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- BEIJING, June 24 (Xinhuanet) -- A Brazilian team has discovered a naturally caffeine-free coffee plant growing wild in Ethiopia, leading the prospect of a cup of freshly-ground arabica that will not keep people awake. The team says they disco |
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- Dusty Nix in the Ledger Enquirer (GA) Consider two "drug wars" -- one a highly and expensively hyped crusade, the other quieter; but both of tremendous social, economic, legal and cultural significance over the last few decades. One, waged principally against opiates, cannabis and cocaine by state and federal governments for more than 20 years, has cost billions, perhaps trillions of dollars in taxpayer money; taxed the resources of already overworked law enforcement agencies; sustained a criminal empire the size and riches of which would dwarf the booze kingpins of the 1920s and '30s; |
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- Bryan Henderson has written a great after-action report of his struggles against leftist oppression at Princeton Senior High School. As Dean Esmay notes, the left and the right have swapped oppressor/oppressee roles over the past century without much notice. I... |
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- A frightening sex attack, and the victim is speaking exclusively to Eyewitness News. |
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- "SpamAssassin has graduated from the Apache Incubator Project to become a full-fledged top level project in the Apache Software Foundation. Daniel Quinlan will be the PMC Chair of the Apache SpamAssassin." |
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- "Novell's acquisition of open-source start-up Ximian almost a year ago marked a turning point for the networking giant. Losing out to Microsoft in the struggle for domination of the network operating-system market precipitated a downward slide that saw the company pushed to the peripheries of directory and security software. But the rise and rise of Linux, together with some savvy management by newly appointed chief executive Jack Messman, offered the side-lined firm a much needed toe-hold back into the big league. Snapping up Ximian, a provider of desktop and network management software for Linux and Unix, followed closely by the SuSE Linux distribution, at a stroke put the former proprietary provider into the bosom of the open-source community. |
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- "Microsoft Corp. says it is looking to turn over more of its programs to open-source software developers, playing a greater role in a process that the Redmond company has criticized strongly at times in the past. Money-makers like the company's Windows operating system and Office productivity suite aren't on the table -- or anywhere near it. |
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- "Camino is a web browser optimized for Mac OS X with a Cocoa user interface, and powerful Gecko layout engine. It's the simple, secure, and fast browser for Mac OS X. Camino practices the art of simplicity with an uncluttered user interface but with the features you expect from a modern browser like tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking settings. Integrated with Google, Camino's Google search field lets you find what you need faster. We take your security and privacy seriously. |
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- "Someone on Apple's mailing list for Xgrid, Apple's clustering software, just announced an 'Xgrid agent for Linux and other Unix platforms' available for download. There are still some issues being worked on like large file support, but it does allow you to simply add a Unix node to your existing Xgrid cluster." |
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- "Announcing Slackware Linux 10.0! The first Slackware release of 2004, Slackware Linux 10.0 continues the more than ten-year Slackware tradition of simplicity, stability, and security. |
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- Business News: TW buy boosts Net blurb biz -- Time Warner put its money where its mouth is in supporting its struggling America Online unit Thursday, purchasing interactive marketing company Advertising.com for $435 million in cash in a bid to increase AOL's ad business. |
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- Business News: Exec will work across divisions to develop strategy -- U Studios chief spokeswoman Susan Fleishman was Thursday named senior VP for community affairs at parent NBC Universal. |
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- Film News: World Brief -- The Berlin Film Festival and the German government have set up the World Cinema Fund to support filmmakers from emerging countries. |
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- Film News: World Brief -- CineArt House is catching the digital wave. |
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- Film News: 'From Reel to Unreal' report critiques gov't pic policy -- A parliamentary committee has panned some Australian films as "worthy but dull," urging greater accountability for government funding agencies. |
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- Film News: Co. looks to market library outside of trad channels -- Munich-based film production and funding company Cinerenta is eyeing expansion in South East Asia, particularly the fast-growing film and capital markets in China, Korea and Japan. |
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- Business News: Pubcaster's tyke nets impact private webs -- Commercial children's channels Nickelodeon, the Cartoon Network and Fox Kids are being hit hard in the U.K. market by the success of the BBC's two digital kids' webs, CBeebies and CBBC. |
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- Film News: Distrib hopes to rekindle its stagnating acquisition biz -- Distrib Gaga Communications has surprised the industry by poaching Twentieth Century Fox Japan's general manager Mitsumasa Sakamoto. |
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- Business News: Court stalls media urge to merge -- In a major blow to media giants on the hunt for more mergers, a U.S. appeals court Thursday put an indefinite hold on many of the Federal Communications Commission's new media ownership rules and sent the agency back to the drawing board until it can explain itself. |
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- Slashback this evening brings you a dose of updates and clarifications to previous stories about Yahoo!'s block on third-party messaging products, |
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- Wonkette reports Dick Cheney told one of our favorite Senators, Patrick Leahy, on the Senate floor to "go f**k yourself." CNN is reporting that on the floor of the Senate yesterday, Dick Cheney told Sen. Pat Leahy, " |
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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 internet supercomputer |
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- Project administrators: akoese, artee, dangermaus, kuya_oso, seeschloss, simbasabi, wppetersen |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Jun 2004): Ranking: 1655, Activity percentile: 91.42%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Jun 2004): Download count: 36 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Public discussion forums: Help, Open Discussion, Developers, Network status |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Jun 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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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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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Jun 2004): 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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- Project administrators: davide178 |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Jun 2004): Ranking: 18084, Activity percentile: 6.17%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (22 Jun 2004): Download count: 0 |
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- The CDC just released a study that shows the number of people who've survived cancer has gone way up. |
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- I was a bad foreigner yesterday. I mocked someone. A friend and I were walking on Chongching South Road (where I often run into Brainy Lady and Danny) to the bus station and a woman headbutted right into him. We... |
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- AllHeadlineNews.com - Jun 25 2004 4:49:0 GMT |
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- but I am from 100% hummidity Sour Lake, Tx. Must be hot down south. We have yet to see summer. Tent camped in Ely Minnesota a few week ago and it was 35 degree. My wife had been dragging her feet and agreeing to the tear. |
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