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Microsoft has delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) and … no one is surprised…
Windows XP SP2 was due to ship in the first half of 2004, but has now been pushed back until later in the yea
The software giant has heavily promoted SP2 as containing key upgrades to the operating system
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For some reason when using the form input button Internet Explorer chooses to add an additional new line after using the </FORM> tag. This problem does not exist in Mozilla and most other browsers, obviously, the ones that do not use the IE engine.
Here is an example of the problem (you will see it only
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The Torque Game Engine came up on this blog’s adesnse ads (I know it’s lame writing a piece about something that came up on your own site adsense, but well…) and it reminded me on some talks I had with one of my friends about game development and game engines.
It seems that the Torque Commercial
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The FBI publish Fastlink Press Release about it\s latest anti-piracy opperation we reported here two days ago. You can also look at the official Department of Justice release.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Attorney General John Ashcroft announced today the most far-reaching and aggressive enforcement action ever undertaken against organizations involved in illegal intellectual property piracy over the
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A company called SpecOps Labs (formerly known as SoftLabs) announced their new software that will allow Windows-based programs to run on the Linux operating system. Their goal is to help Windows users to migrate over to Linux. They claim that with their software it should make it effortless. “After you install the bridge software …
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The U.S. Department of Justice just conducted an international sweep of suspected online copyright pirates or what is more known as warez distributers.
Dubbed “Operation Fastlink,” the sweep consisted of 120 searches in 27 states and 10 countries. Officials seized 200 computers, 30 of which were alleged to have been used as storage and distribution servers,
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The new Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 has been released and it includes some new interesting features and improvements. Some of the more noticeable ones are:
- Mozilla 1.7 size and performance have improved dramatically with this release. When compared to Mozilla 1.6, Mozilla 1.7 RC 1 is 7% faster at startup, is 8% faster at window
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Programmers need to diversify their skill and work on their people skills if they want to avoid plummeting pay rates caused by overseas competition.
Pay for basic application development has fallen 17.5% in the past two years in the United States as businesses increasingly outsource programming work to lower-wage economies, according to US analyst and consultancy
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A report at MacWorld claims the major record labels are looking at increasing the price of iTunes Music Store downloads to as much as $2.49.
It seems like the top guys at the record labels are lacking the business sense which lead to this very successful business model (thanks to Apple) and again are trying
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Microsoft says it is about to roll out a number of new features for it’s Xbox Live online service. These services include voice messages on the Xbox and the release of a new three-month Live subscription plan.
Microsoft said that after a period of downtime of up to 24 hours, that started Wednesday morning, players will
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Executives from Microsoft’s security group demonstrated some of the new security features planned for the next major Windows XP software update, known as Service Pack 2, and faced persistent questions Tuesday from customers about whether the new features will interfere with other security technology.
Speaking at the company’s monthly Executive Circle Web cast, Mike Nash, corporate
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NVIDIA Corporation has released a press release stating its new GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units is receiving rave reviews and widespread industry support from the world’s top game creators and publishers.
The GeForce 6 Series delivers a dramatic leap in production quality by giving game creators the freedom to create film-quality effects at performance
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EE Times is reporting that AMD has begun prototyping processors using a 0.09-micron fabrication process. AMD is using “Black Diamond” low-k insulator technology, which we’ve already seen in ATI’s 0.13-micron RV360 GPU. According to Thomas Sunderman, AMD’s director of manufacturing technology, the move to low-k 0.09-micron parts will provide “significant power savings.”
AMD expects
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A little late but here is the bew release declaration from the PHP Development Team.
The PHP Development Team is proud to announce the release of PHP 4.3.6. This is is a bug fix release whose primary goal is to address two bugs which may result in crashes in PHP builds with thread-safety enabled. All
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Over the last few years the Israeli Perl Mongers mailing list has grown significantly to the point where there are now hundreds of posts per month. Since the large number of topics and the sheer volume of messages may intimidate Perl beginners from joining the list, the group’s leader, Gabor Szabo, has decided to open
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In a surprising move, Microsoft has made their C/C++ optimizing compiler (MSOC) available as a free download. Previous incarnations of the “standard” compiler have been distributed with platform SDKs — and more recently, the .NET framework — but the version with full optimization features enabled has only been available as a component of its professional
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Ok, I had this idea many, many, MANY years ago and never really sat down to design it proparly or do anything useful with it. Now it’s finally surfaced with the name “knock”.
knockd is a port-knock server. It listens to all traffic on an ethernet interface, looking for special “knock” sequences of port-hits.
This daemon lets
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Linksys are about to release a new Wi-Fi music system. The new system lets you bring the digital music stored on your computer to your Home Entertainment Center, without running cables through the house. Using a wireless connection, the Music System frees your digital music collection from the computer speakers to play through your stereo
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The MIT Scientist credited with inventing the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the first Millennium Technology Prize.
The first time award, 1 million Euro ($1.2 million), is among the largest of its kind. The program was established in 2002 and backed by the Finnish government. An award ceremony will be given in Helsinki
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A9 - Amazon.com’s Entry into the Search Engine World launches today (still in Beta).
John Battelle’s @ Searchblog has an extensive post about it. According to his post, Amazon wated the news to go “from the blogosphere out, as opposed the WSJ in”, interesting…
In any case several searchs I made brought very nice results, although I
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Mesothelioma, an asbestos-related cancer, was the biggest word in search-engine advertising last Thursday, with law firms paying upto $90 or more to place ads.
“It can get to be a bidding war,” says Tracy Helser, Web manager for Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons & Farrise, an Oakland, Calif., firm specializing in asbestos cases that advertises on
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Google said Tuesday it is “batting about” possible changes to its Gmail web-based email service, which launched last month to a chorus of privacy concerns.
The search engine giant unveiled Gmail in late March to about 1,000 people in what it called a limited test. Nevertheless, it immediately produced an uproar over plans to offer web
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Another Nokia phone has apparently exploded in Hong Kong. Local TV channels showed the Nokia 3310 in pieces and a spokesperson for Nokia said that the company would investigate the cause of the explosion.
“I was just calling my boss to say I would be returning to work a few minutes late, and when I pressed
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Today, at the MySQL Users’ Conference and Expo in Orlando, FL, company CEO Mårten Mickos is announcing a new product: MySQL Cluster. According to an embargoed press release sent to NewsForge Monday, this is “…a new open source database clustering technology for applications requiring continuous availability. MySQL Cluster combines the MySQL database with a clustering
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