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Will Microsoft Cut Off the Clones?. The idea sounds incredible, perhaps a little crazy: Why would Microsoft
want to stop licensing its OS to hardware manufacturers and start selling
its own brand of PCs? What evidence is there that this might happen? [osOpinion]
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NEWS - Summary software. At Columbia University, researchers are working on software that can do
what members of the Fourth Estate often struggle with: Write a lead paragraph. [Lockergnome Bytes]
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FlashSwitch v1.0 [300k] W9x/2k/XP FREE. Did you know that you could turn Macromedia Flash on and off? Well, you can, but you'll need this program. A tiny box sits in your System Tray (programs seem to like that thing), and all you have to do is click on it to turn Flash-y Web content on or off. This is really nice to have if you're not in the mood for lots of moving and dancing pictures - when you just want to surf the more, let's say, "stable" sections of the Web. "The program will expire in approximately 6 months after downloading from FlashSwitch's official site. Another time-limited demo or a commercial version will be available by then." [Lockergnome Windows Daily]
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See currently loaded drivers in XP. What's the quickest way (in Windows XP) to get a list of the currently loaded drivers (including module names and descriptions)? Get out of the GUI; you're better off at the command line for this tip. Browse to your desktop folder for simplicity's sake (usually found at C: Documents and Settings [Username] Desktop). Now, at the command line, enter: "driverquery /V > drivers.txt" (sans quotes). That /V provides a more "verbose" output. Other notable switches include /FO (which formats the output as a table, list, or comma separated values) and /SI (which provides details about any signed driver). Open that freshly-created drivers.txt file and you'll be in business. On a more entertaining note, do you remember the music that played when you first started Windows XP? Ya know, the one that sounded like an Enigma tune? If you wanna hear it again, you can find it at C: WINDOWS system32 oobe images title.wma. Of course, if you want to free up 3 MB worth of space, you can delete it and the intro.wmv file sitting next to it. Eat your heart out, Enya. [Lockergnome Windows Daily]
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Bloggar v1.20 [1.9M] W9x/2k/XP FREE. You blog, I blog, all the world is blogging - except for John C. Dvorak. Don't worry - he'll come around... eventually. And that's pretty cool if you ask me. This here is a new blogging tool for all you bloggers who blog, um... bloggingly. Since the Blogger.com API is available, this client will enable you to post to your blog, edit existing posts, remove posts, save a post locally before publishing it, add hyperlinks, insert images, and all sorts of other wacky stuff. Note that this requires you to have Internet Explorer 5 or above. "If you want Bloggar in your language, please contact me so you can have the Localizer tool to help me with translating Bloggar! Don't be afraid it's fast and easy." Regardless, a free (or Pro) Blogger.com account is needed. [Lockergnome Windows Daily]
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Should there be a corporate Death Penalty?. Should there be such a thing as a corporate death penalty? Historically corporations that commit massive fraud have been fined, sometimes enough to cause bankruptcy. Bankruptcy however can allow for a corporation to continue its existence and restore itself to solvency just as a person can do so. Actual prison time for massive white collar crimes is rare. To make my case I point to that most dishonest and fraudulent of companies, Arthur Andersen. More corrupt than Enron, they allowed Enron's fraud to gain legitimacy knowing full and well that the company was cooking the books. By allowing Enron's massive multibillion dollar fraud to gain legitimacy, they have caused significant financial disaster to investors, employees, and retirement funds. [kuro5hin.org]
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On the Lam. Our new lambs are arriving today. I'll put up the Lamb Cam so you can see them. (Please keep your... [Leoville Blog]
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Can’t Get No Satisfaction?. Unique offer to 'buy-out'existing hosting contracts for companies that are experiencing problems or are unhappy with their existing hosting provider. [PRWEB 2002-03-01] [PR Web - Internet]
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Update: Internet License Plate Gallery. Our license plate gallery is hot - and we're not the only ones who think so! Thanks to all your great submissions, the gallery has been selected as a USATODAY.com Hot Site. Cruise on in, and take a look at both our brand new award and your latest plate entries. 0227 [WebReference News]
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Free Software Magazine, Issue 2 is available. Andy Tai writes, "The second issue of the Free Software Magazine is out. It is available at http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/issue02 with a mirror in North America at http://www.free-soft.org/FSM/english/issue02/ This issue include articles on the history of PostgreSQL, introduction to Jabber, Treecc, and E2K, the Qt/Embedded GUI toolkit, database presentations using XML/XSLT and context, and more." [NewsForge: Open Source News]
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