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jackDuhRipper writes:
Ms. Portman wrote this article re 'what she's learned so far' and left us all with some beautiful photos.
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J_Omega writes:
According to the Russian IT site CNews, Linux is slated to be installed in every Russian school by 2009. The article makes it appear that it will be going by the (unimaginative and nationalist) name "Russian OS." As stated in the article: "The main aim of the given work is to reduce dependence on foreign commercial software and provide education institutions with the possibility to choose whether to pay for commercial items or to use the software, provided by the government." Initial testing installations are supposed to begin next year in select districts. Is 2008/09 the year of Linux on the (Russian) desktop?
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alexwcovington writes:
TOTO has launched a full-motion video Flash site to sell bizarre Japanese toilet-bidets to Americans. An array of over-cheerful salespeople explain how the US is deprived in its bathroom experience.
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de_smudger writes:
For years 'lost' tapes recording data from the Apollo 11 Moon landing have been stored underneath the seats of Australian physics students. A recent search has uncovered them.
Recorded on telemetry tapes, they are said to be the best quality images of the landing (unconverted slow scan TV) yet to be seen by a public still fascinated by the early space race. These tapes were mislaid in the early 1980s on their way to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Greenbelt, Maryland.