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Rohos Welcome 1.1 (May 02 2005 17:59 GMT) - Rohos Welcome installs a new featured welcome-screen with security panel and shutdown dialog. It's easy-to-use, reliable, user-friendly and smarter than the typical Windows login. Also you can configure your USB flash drive to log into Windows without... |
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Robotic cranes will serve patrons of new USU library this fall (May 02 2005 17:59 GMT) - Anonymous Patron writes "I for one welcome our new robotic overlords. Salt Lake Tribune - Utah Reports When the construction dust settles at Utah State University this fall and some 1.5 million books and documents are moved across campus, high-tech robotic cranes will begin stalking the shelves on behalf of patrons in the new Merrill-Cazier Library. " |
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Library staff are unsung heroes (May 02 2005 17:59 GMT) - Anonymous Patron writes "A Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Column By Greg Hill director of Fairbanks North Star Borough libraries. The quiet, orderly library you enjoy is maintained by an unsung and courageous staff. The pleasant reference librarian who helped you find just the right book, wiring diagram, tax form or pharmaceutical counter-indication has also in the last month faced down burly drunks, comforted lost children and defused confrontations between angry teenagers. They must be bouncers, counselors and social workers, as well as skilled researchers. They often put themselves in scary and uncomfortable situations to protect everyone else's library experience. |
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Wireless Laptop Survey (May 02 2005 17:59 GMT) - This was originally posted on LibWireless and various other lists. The link to the presentation and to the survey data is included. Look at the presentation as it is very good and filled with lots of useful information. --- Bill Drew With apologies for the delays in posting this, and for any cross-postings, here are the results of the surveys I conducted in March. Members of this and other lists were asked to participate in one of 3 concurrent surveys. |
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Books In the 'Blurbosphere' (May 02 2005 17:59 GMT) - Some of the blurbs:acclaimed -- eagerly awaited--meticulously researched--profoundly insightful--towering achievement--gripping--compell mesmerizing--phantasmagorical- page-turnerWilliam Safire muses about Charles McGrath's recent uncovering of the literary noun - "blurbosphere": ''the throbbing universe of book promotion,'' coined on the analogy of blogosphere. Safire categorizes what he calls the "straining-to-sell world of book marketing" into the dull, the brilliant and those in between, from his NYT column "On Language". |
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Seattle Library: Loveable, Flaws and All (May 02 2005 17:59 GMT) - An editorial by columnist Nicole Brodeur in the Sunday Seattle Times about their much-touted, and sometimes tut-tutted one-year old main library.A quote to contemplate, by Rolf Hapel, a library director from Denmark; "Many libraries are the domain of the book, yours is the domain of the people." |
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Unlearned rabbi rages at Ratzinger (May 02 2005 17:58 GMT) - "Liberals can always be trusted to see God in Mumia Abu-Jamal and the devil in the Pope. As if on cue, they launched a rash of appalling attacks to mark the beginning of Benedict XVI's pontificate. Rabbi Michael Lerner, the editor of TIKKUN, a befuddled, New-Age magazine, emphasizing interfaith activities, wasn't persuaded by good manners, or by the Holy Father's brilliant mind and beatific smile -- the whole holy package, really -- to withhold his... |
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Toshiba Demonstrates Cell Microprocessor (May 02 2005 17:58 GMT) - [Slashdot] - Cybro writes "Toshiba has demonstrated some cool applications for the Cell Microprocessor. They also revealed that they have written their own OS for the new processor. However the article on TechOn does not reveal the license of the OS." |
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A Review of GCC 4.0 (May 02 2005 17:58 GMT) - [Slashdot] - ChaoticCoyote writes " I've just posted a short review of GCC 4.0, which compares it against GCC 3.4.3 on Opteron and Pentium 4 systems, using LAME, POV-Ray, the Linux kernel, and SciMark2 as benchmarks. |
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Tausende Handys von Virus befallen (May 02 2005 17:58 GMT) - [N24 - Wir kommen zur Sache.] - Inzwischen trifft es nicht mehr nur Computer: Der Handyvirus Cabir reist um die Welt und hat inzwischen das dicht besiedelte Europa erreicht. |
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FDP: Bürgergeld soll alles einfacher machen (May 02 2005 17:58 GMT) - [N24 - Wir kommen zur Sache.] - Die FDP will die mehr als 100 verschiedenen Sozialleistungen zu einer Grundsicherung zusammenführen. Einen entsprechenden Leitantrag soll der Bundesparteitag in Köln beschließen. |
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Lynndie England bekennt sich schuldig (May 02 2005 17:58 GMT) - [N24 - Wir kommen zur Sache.] - Die Fotos, auf denen sie bei der Misshandlung von irakischen Gefangenen zu sehen war, gingen um die Welt. Jetzt hat sich die US-Soldatin England zu ihren Taten bekannt. |
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