Pirated XP Users Will Be Constantly Bugged to go Genuine

In a new round of updates, Microsoft plans to permanently bug users of Pirated Windows XP and place "tattoos" on the login screen telling them they have pirated Windows until they go Genuine.

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OpenBRR Launches Closed Open-Source Group

eWeek is reporting that SpikeSource co-founder and CTO Murugan Pal and the Open Business Readiness rating have launched a new initiative designed to maximize open-source software knowledge across organizations. While they are targeting corporate and Wall Street CIOs and IT directors as members, the current plan is not to open membership of the new OpenBRR Corporate Community to all, but to offer it on an invitation-only basis 'to ensure that only trusted participants are coming into the system,' Pal said. This would allow members to discuss sensitive issues and share information without having to worry that it would be made widely public, he said.

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The Mother of All Demos - Douglas Engelbart

Douglas Engelbart December 9, 1968 demonstration at the Convention Center in San Francisco is often called The Mother of All Demos. The demo featured the first mouse the public had ever seen, as well as introducing the paper paradigm, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email and hypertext.

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Ubuntu Dapper +1 - The Edgy Eft

Mark Shuttleworth and the Ubuntu Development team have announced what the codename of Dapper +1 will be, The Edgy Eft.

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Oracle and Linux: how about Ubuntu?

Industry pundits mull over the possibilities following recent comments by Oracle's Larry Ellison that he might like to have a version of Linux all for his very own.

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Guess-The-Google

Guess-The-Google with this game based on a google image search! How many can u guess?

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Goodbye, war on smoking. Hello, war on fat.

"So, we've found a new enemy:obesity. 2 years ago, the government discovered that the targets of previous crusades booze, sex, guns & cigarettes were killing a smaller percentage of Americans than they used to.The one thing you're not allowed to do in a culture war is win it, so we searched the mortality data for the next big menace."

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Will U marry me?

Thats what I found while browsing my neighborhood on google maps. Hope she said yes. (Zoom in and switch to satellite mode).

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FOSS Community Should Not Negotiate With Microsoft On Port 25

In the wake of Microsoft launching their Port 25 blog in an effort to open the lines of communication with the Free and Open Source Software Community, a long line of FOSS proponents have voiced loud and clear their fears, doubts, and outright opposition. Indeed, one poster suggested that "there is nothing to discuss". And he has a point.

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One Red Paper Clip guy now has a year in Phoenix

Remember the guy who started out with a paper clip and has been trading his way up to a house? He is now one step closer to his goal.

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Free Our Data: the blog

A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to data about the UK and its citizens.
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/index.php

See also the post Data pricing: more fuel for the fire.

This Boring Headline Is Written for Google - New York Times

By STEVE LOHR
Published: April 9, 2006

JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

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Greetings, Professor Falken.

...Shall we play a game?

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ParallelKnoppix

ParallelKnoppix (PK) is the fastest and easiest way there is to create a HPC cluster. It is designed to be easy to use, but it is also suitable for serious work. In fact, you may get more serious work done with PK than you would using alternatives, simply because you'll have more time free to use your cluster, rather than install/administrate it.

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What Digg Would Look Like If You Were Colorblind...

Sometimes words are not enough to describe the world through the eyes of a colorblind person... See the view of a person with a protanopic, deuteranopic, or tritanopic condition by selecting the choices at the top of the screen...

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Need a Temporary Email Address?

TempEMail.net is The place where you get a Free, Temporary, Disposable, Anonymous, email address, keeping your own email address Spam and Virus Free!

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The Evil DRM Chip Is Bolted Inside The New Intel Macs?

Chip on the motherboard that controls Digital Rights Management.

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Microsoft doesn't want you to be able to buy a PC without an OS.

"Microsoft has urged UK PC vendors not to give customers the opportunity to buy a PC without a pre-installed operating system...We want to urge all system builders...not to supply naked PCs. It is a risk to your customers and a risk to your business with specifically 5 percent fewer opportunities to market software and services"

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15,000+ songs & music videos free

A new site is letting smaller bands actually get their music out there. (200MB's worth at least) The powerful search function lets you find music you have never heard that fits your taste and is actually good. The amount of music on the site has gone up by 150% in the last month.

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Is Microsoft Scared by Open Document Format?

Is Microsoft really getting scared that OpenDocument Format is getting a large momentum? Well I guess that'a a yes. Not only they're moving their strategy to patenting the transformations of their XML, but they're starting to evangelize on the "we're nice and open on the formats" side with http://openxmldeveloper.org/

Well it sound very much like a tactical marketing response to http://opendocumentfellowship.org

This video actually show a pretty much staged and edited discussion about how great the whole thing is. Who can really believe this? This is so different from the videos shot by Robert Scoble that really showed interesting things mainly because they are sincere.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=174061
At 16:50 "There are actually other people out there that are doing the same thing: they're using zip and XML for their formats" :-)

A very nice read is the Comments on Microsoft’s Letter to Massachusetts by David A. Wheeler at Groklaw.

Overview of the ten major Linux distributions

A review of the 10 major Linux distributions out there, giving the pros and cons of each and every one of them...

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