Windows Codename Fiji, next OS for Micrsoft?

Just when you thought windows Vista would be the last and final blow from Microsoft....there comes a new windows operating system called :Codename Fiji

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Ultimate Web Designers Resource

Has XHTML, PHP, FLASH, AJAX and many more resources. Definitely worth a look at this site.

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Net Neutrality Video from Public Knowledge

Do you care about your freedom to surf wherever you want to on your current service provider? If yes then be aware what your service provider could do or is already doing to limit or cut off your access to certain sites.

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Ben Goodger justifies why Firefox 2.0 is still worth the 2.0 without Places

A recent front page Digg story complained about Mozilla removing Places from Firefox 2.0. Ben Goodger explains all the good stuff that Ff 2.0 *WILL* have.

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Stephen Colbert at the White House

Colbert preformed last night at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. His jokes were hilarious, yet the room full of old white men don't seem to be laughing. The best part- he's standing like 5 feet away from the president and he's totally scathing. Link to torrent.

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Firefox Extension - Download videos from Youtube and other 60 sites !

VideoDownloader add a small icon on the status bar. Just click that and download the video you are watching ! Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion... and other 60+ video sites ! AND all embedded objects on any webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc) ! Directly ! Example: http://videodownloader.net/help/vd04.htm

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Apple interesting in porting Solaris' ZFS

According to the zfs-discuss mailing list, Apple is interesting in porting Solaris' new (and rather advanced) filesystem, ZFS, to Mac OS X. ZFS features include a pooled storage model, protection from data corruption, fast backup/restore/snapshots/clones, built in compression, and is highly scalable.

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Google's new statistical English-Arabic translator

Google's new statistical learning translator is live for Arabic English translation. The translator learns from billions of words of text from both languages.

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YouTube is now bigger than Flickr

See the graph: People have more fun watching TV than a photo album. Maybe the couch potato just won.

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AMD May Take Intel's Place In The Server Market As Well With IBM!

IBM's top server executive is warming to AMD's Opteron, eyeing the processor's business advantages and the successes Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems have had with it!

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Unbelievable! Verizon is charging Dial-up customers to connect to local ISP

"...Verizon Communications Inc. can charge per-minute fees for calls to local numbers that dial-up users need to connect to the Internet - in much the same way that they charge for long-distance or other calls." So, Verizon can charge non-Verizon Internet users a fee to make LOCAL CALLS - Even if their own Internet service is unavailable.

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Unbelievable! Verizon is charging Dial-up customers to connect to local ISP

"...Verizon Communications Inc. can charge per-minute fees for calls to local numbers that dial-up users need to connect to the Internet - in much the same way that they charge for long-distance or other calls." So, Verizon can charge non-Verizon Internet users a fee to make LOCAL CALLS - Even if their own Internet service is unavailable.

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Speed of light may have changed recently

The speed of light, one of the most sacrosanct of the universal physical constants, may have been lower as recently as two billion years ago - and not in some far corner of the universe, but right here on Earth.

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Wisdom From The Last Living Ninja

Be able to kill your student: chilling words from a shockingly fit 76-year-old man who bills himself as the last living ninja on earth.

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MySpace (Fox) owns ALL rights to everything uploaded by members

According to the article and the "Proprietary Rights in Content on MySpace.com" bit, members' content is basically pwned. I posted a MySpace Bulletin about this, but it never appeared publically so it may have been censored?

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Ubuntu Dapper Beta 2 Released

The Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu teams are proud to present a second
Beta release of Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu 6.06 LTS, codenamed "Dapper
Drake". This release corrects some serious flaws in the installer
present on the Desktop CD in the first Beta release.

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Slashdot Redesign Entries!

The first batch of Slashdot redesigns are in. CmdrTaco posted in his journal of a few he thought were worthy.

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Scientists figure out why we age

Critically, blocking production of this deviant protein corrected all the problems with the nucleus. "You can take these old cells and make them young again," Misteli says.

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Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe

"Adult Piraha apparently can't learn to count or understand the concept of numbers or numerals, even when they asked anthropologists to teach them and have been given basic math lessons for months at a time."

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Goowy Launches Web Chat and Storage Products

Goowy users now have Meebo-like IM funtionality built directly into their Goowy desktop, and 1 GB of free online storage

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Is Yahoo Really competing with TiVo in the DVR market?

Last January Yahoo introduced the brand "Yahoo Go," and spectators were told that the company would be offering interactive video services to the public free of charge. But what's Yahoo!'s real strategy?

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Will Apple buy Adobe?

Cringely makes the case that Apple needs to buy Adobe to secure its future. Apple's got the cash and stock to make it happen...

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Learning the shell.

A good guide for the Linux/Unix newbie and seasoned veteran alike. This teaches you how to effectively use the shell, and give that mouse a rest!

