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Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, is congratulated by the prime minister after ending an historic space mission. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] .< 10:46:29 PM  >Apple stores are in the black G5s, PowerBooks boost slim profit [The Register] .< 10:40:00 PM >The Home Theater Headache Setting up a home theater is neither easy nor fun. Three instructional DVDs aim to make it simpler. [New York Times: Technology] .< 10:36:21 PM >Globetechnology-Windows pained by new flaws In particularly embarrassing disclosures, Microsoft acknowledged problems in its technology to authenticate software publishers over the Web and in its Windows help and support system. .< 10:30:42 PM >Globetechnology-Canada second in Fast Technology 500 survey California still ranks as the largest technology centre in North America, the 2003 Deloitte Fast Technology 500 has reported.
Canada, which was ranked as a single grouping rather than by region or province, came second in the study. The Silicon Valley of the North has surpassed even the New-York Tri-State area according to the survey, which monitors the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. A surprising breakthrough. I wonder if it will hold. Interesting to think that Peter has just become leader of the PCs and may very well soon no longer be the leader of a party. .< 6:11:56 PM >Dolby Licensees Continue Expanding with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 Dolby Licensees Continue Expanding with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 San Francisco (October 15, 2003)--Dolby Laboratories has made available new solutions designed to expand the entertainment capabilities of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2004 PCs using Dolby Digital technologies. These solutions are designed to provide the end-user with enhanced DVD-Video playback control, DVD recording capability and simplified connectivity to home theater systems. [ProSound News] .< 5:53:56 PM >AvantGo is back on Mac OS X for USB Palm devices AvantGo is back on Mac OS X for USB Palm devices! Thanks to the common effort of USB-TCP Bridge (from Florent Pillet) and Malsync (from Tom Whittaker) on an original idea of Jonathan Z. Simon. The result is a single Mac OS X ... [macosxhints] .< 4:58:06 PM >Dvorak - Best thing since sliced bread... Dvorak - Best thing since sliced bread , Norman Lebrecht, 10/15/2003 [La Scena Musicale - News] .< 4:34:36 PM >CBS News | Ex-Aide: Powell Misled Americans [base "][sigma]The main problem was that the senior administration officials have what I call faith-based intelligence,[per thou] says Thielmann. [base "]They knew what they wanted the intelligence to show. They were really blind and deaf to any kind of countervailing information the intelligence community would produce." Shocking but true. The American media is finally beginning to report what the rest of the world has known for a year. .< 4:32:58 PM >CBS News | Ex-Aide: Powell Misled Americans [base "][sigma]The main problem was that the senior administration officials have what I call faith-based intelligence,[per thou] says Thielmann. [base "]They knew what they wanted the intelligence to show. They were really blind and deaf to any kind of countervailing information the intelligence community would produce." Shocking but true. The American media is finally beginning to report what the rest of the world has known for a year. .< 1:24:29 PM >Seductive Electronic Gadgets Are Soon Forgotten People are buying many more electronic gadgets in a well-intentioned bout of self-improvement, but many of the gadgets are rarely used, if at all. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:23:42 PM >Mac Supercomputer: Fast, Cheap Initial tests indicate a supercomputer made entirely of Power Mac G5s is more powerful than all but one of its speedy competitors, Japan's mighty Earth Simulator. And it cost a fraction of the price. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 'The machine is the first supercomputer based on Macs; it is one of the few supercomputers built entirely from off-the-shelf components and it cost a bargain-bucket price -- only $5.2 million. By comparison, most of the top 10 supercomputers cost about $40 million and up. The Earth Simulator cost $350 million.' .< 1:20:40 PM >Exabyte releases new backup, restore product Exabyte Corp. has released the VXA-2 PacketLoader 1x10 1U, a rack-mountable, automated backup and restore product that provides up to 1.6TB of capacity via 10 cartridges with up to 160GB of capacity each. [MacCentral] .< 1:17:08 PM >VSO to 'read' unperformed works by B.C.... , Lloyd Dykk , Vancouver Sun, 10/15/2003 [La Scena Musicale - News] .< 1:12:44 PM >Australian Wins Man Booker Prize for Novel He Sees as a Form of Atonement DBC Pierre won Britain's most influential literary award for "Vernon God Little," a satirical novel about guilt and redemption. [New York Times: Arts] .< 12:42:32 PM >Here's something really strange. On October 22,... Here's something really strange. On October 22, I'm going to Prince Edward Island to speak at a media conference. I'm one of the keynotes. It sounded like a great group of people and I've never been to the maritime provinces in Canada, so I said yes. Now I read on Sebastien Paquet's weblog that there's a weblog conference in PEI immediately after the one I'm going to. Buzz Bruggeman is coming. Is it a coincidence? [Scripting News] Whoah. Dave's gonna be in for some culture shock. .< 10:53:25 AM >Betraying the Kurds again? The U.S. plan to send 10,000 Turkish troops to Iraq has Kurdish leaders outraged -- and analysts of all stripes incredulous at its folly.
[Salon] .< 12:49:40 AM >quislibet: a musical interlude Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter. Hiphop to Latin to English . . . I like big butts, I can not lie .< 12:07:35 AM >China puts its first man in space China's first manned space craft enters orbit, making it the third nation to send a human into space. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] |
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