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What did Bush know and when did he know it? (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - 9/11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean's suggestion that the administration could have prevented the terror attacks may signal a new, aggressive approach. |
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"The Fog of War" (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - Errol Morris tries to pin down Vietnam War chess-master Robert McNamara, and the results are fascinating -- also troubling, deeply confusing and way too artistically precious. |
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"The Fog of War" (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - Errol Morris tries to pin down Vietnam War chess-master Robert McNamara, and the results are fascinating -- also troubling, deeply confusing and way too artistically precious. |
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Red Hat's Owen Taylor on GTK+ (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - OSNews posted a very interesting interview with Owen Taylor, of Red Hat and GTK+/Pango & Gnome fame. Owen discusses the new features to be found on GTK+ 2.6 and 3.0, where the GTK+ project is heading, support for Cairo and freedesktop.org's new X server, Glade, performance, OpenGL and other new widgets planned, GTK+ language bindings and the possibility of Mono's GTK# becoming the language of choice on Gnome in the future. |
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Roll your own secret Santa Web application (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - In the spirit of the season, Santa's helper Merlin Hughes, who doubles in real life as a Java developer, presents the design and implementation of a J2EE-based secret Santa Web application, along with a discussion of the tools and technologies that can be used to ease the development of such applications. The articles (also see Part 2 and Part 3) provide a broad overview of how to build a J2EE application from the ground up, using some modern tools and frameworks, with details of how these |
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Red Hat's Owen Taylor on GTK+ (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - OSNews posted a very interesting interview with Owen Taylor, of Red Hat and GTK+/Pango & Gnome fame. Owen discusses the new features to be found on GTK+ 2.6 and 3.0, where the GTK+ project is heading, support for Cairo and freedesktop.org's new X server, Glade, performance, OpenGL and other new widgets planned, GTK+ language bindings and the possibility of Mono's GTK# becoming the language of choice on Gnome in the future. |
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Red Hat's Owen Taylor on GTK+ (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - OSNews posted a very interesting interview with Owen Taylor, of Red Hat and GTK+/Pango & Gnome fame. Owen discusses the new features to be found on GTK+ 2.6 and 3.0, where the GTK+ project is heading, support for Cairo and freedesktop.org's new X server, Glade, performance, OpenGL and other new widgets planned, GTK+ language bindings and the possibility of Mono's GTK# becoming the language of choice on Gnome in the future. |
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Roll your own secret Santa Web application (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - In the spirit of the season, Santa's helper Merlin Hughes, who doubles in real life as a Java developer, presents the design and implementation of a J2EE-based secret Santa Web application, along with a discussion of the tools and technologies that can be used to ease the development of such applications. The articles (also see Part 2 and Part 3) provide a broad overview of how to build a J2EE application from the ground up, using some modern tools and frameworks, with details of how these |
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Red Hat's Owen Taylor on GTK+ (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - OSNews posted a very interesting interview with Owen Taylor, of Red Hat and GTK+/Pango & Gnome fame. Owen discusses the new features to be found on GTK+ 2.6 and 3.0, where the GTK+ project is heading, support for Cairo and freedesktop.org's new X server, Glade, performance, OpenGL and other new widgets planned, GTK+ language bindings and the possibility of Mono's GTK# becoming the language of choice on Gnome in the future. |
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Roll your own secret Santa Web application (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - In the spirit of the season, Santa's helper Merlin Hughes, who doubles in real life as a Java developer, presents the design and implementation of a J2EE-based secret Santa Web application, along with a discussion of the tools and technologies that can be used to ease the development of such applications. The articles (also see Part 2 and Part 3) provide a broad overview of how to build a J2EE application from the ground up, using some modern tools and frameworks, with details of how these |
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Eben Moglen on SCO v. IBM (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - (a new IT Conversation) In 1992, Eben Moglen "signed on for the duration of the revolution" as the unpaid general council of Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation. Now we hear his perspectives on the SCO Group's litigation against IBM. What's SCO CEO Darl McBride's real motivation? Eben suggests, "SCO's job here was to raise its stock price and merely having a contract and trade secret lawsuit against IBM was not likely to raise its stock price much." Hence SCO's demands that Linux users pay SCO a license fee. |
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Eben Moglen on SCO v. IBM (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - (a new IT Conversation) In 1992, Eben Moglen "signed on for the duration of the revolution" as the unpaid general council of Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation. Now we hear his perspectives on the SCO Group's litigation against IBM. What's SCO CEO Darl McBride's real motivation? Eben suggests, "SCO's job here was to raise its stock price and merely having a contract and trade secret lawsuit against IBM was not likely to raise its stock price much." Hence SCO's demands that Linux users pay SCO a license fee. |
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Eben Moglen on SCO v. IBM (Dec 20 2003 23:12 GMT) - (a new IT Conversation) In 1992, Eben Moglen "signed on for the duration of the revolution" as the unpaid general council of Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation. Now we hear his perspectives on the SCO Group's litigation against IBM. What's SCO CEO Darl McBride's real motivation? Eben suggests, "SCO's job here was to raise its stock price and merely having a contract and trade secret lawsuit against IBM was not likely to raise its stock price much." Hence SCO's demands that Linux users pay SCO a license fee. |
A Metaphor Gone Metastatic
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Spammer Watch? (Dec 20 2003 23:11 GMT) - A friend just got some spam. The spam had her name, and the name of her place of business. She has given out that combination of information to two places: Amazon.com and Toys in Babeland. |
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Ouch! (Dec 20 2003 23:11 GMT) - You thought you had a bad day at the office last week? Not compared to this guy you didn't. An... |
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Second Puberty (Dec 20 2003 23:10 GMT) - The later years of W. B. Yeats brought his best poetry, along with personal melodrama on an epic scale. (The... |
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PHP Class 'Huffman Compress' released (Dec 20 2003 23:08 GMT) - This class is intented to perform Huffman static compression on files with a PHP script. Such compression is essentially useful for reducing the size of texts by about 43% ; it is at its best when working with data containing strong redundancies at the character level -- that is, the opposite of a binary file in which the characters would be spread over the whole ASCII alphabet. It is questionable whether anyone would want to do such an operation with PHP, when C implementations of much stronger and more versatile algorithms are readily avaible as PHP functions. The main drawback of this script class is slowness despite processing intensiveness (7 to 8 seconds to compress a 300Kb text, about 25 seconds to expand it back). |
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