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The Ultimate CSS Reference 124

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 04, 2008 @02:21PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

stoolpigeon writes "Cascading Style Sheets are now the dominant method used to format web pages. Even something as simple as modifying a WordPress blog can involve digging around a bit in CSS. A quick search at Amazon on CSS returns over 7 thousand books in the computer category alone. This book claims to be the ultimate, though, and that made me approach it with a bit of skepticism. Sure, it could be a decent reference, but is it truly the ultimate reference? I admit I was curious to see." Read on for the rest of JR's review.

Free Tools To Evade China's Web Censorship 140

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 04, 2008 @12:10PM from the just-in-case-you-are-curious dept.

narramissic writes "The Global Internet Freedom Consortium (GIFC) offers a set of free tools that can be used to circumvent Chinese Internet censorship. The group claims approximately 1 million people in China use its tools to access the Internet. And, says Tao Wang, director of operations for GIFC, 'it's a very good time to remind Western reporters that there are such tools.'"

Microsoft Working On "Post-Windows" Cloud Computing OS 208

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday August 04, 2008 @10:44AM from the it's-all-up-there-in-the-clouds-or-something dept.

Barence writes "Microsoft is working on a web-based operating system called Midori, as it looks to life beyond Windows. Midori is expected to be a cloud-computing service, and so not as dependent on hardware as current generations of Windows. It's also expected to run with a virtualization layer between the hardware and the OS, and is expected to be a commercial offshoot of the Singularity research project which Microsoft has been working on since 2003." If this story sounds familiar to you, it probably is.

Comment Re:Microsoft - Make Linux into Windows 7 (Score 1) 573

by Starla1979 on Sunday April 06, 2008 @03:08PM (#22981608) Attached to: Vista is Slower, But XP Is Still Dying

I think it would be in their best interests to rip off a BSD kernel (as they don't need to release the source). And they would probably port their APIs to BSD without Wine. I mean they have the source-code and a bazillion programmers, why release their most important aspect (the ability to run a gazillion programs) to their enemies.

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