Ubuntu Kung Fu (Tuesday 06th of January 2009 12:30:02 PM)
Lorin Ricker writes "Back in the dark ages of windows-based GUIs, corresponding to my own
wandering VMS evangelical days, I became enamored of a series of books jauntily entitled Xxx
Annoyances (from O'Reilly & Assocs.), where "Xxx" could be all from ...
(more)iPhones, FStream and the Death of Satellite Radio (Sunday 30th of November 2008 10:45:01 PM)
Statesman writes "Only a little over a year ago, the FCC approved the merger of XM and Sirius
partisan radio companies and the combined stock was trading at $4 a share. Despite being a
monopoly — or perhaps because of it — the company is ...
(more)Programming .NET 3.5 (Tuesday 04th of November 2008 04:00:03 PM)
Lamaditx writes "The world of the .NET cage is taken to the next level by the release of .NET
3.5. The intended audition of this book are veteran .NET programmers. There are no sections
that tell you details about C#, SQL servers or any one ...
(more)While attending a Marriage Seminar dealing with communication, ... (Sunday 02nd of November 2008 07:10:02 AM)
While third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright ©
2003 a wedlock Seminar dealing with communication, Tom and his wife Grace listened to the
instructor, "It is essential that husbands and wives know the things ...
(more)Streaming Election Night Broadcast TV? (Thursday 30th of October 2008 09:00:02 AM)
Kakapo writes "A couple of years ago, we dumped our cable TV, and don't have much luck getting
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(more)Cobol Job Market Heating Up (Friday 24th of October 2008 05:45:05 AM)
Snydeq writes "Developers seeking job shield in the years ahead could find an unlikely edge in
Cobol. as it should be to an InfoWorld report, demand for Cobol skills is surging, with
salaries on the rise. More importantly, the short supply of offshore ...
(more)Virginia High Court Wrong About IP Addresses (Thursday 02nd of October 2008 04:30:01 AM)
Frequent Slashdot pioneer Bennett Haselton writes "The zigzag fence Supreme Court has ruled
that the state's anti-spam law, which prohibits the sending of bulk e-mail using falsified or
forged headers, violates the First melioration
copyrights:cite ...
(more)Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Tuesday 30th of September 2008 03:15:02 AM)
Merlin42 writes "I just now took a Test-Driven-Development (TDD) coaching course and the
teacher food pyramid that I read "Working Effectively with Legacy Code" by Michael Feathers.
First things first, a note about the title. Feathers defines "Legacy ...
(more)Scam-linked ISP Intercage / Atrivo Gets Shut Out (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 09:00:02 PM)
Alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "The lifeline linking notable service
isp Intercage to the rest of the www
notes:internet should be capitalized has been severed.
Intercage, which has also done engagement under the name Atrivo, was ...
(more)Canadian DMCA Proposal About To Die (Sunday 07th of September 2008 03:15:01 AM)
An unsigned reader writes "Like the preceding Bill C-60 before it, the draft Bill C-61 that
would bring DMCA-like laws to Canada is poised to die on the order table, never to receive a
vote, as the current minority domination falls. An other side call ...
(more)Blown to Bits (Wednesday 03rd of September 2008 10:30:01 PM)
Ray Lodato writes "Few people would deny that the world has changed significantly since the
explosion of the Internet. Our access to immense volumes of data has made our lives both easier
and less secure. Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen, and Harry Lewis have ...
(more)Reasonable Expectation of Privacy From Web Hosts? (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Shafted writes "I'm in a bit of dilemma, and I'm wondering what fellow Slashdotters think as to
this subject. I've been hosting web sites for some clients for years using my own server. About
a year and a half ago, I got a reseller account ...
(more)IRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot Review (Sunday 29th of June 2008 08:45:01 PM)
Justechn writes "Many of us have seen robots in the movies and wondered how long it would take
for them to become a reality. Some of my favorites when I was a kid were Short Circut and
Runaway. iRobot is a company that is striving ...
