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- The story of the young woman in Florida, Terri Schiavo, who has been in a persistent vegetative state since 1990 has been widely reported in the media, as the woman's husband and family have been fighting in the courts. A... |
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Lamb (Oct 15 2003 23:59 GMT) - Went and saw Lamb at the Metro in Sydney last night. I was a bit apprehensive about going because I went to see them last time they were out for their first show ever in Australia and it was simply... |
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- George Anzinger announced the first release of the Variable Scheduling Timeouts (VST) package. VST aims to decrease power consumption on an idle computer through "tick elimination". George explains that VST adds logic to the idle task, scanning the timer list and skipping timer interrupts when there is no timer near. He says, "The net result is that a [quiet] system will use far less power as it does not need to wake up [every] 1/HZ timer tick." When asked if statistics were available showing how much power the VST patch actually saves, George replied that this was still an early version of the code, and that by making it available he was hoping others would try it and share their results. |
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- Simon Derr recently announced patches for the 2.6.0-test kernel (currently i386 and ia64 only) introducing 'CPUSETs'. He explains: "CPUSETs are lightweight objects in the linux kernel that enable users to partition their multiprocessor machine by creating execution areas. |
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- Pawel Jakub Dawidek announced that GEOM Gate [story] is ready for testing, though internal documentation still notes, "This is highly experimental software and isn't finished yet. Keep that in mind." GEOM Gate is built upon the GEOM 'stackable BIO subsystem' [story], and allows for the remote mounting of disk devices across a network. From the documentation: "For example you have two machines: |
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- Something to look out for. Next Saturday, at the ITU Telecom World 2003 event, there may be a new kind of "real" Role Playing Game. Something in-between a role playing game and a flash mob happening. All potential users have to gather at a specific point to participate. Each individual will play the role of a high tech executive. |
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- I have to get out my currency converter now. |
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- We're just getting started! |
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- "When Amazon.com laid off 1,300 employees in early 2001, it sought to buffer the cuts by creating a stock trust that would allow them "to continue to participate in Amazon.com's future." " Good of them to follow through on this. (Peter Raymond) |
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Friends (Oct 15 2003 23:57 GMT) - I've wavered back and forth on the topic of whether I'm an emotional person or not for quite some time.... |
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- I wrote a very personal poem. Actually I did not. You did. You, the search engine users. Thanks. |
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- [source, source]BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - A massive explosion ripped through a U.S. diplomatic vehicle Wednesday, killing at least three... |
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Gli UtOnti (Oct 15 2003 23:57 GMT) - CRISI DEL SETTIMO ANNO TRA CLARENCE E I SUOI UTENTI Era il 15 ottobre 1996 quando in rete si udě il primo vagito di Clarence. Le leggenda narra che alcuni mesi prima due dei fondatori, in preda ad una crisi... |
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Gli UtOnti (Oct 15 2003 23:57 GMT) - CRISI DEL SETTIMO ANNO TRA CLARENCE E I SUOI UTENTI Era il 15 ottobre 1996 quando in rete si udě il primo vagito di Clarence. Le leggenda narra che alcuni mesi prima due dei fondatori, in preda ad una crisi... |
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- Oct. 15 - A young girl fights for her life after being hit by a train while walking along train tracks. |
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- Oct. 15 - The Cubs have one, last chance Wednesday to shake off Tuesday's eighth inning meltdown, and win a World Series trip. |
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- The search goes on for a stolen laptop computer that contains sensitive information about security at all the commercial airports in the U.S. It ha... - www.indymedia. |
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- Citing the lack of Hebrew support for Mac Office, Israel has dropped Microsoft as a solutions provider. |
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- Go to Two Sleepy Mommies and read this beautiful post The night I met someone like Terri Via Video meliora,... |
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- Matt Langer has an idea that might be crazy enough to work: get a bunch of A-list bloggers to work together to raise $156,000 to put a full-page ad in the Sunday NY Times. The goal? Highlight the ability of weblogs to bring undiluted news and commentary to the masses, and shine a spotlight on the failure of the mass media to do the same. You never know… |
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- While I'm waiting for the page proofs of Chapter 33 to print out I thought I'd add a bit more information on EJP with IBM WebSphere 2nd Edition. Our new book, (which is drawn from the 1st edition) improves upon it by updating the versions of WAS and WSAD covered to WAS 5.02 and WSAD 5.1, now covers Struts, XML/XSLT, Web Services and J2EE Security (four entirely new topics) and vastly expands the coverage of patterns and best practices for J2EE, including an in-depth discussion of O/R techniques without Entity beans. We tried to address all of the major reader comments from the first edition, while not losing the cohesiveness that the first edition had. |
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- Calling All Child Advocates! On Wednesday, October 15, you have an opportunity to help ensure that the more than six million children who live in households headed by grandparents and other relatives -- many of them because their parents are unable or unwilling to raise them -- are not left behind. Please join us in urging Congress to give these kinship care families the same supports as other families. HOW YOU CAN HELP ATTEND THE GRANDRALLY - Come be a voice for America's children on October 15 at the GrandRally at the U.S. |
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- Saturday 8th November 2003 A night of decadence for your ears and eyes Live: Sensual Bellydancing by Victoria K. DJs: Ubu Soundsystem Tickets: $7b411 |
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- I use SpamSieve with Entourage and it works beautifully. Sometimes, though, a false positive occurs: email that isn't spam is marked as spam. I routinely check my spam folder to see if any messages have slipped through, but with over 200 spams per day, this is tedious at best. I've emailed Michael the idea, but here it is again: |
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- Thanks so much to all who replied. I am planning |
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- Noel Davis looks at problems in XFree86, Stunnel, Exim, wu-ftpd, pam_smb, gdm2, pam_ldap, whois, the atari800 emulator, Horde, MPlayer, and Node. |
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- Java scales ... but so does PHP. That's the argument Jack Herrington puts forth in comparing how each can be used to create web applications with modern architectures. |
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- JavaHelp offers a full-featured help system for Java applications, but creating and maintaining help content can be tricky. Austin King offers an alternative workflow, based on DocBook and XSL. |
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- Matthew Langer wants to put a full-page ad in in the NY Times for $156K. |
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- On the Syndication list, the rarest thing -- a brilliant idea. Use robots.txt, says Chad Everett, which (apparently) is extensible, to point to the OPML list of public feeds. Aggregators look for robots.txt, and then looks for the appropriate record, and off you go. |
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- "NTL has cut off Linux users from its Freedom dial-up ISP service after imposing new dialler software that only runs on Windows and the Mac OS..."... |
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- Nomar drives one to the wall in left-center. It's a triple, but Matsui makes his 2nd bad defensive play of the game, and throws the ball into the stands allowing Nomar to score. Ramriez follows with a double off the... |
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- [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - "NTL has cut off Linux users from its Freedom dial-up ISP service after imposing new dialler software that only runs on Windows and the Mac OS..."... |
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Niet dus!!! (Oct 15 2003 23:54 GMT) - De NUON gooit slechts kaartjes in de bus. Wanneer zij! van plan zijn langs te komen. Om de meters op te nemen... Dat je dan dus thuis moet zijn... |
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