Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software. A version of the increasingly popular Ubuntu desktop Linux distribution, based on Debian and the Gnome desktop, it is known internally as 'Goobuntu'.
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The ThoughtSafe is an encrypted USB memory stick with its own version of MSN Messenger: it's marketed to young girls who want to keep a private diary and prevent their parents or others from spying on or controlling their IM activity.
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Wiccan ways; Brooms, spells but no Satanism
Robert Setlak says many people would be surprised to know how many witches are in, and around, Lawrence County.
That's not to say, he added, anybody should be afraid some evil spell will be cast their way.
The witches to which Setlak refers are practitioners of ...
A Brent Cross church is calling world church leaders and speakers to address the issue of witchcraft within Britain's African evangelical churches.
Edgware Times
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"The curse of Stonehenge will remain until it is handed back to the druids
This world heritage site is a national disgrace. Consultants have made millions but achieved nothing in 20 years"
Guardian Unlimited
Intel said it had made the world's first microchip using tiny new manufacturing methods...The fingernail-sized memory chip is etched with 1 billion transistors that are only 45 nanometers wide -- about 1,000 times smaller than a red blood cellread more | digg story
Intel said it had made the world's first microchip using tiny new manufacturing methods...The fingernail-sized memory chip is etched with 1 billion transistors that are only 45 nanometers wide -- about 1,000 times smaller than a red blood cellread more | digg story
Germany company Hansa has come out with these futuristic temperature sensitive bathroom fixtures that illuminate the temperature of your water with colored light. LEDs lining the walls of the spigot, illuminating the water in different colors depending on the temperature of the water (red=hot, pink=warm, blue=cold).read more | digg story
"Blue Security, a California startup company, believes spammers have gone far enough in poisoning the e-mail experience. Tired of watching the problem grow, the company on Tuesday released "Blue Frog" software to make spammers pay for their bad behavior. But there are questions about the legality of the new approach."
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"We learned about the unfortunate fate of ABC's reality TV show Welcome to the Neighborhood more than six months ago, but why this fascinating show never reached the air (and might never be seen) is the source of new speculation.The show -- in which a diverse group of seven families ...
Although an older article, this is good info for any computer user. How much do magnets really fry data? Does unplugging a USB cable too fast really cause damage? Read more here at this PC World article.read more | digg story
...according to a 1989 Compute! Magazine article: scan the custom newspaper that spills from your fax; capture segments of a show you like and put them in a video report for school for $1,000; ISDN will simultaneously transmit voice, video, and computer data. You'll talk to your TV set, and ...
There are witches in foxholes. But unlike their peers in more mainstream religions, when Wiccan veterans die, they cannot get the symbol of their religion, the pentacle, inscribed on their government-funded headstones.Now, witches, including some on the North Shore, are trying to change that. Two separate groups have asked the ...
EDMONTON, January 18, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – It would seem there is truth to the warnings against the Harry Potter series if the opening of an honest-to-goodness witchcraft school in Canada is any indication of increased interest in the occult that has resulted from the books.
The new school, Northern Star College ...
Thane: A protest march was taken out by a large number of people in this district last evening against noted painter M F Hussain's nude paintings of Hindu Gods.
The march organised by the Hindu Janjagruti Samiti made its way through the main streets of the city with the protestors carrying ...
Intel executives said Tuesday that they expected to lose about one point of market share to AMD during a disappointing fourth quarter. That figure refers to worldwide sales of microprocessors during the quarter, an Intel spokesman confirmed. Among U.S. retail PCs, however, the results were more striking.
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