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Today It Rained and Rained (Apr 30 2003 14:59 GMT) - Am choking on diet coke. My philosophy tutorial was cancelled today because it was meant to be on Kant but... |
Matthew Yglesias
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iTunes 4 (Apr 30 2003 14:59 GMT) - Mac owners should run not walk to download iTunes 4 which comes with a nifty pay-for-download music acquisition service embedded in the software. I just tried it out and it works great -- finally a way to make internet music... |
The Trommetter Times
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Three French Hens (Apr 30 2003 14:59 GMT) - Music fans offered anti-Dixie Chicks tix. Patriotic concerts planned as alternative to supporting controversial trio. (77 words) |
A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog
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Where did SARS come from? ... (Apr 30 2003 14:58 GMT) - Where did SARS come from? The odds say zoonosis. I frequently get comments on SARS Watch Org and via email, suspicious that the SARS virus was created by somebody, because how could it appear from thin air? The probable answer is explained in this interesting article from the Boston Globe, Crossing the species barrier, which gives has some good background for the lay person on zoonosis, or the common spread of diseases from animal to human. The article gives examples of the many diseases that have crossed over from animals. |
WNBC.com4 FeedRoom
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NYC's Best Cookies (Apr 30 2003 14:57 GMT) - April 30 - This week we've sampled hamburgers and fries. But now it's time for dessert. We set out to find the perfect chocolate chip cookie. |
GameDev.net
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Khronos Group Announces OpenGL® ES 1.0 S (Apr 30 2003 14:56 GMT) - Khronos OpenGLR ES Working Group Members today announced that at a summit meeting held April 14 & 15 in Cambridge, UK, the OpenGL ES 1.0 Specification was agreed upon and is now ready for final review and ratification by Khronos Promoting Member vote. On track with milestones set a year ago, the public release of the OpenGL ES 1.0 Specification is expected in July 2003. The availability of this royalty-free, open-standard, 3D-capable graphics API is expected to enable many new classes o... |
GameDev.net
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REALbasic 5 for Windows Ships (Apr 30 2003 14:56 GMT) - Powerful, Easy-to-Learn Programming Tool Now Enables Windows Users, Visual Basic Programmers to Create Their Own Software for Both Windows and Macintosh |
GameDev.net
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NXN announces innovative change manageme (Apr 30 2003 14:56 GMT) - NXN Software, the leading supplier of asset management solutions for the digital entertainment and computer graphics industries, today announced that the next major releases of its NXN alienbrain product family will introduce a new change management concept based on “change sets.” The new feature will apply to all upcoming editions of NXN’s industry-leading asset, configuration and production management products - NXN alienbrain Engineer, NXN alienbrain Studio and NXN alienbrain VFX – slated... |
RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix
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Textmaker for Linux Reviewed (Apr 30 2003 14:56 GMT) - 30 Apr 2003: DeskTopLinux takes a look atTextmaker for Linux."SoftMaker is just a week or so away from the official release of the first component in their Office Suite, the word processor, TextMaker for Linux. DesktopLinux.com reviews their latest beta release to determine how the product performs in real world use. |
RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix
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Electronic Archaeology (Apr 30 2003 14:56 GMT) - 30 Apr 2003: O'Reilly brings us:Electronic Archaeology."As a result, most professional programmers have to deal with badly designed, badly implemented, uncommented, incomprehensible blobs.The art of digging through ancient code is called electronic archaeology and this article discusses some of the tools you can use to make your job easier. |
RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix
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Introduction to Simple Oracle Auditing (Apr 30 2003 14:56 GMT) - 30 Apr 2003: Security Focus brings us:Introduction to Simple Oracle Auditing."This article will introduce the reader to the basics of auditing an Oracle database. Oracle's RDBMS is a functionally rich product and there are a number of auditing alternatives available to the reader. |
RootPrompt -- Nothing but Unix
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Professional Apache Tomcat (Apr 30 2003 14:56 GMT) - 30 Apr 2003: Unix Review reviews the book:Professional Apache Tomcat."The Java servlet is the preferred technology our industry has chosen "for extending the functionality of a Web server and for accessing existing business systems", in the words of Sun's Java cheerleaders. To provision your development teams with the best open source servlet engine, you need the information in Professional Apache Tomcat. |
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