Topic: COMPUTER - on October 26, 2006 at 11:22:00 PM CEST
No Service Pack 3 Update for Windows XP?
With Microsoft now saying that its next major service pack for Windows XP will not ship until 2008, some Windows users are wondering whether the software upgrade will ever be released.
"The fear is Service Pack 3 will just get killed off," says Jeff Centimano, an IT consultant with Levi, Ray & Shoup, based in Kansas City, Missouri, who says that he's heard concerns from administrators since late last week, when Microsoft announced "preliminary" plans to ship SP3 in the first half of 2008, later than previously expected.
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Topic: BLOG - on October 26, 2006 at 11:19:00 PM CEST
Now Europe Targets Bloggers As Terrorists
Bush administration efforts to infiltrate, misdirect, regulate and pollute the Internet with Neo-Con propaganda, as well as their openly stated agenda to target American bloggers as terrorists, is now being aped by the British government across the pond as well as other major European countries.
Home Secretary John Reid met with ministers from the six largest European Union countries and, according to a BBC report, "agreed to work together to make the internet a "more hostile" place for terrorists."
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Topic: POLITIK - on October 26, 2006 at 11:01:00 PM CEST
Putin indicates he'll still be a player in Russia after '08
President Vladimir Putin, barred by Russia's constitution from running for a third consecutive term, signaled Wednesday that he expects to play a role in setting government policy after he leaves office in 2008.
The 54-year-old Russian leader again fended off speculation that he might be considering a way to serve another term. Supporters and various regional groups, including in Chechnya, have called for amending the country's laws to allow him to stay in power.
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Topic: FUN - on October 26, 2006 at 6:19:00 PM CEST
Microsoft(R) Firefox 2007 Professional
The following bare minimums are essential for the optimum operation of MS Firefox 2007
- A Credit Card
- Microsoft(R) Windows(TM)/Vista Operating System
- Microsoft(R) Mouse & Keyboard (Hyperlinks will NOT work without these)
- Live(TM) Messenger (Required API to maintain dangerous CPU temperatures)
- Microsoft(R) Office 2007 (Provides the ability to scroll webpages)
- Quad Core Processor (For loading Hotmail.com)
- Any SLI Configured Graphics Card > 512mb (TO Display High Definition GIF Images)
- 1024 MB of RAM (Compensation for Frequent Memory Leaks)
- 483MB Disk Space
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 26, 2006 at 5:04:00 PM CEST
Google's YouTube copyright pledge
Google has vowed to take a tough line on copyright when it completes its $1.65bn (£875m) takeover of YouTube.
The video-sharing website's rapid growth has been partly down to the thousands of clips from old TV shows uploaded illegally by its users.
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Topic: NATURE - on October 26, 2006 at 4:23:00 PM CEST
Huge Native American face on Google Earth
Somewhere in Alberta in Canada you can spot mountains that look like the face of an Indian.
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Topic: W A R - on October 26, 2006 at 3:16:00 PM CEST
CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on October 26, 2006 at 3:14:00 PM CEST
Google Under Fire Over Racist Blogs
"Google is being accused of refusing to remove racist blogs targeting minority groups in Australia. Google, whose corporate motto is "don't be evil", says it will take the blogs in question offline only if ordered to do so by a court."
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Topic: MAKE - on October 26, 2006 at 2:56:00 PM CEST
HOW TO - MAKE: sushi
Sushi is expense, it's cheaper and a lot more fun to make it yourself. More so when the instructions come on the nori...
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