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25th July Comments

Power outages still affect almost 15,000 residents

Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 5:16 am

Davenport, QUAD CITIES — Mid American Energy reports almost 15,000 Quad City area residents are still without power Friday morning, 96 hours after a powerful thunderstorm struck the region Monday morning. The biggest concentration of power outages remains in Rock Island and Moline where 10,000 customers remain without power at 3 a.m. Friday. Rock Island [...]

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25th July Comments

Yahoo! Music Going Dark, Taking Keys With It

Posted on July 25th, 2008 at 5:09 am

  iminplaya writes with a link to an excellent article at Ars Technica, extracting from it a few choice nuggets: "The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good — and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on [...]

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24th July Comments

Report: Google in acquisition talks with Digg

Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 6:36 am

Social-news site Digg.com, a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in “final negotiations” to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report Tuesday that cited multiple sources. Google has been in talks to bring Digg into the Google News group, but it could be a few weeks before the deal closes, [...]

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24th July Comments

Linux 2.6.26 enhances desktop Linux

Posted on July 24th, 2008 at 6:28 am

  A new stable kernel is out. Three months in the making, Linux 2.6.26 boasts read-only bind mounts, better USB webcam support, 802.11s mesh WiFi, virtualization and paravirtualization improvements, and a ton of new peripheral drivers. Darn and it even fixed a couple of hardware problems I had gotta love it, Baldy Linux 2.6.26 enhances [...]

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23rd July Comments

Almost Back to Normal

Posted on July 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 am

Hi folks here a couple of the pictures from my neighborhood. This is the results of a storm that came through on Monday morning at 6am. I have a ton of the them that show how dark it was worse than any starless night you could dream of. Now I have had a taste of [...]

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20th July Comments

Linus Has Something on His Mind

Posted on July 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am

Linus Torvalds — founder, creator, and general master of all things Linux — is not exactly known for being bashful or slow to share his thoughts. To quote the man himself: “I’m a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise.” This week, though, he’s gotten an extra share of attention. [...]

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20th July Comments

Dell is serious about Ubuntu: Launches first consumer Linux PCs

Posted on July 20th, 2008 at 5:46 am

Dell today flipped the switched and is now officially offering consumer desktop and notebook PCs with Ubuntu 8.04 pre-installed. Two notebooks and one desktop join two desktop systems in Dell’s open-source product portfolio. There is no denying that Linux recently has gained traction in the consumer space and Microsoft may have to look a little [...]

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18th July Comments

Bush ; Before And Now

Posted on July 18th, 2008 at 6:02 am

  Who knew the Onion would be right? [Thanks Mister Justin] BTW, this chart is out of date. Remember the good, old days of $3 gas? Good times, good times… Darn this came from the Onion? And I am so sorry to say so correct, Thanks GW, Baldy   Bush — Before And Now

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17th July Comments

Arch Linux for the DIY Linux user

Posted on July 17th, 2008 at 5:19 am

  There’s no dearth of Linux distributions for desktop users or even for running high availability servers. But if you are a do-it-yourself computer user, your choice of Linux distros is fairly limited. You can build Linux from scratch with Linux from Scratch or compile your own set of packages with Gentoo. But if you [...]

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11th July Comments

Canadian open source community upset over proposed copyright law

Posted on July 11th, 2008 at 5:25 am

  The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country’s open source business model. Russell McOrmond, a member of the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance (CSIA), says that Bill C-61, the proposed copyright legislation unveiled by the government last month, ignores just about every recommendation made by CSIA, [...]

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