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Morning at the Lake

Here is the view in the morning.

And one more for now.

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Email Failure

Heck we made it through a darn blizzard and mediacom is having major problems as there has been no email for over 30 hours and when you call them you get a nice message saying we have a problem with the email and are working on it and hope to have it repaired soon! Hell [...]

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R.I.P. CompuServe

 
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The original CompuServe service, first offered in 1979, was shut down this past week by its current owner, AOL. The service, which provided its users with addresses such as 73402,3633 and was the first major online service, had seen the number of users dwindle in recent years. At its height, the service [...]

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Debian plans draw sharp warning from GNU guru

 
As the Debian project releases a second update of its Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (”Lenny”) distribution, a controversy has broken out over the next version, “Squeeze.” GNU guru Richard Stallman has warned that by including a Mono-based note-taking application called Tomboy, Debian runs the risk of Microsoft litigation over C# patents.
Yikes of all people Debian [...]

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Lancelot reaches Holy Grail of KDE menu

 
KDE 4 is barely eight months old, and already it has three options for a main menu. Until now, users have either used the default Kickoff, which makes for awkward navigation of the menu tree, or reverted to the familiar but unwieldy classic menu. Now, with the first full release of Lancelot, users have another [...]

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First hurricane of season forms in Atlantic (Reuters)

 
Reuters - The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season formed on Monday, hundreds of miles (km) away from the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Hang on to your hats folks, we have one more chance for Bush to show us "correct" hurricane rescue tips
First hurricane of season forms in Atlantic [...]

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Want XP on your new Dell? $50, please

You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today.
Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a “downgrade” from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than [...]

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XP Home availability extended [News]

 
Microsoft is due to announce some time this week the extended availability of their Windows XP operating system, and it’s all thanks to devices like the Asus Eee PC.
Good news for those of you who refuse to go over the Vista and have not tried Linux as of yet, Baldy

XP Home availability extended [News]

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It’s time to learn Scheme

 
Have you ever peeked into one of those bazillion .el files in your Emacs installation’s lisp folder and wondered what it meant? Or have you ever looked at a GIMP script .scm file and scratched your head over all the parentheses? Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages still in common use, and Scheme [...]

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Is Firefox 3 ready for prime time?

 
Review — Firefox 3 may still be a beta, Beta 4 to be exact, but in a recent Reuters news story, Mozilla Vice President of Engineering Mike Schroepfer said of the browser, "In many ways it is much more stable than anything else out there."

Is Firefox 3 ready for prime time?

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