contempt, right? So it stands to reason that anyone who uses a product extensively can find fault with it. I'm no exception - my work requires me to use Mac OS X every day, all day long, and although I am generally thrilled with its capabilities and reliability, some things about it really drive me up the wall."
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African Govts to Start Using Telephones, Computers to Enhance Education
APA-Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) Several African governments have turned to mobile telephones and computers to mitigate the effects of teacher shortage they are facing, APA learns here Saturday.
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Rogers Bans Some Existing Customers From Buying iPhones
As we've pointed out many times before , Rogers boasts an exceptional brand of contempt for its non-business wireless customers, but the launch of Apple's desperately anticipated iPhone has exposed a whole set of new lows for the Toronto-based company.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 4th May 2006 20:05 UTC, submitted by Paul
Linux.com takes a look at Dropline GNOME 2.14 , and concludes: "I have to admit that dropline GNOME satisfies a very basic itch. I get to keep using Slackware, a distribution I have come to rely on to provide a fast, stable, and full-featured Linux, and I get a cutting-edge GNOME desktop.
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New Results Contradict Long-Held Chemistry Dogma
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers have found that the long-held belief that only the outer, valence, electrons of an atom interact may be false. Computer simulations have shown that at pressures like those in the center of the Earth the inner, core, electrons of lithium also interact." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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College Teacher Shows Students How To Be Hackers
George Ledin teaches students how to write viruses, and it makes computer-security software firms sick.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 16th Dec 2007 14:24 UTC
"All promised features were cut from Vista." This is a commonly heard complaint about Windows Vista on the internet. While there certainly is a lot to complain about when it comes to Windows Vista, the mythical 'cancelled features' certainly is not one of them. Let me explain why.
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FCC: Comcast should not have blocked users
Comcast should not have blocked several of the U.S. cable group's customers from using file-sharing technology, the Federal Communications Commission says.The federal agency voted 3-2 Friday against Comcast regarding its attempts to limit illegal file-sharing by blocking certain customers and allegedly attempting to interfere with online video sites' operations, the Los Angeles Times reported ...
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Missing foster child found this past week
HONOLULU - A child previously listed on the Department of Human Services (DHS) Missing Children Web site was reported found this past week. DHS Director Lillian Koller requests the public's help in finding children who are still missing.
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Billboard.com -- Radiohead Rocks Lollapalooza Day One
Radiohead capped off a hot Day One last night (Aug. 1) at the Lollapalooza music festival at Chicago's Grant Park, drawing most heavily from "The Bends," "OK Computer" and the newest "In Rainbows." A packed sea of 75,000 fans, which fanned out hundreds of yards from the stage, sang along to tracks like manic "The National Anthem," lullaby-ish "No Surprises," "There There," "Bodysnatchers" and ...
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Man's Name Blocks Internet Service
Weekend Edition Saturday , August 2, 2008 ยท Scott Simon reflects on a man whose last name made it difficult for him to upgrade his Internet service. Dr. Herman Libshitz says Verizon told him his service couldn't be installed because his name contains the s-word.
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