9 Feb, 2007
“The Sonic Bomb Clock has an adjustable volume alarm with a maximum loudness of 113 decibels (just for reference, a jackhammer is about 100 decibels!) And the bed shaker does just that. Slip it under your mattress and your ears will bleed and your bed will shake, and there is no way you will oversleep.”
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9 Feb, 2007
iSolemamba school is in Durban, South Africa. Like every other school on the planet, it needed a computer lab. Basic infrastructure costs were covered, but there wasn’t much money left over to buy computer equipment. Now iSolemamba school has a working computer lab, with computers running the latest software and quality training materials.
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9 Feb, 2007
I’ve been promising this for a while, below is an account of ideas regarding Awn, the GNOME Desktop, and also some information on future projects. I have been thinking about Awn for a very long time. Although it is young in terms of releases, its been rattling inside my head for ages, questions like What more can it do with ta
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9 Feb, 2007
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs challenged major record labels to strip copying restrictions from music sold online, but the RIAA fired back Wednesday, suggesting the company should open up its anti-piracy technology to rivals instead.
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9 Feb, 2007
The arguably most powerful alliance in the popular space-MMORPG, EVE-Online, was found to have harbored characters owned by the employees of CCP, the very company that created and manages EVE. Allegations of the employees steering valuable items toward the alliance have been raised. Are we, as paying MMORPG players, really playing on fair grounds?
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9 Feb, 2007
The popular 9rules Blogging Network has just redesigned with a great design and many new features.
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9 Feb, 2007
Seems GFLPraxis is a CompUSA employee and noticed this slight misprint by corporate. Buy a Zune, get $15 for iTMS. Too funny!
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9 Feb, 2007
Linspire, Inc. has announced that the next version of Freespire, its community operating system initiative, will be based directly off of Canonical’s Ubuntu distribution instead of Debian’s, with early releases expected as soon as Q1 2007. In return, Ubuntu will be the first distro to be supported by Linspire’s CNR service, circa Q4 2007.
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9 Feb, 2007
Apparently, Windows Vista has around 130 Services?! Ouch. Site lists of all vista services and which you can disable. Also has registry files for backing out changes.
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9 Feb, 2007
I had to ask, with a bit of a snicker:
9 Feb, 2007
Computers are under nearly constant siege, a new study shows.
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9 Feb, 2007
More apps than you can shake a stick at!
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