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Mystery disturbance traced to sound wave

A group of local scientists has uncovered some clues to the source of a mysterious disturbance that rattled San Diego County on the morning of April 4, shaking windows, doors and bookcases from the coast to the mountains.

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Nintendo Wii: Virtual Reality

Ever noticed how we've never seen what the people in the Revolution previews are swinging at?

Imagine.

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FANTASTIC Videos about the revolution created by LINUX

3 Great videos about the freedom that Linux creates. Even if you are not a Linux fan the videos are still very well done, especially the first one.

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Live re-enactment of Super Mario Bros.!!

These guys at Gordon College really put some time into making a real life version of everyone's favorite video game. You have to just see this one.

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Apple Discourages Developers from Putting DRM in their Apps

Found in this tech note on Apple Developer Connection: "[Apple Developer Technical Support] does not support developing digital rights management products because of the significant compatibility issues involved that can affect customers."

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Fight Club director discusses making his new movie using Apple's Final Cut

Short video clip of David Fincher talking about shooting and editing with a few looks at his new film Zodiac.

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Introducing Nintendo Wii

Revolution gets an official name. Not much info on this yet, but I for one think that Revolution was a perfectly good name for the system.

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Facebook Goes Beyond College, High School Markets

"Facebook is now allowing new users from corporate networks, in addition to high school and college students..." "...only certain companies are currently supported." You can suggest a New Network for your own company at http://www.facebook.com/help.php?tab=newnetwork&network_type=3

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Dell to intro Linux based notebook

Dell in Europe and Mandriva will introduce a Latitude DX20 laptop using the Linux operating system.

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Apple is working on a media center - confirmed by Steve Jobs

At Apple's sharholder meeting, when asked about a Media Center, Jobs replied with "we hear you loud and clear". Interesting notes of what went down at the meeting.

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Linux version of Democracy Player 'internet TV' released

Democracy Player, the desktop video RSS downloader / viewer is finally available for Linux as of... right now! You can download torrents, search, watch fullscreen, and there's a built-in Channel Guide with more than 400 video feeds.

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Nintendo Wii Q & A With PR Manager Matt Atwood

We still scratched our head, so we spoke with Nintendo of America's Public Relations Manager Matt Atwood to get Nintendo's explanation of what the name was really about.

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When MySpace Members Die

Awesome NY Times article about MySpace accounts serving as online memorials for people who've died. Also mentions MyDeathSpace.com, a site that tallies people with MySpace accounts that have died.

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Top 25 Cities with Most Polluted Air

The American Lung Association released their annual "State of the Air" report today listing cities with the dirtiest air. LA wins again!

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Convert any file to DVD with Linux and Open Source tools.

You've just downloaded the new episode of your favorite video podcast, and you'd like to watch it on your big-screen TV. Unfortunately, the video is encoded in XviD or QuickTime format, which your DVD player doesn't support. Don't worry -- here's how you can convert any video file to DVD using dvdauthor and MPlayer.

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Google Calander Button Generator

This is terrific.

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Google Will Be Expanding Their Video Search

Google is looking to expand its video service to include content hosted outside of its server network.

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Google releases SketchUp free, with pro version

Google SketchUp has just been released for free, with a more powerful Pro version available for $495. SketchUp also introduces new 3D Warehouse to share sketchup models other people have made.

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Google's New Project: Ctemplate

"a library implementing a simple but powerful template language for C++ that emphasizes separating logic from presentation...this is the same code that formats all of the pages for Google's web search."

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Firefox is the first third party product to be featured on Google homepage

If you live in the U.S. and visit Google with Internet Explorer you will find the first third party advertisement on the Google home page. The ad highlights using Firefox along with the Google Toolbar. Looks like Google is stepping up its support for the alternative browser.

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Microsoft Scanning your computer for piracy

The Washington Post is reporting that a recent update by Microsoft is now scanning people's machines to see if they have valid license, and reporting back to Microsoft, all without user intervention.

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Slashdot Finally Getting a Redesign -- and It's Up to You!

Slashdot is sponsoring a contest for a long-needed CSS redesign of their site, with a shiny new laptop for whoever manages to pull it off.

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Linux device drivers for (nearly) everybody

With a bit of C and microprocessors knowledge, this article shows it's possible to write your own device drivers in Linux. It might not be the easiest thing to do, but it's great to see that writing device drivers doesn't require black magic - it's just a matter of talking to the Linux kernel!

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JUST IN: Democrats lose House vote on Net neutrality!

By a 22-to-34 vote, members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee rejected a Democratic backed Net neutrality amendment that also enjoyed support from Internet and software companies including Microsoft, Amazon.com and Google.

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Google Calendar Notifier v1.1 (Firefox Extension) Released!

