Comment Re:Feet and yards? (Score 2, Funny) 323
Without using a calculator, 155 minutes are how many hours? How many days?
In metric time?
Gentoo 2008.0 Released 164
An anonymous reader notes that the Gentoo 2008.0 final release is available. From the announcement:
"Code-named 'It's got what plants crave,' this release contains numerous new features including an updated installer, improved hardware support, a complete rework of profiles, and a move to Xfce instead of GNOME on the LiveCD. LiveDVDs are not available for x86 or amd64, although they may become available in the future. The 2008.0 release also includes updated versions of many packages already available in your ebuild tree."
Submission + - Standard Web Fonts No Longer Supported In Vista (hunlock.com)
BladesP9 writes: "Beginning with Vista, Microsoft is no longer packaging the standard Web Core Fonts that it has since the late 1990s. "With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has unleashed something quite new on the Web — the "C" fonts; Cambria, Calibri, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel." The article goes on to state that "If you're a web designer and not using Vista then this download is mandatory since it will let you see your page as your Vista users see it." This means all of the web sites I have been developing with Arial, Helvetica and Verdana for the last ten years are now going to have display issues because of the new fonts. Lovely."
Submission + - False ad clicks cost Google 1 billion dollars per (www.cbc.ca)
Meshach writes: There is an interesting story at CBC that claims that Google looses one billion dollars per year to fraudulent ad clicks. The article contains an interesting description how how it is determined if a click is false.
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