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  1. Martin

    I'm rich, bitch

    from [email protected] <[email protected]> to undisclosed-recipients <> date Nov 22, 2006 6:08 PM subject GOOD NEWS!!! YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS IS ONE OF OUR OUR WINNERS MICROSOFT / STAATSLOTERIJ INTERNATIONAL PROMOTacION PROGRAM Date...
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    Like Apple's 'Switch' ads but less stupid

    http://browsehappy.com/ Which seems to be a thinly veiled Firefox promo site, all of their 'people' use FF, even though they give you a selection of browsers. I gotta say I'm amazed by the level of community and activism Firefox has created (Ubuntu also seems to be a project that people love)...
  3. Martin

    Hardware isn't idiot proof

    Ten things not to do with your data Like put your hard drive in a sock... Add Comment Printer Friendly Email Story By Dan Ilett Published: Thursday 16 November 2006 Deaths at the hands of bananas, smelly socks and WD-40 are some of the unusual fates to have befallen innocent hard...
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    DoS now illegal

    gnaremooz writes "A U.K. law has been passed that makes it an offense to launch denial-of-service attacks. The penalties for violating the new statues are stiff, with sentences increased from 5 to 10 years. The five year penalty was from the 1990 "Computer Misuse Act", which was enacted before...
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    The first truly open source phone

    http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35590 The software on cell phones is notoriously useless, just imagine KDE forming an embedded project and putting out software that actually works well on a phone? Would be sweet. It looks kinda ugly and I don't trust the touch screen a whole...
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    The mystery of the old English translations on the official site unlocked

    The English translations on the official site are now not too bad, apparently they actually hired someone to translate. But who does not remember the legendary Engrish they used to give us? They made us wonder just how they translated those articles. Well, the mystery is solved...
  7. Martin

    what the..

    http://openhuman.org/
  8. Martin

    Let's steal us an election!!

    Remember, kids, it's very important to vote! or is it? :howler:
  9. Martin

    CPU technology prognosis article

    In the near future Intel and friends will be pushing multiple cores more than they are today. But what happens after the multicore avenue is exhausted? http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=663085&rl=1
  10. Martin

    Birdwatching (the Songbird thread)

    Okay the title is dumb as feck, but this deserves it's own thread dammit. Imagine this. A music player that aims to challenge amarok on coolness. Don't believe it? It's true. A project launched by a San Francisco outfit backed by big VC money is putting out an open source (yes, that's not a...
  11. Martin

    A precious piece of computer nostalgia

    That's right, Microsoft selling its own Unix product. :D
  12. Martin

    IE flirting with Firefox devs

    "The Microsoft Internet Explorer Team sent the Firefox team a cake for the release of Firefox 2! "P.S.: No, it was not poisoned" " http://slashdot.org/articles/06/10/26/1238239.shtml :biggrin:
  13. Martin

    flash9 comes to linux

    Only a year after being released for windows, flash player 9 [beta] has come to linux. Painless howto open: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html download Download Installer for Linux (GZ, 2.48 MB) tar zxvf <file> cd flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/ cp libflashplayer.so...
  14. Martin

    Sottil slams ‘childish’ Ibra

    Sottil slams ‘childish’ Ibra Monday 16 October, 2006 Catania defender Andrea Sottil has hit out at Inter’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic after their bust-up during Sunday’s match at the San Siro. “He acts like a kindergarten child,” he said. The two players argued repeatedly during the match, which...
  15. Martin

    If you want religious nuts...

    Westboro Baptist Church is a religious organization based in Topeka, Kansas, headed by Fred Waldron Phelps, Sr. It runs the website GodHatesFags.com[1] and other websites expressing condemnation of homosexuals, Catholics, and other groups. The organization is monitored by the Anti-Defamation...
  16. Martin

    distroshoot

    http://distrowatch.com/ has a "ranking" of distros based on the number of hits each distro's page on distrowatch is getting. Since there aren't any other rankings for this, it's used as an unofficial distro popularity ranking in the community. That is, ranking in popularity, not install base...
  17. Martin

    Let there be unix!

    Okay, so there's all this focus on linux, but what about unix? The most commonly used unix on the desktop today is the somewhat molested Mac OS X (which not all realize actually is unix). Sun released Solaris as open source a couple of years ago, which gave way to a project called OpenSolaris...
  18. Martin

    responding to "application X doesn't run on linux"

    In the Windows Vista thread Paul started another Windows/Linux discussion and there is one point I expected him to make that I would like to answer here. One of the most common complaints about linux is that it doesn't run application X. "How can I use it if I can't run X?" Well, I gave it...
  19. Martin

    Amazing architectural design

    The house that moves with the wind. http://www.walrus.com/%7Eddprod/michaeljantzen/windshape.html
  20. Martin

    Juventuz Forum Strikes One Em

    I didn't realize this had happened already, but we just surpassed Whone Emillion Eposts!! Since December 31, 2000, when I made the opening "welcome to Juventuz Forums" post, we've accumulated over 1,000,000 of those hotcakes. I didn't even notice until I saw Pado ridiculing Rami's signature...