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All the dangling plot threads left over from the previous six books had better friggin’ be answered in this one. Here’s Cracked’s take.
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Ever had to run a huge copy or archiving job in the background while using your computer? Noticed that your background task seemed to make everything else that needed disk access REALLY lag? Learn how to tell Linux to prioritize disk access with ionice.
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Heath Ledger has been spotted in the concrete jungle, fully decked out in his Joker garb. Check out up close pictures of The Joker…and some video of his joker truck…whaaat?!
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Epic has confirmed that the Xbox 360 mega-hit Gears of War as well as the highly anticipated Unreal Tournament 3 are both coming to the Mac.
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Part two of a two part series examining Microsoft’s Internet TV offerings. (Part one was featured on digg last week). “With computers, set-top boxes, gaming consoles, home servers, and perhaps even mobile devices and “cloud services”, Microsoft is poi
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Pagans have pledged to perform “rain magic” to wash away cartoon character Homer Simpson who was painted next to their famous fertility symbol – the Cerne Abbas giant.
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Ron Paul’s contributions come primarily from donations under $200.
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Remaining truly 100% anonymous online is incredibly difficult. However, here are a few basic strategies and services you can use to try and maintain your privacy, particularly in countries that seek to limit your freedoms.
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Time has come to consolidate all your miniblogging/webIM services. There’s no sense in updating them all separately, especially if there’s a way to update only one and have them all display these updates. Here’s how to do it.
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Windows Home Server has been christened 1.0, and the code has been released to manufacturing. System Builder versions as well as initial products from several ISVs are expected this September.
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Year of the Linux Desktop
I saw a post on a blog the other day entitled “2007 is the Year of the Linux Desktop” and it struck me as odd that the Linux Desktop can have so many years. Seriously folks, that quote, title, whatever you want to call it has been the slogan for Linux desktops since at least 2003 and I am pretty sure I can place safe money that it was a slogan somewhere before that.
As the years pass and Linux grows little by little in popularity, it seems the zeitgeists want to push the Linux desktop more and more each year. Now, while I have very little problem with the pushing of the Linux desktop, I do have a problem with the slogan itself. For starters, ever since I have been seeing it, no improvement has been really made. Distributions like Ubuntu have made things a lot better on the average user but even it requires a lot of command line work to get it working even close to the way that Windows does so that the end user does not need to goto the command line. Continue reading →