On January 31st, 2005 with 105 comments
prostoalex writes "PC Magazine reviews Mercora peer-to-peer streaming radio. It's not a service which allows anyone to download songs, however you can listen...
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On January 31st, 2005 with 300 comments
wikinerd writes "A Firefox developer talks about the project's controversial invitation-only developer recruitment policy and explains why Firefox will never...
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Mozilla,
The Internet,
Developers
On January 31st, 2005 with 266 comments
ricst writes "Google is, as we all know, King of the Hill. But Yahoo, MSN and others have come a long ways towards catching up as this International Herald...
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On January 31st, 2005 with 315 comments
Ant writes "And I thought I had seen it all from DOOM world. Nope, there is a boardgame! It is for 2 to 4 players, playable in 1 to 2 hours, based on the...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 203 comments
telstar writes "As a follow-up to earlier coverage regarding the possible acquisition of AT&T by SBC, MSNBC is reporting that boards from both companies...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 316 comments
Ant writes "This article discusses the poor track record of IT projects undertaken by the U.S. government, and says experts blame poor planning, rapid industry...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 562 comments
skreuzer writes "MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte has a plan to build a $100 PC for the developing world, which is supposedly going to have a 14-inch...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 692 comments
DiZASTiX writes "Kevin Rose, the ever so popular host of G4/TechTV's The Screen Savers, has managed to fit a PC inside the Mac mini. 'I've seen a ton of...
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Hardware Hacking,
Desktops (Apple),
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On January 30th, 2005 with 249 comments
wallstreetprodigy23 copies and pastes "Space shuttle commander Steve Lindsey is preparing for a mission he hopes will never launch: the rescue of other...
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Space,
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On January 30th, 2005 with 437 comments
ChipGuy writes "The New York Times looks at MythTV (an open source PVR technology), Bit Torrent and Videora and how they are disrupting the television...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 210 comments
Daniel Carrera writes "I've written an article for Groklaw describing the OpenDocument format: 'I asked Daniel Carrera, an OpenOffice.org volunteer, if he'd...
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Software,
Government,
Politics
On January 30th, 2005 with 1271 comments
IdiotOnMyLeft writes "There is a short article at Gear Live that tries to explain why Apple still sticks with a one-button mouse. It points out the fact that...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 260 comments
Stephen Friedl writes "I've been a self-employed consultant for almost 20 years - I still have my first customer! - and I'm asked often about the business by...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 617 comments
Numerous people submitted a blurb from BoingBoing about Intuit disabling features in older versions of Quicken. Why the BoingBoing submitter and Mr. Doctorow...
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On January 30th, 2005 with 278 comments
Anil Kandangath writes "Last month, it was announced that the Indian moon mission Chandrayan I would have a component that would land on the moon to function...
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Space
On January 30th, 2005 with 126 comments
thelesserbean writes "Up at K5 there's a tongue-in-cheek look at the dirty world of software development's inside politics. Presented as a guide, it is...
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Programming,
It's funny. Laugh.,
IT,
Technology
On January 30th, 2005 with 881 comments
KrunchTime writes "The Steam network seems to be having some problems tonight. This is not good new for fans of counter-strike, day of defeat and other...
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On January 29th, 2005 with 98 comments
Roland Piquepaille writes "A professor in computer science at the Utah State University (USU) is building robots to help people with disabilities, according to...
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Robotics
On January 29th, 2005 with 43 comments
AaronH copies and pastes: "'Face of Mankind is an MMORPG set in the 24th century. You are invited to play out the ageless battle of good vs. evil, and witness...
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Entertainment,
Games
On January 29th, 2005 with 465 comments
node 3 writes "Following the current trend of posting video from product demos long past, openstep.se has posted a 55MB video from 1992 of Steve Jobs demoing...
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OS X,
Operating Systems
On January 29th, 2005 with 90 comments
dirutz writes "Thought this year's weather patterns were odd? Next year's might be worse because of the thinning of the ozone layer. Looks like there's...
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Science
On January 29th, 2005 with 242 comments
hobo2k writes "XP SP2 included canary values and hardware-implemented execution protection in order to avoid exploitable buffer overruns. Now Positive...
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Security,
Operating Systems,
Software,
Windows
On January 29th, 2005 with 397 comments
jugander writes "nilss over at the iPodLinux Project (previously on /.) has performed one of the coolest and most bizzare hacks I've seen in a while. He was...
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On January 29th, 2005 with 120 comments
prostoalex writes "New Scientist talks about Paul Vitanyi and Rudi Cilibrasi of the National Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in Amsterdam and...
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On January 29th, 2005 with 49 comments
sarumont writes "Every Open Source developer uses or has used GNU make at some point or another. Everyone who has ever compiled a piece of Open Source...
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On January 29th, 2005 with 488 comments
Roblimo writes "'There are a lot of good reasons to like the GPL: the GNU Public License. For one thing, it's a David and Goliath kind of thing. It's the...
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On January 29th, 2005 with 192 comments
An anonymous reader writes "Scientists at the University of Zurich predict that our galaxy is filled with a quadrillion clouds of dark matter with the mass of...
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Index
On January 29th, 2005 with 85 comments
isn't my name writes "We all know that OSRM has come out to offer insurance against intellectual property claims for open source software. Recently, we've...
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The Almighty Buck,
IT,
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On January 29th, 2005 with 284 comments
benore writes "The Department of Justice
will be reviewing Microsoft's Longhorn product as part of the company's antitrust settlement. One analyst opines that...
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On January 29th, 2005 with 505 comments
Richard M. Smith writes "Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons found out the hard way
that supermarket loyalty cards come with a huge price. ...
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Unix is the worst operating system; except for all others. -- Berry Kercheval
