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A Civil War fight closely watched (Dec 27 2004 20:59 GMT) - Bob writes "Did Confederate Gen. Evander McIver Law loot the South Carolina Statehouse when he fled Columbia, SC ahead of General Sherman in 1865? Well, trying to figure out the rightful owner is now playing out in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court: |
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Google and Libraries (Dec 27 2004 20:59 GMT) - Anonymous Patron sends us a blog post entitled "Amateur Megalomania: Google and Libraries." In it, the author proposes a new scheme for copyright that would end libraries' 'institutionalized theft,' as he calls it, of authors' works. Interesting read. |
ap-project.com
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Er nervt nicht nur mich, der Lindenzwerg (Dec 27 2004 20:58 GMT) - Nachdem ich (Mob) nun verschiedentlich beim Zappen in "Popstars" geraten bin, möchte ich hier mal eins ganz deutlich sagen: LUKAS HILBERT, du bist ein solch unsympathischer, großkotziger, schlecht singender, zwergenwüchsiger Pseudomacho, daß man in jeder Sekunde, in der man Dich auf dem Bildschirm sieht, den Wunsch in sich spürt herauszuschreien: "GEH WEG! Lass diese armen Menschen in Ruh und lebe Deinen Minderwertigkeitskomplex woanders aus!!" So, das mußte mal... |
EdCone.com
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Diary of a Soldier: "(I)t ... (Dec 27 2004 20:57 GMT) - Diary of a Soldier: "(I)t is the eve of my deployment, and my troops and I are ready." Good luck to one of Greensboro's own, and all those who go with him. |
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FORTUNE: "Why There's No Escaping ... (Dec 27 2004 20:56 GMT) - FORTUNE: "Why There's No Escaping the Blog." Lots of interesting stuff on blogs from a corporate PR and marketing perspective. The only way this story could be better for selling Hugh Hewitt's new book on blogs, with its strong emphasis on blogs and business, would be if it, er, mentioned... |
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FORTUNE: "Why There's No Escaping ... (Dec 27 2004 20:56 GMT) - FORTUNE: "Why There's No Escaping the Blog." Lots of interesting stuff on blogs from a corporate PR perspective. The only way this story could be better for selling Hugh Hewitt's new book on blogs, with its strong emphasis on blogs and business, would be if it, er, mentioned Hugh's book... |
Meerkat: An Open Wire Service
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inline java code into jython (Dec 27 2004 20:56 GMT) - This recipe shows how to insert java code into a jython program. The java code is automatically compiled and the resulting class is imported and returned. Compilation only occurs after a change of the java source. |
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Firebird 1.5.2 is Released (Dec 27 2004 20:56 GMT) - Firebird V1.5.x is the first release of the Firebird 2 codebase and represents a significant milestone for the developers and the whole Firebird project, but it is not an end in itself. With these release, major development continues toward the next point release on the journey to Firebird V2.0. |
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Calling components safely (Dec 27 2004 20:56 GMT) - Clicking on a hypertext link while viewing a PDF file shouldn't be a security problem as long as you trust the viewer it invokes. But users of xpdf version 0.90 discovered that this assumption was an extremely bad one. When an xpdf user clicked on a hypertext link, xpdf started up a viewer (Netscape by default) and sent the URL to the viewer. So far, so good. |
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Another AmigaOS4 update available (Dec 27 2004 20:56 GMT) - Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS4 development team have announced the immediate availability of another update of the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release for all registered users. Also in addition to AmigaOne hardware and older BlizzardPPC / CyberstormPPC equipped classic Amigas, new AmigaOS4 supported PPC hardware for classic Amiga 1200 computers has recently been announced. |
The Media Drop
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No decline here (Dec 27 2004 20:55 GMT) - Kevin at PubliusTX points out the reaction of Pegasus News to an article in the Dallas Morning News about how blog readership is "on the decline." The piece unfortunately focuses on political blogs as the bellwhether for the entire "industry,"... |
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