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- Recently I've noticed a new trend of pseudo spammers who leave comments that sort of... |
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- Linux limbers up for business. roundup The promise of better reliability could persuade businesses--already eyeing the cost benefits--to switch to the open-source OS. [CNET News.com - Front Door] |
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- I’m only part way through Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver, despite having worked on it all the way back from Boston. So far, so good: fun, intelligent, and multilayered, with the science of Newton and Hooke present but taking a decided back seat to the intrigues of the royal court and the politics of the Royal Society. |
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- Second post-mortem piece on BloggerCon, trying to dive into the hype and document why I think blogs are revolutionary.Most of the discussion at BloggerCon, at least on Day One, focused on ways that blogging and the lowered threshold of entry to self-publication facilitated a more empowered, more aware population. I heard an emergent theory of blog empowerment that goes something like this: voice, connection, power. (For background on this piece, read my strawman definition of blogs from the conference. |
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- I’ve been sitting on a few short responses to BloggerCon since last Sunday. I’m not pleased with them yet, but if I sit on them any longer they’ll get even staler, so here goes. |
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- Im Alter von 58 Jahren ist Tim Robinson - viel zu früh - an den Folgen einer schweren Krankheit verstorben.... |
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- The sub-title of this site is a quote from Al Sharpton (who is unaffiliated with this site, but they liked what he said), which is this: "It's time for the Chritian Right to meet the right Christians." I like it... |
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- SunnComm won't sue grad student. In an abrupt reversal, the antipiracy company decides not to sue the Princeton University grad student who published a paper that describes how to bypass CD copy-protection technology. [CNET News.com - Front Door] The grad student mentioned that if you use a standard, easily accessible and published feature of Windows, the copy protection won't work. The company that made the CD copy protection then threatened to sue the student for violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act provisions against reverse engineering a security system. |
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NTSB Report (Oct 10 2003 22:15 GMT) - Investigators say mechanical problems contributed to October 1 crash that killed eight. |
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- Na afloop van de conferentie een bezoek gebracht aan Camp Nou, het voetbalstadion van FC Barcelona. Onder begeleiding van een gids werd ons een blik achter de schermen gegund van o.a. de kleedkamer, de spelerstunnel en de persruimte. Vooral ook het betreden van het veld was imposant. |
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- I'm watching a great interview from Charlie Rose last night: Gail Collins, editorial page editor of the New York Times, and author of the new book: America's Women : Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines. Her favorite story--and mine so far--is about |
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- Music CD copy Protection? Suncomm won't sue grad student who told users to "just hold down the shift key"! |
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- Interface minimaliste et tellement efficace pour cette agence basée dans la banlieue de Londres [Leeds - Uk]. Une simplicité qui émane é |
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Recruiting (Oct 10 2003 22:14 GMT) - Ok, here is the deal. There is a *lot* i'd like to do with this site. I get a lot of email complaining about how much parts of the interface on this site suck. I agree - a lot of it is rather confusing. however, I seriously lack the time to actually sit down and write the code & HTML required to improve this site. |
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Pearls (Oct 10 2003 22:14 GMT) - Pearls Tones study |
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- At night Rome is beautiful. The lights of the city combined with the feeling that you are almost alone make it magical. The Colosseum is lit like a birthday cake, a nearly full moon rises above the Forum, and even the Metro seems different. |
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Rings (Oct 10 2003 22:14 GMT) - number one number two |
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- You can order little kids custom made with umbrellas now. |
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- Some shadows made in West Pond, China. I found I lost a lot image quality after I uploaded them. Does the system automatically compress the images? Cory, austinspace, any idea? |
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- This was taken at a cemetary at sundown! Reflections are awsome. |
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- Steven F. Hayward The Age of Reagan: I 1964 –1980 Prima Lifestyles, 2001 This is a very long book (718 pages + another 100 pages of notes etc.) and it is somewhat daunting to realise that in due course a second volume will come to complete the story. It might be as well to say that this is emphatically not a biography, not even a political biography; |
