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Submission + - Australian Firefox usage hits 22%

Submitted by innocence18 on Monday February 05, 2007 @10:27PM

innocence18 writes: According to a recent survey done by Nielsen Net Ratings, more than a fifth of Australian web surfers are using Firefox as their main web browser. This is significantly higher than the worldwide usage rate of 14%. While compatibility issues mean that some users are forced to use multiple browsers, this is still a fantastic in roads in the IE/FF battle.

Submission + - Sounds that Indicate your Hard Drive is Failing

Submitted by

Snoring Cure

on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:57PM

Snoring Cure writes: "Hitachi Global Storage has a support document with actual recordings of the various sounds hard-drives make when failing. If your drive sounds like "Head Damage 4.wav" you probably don't need to read a tech note to work out that you have a problem."

Submission + - MORE than a fifth of Australians now use Firefox

Submitted by nermaljcat on Monday February 05, 2007 @08:53PM

nermaljcat writes: Australian IT reports that 22% of Australians are now using Firefox. Internet Explorer still claims 81% of the market, but that also includes Firefox users (like myself) that occasionally need to use IE because of compatibility issues with some websites.

"MORE than a fifth of Australians now use the Mozilla Firefox web browser, even though site compatibility issues mean it sometimes must be used in conjunction with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, researcher Nielsen Net Ratings says."

Submission + - Scientists Cure Cancer - No One Notices

Submitted by

Messianni

on Monday February 05, 2007 @07:24PM

Messianni writes: "A report at New Scientist has an article claiming that scientists have found a cheap, already tested drugs that kills most cancers. From the article:
"It sounds almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their "immortality". The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe. It also has no patent, meaning it could be manufactured for a fraction of the cost of newly developed drugs.
DCA attacks a unique feature of cancer cells: the fact that they make their energy throughout the main body of the cell, rather than in distinct organelles called mitochondria. This process, called glycolysis, is inefficient and uses up vast amounts of sugar. Until now it had been assumed that cancer cells used glycolysis because their mitochondria were irreparably damaged. However, Michelakis's experiments prove this is not the case, because DCA reawakened the mitochondria in cancer cells. The cells then withered and died."
So where is this in the rest of the media? Are the drug companies that powerful?"

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