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Cruise Trains (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - April 25, 2005 The Pullman company ceased providing sleeping cars to the nation's railroads on January 1, 1969 after a century of operating much of the country's luxury trains. Could it be time for the ghost of George Pullman to... |
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Changement d'adresse sur le net (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - Via Yahoo. "C'est un des progrčs nouveaux de cette administration numérique que nous voulons développer", dixit Jean-Pierre Raffarin ŕ propos de la possibilité d'ici le début du mois de juin... |
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Double Dixie Pleasure (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - The Dixie Chicks have hatched a flock. Emily Robison, the dark-haired, guitar-slinging, banjo-picking member of the chart-topping (and surprisingly fertile) country trio, gave birth to twins, a girl named Julianna and a boy named Henry, on April 14. Robison also has a 2-year-old son, Gus. As the Texas trio's site points out, these latest hatchlings "bring the Dixie Chicks baby count to seven. |
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Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: W32/Sdbot-ZC (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - Name: W32/Sdbot-ZC Type: Win32 worm Date: 25 April 2005 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the June 2005 (3.94) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. |
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Aerial taxis preparing for takeoff (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Beginning next year, the service would cater to commuters who want to avoid the delays and stopovers that can plague conventional flights. Photo: DayJet for day-trippers
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Apple Releases Security and Java Updates (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Jeff Carlson (~90 words)Apple Releases Security and Java Updates -- Apple last week released Security Update 2005-004, a 1 MB download that replaces an iSync component that could be vulnerable to a buffer overflow. Also released was Java Update for Mac OS X 10.3.9, which solves a crashing problem with running Java applets that affected some users after they installed the Mac OS X 10. |
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Default Folder X 2.0 Supports Tiger (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Glenn Fleishman (~140 words)Default Folder X 2.0 Supports Tiger -- Default Folder is the first piece of software I add to a Mac OS X system after I install the operating system. The fine people at St. Clair Software last week lived up to their excellent reputation for staying on top of system releases by pre-releasing Default Folder X 2. |
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Mac mini Inspires Web Sites (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Jeff Carlson (~690 words)Looking at the Mac mini's technical specifications alone, the computer sits firmly in the middle of Apple's computer offerings - it's essentially an eMac without the monitor, keyboard, or mouse. What's notable about the mini is its physical size, a diminutive rectangle only slightly larger than most external hard drives. |
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Adobe Swallows Macromedia (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Glenn Fleishman (~950 words)It's taken 20 years, but the graphics application industry is down to two remaining companies from the early days. Adobe announced its plan to acquire Macromedia last week in an all-stock transaction valued at $3.4 billion. The deal, if approved by both boards and the U. |
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A Shiny New NoteBook (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Adam C. Engst (~1110 words)A few weeks back, Circus Ponies released version 2.0 of their elegant note-taking and snippet-keeping application NoteBook, significantly improving the program in key areas. The upgrade reportedly adds over 150 features and is available for free to existing owners, although you do have to upgrade your license code to mesh with a new licensing system. |
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iMac G5: Up In Smoke (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Matt Neuburg (~2540 words)This is the story of how my iMac G5 joined the legion of machines that recently have spontaneously failed, and how the problem was resolved. |
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Hot Topics in TidBITS Talk/25-Apr-05 (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - TidBITS Staff (~270 words)The second URL below each thread description points to the discussion on our Web Crossing server, which will be faster. |
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Take Control News/25-Apr-05 (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Adam C. Engst (~140 words)We're completely on track to release all four of our Tiger titles simultaneously with Tiger itself, and we've come up with yet another reason to upgrade - by getting one of the ebooks for free. |
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EFI (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Extensible Firmware Interface... ... The Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) is a new type of interface between a computer's firmware, hardware, and the operating system. Computers with the Intel Itanium family of processors use EFI to start and load Windows XP 64-bit Edition (Itanium) and the Itanium-based versions of Windows Server 2003. |
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[scs] IBM Research (Apr 25 2005 23:45 GMT) - [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] - Wendy Kellogg from IBM Research says that IBM replaced its solid doors with ones with windows so you could see if someone is on the other side before you slam the door into her. They call this "social translucence." |
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