Whats missing from Google Calendar? Some way to remind you of your personal events while your not looking at it!

The Google Calendar Notifier is an extension for Firefox - that does exactly what it says.

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New Battlefield 2142 Screenshots

See what the new Battlefield 2142 will look like. HardOCP has posted the new screenshots (released today) of the game in their full resolution. Not 56K friendly.

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The oldest living creature on earth, over 200 million years old.

Scientists found a salt crystal and within it contained a droplet of water holding life inside serving as a time capsule for these microbes. Video Inside.

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elevator hacking

yea, make your elevator go straight to your floor without stopping

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Are There X-Men Among Us?

Where are we in the evolution process?

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Monitoring with Google Calendar

Seems like a cool way to do some network monitoring using Google Calendar!

Who the heck thought of this???

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New Group Aims To Save The Internet!

Days before a congressional committee is set to vote on an overhaul of the nation's telecommunications policy, a broad coalition of media, consumer and Internet groups has organized behind a dramatic tagline: "Save the Internet!"

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How to See in the Dark

Human beings cannot see in total darkness and in general, they do not have very good night vision. However, it is possible to improve your ability to see in the dark.

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64 bit Firefox!

This guy uses the Firefox open source code to build 64 bit versions of Firefox for the public! The difference in speed for me is incredible. Also has downloads for Thunderbird 64 bit.

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Google's Most Popular Words Of 2006

"In 2003, I�ve collected the Google page count for over 27,000 words in an English dictionary. I�ve now done the same to update the database."

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How millions of .COM names are used but never paid for.

Many times businesses accidentally let their domain names expire. When they go to renew them, they find they have been snapped up � and taken away with a huge expensive hassle to follow � by an add/drop registrar.

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Amazing Pictures of Manhattan

This guy has some amazing HDR wideangles of Manhattan. Simply... stunning.

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2,760 drives, 500GB each, one huge storage array (1.3 Petabytes)

Fujitsu recently launched what it claims to be the world's largest storage array, the ETERNUS 8000 and ETERNUS 4000 storage arrays. Weighing in at 1.36 petabytes, or 1.36 million gigabytes, the ETERNUS file storage arrays push the envelope for enterprise data storage systems.

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Secret Society of Scientists working for the US Government

This is a really interesting piece about The Jasons

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Firefox 2 Feature Set, Product Requirements and Prioritization

This document sets out the feature set, product requirements and prioritization for the development and release of Firefox 2, code-named "Bon Echo", presently under development with an expected release in Q3 2006.

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Firefox to overtake Internet Explorer by Dec-2007

So it seems that not only has the percentage of Firefox users been increasing for the last 2.5 year but the rate of increase in the percentage of users has also been increasing.

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Revolution: a return to glory?

Is Nintendo's new console the freshest thing to (soon) hit electronic entertainment?
My colleague saw it at TGS. He said he hasn't seen that much laughing and sheer enjoyment with videogames in years.
People laughing, joking and not caring what is going on just for the sheer enjoyment of the playing.

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Google Maps Gets Huge Satellite Data Update from Google Earth

Last Friday Google synchronized the Google Maps data with satellite and aerial photos from the Google Earth database. Now all the recent changes in Google Earth are available to Maps users. Here is the most comprehensive list of the changes.

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Astronomers see the Big Bang in action

Recently, NASA astronomers announced new evidence supporting the Big Bang theory, which states that the universe was once subatomic in size and, in only one trillionth of a second, expanded to astronomical proportions.

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HOWTO: Analyze Commute Data To Save Time Driving

The world is full of traffic and people who hate it. This article analyzes a year of data to determine if minor tweaks to departure times can significantly impact commute length - or if it is all out of the driver's control.

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How to configure a low-cost load-balanced LAMP cluster

"The ubiquitous Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python (LAMP) combination powers many interactive Web sites and projects. It's not at all unusual for demand to exceed the capacity of a single LAMP-powered server over time..."

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The Next Generation Programming Language: D

Like Java because of its nicely structured classes and uncomplicated syntax, but wish it had the power and efficiency of C or C++? Look no further than than D!

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Oracle CEO makes company run on Linux

In this in-depth interview with a senior Oracle executive, it is revealed that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison makes the vendor use Linux internally and denies purchase orders for Sun Microsystems or Hewlett-Packard alternatives.

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iCal for Windows

Ok, its a clone written in .NET, but replicates every single feature of iCal. Efforts are being made to port this application to linux via Mono

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Python on Windows XP: 7 Minutes To "Hello World!"

Instead of being all things to all users, this little how-to assumes the following:

(1) You are a Windows XP user who is curious about computer programming;

(2) You would like to install the Python computer language on your Windows XP machine, start the Python interpreter, and run the classic �Hello World!� program.

