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RMS at UCLA (Oct 10 2003 23:06 GMT) - I saw Richard Stallman preach... er... speak at UCLA today. The topic was copyright, and the general feeling amongst the people I went with was that you spend your time alternating between agreeing with him and wanting to hit him.... |
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- It's great when games like this come out. The concept and execution are simple, yet the gameplay is strangely deep. That explains this weeks game pretty well. I found Bontăgo because of the . I'm having fun checking out all the cool games, but ... |
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- Maureen Ryan at Chicago Tribune: An unlikely new source of writing talent: Blogs - Great article about how blogs are becoming portfolios for writers looking for jobs. Ryan mentioned Elizabeth Spiers who wrote a while for Gawker.com, then took a job at New York Magazine to write a blog, The Kicker. |
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- In addition to previous list must blog about not seeing Paul McCartney, Lily's apple, last night's not-meeting. Oh and here... |
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- Arnold Schwarzenegger, who scaled to the top of California politics, could now get a mountain named after him in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. |
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- Wife-swapping's a hit in Britain -- now, we'll see if it can make it in America. |
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- Project description: GPU is a Gnutella client for sharing files and CPU-resources. Our objective is to develop a robust framework for distributed computing on a peer-to-peer grid. We hope to support peaceful, open and free research and to build a cheap supercomputer. |
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- Project administrators: dangermaus, seeschloss |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Ranking: 4932, Activity percentile: 63.66%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Download count: 11 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Public discussion forums: Help, Open Discussion, Developers |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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Routes (Oct 10 2003 23:05 GMT) - (From Glenn Reynolds) Phil Carter makes reference to FedEx creating a private police force to better get information from the joint task forces headed up by the FBI because they weren't able to tap into that information otherwise. He hopes:... |
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- Project administrators: davide178 |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Download count: 0 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushi-devel |
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- Public discussion forums: Open Discussion, Help |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics ( 6 Oct 2003): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Project description: Sushi is a suite of GNOME application that allow people to play a pen-and-paper game across the Internet. |
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- A senior Ulster Unionist was tonight challenged to release a document which he claimed proved that the Democratic Unionists are planning a negative Assembly election campaign. |
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- (Thanks to Google Cache for saving this for me - this is a repost from before my MT got fubarred) T.H.E.M. just reminded me about how much i love this movie. |
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- Developer to buy headquarters building for $11 million; 'It was always our wish to remain here'; Firm faced possibility of losing location after failing to renew lease |
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hunger (Oct 10 2003 23:03 GMT) |
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- This is a table about U.S. Asian Vegetable Market Summary |
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- This is a table about Fresh Herb Market Summary |
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- Here is the story: Moments after learning Friday that Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the mother of the Iranian human rights lawyer prayed to Allah. Ebadi's husband, too, gave thanks for what may lie ahead. "The reform... |
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- Yest another security problem for Microsoft just hit one of out clients hard. "A security issue has been identified... |
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- Mais ŕ un moment donné, y'a toujours quelqu'un qui se dit qu'il fait pas assez d'argent, ou pire, quelqu'un d'autres... |
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- If you're used to running Windows, you can think of Synaptic as a sort of super-dooper, turbocharged, steroid-munching version of the "Add / Remove Software" control panel. Except that it would be rude to even think about comparing them since there's a world more sophistication in Synaptic. Jon Oxer has written a stepthrough article on Synaptic by LinMagAU. |
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- Joel Spolsky: The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) |
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- Nope, I didn't lie. Neither did CNet or Wired. SunnComm, who berated a university student who found a single key depression work around to an apparently not so complex copy protection scheme, has backed down. The protection scheme is one that the creators for some reason confusingly said 90% of people would never try to workaround(then why have it, huh?) and which it claimed three major labels would adopt very soon, was broken by a simply shift key, which I explained disables the copy protection. |
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- Nope, I didn't lie. Neither did CNet or Wired. SunnComm, who berated a university student who found a single key depression work around to an apparently not so complex copy protection scheme, has backed down. The protection scheme is one that the creators for some reason confusingly said 90% of people would never try to workaround(then why have it, huh?) and which it claimed three major labels would adopt very soon, was broken by a simply shift key, which I explained disables the copy protection. |
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- Library and Information Science, Internet Artport Idea Line (This is an interesting way to layout a pseudo-3D timeline, actually more like 2.5D. While time is the independent axis, ideas (mostly technology- and programming-related) form the dependent axis. Because it's a Java applet, it will take a little time to load first. Cool idea. |
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- Film 2003 is the continuation of the long running BBC television series that reviews the latest films. Currently in its latest "2003" guise and now hosted by Jonathan Ross, it has in recent months been running regular preview screenings of forthcoming movies where the tickets are given away for free. The next screening takes place on Tuesday 21st October, 2003 at selected Odeon and UGC cinemas across the country and will be "Secondhand Lions" starring Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. |
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- Oct. 10 - The family of a little girl who was paralyzed by a drunken football fan is suing the NY Giants and the NFL, claiming the leaguer encourages fans to drink. |
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