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Japan’s monopoly watchdog raided the Tokyo headquarters of US software giant Microsoft’s local unit for allegedly violating the country’s anti-trust law, an official said.

Desperate for sales, Microsoft’s Japanese unit has resorted to bundling a sex toy with its Xbox consoles. Sporting life-size images, both front and back, of female anime and video game characters. The most spoken of games: Dead or Alive feature a bevy of barely legal, high-resolution digital girls who fight in skimpy outfits and play
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This is coming a little late, but it’s no reason not to get it. Mozilla is coming out with a new release. Mozilla Firebird changes it name and gets a makeover. So, do yourself a favor, go download it and get yourself a better browser.
Some of the Release notes:
Mozilla Firebird evolves into the new Firefox
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Running around with your wifi enabled laptop looking for a hotspot? Google got it covered. That is, if you are connected of course. A Combination of Google location search with jiWire brings a searchable hotspot directory. just type in an address or zip code and your set.

I am having some network issues lately. It’s actually a router problem with Linksys WRT54G. Not that it’s a bad router by any means. After some investigating I found that it simply can’t handle my traffic, as probably most home designated routers. I will be moving my router duties to a separate Linux or BSD
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Even before losing my job in November of 2001, I was registered to some of many job seeking sites, such as Carrier Builder, HotJobs, Monster, etc. The job market was hot, every techie was on the verge of finding a better and more rewarding job. When demand was so high everyone could find the job
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