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"Amazing", "digg", "revealed": Top 422 digg.com attention grabbing words

The complete list of words that (when used in a story title) get more than 500 diggs per story on average.

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A Flash Based Music Composer

You can submit your composition and listen to other ones. The drum set is so addictive

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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - C++

This is intended for people with little or no programming experience, and is appropriate for first year college or advanced high school students, or anyone interested in learning to program. Under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Advanced Sudoku Strategies

You've probably never heard of the X-Wing, Singles Chains a.k.a Colouring, Open Chain of Sudo, Y-Wing a.k.a XY-Wing, Y-Wing Chain, Remote Pairs, Sword-Fish, Unique Rectangles, or Guardian/Broken Wings.

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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - C++

This is intended for people with little or no programming experience, and is appropriate for first year college or advanced high school students, or anyone interested in learning to program. Under the GNU Free Documentation License.

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Apple Retailers selling Imacs with Windows preinstalled

It appears that some retailers have started to sell Apple Imacs with Windows preinstalled on them. Check this out!

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Filesystems (ext3, reiser, xfs, jfs) comparison on Debian Etch

This benchmark essay is based on 11 real-world tasks appropriate for a file server with older generation hardware (Pentium II/III, EIDE hard-drive).

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Early Submarine Discovery

"For the past 137 years, a mysterious wreck has emerged at low tide each day on a beach off the coast of Panama. Researchers now know that it's the presumed lost "Sub Marine Explorer," one of the world's first submarines and a vessel that would ultimately kill its German inventor."

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Apple ready to steal Market Share, thanks to Boot Camp and OS X Leopard

"In our opinion, we believe there is a reasonable chance that Apple itself will build virtualisation into Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, which should ship soon after MacWorld San Francisco in January 2007"

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More evidence that sex is good for you

It doesn't take a degree in medicine to work out that sex is good for you. Anything that is free, feels fabulous and leaves you glowing is plainly a good idea. But scientists are now beginning to understand that the perceived feel-good effects of sexual intercourse are merely the tip of the iceberg.

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Tech Crisis: China & India pass US in Engineering degrees

While American youths study to head into law and finance, students in China and India are earning engineering degrees in droves and have passed the US in absolute numbers. If science and innovation drive the wealth and productivity of a society, we have a problem...

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Add Events to Google Calendar with SMS

I discovered that you can add events to your google calendar (and other nifty tricks) by sending text messages to SMS short code 48368. More info at the page I posted

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How much do you "Google" in one year?

Google's personalized homepage keeps a search history of every query you've performed. I analyzed mine and found the results to be a little shocking. Now, I've thrown down the gauntlet and would like to see how much others have Googled in one year.

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Scientists discover new antibiotic 100 times stronger than penicillin

Scientists have discovered a bacteria-fighting compound 100 times more effective than penicillin - in wallaby milk.

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Most common ways a computer dies.

PCstats guide to how computers are most likely to die. Unlike most computer death guides this one gives advice on preventing your computer's untimely demise.

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Apple ready to steal Market Share, thanks to Boot Camp and OS X Leopard

"In our opinion, we believe there is a reasonable chance that Apple itself will build virtualisation into Leopard, the next version of Mac OS X, which should ship soon after MacWorld San Francisco in January 2007"

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1Gb for your Online Virtual Drive

OrbitFiles offers 1000Mb of free space to store any data, from MP3s to share with friends, to our security backups.


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Read this! The internet is about to get messed up.

The Internet, as we know it, is going to change (and not for the good... think
the really bad, worst-case remember-that-Internet-thing? bad) if the gov and
Verizon, comcast, att, etc. get their way. I doubt there is any other issue that
is more important right now. Digg up.

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iPod Sync Comes to Linux

Linspire Inc's Developer Duane Maxwell recently released libipod for Linux which allows you to develop programs to load ipods up with music files in the same manner as iTunes. This has worked pretty well with Ltunes which also has been released on sourceforge and will hopefully make it's way into other fine music management software for Linux.

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Downloading and Converting Youtube videos.

This guide will show you how to download videos from Youtube and convert them to MPEG or AVI.

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The ultimate tax shelter: Owning your own business

Reduce your taxes: convert your personal expenditures into allowable deductions. Turn yourself into a business owner. This is not complicated, expensive or difficult to do, and incorporation is not necessary.

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Integrating Google calendar in your website

This article shows how to integrate Google Calendar to your website with a simple PHP/ Javascript

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Linux Distributors Unite on Standard

In a move to make the Linux OS a stronger alternative to Windows, a group of major Linux distributors announced Friday they have united on a standard set of components for desktop versions of Linux.

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In 1998, First Google Logo Designed with the GIMP

Didn't know this before: apparently Sergei Brin designed the original Google logo with the GIMP, according to Philipp Lenssen. So Tux isn't the only famous graphic to have been brought to life from a blank GIMP window.

