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Ubuntu 11.04 released-> 0

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tandiond

on Thursday April 28 2011, @06:09AM

tandiond writes "Finally...
"Canonical today announced the upcoming release of the Ubuntu operating system on April 28, 2011 for public download. Ubuntu 11.04 introduces Unity, Ubuntu’s new interface, which is simpler, easier to use and more beautiful than previous editions of Ubuntu. This is the culmination of two years’ design and engineering effort by Canonical and the Ubuntu community. Ubuntu 11.04 stands out from its competitors as a genuine free alternative to Windows, allowing users to personalize their PC with free and paid apps in a way that’s proven hugely popular in the smartphone and tablet market."

It is a bit hard to download the iso image. Several attempts to click the link failed. Looks like The download link was loaded with enthusiast users already."
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Google's own glitch causes blockage in China -> 0

Submitted by tandiond on Tuesday March 30 2010, @11:16PM

tandiond writes "Reports surfaced that users in China were sometimes unable to access Google's site , unable to complete searches and also had intermittent trouble accessing Google's Chinese-language site. That's when speculation erupted that China was blocking Google in retaliation for Google's deciding to run an uncensored Web site from Hong Kong.

Seems that's not the case, after all.

"Lots of users in China have been unable to search on Google.com.hk today," said a Google spokesperson in an e-mail to Computerworld . "This blockage seems to have been triggered by a change on Google's part. In the last 24 hours, "gs_rfai" started appearing in the URLs of Google searches globally as part of a search parameter — a string of characters that sends information about the query to Google so we can return the best result. Because this parameter contained the letters "rfa", the great firewall was associating these searches with Radio Free Asia, a service that has been inaccessible in China for a long time, hence the blockage.""
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Comment: outbid (Score 1) 184

by tandiond on Tuesday August 26 2008, @08:53PM (#24759395) Attached to: Computer With UK Bank Customer Data Sold On eBay

Oh, crap.. i was outbid by £10. If only i knew the content..