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Tuesday, April 26, 2005
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Trend Micro antivirus customers suffer weekend mayhem: "Trend Micro apologized Monday for distributing a faulty [antivirus] software update that caused IT workers around the world to spend the weekend fixing their systems."
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BitKeeper bon-voyage is a happy ending (by Richard M. Stallman): "For the first time in my life, I want to thank Larry McVoy. He recently eliminated a major weakness of the free software community, by announcing the end of his campaign to entice free software projects to use and promote his non-free software."
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Apple Mythology and Desktop Security: "If security concerns are your most important driver for desktop change, and Microsoft Office compatibility is your most significant barrier, then switching to Macs actually offers you the best of all possible worlds: Microsoft Office on Unix/Risc with a better GUI, longer product life, some cash savings and a performance bonus thrown in."
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Nano-bumps could help repair clogged blood vessels: "Biomedical engineers at Purdue University have shown that "vascular stents" used to repair arteries might perform better if their surfaces contained "nano-bumps" that mimic tiny features found in living tissues." [Biology News]
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Human Cells Filmed Instantly Messaging for First Time: "Cells tugged in one direction sent a biochemical signal in the opposite direction in the form of a signature pattern of fluorescent light. Don't miss out the extremely cool movie (with narration!) where you can see the molecular message as a fluorescent wave propagating throught the cell, in real time." [Biology News]
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