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FBI Top 11 Deaths of the Year

Peter Stone, 42 years old, was murdered by his 8-year-old daughter, whom he had just sent to her room with no dinner........

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New Linux PC costs only $146

A Chinese company called YellowSheepRiver has unveiled a tiny, $146 LINUX PC called the Municator. (The whole system, with operating system, costs significantly less than a single copy of Microsoft Windows XP Pro.)

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Google Cheat Sheets (Version 1.04)

This two page Google Cheat Sheet lists all Google services and tools as well as background information. The Cheat Sheet offers a great reference to grasp of basic to advance Google query building concepts and ideas.

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Top Three Gadgets That Can Actually Save You Money

Here are three efficient gadgets that can actually pay for themselves, and can even start to save you money in the long run.

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Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Beta Screenshots!

OSDir has published a screenshot tour of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Beta that was released only hours ago. Sweet!

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2% of U.S. Internet Traffic goes through Photobucket

Photobucket isn't as flashy as YouTube or Flickr, but they have 14 million users, 80 uploaded photos per second and, just two weeks after launching their video product are nearly matching YouTube with 30,000 daily uploaded videos (YouTube is 35,000/day). And, Photobucket is both profitable and cash flow positive.

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Automatically email yourself file backups

Pretty cool back up method on always preserving your emails.

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GMail Drive v1.0.10 Released

GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer.

Latest Changes:
Fixed: A change in the Gmail.com login may cause a "Disc is full" error

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Google Calendar data API: time to starting coding!

Google launches the calendar API: http://code.google.com/.

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gTranslate - Translate any text in Firefox

"With gTranslate you can translate any text in a webpage just by selecting and right-clicking over it. The extension uses the Google translation services to translate the text."

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Sony drops Playstation 2 price to $129

Previously it was $149 - will Microsoft follow suit by dropping the original Xbox price?

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Top 10 Free AdSense Tools-- Getting The Most ($$$) Out Of Adsense

This is a pretty darn good list of some of the best tools to help you optimize and get more bang for your buck (or ad-space) with Adsense. Some of them I've heard of before, but others were completely new to me. Worth a read if you have/use Adsense.

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Nice Tool showing Google Page Rank of all Links on a page

This tool is extra-ordinarily good :) I like it, i love it.. check it out. i also enjoy the nofollow feature, it helps if you're buying text links.

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Opera 9 Beta released

The Opera 9 beta is public. Very nice browser with new features such as Widgets. Will this be the client that gives Firefox and IE a bit of a run?

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100 Interesting science facts

Some that caught my attention:
-10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
-There are 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body.

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Students drive 15 miles on 0,35 ounces of Hydrogen!

A new and innovative fuelsystem which eleminates the loss of hydrogen in a fuel cells are putting hydrogen power back in front.

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How Google is pushing the Linux envelope

Scott Ruecker reports on a recent presentation by Google representatives at the Phoenix Linux Users Group. The focus is on NFS.

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Use Thunderbird like a pro

Discusses features, useful extensions, and collaboration abilities of Mozilla's Thunderbird mail client. A good read if you already use Thunderbird or want to switch.

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Firefox for Dummies, Now Available

From Blake Ross, one of the founders of Firefox, comes the new book "Firefox for Dummies." Just released on Amazon and perfect for teaching people about the best browser option (and learning a little more yourself).

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Large Ruby on Rails resouce for all levels w/ Articles, Tutorials & more

Very nicely put together resource roundup of all sorts of Ruby on Rails information. From beginners installation tutorials, to more advanced coding articles & tutorials, as well as good like of Ruby on Rails books and hosting options.

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Songbird coming to Linux and Mac

The upcoming Songbird Media player 0.2 with have both Linux and Mac Binaries, as well as a number of other improvements in this "Open-Source iTunes"

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Hi-Res Image of 2 Supermassive Black Holes Colliding (NASA Image)

Scientists are watching two supermassive black holes spiral towards each other near the center of a galaxy cluster named Abell 400. Shown in this X-ray/radio composite image are the multi-million degree radio jets emanating from the black holes.

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"I am the World's Biggest Failure", says MP3 Inventor

"MP3 Inventor Could've Been a Contender: 'The iPod is the world's fastest selling electrical equipment ever,' said early MP3 inventor Kane Kramer, 'and I suppose, in a way, I am the world's biggest failure.'

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Rhode Island Set To Become First Wireless State

The smallest state in the Union is itching to go unwired in a big way. "The network will be built on a WiMAX transport core with WiFi technology at the consumer interface edge." The first antenna goes up this week. Quite an impressive achievement, in spite of the fact that it probably won't be free.