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- At least when you first start on a program. Once the pounds start coming off, it's all good and your attitude changes. (That was the case for me, anyway). I have friends who don't lose weight easily whatsoever -- no matter what they do, metabolism isn't their friend and they just can't lose those sacred inches. When you add in all the hype about thin being in, it's really a recipe for disaster. |
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- So, I'm reading Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett.To not give the plot away for the fans of Discworld, suffice to say stuffing a sock down one's pants it a key concept of the early pages.That makes me think of all the wrong people... |
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Beautiful (Oct 10 2003 22:13 GMT) - [larger image] Looks like they are trying to fool me now. So far I could tell certain nationalities by their huge ugly glasses. :-)... |
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- A number of journals have been spewing forth ungainly editorials in anticipation of the launch of open access journal PLoS Biology. Luckily Peter Suber is on hand to set the record straight. |
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- http://www. steptwo. com. au/papers/kmc_orgchart/index. |
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- If NIST approves 802.11i, then VPNs may be optional in governmental installations: Matthew Gast notes that the potential approval of AES as an encryption method as part of 802.11i would allow system administrators in networks that rely on these NIST guidelines to avoid VPNs and use secured 802.1X with 802. |
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Pay by SMS (Oct 10 2003 22:13 GMT) - Vodafone (Portugal) lets cell phone subscribers pay for hotspot access via SMS: Vodafone has launched its WirelessLAN service in several locations around Portugal, and allows users to pay for a session by sending an SMS message requesting access. The service will cost 5 euros an hour, 12 euros a day, or 30 euros for 72 hours, but will be limited to the cost of a single SMS message per session until the end of the year to promote the service. Apparently, any roaming partner of Vodafone's cell networks, which they count as 281 operators in 134 countries, can use SMS within Portugal to pay for service, too. This service is similar to Excilan's in its interesting crossover between cellular telephone billing and an out-of-band authorization. |
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- Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports will have Wi-Fi next year, says airport authority: Like Boston, they've finally gotten off the dime and are issuing a request for proposals. Concourse is in the running as they have the broadest airport experience. However, the recent split between them and Wayport makes me wonder how much revenue they can attract in the near-term from users. Without the Wayport partnership, which allowed Concourse to easily resell access to a number of other partners, including iPass, Boingo, Sprint PCS, and GRIC without direct relationships, Concourse now has to build a bridge to each of these firms. |
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- TengoInternet will provide Wi-Fi to the Rainbow’s End RV park in Livingston, Texas. The news release isn't available yet but should be here later today. RV parks offer Wi-Fi as a way to encourage visitors to stay longer, says TengoInternet.... |
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- Connexion isn't just for the masses any more: Boeing made a deal with Rockwell Collins which will market and install the Connexion service mostly to operators of corporate jets. The service will work the same as Connexion does on the commercial jets but will be called Collins eXchange. Connexion competitor Tenzing had refocused its early efforts for airline Internet service into private planes, but now has a deal with United through Verizon.... |
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- IBM developed a sniffing network much like AirDefense's: The platform is targeted at companies that will deploy the IBM sniffing devices around a building. The sensors look for rogue APs, denial-of-service attacks and compromised WEP keys. IBM is a bit late to the game here. This article points out that AirDefense goes one step further than the IBM solution and can actually shut down APs. |
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- Convergys has come out with a Wi-Fi roaming settlement solution: I imagine this is a service bureau offering but the announcement is pretty vague.... |
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- A deal between the Canadian Hearing Society and SkyFrames will bring the Internet to deaf people in rural communities: As part of the agreement, SkyFrames will use Wi-Fi and satellite backhaul to offer Internet service to rural areas, specifically targeting hearing impaired people. The idea is to offer video conferencing to the deaf, who often prefer to communicate through a visual medium like video conferencing, according to the society. The San Francisco Chronicle recently noted that Apple's iSight camera combined with iChat AV, an audio/video conference program that Mac OS X 10.2 users can buy and is bundled with the about-to-be-released Mac OS X 10. |
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- This columnist points a finger at Intel for the lack of Wi-Fi Zone stickers in venues: He says that it's hard to find the Wi-Fi Alliance's Wi-Fi Zone markers in public hotspots, but Intel's Centrino stickers are everywhere. Apparently Intel said it would put up the two stickers side by side but seems to have neglected to hang the Wi-Fi Alliance mark. Glenn attended 802.11 Planet in June in Boston (now rebranded as Wi-Fi Planet) where Starbucks' brand manager explained that their windows were extremely valuable and that they had no desire yet to put up Wi-Fi Zone stickers. |
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