Red Hat upgrades Linux desktop OS. Red Hat Linux 9, which will be available for download as of Monday by members of the Red Hat Network (http://rhn.redhat.com) and in retail stores a week later, features new threading technology called NPTL (Native Posix Thread Library) that its predecessor Red Hat Linux 8 lacks, said Matt Wilson,…
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I want to trade my Gameboy Advance for a GP32.. It comes out the box with an English manual, a PC link cable, the GP32 uses PC smartMedia as its Hard disk and has 8meg of internal ram + its (upgradeable) OS, a USB port, a large hires screen (which is SO much better than…
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Possibly the most enlightening 12 minutes you’ll spend this day. Michael Moore’s after Oscar interview with the press. A must see.
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Microsoft breaks with standards effort. The software giant steps down from the W3C choreography working group, reflecting a growing discord between IBM, Microsoft and other companies over standards for Web services. [CNET News.com] Crap! Here we go. Now there’ll be 50 flavors of XML: XML, IBM-XML, XML-scape, X++,x#.
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Hey! I’m an ISFJ. In blogging, your journal will always be immaculate and have a touch of style. You may also feel overwhelmed because you want to be a part of everything going on. Because of your wonderful memory, other bloggers may come to you to ask about things you posted months before. I realize…
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Iraq shows off Apache crew. The Pentagon confirms that two men paraded on Iraqi TV are the crew of a missing helicopter gunship. [BBC News | Front Page | UK Edition] Ok! That headline just sounds…um….ga…hom…alter…BAD! I can see it now… Saddam:”Thith ith our new Apashe crew. Bruth ith wearing thith darling green jumpsuit that…
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The Sound of Things to Come: “Norris is demonstrating something called HyperSonic Sound (HSS). The aluminum plate is connected to a CD player and an odd amplifier — actually, a very odd and very new amplifier — that directs sound much as a laser beam directs light. Over the past few years, mainly in secret,…
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Rare, Remote Chimps Found Chimpanzees in a remote Central African rainforest may have had little or no contact with humans until recently, said a report in the April 2003 issue of the International Journal of Primatology. The so-called na?ve chimpanzees were discovered in Goualougo Triangle in the northern Democratic Republic of Congo. The 100-square-mile rainforest…
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Microsoft Pulls Ad Found Misleading. Microsoft has yanked an ad implying its major software packages would render computer hackers as extinct as saber tooth tigers and the dodo bird. By The Associated Press. [New York Times: Technology] You know somewhere some 12 year old kid just decided to hack a MS server after reading that…
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