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Ubuntu Dapper +1 - The Edgy Eft

Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu Development team have announced what the codename of Dapper +1 will be, The Edgy Eft.

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All Visual Studio Express Editions are now Permanently Free!

"Dear Visual Studio Express community, we are incredibly excited to announce that effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently!"

Also check out the cool new tools.

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Watching the brain 'switch off' self-awareness

Self-awareness, regarded as a key element of being human, is switched off when the brain needs to concentrate hard on a tricky task, found the neurobiologists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

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HOWTO: Install Linux onto a USB thumb-drive with encrypted partitions

Simple instructions for anyone looking for a portable installation that they can easily carry with them for use as rescue media, system administration or as a private workstation. This is an update of the original howto (http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/179), and adds support for 2.6.16, cryptsetup with LUKS support, Udev, and Yaird.

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Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5.0.2 released

Mozilla Thunderbird v1.5.0.2, the email client is available with mostly stability and security fixes. Download URL for Windows :
http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird-1.5.0.2&os=win&lang=en-US

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AT&T and Verizon: We Own Your Congress

Wonder why AT&& and other telcos are winning the net neutrality debate, and just about every other issue that comes before government? It's simple: Money talk. Telcos spent a whopping $60 million in lobbying money just at the federal level, second only to the health care industry, Business Week reports.

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Men hallucinate after eating fish

Two men have suffered terrifying visual and auditory hallucinations after eating poisonous fish in Mediterranean restaurants. One of the men tripped for three days.

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Apple reports 8,526,000 iPods sold in one quarter!

Apple today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 second quarter ending April 1, 2006. International sales accounted for 43% of the quarter's revenue. Apple shipped 1,112,000 Macintosh computers and 8,526,000 iPods during the quarter, representing 4% growth in Macs and 61% growth in iPods over the year-ago quarter.

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Scientists unveil world's oldest ice block - A million-year-old

A million-year-old ice sample drilled from 3 kilometres under the Antarctic and unveiled in Tokyo on Tuesday could yield vital clues on climate change, Japanese scientists said.

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Google Bookmarks in Firefox

This Firefox extension allows you to use, add and manage your Google Bookmarks right from Firefox's interface. It's very useful, works similar to the normal bookmarks, except that everything is synchronizing with server.

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Programmers' prose sought in Linux essay contest

Can you craft a sentence as well as you can code a Linux hack? If so, Intel and the Linux Symposium want to hear from you, with a new competition for the best essay on Linux.

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Google Bookmarks in Firefox

This Firefox extension allows you to use, add and manage your Google Bookmarks right from Firefox's interface. It's very useful, works similar to the normal bookmarks, except that everything is synchronizing with server.

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Convert any Photo into 1,024 Stadium Flipcards held by a Pixel Army

The Japanese site was translated by Google so the english may appear strange. They use the Linux Mascot "Tux" as the illustrated example...

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10 Best Designed Blogs

The particular platform (WP, Moveable Type, Typepad, Handcoded) doesn't matter. It's what you do with it that counts. This isn't about prettiest blog, or the best written blog. This is a list of the most groundbreaking, cutting edge blogs out there. You see these blogs and cry, because they're creatures of fierce untameable beauty.

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AMD: Reverse hyper threading (multi core seen as 1 fast single core).

http://www.bit-tech.net has info about a potential new AMD processor. Allegedly, the AMD is developing a sort of "Anti-Hyperthreading," which would allow two (or multiple) physical cores to emulate one physical core.

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Wonderful interview with Richard Feynman

Excellent short 40 min documentary interview with Dr. RP Feynman- one of the greatest physicist of our times and a Nobel Laureate.

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FULL List of Google Resources with Descriptions

Ever wanted to use Google to the max? This Wikipedia article lists all of the services, tools, downloads, features, programs, and even hardware offered by Google. There are many little known services and tools of great value that I'd never even heard of before.

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Looking Ahead: Ubuntu Linux 6.06

Take a look at the new things and improvements that the next version of Ubuntu will feature

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Preparation for Half-Life 2: Episode 1

One of the 2 people who hasn't played Half-Life/Half-Life 2 yet? Really want to jump on the bandwagon with Episode 1? This is a great timeline that summarizes the stories of both games, and includes extra information possibly unnoticed even by Half-Life veterans. Check this out if you're at all interested in the Half-Life Saga plotline.

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COMPLETE Tutorial on CSS & HTML - Beginning up to Expert

An Excellent Tutorial - you can refer to again and again and again!

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The Polyphasic Sleep Experiment is Over

Steve Palina tried switching to a polyphasic sleep cycle 5 1/2 months ago. This involved taking six 30-minute naps per day, instead of one 7 hour sleep at night. He has now switched back to the "regular" way, and he explains why it didn't work for him.

