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Submission + - Hidden music discovered in Da Vinci painting (cnn.com)

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on Saturday November 10, 2007 @06:15PM

snib writes: "An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered a hidden musical score in Leonardo Da Vinci's "Last Supper." From the article: "[This raises] the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting. 'It sounds like a requiem,' Giovanni Maria Pala said. 'It's like a soundtrack that emphasizes the passion of Jesus.'"

Pala published this and other findings about the "Last Supper" painting in his book The Hidden Music, released in Italy Friday."

Submission + - Over One Fifth of Windows Installs Non-Genuine?

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on Tuesday January 23, 2007 @03:24PM

snib writes: "Microsoft disclosed Monday that, according to reports collected by the notorious Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) tool on millions of users' PCs, 22% of all Windows installs do not pass its validation tests and have therefore been deemed non-genuine. From the article: 'Since WGA launched in July 2005, over 512 million users have attempted to validate their copy of Windows, Microsoft said. Of those, the non-genuine rate was 22.3 percent. 56,000 reports have been made by customers of counterfeit software, which grants that user a free replacement copy of Windows.'"

Submission + - Microsoft debuts MySpace-like IT site

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on Saturday November 11, 2006 @10:10PM

snib writes: "Microsoft has launched Aggreg8, a "social networking and collaboration space for the IT community." Apparently, the owner of the popular open-source RSS reader of the same name sold the domains to Microsoft for $5000 in August in order to host what was then called "Microcosm." Microsoft hopes their new service, which utilizes Windows Live ID (formerly .NET Passport) authentication, will become a "MySpace-like forum for developers to share scripts, tools, or best practices, or even to just connect with others within the profession.""

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