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Submission + - Integrating site search into browser chrome

Submitted by

manastungare

on Monday May 14, 2007 @03:24AM

manastungare writes: "Almost all major browsers now have a search box at the top right corner. However, it goes unused a majority of the time the user is already browsing a website. Given the importance of site-specific search to overall website usability, using the browser search box to perform site-specific searches would enhance usability to a large extent. Here is a proposal to integrate site-specific search boxes into browser chrome from a researcher in human-computer interaction from Virginia Tech. Thoughts, comments, and criticism from the Slashdot community are welcome!"

Journal SPAM: Parliamentary hearing coverup in Ottawa 3

Journal by Jeremiah Cornelius on Monday May 14, 2007 @02:28AM

Courtesy of Xymphora:

"Amid heated charges of a coverup, Tory MPs on Thursday abruptly shut down parliamentary hearings on a controversial plan to further integrate Canada and the U.S.

The firestorm erupted within minutes of testimony by University of Alberta professor Gordon Laxer that Canadians will be left 'to freeze in the dark' if the government forges ahead with plans to integrate energy supplies across North America.

Submission + - Running a vnc/ssh service behind ISP NAT & Fir

Submitted by on Monday April 16, 2007 @01:05AM

An anonymous reader writes: My home ISP uses NAT and I would like to run a VNC/SSH server on my home computer it to access my computer at work. While I naturally do not have access to the port forwarding rules, I do have a web hosting account w/ shell & cgi access. I'm not sure if this is possible but here's what I was thinking could be done

> Home computer connects to my server's cgi service/program to establish a reverse VNC / SSH route
> Work computer connects to my server's cgi service and it forwards packets to my home pc.

Thanks !

Submission + - Microsoft wants review of Google/Doubleclick deal

Submitted by LMFAO on Monday April 16, 2007 @01:02AM

LMFAO writes: Microsoft, a veteran defendant of epic antitrust battles in the United States and Europe, is urging regulators to consider scuttling Google's plan to buy DoubleClick, an online advertising company. Bradford L. Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, said in an interview yesterday that Google's purchase of DoubleClick would combine the two largest online advertising distributors and thus "substantially reduce competition in the advertising market on the Web." — New York Times

Submission + - LinuxFest Northwest

Submitted by

Hunter Gatherer Peng

on Monday April 16, 2007 @12:35AM

Hunter Gatherer Peng writes: "Karen M. Sandler, attorney with the Software Freedom Law Center and of the Software Freedom Conservancy, will be speaking at LinuxFest Northwest, http://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/ April 28th and 29th in Bellingham Wa. On software patents in the United States and how they may impact free and open source software projects. Google, Silicon Mechanics, and Linden labs and others will be recruiting. It's the biggest OpenSource/Linux grassroots convention West of the Mississippi. It's free as in "free beer". You snooze you loose. http://blug.org/fest2007/schedule.dxp"

Feed Ubuntu's 'feisty' spin on virtualization (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed on Monday April 16, 2007 @12:33AM

The Linux variant is taking a different tack on the multi-OS tech as it vies with offerings from Red Hat and Novell.

Feed How to Get Off a Government Watch List (wired.com)

From feed by wiredfeed on Monday April 16, 2007 @12:32AM

If you aren't a Senator who can call up the head of Homeland Security, or a high-powered nun whose boss who can ring up Karl Rove, working free from government watch lists will be a tedious and not-very transparent process.

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