Topic: COMPUTER - on April 20, 2003 at 9:58:18 PM CEST
Linux erobert die deutschen Amtsstuben
München, Deutschland-Sitz des amerikanischen Software-Hauses, steht vor einer Richtungswahl: Bleibt die Stadt Microsoft treu bei Betriebssystem und Büroanwendungsprogrammen - oder wechselt sie doch lieber zur freien Software Linux? Für die Stadt geht es um 16 000 Rechner und einige Server, für Microsoft um weitaus mehr: "Wenn die größte deutsche Kommune auf Linux umsteigt, ist das ein Signal", sagt Wolowicz. Bis Ende April muß Microsoft ein Angebot abgeben; am 28. Mai entscheidet der Stadtrat.
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Topic: - on April 20, 2003 at 9:54:43 PM CEST
A girl called Lisa Loch
Raab muß zahlen
Raab hatte die Gymnasiastin Ende 2001 bei der Wahl zur „Miss Rhein-Ruhr“ entdeckt und sie anschließend in seiner Sendung „TV Total“ (Pro Sieben) allein auf Grund ihres Namens in die Nähe der Pornobranche gerückt. Die Schülerin hatte dem Gericht erklärt, sie sei zum Gespött ihrer Schule geworden. Sie hatte Raab ursprünglich auf Zahlung von 300.000 Euro Schmerzensgeld verklagt. Ihr Anwalt hat Berufung angekündigt.
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Topic: - on April 20, 2003 at 11:19:59 AM CEST
Laughing gas 'craze' revealed
Laughing gas is becoming a popular recreational drug, say doctors, who warn of potential health risks from its use.
A survey in New Zealand found one in eight students at a university had used nitrous oxide recreationally.
Cannisters of nitrous oxide are used in some domestic appliances - for example cream dispensing containers - and can be bought easily at hardware stores.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 20, 2003 at 11:16:52 AM CEST
Troops find $650 million in Baghdad - Thats mine
Two Army sergeants in Baghdad stumbled across an estimated $650 million in U.S. currency hidden in a cottage, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The sergeants tore down a cinderblock and concrete barricade blocking the cottage door Friday and found 40 sealed, galvanized aluminum boxes lined up on the floor. Breaking open one box, they discovered 40 sealed stacks of uncirculated $100 bills - $100,000 per stack, or $4 million in the box. In all, the 40 boxes were assumed to contain $160 million.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 20, 2003 at 11:10:56 AM CEST
German minister soldiers on to the blues
German Defence Minister Peter Struck, visiting troops in the Balkans, put on dark glasses, a black hat and black suit and leapt on stage as a Blues Brothers look-alike to sing Jailhouse Rock.
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Topic: SECURITY - on April 20, 2003 at 11:08:20 AM CEST
Office workers give away passwords for a cheap pen
Workers are prepared to give away their passwords for a cheap pen, according to a somewhat unscientific - but still illuminating - survey published today.
The second annual survey into office scruples, conducted by the people organising this month's InfoSecurity Europe 2003 conference, found that office workers have learnt very little about IT security in the past year.
If anything, people are even more lax about security than they were a year ago, the survey found.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 20, 2003 at 11:05:35 AM CEST
Billionaire creating science fiction 'experience'
Billionaire Paul Allen, one of the world's richest men, plans to remodel a wing of his Seattle rock 'n' roll shrine, the Experience Music Project, as the Science Fiction Experience.
Allen, a self-described science fiction buff, said the 13,900-square-foot museum is expected to cost nearly $20 million and is to open in summer 2004. It will be added on to the current museum, which is a futuristic, freeform metal structure.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 20, 2003 at 11:01:16 AM CEST
A List of Fetishes
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on April 20, 2003 at 10:52:30 AM CEST
Wife-subduing air raid siren confiscated
A 73-year-old man who used an air raid siren to stun his wife into submission has had it confiscated by German police.
"My wife never lets me get a word in edgeways," the man identified as Vladimir R. told Mannheim police. "So I crank up the siren and let it rip for a few minutes. It works every time. Afterwards, it's real quiet again."
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Topic: Space - on April 20, 2003 at 10:39:57 AM CEST
Private manned space plane unveiled
Fully-built spacecraft, launch system developed in secrecy SOME OF THE BIGGEST names in space, including astronaut Buzz Aldrin, space tourist Dennis Tito and military officials, were on hand for Friday’s demonstration at the Mojave Airport, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. In its first public flight, the White Knight lifted steeply off the windswept tarmac, framed in the distance by dozens of mothballed commercial airliners.
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