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This 20GB hard-drive-based MP3/WMA player looks cool, nice in the hand, has pretty reasonable controls... and has some odd software with some weird quirks. I can't get the Creative software to find the 6GB of music already living on my laptop. Although Read More...
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See this OSNews.com report . The cool thing - over time, more and more packages can be easily downloaded, built and installed for SFU with one simple command. Read More...
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The wizards at Hitachi have announced a 400GB 7200RPM SATA hard drive. This C|Net article explains why you want one. I want four, attached to a SATA RAID-5 card . That'll give me 1.2TB of redundant storage, allowing me to capture an entire year's worth Read More...
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Just read an article about the experience the City of Munich is having in migrating from Windows to Linux. Apparently, the migration project has run into some serious snags and cost overruns in the areas of secuity, compatibility, and stability. They're Read More...
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I have been enlightened. Herewith is the solution to the Crimson Room puzzle , but it's been “rot13”ized. (What's that, you say? rot-13? That means each letter has been replaced with the letter 13 characters later in the alphabet. A is replaced Read More...
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So I posted a pointer to a really cool flash-based puzzle which had stumped me for an hour. An hour later (admittedly, only intermittent attention paid to puzzle), four people have already commented that they've solved it. I like to think I'm a smart Read More...
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When discussing with CIOs and IT directors the idea of adding Windows to the set of platforms for which they develop custom line-of-business apps, one of the most common questions I hear is this: “I've got a team of 50 (or 150, or...) UNIX developers Read More...
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Send them here . Don't blame me if their weekend disappears. Read More...
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Last Friday my team released the last of four guides planned to release by the end of 2003. (Hey, only a one-month slip isn't bad!) That brings the total number of guides in the area of UNIX migration and interop to 8. See the set of links at the left Read More...
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As promised two weeks back, we finally got this out the door last week. Sorry I'm so late in letting everyone know; it's been a week of getting myself dug out from a sudden, unexpected trip to Boston and then to New York for LinuxWorld. Solution Guide Read More...
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Betsy Aoki , the manager of this community site (amongst others), writes that people are surprised that her verbal style is different from the written style of her blog . Oddly enough, I am often told that my conversational style and written style are Read More...
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A couple of years back, Microsoft Research built a game called “Allegiance”. It was a multiplayer on-line RPG set in a rather complex space/colonies/races milieu. Pretty cool, but never really caught on. A hard-core user base evolved, but Read More...
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The folks at OSnews are not exactly known for being Microsoft-friendly. Some of my colleagues have gone so far as to call them hostile. I wouldn't go that far; they just never, never give MS the benefit of the doubt. That's cool, though. Then I read this Read More...
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As I've been trolling blogspace for posts on the new Services For Unix, I've noticed one question coming up more than any other: “How do I turn on the X Server in this thing?” There is no X Server in Services For Unix. “But... How can Read More...
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On Friday I sat through a one-hour internal talk on the SPOT technology, the new MSN Direct service the company just rolled out, and the first products built to use it - the SPOT watches from Abacus, Fossil and Suunto. Based on specs, I figured I'd need Read More...
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