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Useful Google Calendar Shortcuts

The Google Calendar Help Center has a nice roundup of keyboard shortcuts that you can use inside Google Calendar.

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New! Google Video Top 100

http://video.google.com/videoranking

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Map your ZIP Code

Outline the perimeter of your ZIP Code using Google Maps and census data.

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Nintendo: The Risk Taker

"The strategy is simple, says Will Wright... Nintendo is waiting for its rivals to kill each other."

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According to Ubisoft, The Revolution is a "Magical" Platform

Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat says that the Revolution is a "magical" platform and that we will be seeing more games coming for the Revolution from Ubisoft. Good to here there will be at least one company making solid 3rd party revolution titles!

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Interesting Google Calendars

I've collected a bunch of calendars (iCal and others) you can add to the new Google Calendar. Maybe it's of interest to some of you.

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Overcoming Procrastination

Several practical tools for overcoming procrastination.

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CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character.

"A person who is nice to you but rude to the waiter, or to others, is not a nice person." A good article on top CEOs can see a person's character on how they treat people on the lower end of the ladder.

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Real time population counter

Crazy to watch. View any countries birth and death rate rise and fall in real time. The deaths come with a brief description like "Adult, 30 - 49 years old (Male)" and it tells you if the birth was a boy or girl. Watch China or India to see the most active. Even Iraq's birth/death rate may surprise you. Cool to watch and/or use for research.

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Giant Deep-Sea Volcano With "Moat of Death" Found

Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies a volcanic realm nearly as strange as that featured in TV's hit drama Lost. The volcano found in the South Pacific is dazzling scientists with its weird features, including a swirling vortex, strange animals, and a toxic zone that only one creature can survive.

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Tips for Productivity and Happiness at Work

Very Interesting read coming from an experienced software developer.

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Freeware Heaven -

Some good freeware.

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AJAX-based Web Recording Tool

Tapefailure is a "history recording tool." Ayone can record a browsing session using Tapefailure's recorder, then save it, and share it with others. Each recorded session can be played back virtually perfectly through our playback tool; as long as you know the tape ID or have a link, you can view your recorded session over and over again.

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Linux Distributions Bird's Eye View - a Mind Map

Here is a rather intutive mind map of mainstream GNU/Linux distributions and their relationship (if any) with each other. Really interesting.

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The Linux Infrared Remote Control (LIRC) Project

Want to build an infrared remote control for your laptop, MythTV or hidden computer? Learn how.

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Unofficial Google Calendar Homepage Module

Ever since Google Calendar was released I've been looking for a module that will display the calendar in the Personalized Google Homepage. An unofficial module (adapted from a previously written 30 Pages module) has been released until Google writes their own "official" module. It was written by Paul Russell.

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Happy Birthday Leonardo Da Vinci!

The illegitimate son of a 25-year-old notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in Vinci, Italy, just outside Florence.

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Jobs declines to write foreword to Wozniak's autobiography

"I was a little disappointed -- Steve Jobs had indicated he'd write a forward. I said, 'Just write what we were like back then,' Wozniak revealed in an interview with Seattle Times reporter Kim Peterson. "We sent him the book and he said, 'Oh, I saw some excerpts, and I'm going to decline writing the forward.'"

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GMail Updated With The Links Bar And Calendar Integration

GMail finally got involved with the Google Calendar. Here are the details on how GMail interacts with the Calendar.

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Exxon Chief Made $144,573 Per Day

This kind of news makes you really ponder when oil companies feed the line of crap like "We're all in this together," or "We're feeling the strain too."
Meanwhile gas is darn near $3.00 a gallon while fat cats laugh all the way to the bank.

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How To Change People's Perception Of You

Other people's perceptions are very important in business. First impressions are made within seconds and office gossip has the potential to damage a reputation almost beyond repair. Do you know how your colleagues perceive you?

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New to linux? You need this.

This is the best linux newbie list i have seen yet. If you have never used linux but want to try go here to see what you're getting yourself into.

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YShout: A PHP/AJAX Shoutbox.

YShout is a lightweight shoutbox package that allows you to add a shout box to your website. It is standards compliant, non-intrusive, and utilizes AJAX. Rather than a long and boring explanation, I'll let you see for yourself.

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Comprehensive list of over 745+ free WordPress Blog Themes

HUGE list of free wordpress themes for wordpress 1.5 and wordpress 2.0+ bloggers looking to customize the design of their blog from the default template.

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ParallelKnoppix: Create a cluster in 5 minutes

"You can convert a room full of machines running Windows into a Linux cluster, and when you shut down, your Windows machines are in their original state. The computers in the cluster can be homogeneous or heterogeneous. Getting the cluster up and running takes about 5 minutes.."

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Ubuntu Live on Mac Mini with Ease!

