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- Microsoft quietly released last week a patch to update the new Firewall contained with Windows XP SP2. The new patch was set to hit the Windows Update Service towards the end of last week. |
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- The Symbian OS/Series 60 worm known as Cabir is set to make it big, as earlier in the week the source code for the worm was leaked onto the Internet. |
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- QUOTE (SLAYER @ Dec 31 2004, 01:02 PM) Yeah thats one of my favorites by Pantera...So you like the guitar work on that album but you think the guitar work on BTR and Arise sucks? Man, you better take another listen. Have you even heard all of those albums? |
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- Forbes: The long awaited follow up to its Neurontin is approved, but sales could be severely limited. |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Ranking: 0, Activity percentile: 0.00%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Download count: 0 |
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- Tracker description: Bug Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Patch Tracking System |
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- Project description: Dawn of the Titans is a project to provide basic softcode/hardcode snippets, advice, and documentation for BattleTechMUX players and staffers alike. This is of particular interest to BTMux coders and admins. |
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- Project administrators: grantblackman, patrickblackman |
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- Abandoned, adopted, raised on a farm, and later reunited with birth family, I ghostwrote long, lost sister's REAL life story. Newly released paperback, "Arlyne Lucille: From...to Heavenly Heights," is available at major online bookstores. Buy Books on the web, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble all have it. |
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- Nobel Peace Prize winner Prof Wangari Maathai will today be a guest at Mukurwe wa Nyagathanga in Murang'a District to usher in the New Year. |
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- Traditional dancers from Jericho welcome Prof Wangari Maathai at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. |
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- In the end, I copied all the campaigns and ads manually. Wasn't too much work in the end, although Google really ought to make it easier than they do at the moment. Thanks for your suggestions CelesteK and Stock. |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Ranking: 718, Activity percentile: 95.65%, |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Download count: 13 |
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- Public mailing lists: gpu-world |
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- Tracker description: Tech Support Tracking System |
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- Tracker description: Feature Request Tracking System |
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- Most recent daily statistics (29 Dec 2004): Commit count: 0; Add count: 0 [Web-based access to repository] |
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- Maybe you've noticed the complaining about the amount of aid that the US and other Western countries are providing in the wake of last week's tsunami. I suppose that that's a reasonable point, but focusing on stinginess or generosity misses the bigger structural problem: why do we fund disaster relief in this ridiculous ad hoc way in the first place? We may not know exactly when it's going to happen or where it's going to occur, but it's a virtual certainty that in the next year something really bad is going to happen somewhere in the world. (Check out this list of disaster for some perspective). |
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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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- For people with advanced but localized melanoma, delivering potent chemotherapy to just the limb with the cancer is highly effective both in terms of local disease control and survival, Dutch clinicians report. This approach, they say in the December Annals of Surgery, "should be considered in all cases of limb-threatening tumors or in situations where simple surgical procedures to obtain local control fail." |
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- Survivors of the deadliest tsunami on record face serious water-borne diseases such as cholera, and will urgently need medicine and access to healthcare in the months ahead, doctors and health experts said on Friday. Gandhimathi Jayaraman, a doctor with the Red Cross tending survivors in some of India's worst-hit areas, said while clean, safe water was now available to some people displaced by the tsunami, the real test would be in the months ahead. |
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- A television commercial for Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s Seasonale misleads consumers by excluding risk information to make the birth control pill seem safer, U.S. health regulators warned in a letter released on Thursday. The commercial suggests use of the oral contraceptive leads to only four menstrual periods a year but fails to mention frequent and sometimes substantial bleeding, the... |
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- Women with type 1 diabetes who monitor their blood glucose daily both before and during pregnancy have better outcomes, Danish researchers report. In the largest study to date of pregnant women with type 1 diabetes, Dr. Dorte M. Jensen of Odense University Hospital and colleagues found that only one-third of women said they monitored their blood sugar levels every day around the time they conceived. |
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- Vietnam may face fresh outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus next month as poultry is transported around the country ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in February, the World Health Organization said. The WHO warning comes after a 16-year-old girl remained in a stable condition in Ho Chi Minh after doctors confirmed she was infected with the virus. "As avian influenza viruses become more active at cooler temperature, further poultry outbreaks, possibly accompanied... |
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- The British Medical Journal (BMJ) said on Friday it has sent documents to U.S. health regulators that it said appear to suggest a link between the antidepressant drug Prozac and suicidal behaviour. The journal said an anonymous source had provided "missing documents" relating to clinical trials of the drug, made by Indianapolis-based drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co. |
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- People who suffer from migraine headaches appear to express more genes that produce platelets, the specialized components in blood that are involved in clotting, researchers report. This finding could lead to "future identification of migraine sub-types that would be able to be identified by a blood test," Dr. Andrew D. Hershey told AMN Health. "This may evolve into individualized treatment based on the gene expression. |
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- People who use an inhaled steroid long-term to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), or emphysema, face a loss of bone mineral density in the hip and spine, a new study shows. The findings suggest the drugs should be prescribed with caution to COPD patients, Dr. Dr. John E. Connett, at the University of Minnesota, told AMN Health, especially because the study also found the medication did not improve lung function. |
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- The immune-suppressant drug tacrolimus, usually used to prevent rejection of transplanted organs, can also help people who suffer from aspirin-triggered asthma, Japanese researchers report. The finding "suggests a new therapeutic strategy for aspirin-induced asthma," investigator Dr. Hiroto Matsuse told AMN Health. |
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- Přináším vám (převzato) Povídku o počinu lásky, který trvá dlouhé roky. Ač je v deseti řádcích, dostala mě.. Tak nějak slastně léčivě jako pohlazení lékaře. Tu dobrou sílu nám přeji do dalšího letu časem – rokem 2005 a dál… (autor: Makozska) |
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- The man infamously parted from his penis 11 years ago was acquitted Monday of charges that he battered family members after the discovery of a sex toy in his bedroom. Once a trainwreck,,,allways a trainwreck,,, |
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- Please take a moment and choose which one of the following answers was the most important wireless... issue of 2004. If you feel we haven’t listed your most important issue, please leave us a comment below. We’ |
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- Xeni Jardin:... Comprehensive collection of materials related to the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, including animations, charts, links, and seismograph recordings, and helful explanations on how to read them. Link (thanks, Ben) |
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- There is a phpBB worm and anti-worm worm on the loose. What is interesting is that neither PHP nor phpBB are taking responsibility for it. |
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