Topic: - on November 3, 2002 at 1:55:43 PM CET
Europe's Microsoft Alternative
N O T in A U S T R I A
Region in Spain Abandons Windows, Embraces Linux
Luis Millan Vazquez de Miguel, a college professor turned politician, is succeeding where multibillion-dollar, multinational corporations have failed. He is managing to unseat Microsoft Corp. as the dominant player in the software industry, at least in his little part of the world.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 12:22:45 AM CET
Namibia wisely spurns M$ 'gift' in favor of Linux
A U S T R I A -- N O T
Imagine the pleasure with which SchoolNet would initially have confronted a charitable overture from Microsoft involving free software. Now imagine the disappointment of learning that accepting the 'gift' would entail outlays of money in the range of fifteen times the value of the M$ Trojan horse.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 11:52:50 PM CET
Judge OKs Most Microsoft Provisions
Civil Action No. 98-1233 (CKK)
A federal judge on Friday approved most of the provisions of an antitrust settlement between Microsoft Corp. and the Justice Department largely setting aside concerns by some states that the sanctions were too light on the software giant. The court is satisfied that the parties have reached a settlement which comports with the public interest," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
Microsoft said it was reviewing the decision.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 11:38:52 PM CET
Tetris, a popular computer game, turns out to be hard for a reason
NP or not NP?
TETRIS, a computer game invented in 1984, has sold over 60m copies. It is played by organising a sequence of falling blocks in a rectangular well.
Dr Demaine and his colleagues have demonstrated that Tetris belongs to a class of mathematical problems known as NP-complete.
In mathematical jargon, that would mean showing that P=NP.
Most mathematicians believe that P and NP are not, in fact, equal—although none know how to prove that, either. For the lucky person who manages to prove either that P=NP or, contrariwise, that it doesn't, a prize of $1m awaits, courtesy of the Clay Mathematics Institute.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 1, 2002 at 11:29:42 PM CET
FBI says DNS server attacks came from U.S., Korea
FULL STORY
THE DISTRIBUTED DENIAL of service (DDoS) attacks against 13 of the Internet's core servers has been traced to computers in the U.S. and Korea, according to statements made by U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director Robert Mueller.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 6:29:55 PM CET
Leaked DOOM 3 demo on the net?
Super rumour: they say a beta version of DOOM III (stolen, of course), appeared on the net and can be found with edonkey2000.
edonkey2000 >> extend search - Doom.III.Beta.v1.31.cracked.by.Schlossberg.zip - size 453 Mb
I'd like to remind that beta versions of Unreal2 and UT2K3 have appeared the same way before. And what if they didn't manage to get DOOM III to Quakecon 2002 wherer they promised to show it?
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 12:08:24 PM CET
Root-Server Attack Traced to South Korea, U.S.
Last week's attacks on the Internet's backbone likely emanated from computers in the United States and South Korea, FBI Director Robert Mueller today said.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 1:43:26 AM CET
Office 11 nur für Windows 2000 und XP
Alte Betriebsysteme werden nicht mehr unterstützt. Das soll bessere und sichere Produkte ermöglichen. Die DOS-Plattformen Windows 9x und Millennium oder Windows NT 4.0 werden nicht mehr unterstützt.
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Topic: - on October 30, 2002 at 9:35:09 PM CET
Nintendo fined for price fixing
Nintendo has been fined 149m euros (£92.1m) by the European Commission for trying to rig the computer game market. The firm and seven distributors have been found guilty by commission anti-trust officials of attempting to keep prices artificially high in some EU states between 1991 and 1998.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 29, 2002 at 11:20:25 PM CET
Altholländisches PC-Werfen
Apple-Fans trafen sich letztes Wochenende zum DOSen-Weitwurf in der Nähe von Amsterdam. Zu diesem und weiteren Highlights wie Mac-Porno- und "Stoned Chick"-Contest, trafen sich etwa 250 Apple-Enthusiasten beim informellen "MacFreak-Day 2002".
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Topic: - on October 29, 2002 at 10:27:25 AM CET
Creepy MSN butterfly guy identified
number of Reg readers have argued that the figure most closely resembles a character named Arthur from a comic strip, an animated series and a live-action series called "The Tick". I must admit that the resemblance is uncanny:
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Topic: - on October 28, 2002 at 9:16:06 AM CET
Unreal Tournament 2003
Tweak Guide
Unreal Tournament 2003...the next generation in first person shooters has arrived. If you've ever played Unreal or Unreal Tournament, you'll know the quality of Unreal Engine-based games. With UT2003 the incredible game engine developed by Epic Games is combined with the innovative gameplay and fast-paced action designed by Digital Extremes.
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