Linux fans like myself will be more excited to learn that the new firmware updates to the Intel Macs also allows for the booting of one of the most popular distros with ease! This post includes a picture of a Mini running x86 Ubuntu without the hacking that such an act has taken in the past- from Apple noise to desktop in less than a minute!

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Sony claims PS3 pricing leak 'incorrect'

Further to many reports on Digg about the price of the PS3, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has claimed reports that its senior staffers let slip how much the company plans to charge for the PlayStation 3 when the console ships next November are "incorrect"

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Why open source is taking over the planet ...

Microsoft is scared. Here are the stats that show why...

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The Ultimate Linux Newbie Guide!

Whether you have been using a computer for years, or if you are totally new to it all, this guide can help you get to grips with all the important parts of using Linux, as opposed to Windows (or Mac OS) in order to operate your computer.

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Beginners Guide to Podcasting

Very in-depth look at podcasting for beginners.

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Blockbuster Tells Netflix to Shove It

Things heat up between rival online video rental services as Blockbuster publicly condemns a Netflix lawsuit over key patents, calling it without merit and promising to defeat it.

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How To Install Fluxbox in Ubuntu

In this howto you will learn to install the latest version of Fluxbox on your Ubuntu distribution.

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Why Boot Camp is the Beginning of the End for Windows

Why Boot Camp is better for Apple and worse for Microsoft then anyone has thought

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A Windows users journey to Mac

This blog is written by a Windows veteran, a Mac newbie, describing his switch to Mac from Windows. It's both slightly technical and very technical, ranging from IM clients to setting up PHP/MySQL.

Worth a read, especially for people considering a switch.

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Become Ubuntu Certified!

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), and Canonical sponsor of Ubuntu jointly announced the development of a certification exam for the Ubuntu distribution. Soon you will be able to know Ubuntu, and prove it to future employers!

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Removing A User From A Linux System

Employee turnover in most organizations runs high. So unless you run a small shop with a stable user base, you need to learn how to clean up after an employee leaves. Too many so-called system administrators do not understand the stakes involved when they manage users.

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Honda to add Google Earth to cars

Honda will soon add Google Earth to its navigation systems in Japan. This seems to be part of a growing trend. In February Google and Volkswagen announced they had partnered with nVidia to bring 3-dimensional Google Maps to car navigation systems.

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My quest for a Linux audio player

Nowadays I collect, store, and listen to music mostly on digital media, so I thought I'd find myself a Linux audio player that does all the things I need it to do. Little did I know how many options I had! After evaluating more than a dozen...

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Linux leaps toward KDE/GNOME compatibility

Linux desktop application operability took a giant step forward today, with the announcement of a technology preview of the first set of common interfaces for the GNOME and KDE Linux desktops.

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15,000 layer Photoshop file.

Bert Monroy released his latest Photoshop painting this week after 11 months of work with an estimated 2,000 hours. The attention to detail is amazing in this 10 foot wide poster.

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Customizing Ubuntu

His propensity for rapid key board hits and rapid experimentation left me in doubt that I could have installed Debian on my own, hence, a sense of foreboding insecurity grew.

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7-Eleven: Introducing Another "ATM On Steroids" This Year

7-Eleven is introducing its second terminals called Vcoms this year. Often referred to as ATM's on steroids, the Vcoms dispense cash, sell Verizon services, handle bill payments and send money to other people. While cashing checks, it will be snapping front-and-back digital images of the checks and dispensing a receipt with the images on it.

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How to back up your linux system with bash, tar and netcat

A HOWTO style article describing a simple way to backup your Linux system using standard tools over a network.

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Google Releases 3" Resolution Aerial Photos of Las Vegas

For a small area of downtown Las Vegas you can see VERY high resolution photos in Google Earth (NOT Google Maps). You can easily see car types, even see people and their shadows, see dolphins swimming in an aquarium, see the duplicate Eiffel Tower at the Paris Hotel, and more.

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Steve Jobs demoing the NEXT operating system.

Many of the features shown here are now in Macintosh OSX.

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Great little tool that scans what you've got on your disks

Every wondered where all that disk space goes? Well find out now. This nifty little app tells you how many mp3's movies or other files types you've got one your machine.

sweet.

What do you mean I've got 60GB of pron! :-)

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Overview of the ten major Linux distributions

A review of the 10 major Linux distributions out there, giving the pros and cons of each and every one of them...

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This test will make the smartest people stupid!

This little 20 question test will make the smartest people dumb and the dumbest people.......well dumber.

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Ubuntu Dapper Drake Flight 6 Released!

The Ubuntu team is proud to present the 6th Alpha test, called Flight 6 of our next release, Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). With Flight 6 comes additional Look-and-Feel improvements, Live-CD installer enhancements, GNOME 2.14 final, and much more.

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