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- There's something whimsically quixotic and oddly idealistic about Professor Ralph Pettman's quest. In a world beset by war, terrorism, disease, poverty, ignorance and, just now, horrendous death and destruction from an epic natural disaster, Pettman hopes you'll take to heart an issue that is, well, more than a little different. ... |
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- Project description: A Gnutella client for sharing CPU-time and a framework for distributed computing on a P2P grid. We support peaceful and open research and hope to build an internet supercomputer. Right now, we are able to render videos on a cluster of about 10 computers. |
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- Project administrators: akoese, artee, dangermaus, seeschloss, simbasabi, wppetersen |
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- Xeni Jardin:... In case you or your TiVo find yourself in front of the TV tonight (Wednesday, December 29), I'll be appearing on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings in a segment about a "people of the year" from the tech world. I'm not one of those people, but like any good loudmouthed blogger, I'll always have something to say about whoever was chosen. Details and local air times: Link... |
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- "People who have lots of choices, who can 'roll their own' (as Dan Gillmor says) don't like to be lectured to. |
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- Chip stocks got bumped and Proxim got dumped in an otherwise slow... trading day. |
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- Code for virus that hits Symbian-based cell phones released. |
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- One of the Internet's early mantras encouraged "leveraging" one medium -- "bricks and mortar" -- with another -- the Web. |
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- The new variants of the Santy worm show that the hacker community, however disorganized, has the manpower to dish out unrelenting threats. |
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- nomadicpuma writes "In tandem with the return of the One-Man Star Wars Trilogy to Chicago (covered on Slashdot) is a new show giving the Lord of the Rings trilogy the same treatment. The One-Man Lord of the Rings, a performance of all three books by one actor in 60 minutes, will also be showing at the Apollo Theater through February 14, and by all indications looks to be similarly excellent."... |
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- PeopleSoft CEO David Duffield resigned on Dec. 21, just eight days after Oracle announced that it had reached an agreement to buy the company for about $10.3 billion. |
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- The tsunamis that killed more than 60,000 people on Sunday should have minimal impact on South Asia's IT industry, which isn't based in the affected coastal areas. |
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- Asian telecommunications carriers are rushing to restore service to customers in areas hit by Sunday's tsunamis and set up centers from which people can make calls at no cost. |
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- Spam reports from America Online members dropped from a daily average of almost 11 million in November 2003 to a daily average of about 2.2 million last month, the company said this week. |
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- initially announced as $15M but that was too embarrassing) And after that initial embarrassment, he then announced it in billions, not millions. The guy is a fucking buffoon who doesn't even have the good grace to vaguely disguise it.Miss P. Dubya |
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- I'm getting back on the daily posting bandwagon, even if it kills me. |
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- We received an email from some friends of our daughter. They were at Ko Lanta, Thailand where it is estimated several hundred are dead. We were all very worried about them, and very relieved to hear from them. I want... |
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- i hope it all goes well for you, congrats man great job! |
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- Mother nature has been in the front of people's minds, tongues, and hearts. This tsunami impacted more than life in the Indian ocean - reminding all of us that Mother Nature always gets the last word. Quite a few netizens have been offering some kind of disaster relief through their sites, including a fellow Gnomie, Mark Poblete: Huge Lockergnome fan, and not looking to self-promote, but just trying to help - I put together a page with links to all of the online donation sites I could find that are directing aid towards the relief efforts in southeast Asia following last week's earthquakes and tsunamis. You've probably already seen that link (as had I, without knowing that Mark knew me). |
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- Antallet af retsmøder i byretssagen mod Tvinds stifter Mogens Amdi Petersen og syv andre Tvind-folk er nærmest løbet løbsk, skriver dagbladet Børsen. |
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- Joel Makauskas, a working holiday-maker from Australia's sunny Gold Coast, is just about to begin playing his seventh consecutive set at the Rose's Jam Night. (Banff Crag and Canyon - December 29) |
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- A course of action is set for Banff town council as it takes aim at the future.Council has released its priorities for the coming year and is looking for alternative ways to bring money into the town. (Banff Crag and Canyon - December 29) |
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- A former Stratford resident wants to draw attention to Canada's controversial conditional sentencing laws with a documentary about the vicious stabbing that nearly killed his brother and the conditional sentence his assailant received. (Seaforth Huron (ON) Expositor - December 29) |
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- Banff Hockey Academy head coach Lawrence Sacharuk says he's looking forward to good things from the hockey club in the new year, as a season already full of highs and lows enters the stretch drive. (Banff Crag and Canyon - December 29) |
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- Since rain turned to ice on December 10 and 11, streets and sidewalks have posed a challenge to both motorists and pedestrians, with more than one walker taken to hospital as a result of a fall on icy sidewalks. (Banff Crag and Canyon - December 29) |
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- Sporting activity in Banff this year included everything from a surprise finish in the fiercely competitive local Bow Valley Basketball League to the Greatness of Grandi over two days in December (Banff Crag and Canyon - December 29) |
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- Banff organizers plan to set off a fireworks display over downtown Banff at midnight. The best place to view the spectacle is from Caribou Street. Downtown Banff will also be a great place to see the torchlight parade coming down the North American runs at Mount Norquay at 7 p.m. (Banff Crag and Canyon - December 29) |
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- People send me crazy stuff in the e-mail. Here is a link to a home video to accompany (I'm told) a song by Romanian pop sensation Ozone.... |
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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 (27 Dec 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Most recent daily statistics (27 Dec 2004): Ranking: 4618, Activity percentile: 72.38%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (27 Dec 2004): Download count: 16 |
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- Public mailing lists: sushiwiki-devel |
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- The Justice Department has asked a federal court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of an 86-year-old man who allegedly served in the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police during World War II. |
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- Project administrators: egroise |
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- Project description: SushiWiki is a WikiWikiWeb like Web application running on .NET platforms. It is written in C#, uses ASP.NET features and stores data in SQL databases or flat XML files. |
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