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WordPress 2.0 is now officially released. WordPress 2.0 is also dubbed the “Duke” release in honor of jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington.
Most of the changes in this release are “under the hood” so the average use will notice many changes. A lot of the engine running WordPress has changed mostly to make the life
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Today I have a somewhat minimalistic edition of the Daily Friction. Just sit back and relax before New Year’s.

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With StaxRip you can easily convert your DVD’s, DVB or DV captures or almost any other source format. As a open source application StaxRip is completely free.Video formats: DivX, XviD, x264, MPEG-2, MPEG-4. Audio formats:
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Some leaked scans of Computer Games Magazine February 2006 Issue confirm the Draenei to be the new Alliance race in the Burning Crusade expansion pack to World of Warcraft.
This was pretty much bound to happen, no one believed the new alliance race coming out in the Burning Crusade, the new expansion pack for the very
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Did you see the new MSN Beta homepage? Be careful, it might burn your eyes. This must be the ugliest, most badly designed Big Company Portal I have ever seen. It’s not only badly designed, it’s also horribly aligned; The headlines are not aligned, fonts are screwed up, some links do not seem to be
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Not long ago I came across this post which basically claims that Sony’s PlayStation3 will go the way of Dreamcast. I must say that I strongly disagree. I took his (mostly unproven) points and wrote a rebuttal of sorts.
He says: The Xbox 360 is already out.
I answer: That could have a meaning when one console
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Most bloggers post comments on other people’s blogs (and other sites such as forums, article talkbacks, etc.). The question is, does those commenters follow up on their comment? Meaning do you go back to a comment you posted to see if it got any reaction or just leave it be and never look back?

Here’s the holiday edition of the Daily Friction. What different? Well, it’s an Extra-large version of it. The fun is spread across all sections today, be sure to check it all.

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eyeOS 0.8.7 released - This release introduces many bug fixes, the most important located in the installation script and in some apps,
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On one side rumors are running wild that Microsoft is about o buy Opera. On the other side Opera denies a Microsoft buyout.
Seems like analysts are already jumping on the so called “news”.
Opera my have some good reasons to get bought, I’m not sure Microsoft have enough good reasons to want to buy Opera.

For the past 17 hours or so I’ve been getting duplicate entries of the Engadget RSS feed. This is really irritating. Jason, are you awake?

After a short break the Daily Friction is back. Check out the first update to OpenOffice, check your LCD screen with the Dead Pixel Locator. Secure your MySQL with Mysql Clustering and much, much more.

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OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 - Eight weeks after 2.0, the first update remedies minor bugs and brings new features. It
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The next release of WordPress is drawing near. WordPress 2.0 Release Candidate is ready for download, while the development team asks for help shaking out any last remaining bugs.
Download, test, and head over to the Beta Forum to let the team know if the Release Candidate is ready for prime time.

This is simply amazing. Blizzard, the maker of World of Warcraft MMORPG has said it has surpassed 5 million players worldwide. This is remarkable.
The subscription-based MMORPG launched approximately a year ago in North America, Australia, and New Zealand and has since released in Europe and Asia. This latest milestone comes on the heels of
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The Japanese government plans to launch its own search engine to stop foreign companies like Google and Yahoo from dominating in its home market. According to a government official, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry will start a study group consisting of 20 Japanese companies and universities on internet search engines.
More than 20 companies,
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Google has added a music listing feature to its search engine pages that details the work of certain featured artists. According to Google, users search for music terms like popular artists and albums prompted the move
Searching for a popular artist names using Google search will now show some information about that artist, like cover art,
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Philips has released a VoIP enabled baseband chips to cordless phones. The baseband chips belong to the Philips PCD8072x family of cordless phone baseband chips. They contain an ARM7 processor and DSP technology. The VoIP stack is incorporated in the firmware and transparent to the phone maker, making it extremely straightforward to create a VoIP
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Black Rose writes about the decline of the Microsoft brand and the ever changing brand name. The more recent change was the developing of the Windows Live brand as Microsoft’s new favorite child on the web. That’s what Black Rose had to say:
When Microsoft’s chat program was first released, it was called “MSN Messenger” reflecting
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Weekend or not, the Daily Friction is still here. It will be very interesting to check out ReactOS - A whole new Windows compatible OS. Some other interesting stuff as well…

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Folder Size - Display the folder size in Windows Explorer.
ReactOS is a project dedicated to making Free Software available to everyone by
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File Unlocker 1.76 is a small application (if you can even call it that) created to solve the problem of users not being able to delete files or folders. This happends when some part of them is still running in memory. This problem usually arises when DLLs are being loaded to memory even thoguh a
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It’s been a while but the friction never ends, not even on weekends. But don’t forget to have some fun.

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RootkitRevealer 1.6 is an advanced root kit detection utility. It runs on Windows NT and output lists Registry and file system API discrepancies that may indicate the presence of a user-mode or kernel-mode rootkit.
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del.icio.us is down
Google is down
Whats going on?
I’ve been getting several error message from del.icio.us the past few hours:

error: Can’t call method “prepare” on an undefined value at /www/del.icio.us/comp/user/get line 13.
context:
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9: my $usedb = ‘master’;
10: my $ret;
11:
12: if (!$auth_user) { $usedb = ‘user’ }
13: if (!exists ($db->{$usedb})) { $usedb =
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It’s been known for a while and published that Google is working on a Mac version for it’s Google Earth software. Now it seems that an unofficial version of the Mac version has leaked on December 9. The pplication is still in development and as much as known not even at Alpha stage. As
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I don’t know who’s the “genius” that thought selling a “brand new vulnerability” on eBay was a good idea, but now eBay halts the auction. Some buyers at least thought it was, after 21 bids place the price at $56.
In any case the flaw lies in the way Excel validates data when handling documents and
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