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Wednesday, December 11, 2002
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Nokia, Radiolinja test subscriber positioning technology: "Cell phone giant Nokia and Finnish mobile operator Radiolinja have successfully demonstrated service-area identity positioning technology that will be included in Nokia's mPosition product." [Google Technology News]
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SANs Promote Gigabit Ethernet: "Gigabit Ethernet has been with us for a couple of years and, as always when a technology matures, it is growing more affordable. You might assume Gigabit Ethernet networking is well on its way to the desktop. But there is a major issue to be dealt with before that can happen." [osOpinion]
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How To Post Absolutely Anonymously?: 'The year is 2007. The "war on terrorism" has gone on for years and there is no end in sight. FBI investigations of "suspicious persons" at American companies and the media frenzy about Middle Eastern terrorists has gotten to the point that many Muslim Americans have lost their jobs because they are considered "security liabilities." Word leaks out that the all-seeing eye of the Information Awareness Office, headed by Bush's crony John Poindexter (the Reaganite of Iran-Contra fame), is using its powers to spy on "leftist radicals," which in actuality is just about anyone criticizing Bush, Israel, American foreign policy in the Middle East, reading Chomsky, or sympathizing with the plight of Muslims. It is the new McCarthyism, and you do not want to be its next victim. What do you do?' [kuro5hin.org]
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The new PowerBook G4 is noisy? -- Comment()
There is an active discussion about the fan noise of the new PowerBooks at the discussion forum of Apple support. It seems that some new powerbooks are quite noisy, and the fan runs at the maximum speed all the time. However, some machines are quite quiet. I had a review machine for one week, and it was very quiet, and pleasantly cool also. I'm getting my own PowerBook G4 this week. I hope I'll get one of the silent ones, but who knows.
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MS fights Open Source with freebies - an eyewitness writes: "When I told them that I'd need at least ten licenses and at $400/each, this would be too much for me for the beginning, they offered to give us the license for free - and not only for now, but also for the future when we kept working on Microsoft. " [The Register]
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Month With A Mac: "In summary, if that's possible, the Mac is clearly loved by many. It presents the cleanest, sleekest, most modern interface I've seen to date. It provides UNIX-proven stability, ultra-modern flexibility, intuition, and friendly animation unlike any other computer system available. However, doing the job best has to be proportionate to the value, and Mac's hefty price tag along with some of the (admittedly trivial) pet peevish annoyances along with an untraditional layout left me PC hungry." [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion]
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Research Firm: Microsoft Will Use Linux by 2004. "Meta Group has predicted that software giant Microsoft will bend to open source demands and offer Linux for Web services and server software by the end of 2004. The research firm also noted that back-office applications, including SQL Server, IIS and Exchange, could be included in a Microsoft Linux conversion." [osOpinion]
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Teenager fights DVD piracy charges: "A Norwegian teenager accused by the movie industry of making software to illegally copy DVD films has pleaded not guilty." [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
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