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Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing has made an interesting post claiming the music business attempts to shut down P2P networks is detrimental to their own online sales business based on reports from NPD Group which found online distribution of purchased songs was up 52 per cent and illegal downloading of songs was up by a …
From New York Times: IN the winter of 1996, back when I was a brunette who wore sensible shoes, a photographer snapped my picture during a rehearsal for a college musical. The production mattered; eating and sleeping did not. The resulting portrait showed a pasty, gaunt girl being swallowed by a XXX-large T-shirt. The only …
From Wired News: British researchers are turning to Linux and embedded processors to build a fleet of tiny, robotic helicopters capable of swarming like angry bees and evaluating their surroundings with a single hive mind. The University of Essex’s UltraSwarm project is an experiment in swarm intelligence and wireless cluster computing that might one day …
From CNet: The chipmaker unveiled the prototype with AOpen on Tuesday at the Computex trade show in Taiwan. The squarish metallic box, originally code-named Pandora, will be released under AOpen’s XC Cube product line and is similar to one revealed by the chipmaking giant at its Intel Developers Forum in March. Intel often contracts with …
Yahoo! now gives blog writers a way to submit their information. You can submit your RSS or ATOM feed at http://publisher.yahoo.com/submit.php
A CNet review of search engines: We took a fresh look at Google, Yahoo, and seven of their closest competitors, focusing on their interfaces, features, and functionality. While Google and Yahoo still trump their rivals in terms of overall search, we found that almost every player in our competition brought something unique to the table. …
Someone I know was having problems with their computer, and they ended up having a copy of their registry being restored and so they had to reinstall a bunch of things. But they couldn’t get Norton Antivirus 2005 installed. I tried everything I could. I removed registry entries, I deleted the folders that were there, …
Lisa was baking today and asked me how many litres are in a quart. I didn’t know, and she found this site: Liquid Measurements Liter / Gallon / Quart / Pint / Cup / Ounce / Tablespoon / Teaspoon Conversion Check it out at http://www.paulnoll.com/China/Metric/number-liters.html
A great tip from TechRepublic: The next time you need to identify the cause of a driver problem, turn to Windows XP’s little-known troubleshooting tool called the Driver Verifier Manager. By going through a few short steps, you’ll be able to determine whether the drivers you choose to diagnose are causing the problem.
From USA Today: A 2005 version of Monty Python’s famous “Spam” skit: Man: Well, what’ve you got? Waitress: Well, there’s egg and blogs; egg, bacon and blogs; blogs, blogs, egg, blogs, blogs, bacon and blogs; blogs, sausage, blogs, blogs, bacon, blogs, tomato and blogs … Wife: Have you got anything without blogs? These days, the …