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Building A Linux System Even Your Grandmother Could Use |
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6:00 pm EST, Feb 4, 2004 |
] So that she doesn't get bored with the look of the
] system, I set up cron jobs that change the desktop theme
] and widget set for her every day. I thought this was funny. Building A Linux System Even Your Grandmother Could Use |
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America lags in high-speed Net |
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11:55 am EST, Jan 25, 2004 |
] Despite its economic and political might, the United
] States is falling behind other nations in arming
] consumers and small businesses with a key economic tool:
] high-speed Internet access, also known as broadband. The
] United States ranks 11th worldwide in broadband use,
] according to a recent United Nations report, behind such
] places as South Korea, Hong Kong and Iceland. Not my fault. America lags in high-speed Net |
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3:10 pm EST, Jan 16, 2004 |
Print this out and paste it onto your TiBook... Apple makes you a stud |
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11:33 am EST, Dec 27, 2003 |
Instructions to tap into an OnStar unit and take control of the GPS subsystem. Now you can disable the GPS and/or use it with your laptop (and mapping software) instead of (or in addition to) using it for OnStar. Tap into OnStar |
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12:28 pm EST, Dec 11, 2003 |
Despite having more information at our fingertips than any generation before, there is little evidence that our ability to make good, timely decisions has improved. "We are in a time when people can sit in front of the screen and get bombarded with facts and sometimes that's confused for education. But I think that what we owe it to our young people to do is to help them ask questions." Too much information |
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On the record: Marc Andreessen |
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1:14 pm EST, Dec 9, 2003 |
] In the mid-1990s, Marc Andreessen was one of the
] wunderkinds of Silicon Valley. Marc and I still vehemently agree on some things, and vehemently disagree on others... On the record: Marc Andreessen |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain |
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12:12 pm EST, Dec 8, 2003 |
] Diplomats from 191 countries meet this week in Geneva for
] the three-day United Nations World Summit on the
] Information Society. It's the occasion for The Helloworld
] Project to project thousands of 500-foot-high laser-light
] SMS messages onto the Geneva fountain.
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] Internet users everywhere can post billboard thoughts
] almost instantly onto the fountain -- or onto the
] northern façade of New York's U.N. building, the face of
] a mountain in Rio de Janeiro or the front of a Bombay
] skyscraper. It's like a sanctioned 2600 hack! Go Tell It on the Mountain |
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