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It started with a Finnish grad student who wanted a UNIX-like system for his home PC. It snowballed into something that challenges Microsoft's domination of the operating system market, especially for business and non-PC devices like that TiVO. Learn mor... 
It started with a Finnish grad student who wanted a UNIX-like system for his home PC. It snowballed into something that challenges Microsoft's domination of the operating system market, especially for business and non-PC devices like that TiVO. Learn more about the open source movement, the Linux OS, and the passions that drive geeks, hackers, and code-monkeys to contribute to it for free.
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When I saw Robert's interesting and fun Bazaar search plug-in I had a few thoughts:
Wow, that's cool!
It would sure be awesome if I could say that I've written as many Bazaar plugins as Robert this month.
That sounds like work.
Perhaps I can do this with, like, 6 lines of Python.
I've now written a plug-in to provide...
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An anonymous reader writes "eBay's has lost its fight to ban all payment methods except PayPal. When Paypal originally announced the scheme it was to be global, but they began with a dry run in Australia to test the reaction of government and consumer authorities. In the public slanging match that followed between eBay and...
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I’ve been working at the new job for a week now, and I’m enjoying it a good deal. The coworkers are friendly and the work has a lot of new challenges. I’m not sure how much I’m allowed to blog about. I’ll find out.
I spent a good while playing Packrat cooperatively with Fin this evening.
I have started microblogging over...
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FiReaNGeL writes with an excerpt from a story at e! Science News: "Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein"s theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a pair of superdense neutron stars. Essentially, the famed physicist"s 93-year...
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akutz writes "I've had the flu since Tuesday afternoon. My wife picked me up from work with a temperature of 103.6 and it finally broke at 98.7 around 3am this morning. Yay. The problem is that I used my laptop during my periods of feverish deliriousness, contaminating my shiny 15" MacBook Pro with the icky influenza virus....
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Good accidents hide in small corners. A while ago I did something I never did before - I asked a guy on the subway whether he was interested in a job at Fluendo. I know, it sounds weird.
But the guy in question was actually reading a paper on pipeline-based multimedia processing, IIRC. I was dead tired as I had just flown...
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An anonymous reader writes "Is this a glimpse at the future of the Semantic Web? A new startup named Pluribo has developed a technology that can auto-summarize user reviews on the internet. It is a Firefox extension that can take a webpage filled with reviews and condense it down into a couple of sentences. Currently, it...
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Hi all,I finally post my pictures from PGCon2008.You can see them on my picasa web album.
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kthejoker writes "Apparently companies are even worse about losing our data than we suspected. From the article:'According to a study of 106 major U.S. airports and 800 business travelers published by the Ponemon Institute and Dell Computer, about 12,000 laptops are lost in airports each week. Only 30 percent of travelers...
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Google's privacy comeuppance
In the ongoing $1bn legal spat between Google and Viacom, a federal judge has ordered the search giant to turn over all existing records of every video viewed on YouTube. That includes user account names and IP addresses.…