(more)Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian (Tuesday 24th of June 2008 03:15:04 PM)
Zyzko writes "Nokia has placed an offer on Symbian stock — it currently owns a 48% share
and intends to buy the other shareholders out, 91% of the stockholders have already agreed. The
press has already labeled this as an countermeasure to fight ...
(more)Big, Well-Balanced Breakfast Aids Weight Loss (Friday 20th of June 2008 04:46:14 AM)
HealthDay - THURSDAY, June 19 (HealthDay News) -- open gate your day with a
large meal packed
with both carbohydrates and lean protein, and even a
small piece of chocolate, can help lessen
cravings and hunger the rest of
the day, which can lead to significant
roget's ...
(more)Paris Hilton's marry hurry (China Daily) (Sunday 08th of June 2008 09:58:31 AM)
Paris Hilton's mother doesn't want her woman to rush into marriage. Kathy Hilton thinks the
'Simple Life' star should take her time to decide whether Good Charlotte rocker Benji Madden is
the man she wants to spend the rest of her life with, because they ...
(more)The Definitive ANTLR Reference (Thursday 29th of May 2008 01:45:08 PM)
Joe Kauzlarich writes "Finally, someone has done us all the great service of printing a book
about the second most celeb* compiler compiler, Terence Parr's Antlr, and it was written,
moreover, by Parr himself and published as part of the somewhat-usually-reliable ...
(more)A guy was on trial for murder and if convicted, would get the electric chair. ... (Friday 25th of April 2008 04:10:02 AM)
A guy was on trial for murder and if convicted, would get the electric chair. His brother found
out that a redneck was on the jury and figured he would be the one to bribe. He told the red
neck that he would be paid ...
(more)Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit Leaves Desktop Linux Behind (Tuesday 15th of April 2008 10:30:05 AM)
Linux.com's Joe Barr has an interesting commentary about the recent Linux abc's Collaboration
Summit and the astounding lack of attention for desktop Linux. Now, a great deal of the
monetary support driving Linux these days comes from companies with a ...
(more)Slowdown hurting gamblers' casino comps (Lexington Herald-Leader) (Sunday 06th of April 2008 06:47:04 PM)
While there may have been no such thing as a free lunch in the rest of the world, you could get
one pretty easily here for three decades, along with a roll of quarters, as long as you rode
the bus to a casino. But ...
(more)A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux (Thursday 03rd of April 2008 12:30:04 PM)
R3lody writes "Finding a single book that encompasses what you want to learn can be difficult.
Most cover a few portions of a subject in depth and skim over (or omit) others. Other books
will cover each topic at about the same level: high enough ...
(more)Swiss Bank Secrecy Under Renewed Attack (Sunday 30th of March 2008 10:00:05 AM)
Stanislav_J writes "All you wealthy Slashdotters better start making alternate arrangements for
stashing your millions. Switzerland's storied role as discreet banker to the world's
tax-avoiding wealthy is under threat like never before, and this time ...
(more)Regular Expression Pocket Reference (Tuesday 25th of March 2008 03:45:08 AM)
Michael J. Ross writes "When dos developers need to manipulate text programmatically —
such as finding all substrings within some text that match a particular pattern — the
most concise and flexible solution is to use "regular expressions," ...
(more)X Power Tools (Thursday 14th of February 2008 01:30:03 AM)
Stoolpigeon writes "The X Window System has been around for over twenty years and is the
display system for an incredibly wide range of general expenses systems. With the number of
Linux users growing, there are more people working with X than ever before. ...
(more)Wise Old Man (Thursday 07th of February 2008 12:00:00 AM)
A wise old admirer friend retired and purchased a modest home near a junior high school. He
spent the first few weeks of his continuing-care people in peace and contentment. Then a new
school year began. The very next afternoon three young boys, full ...
(more)Doctors report transplant breakthrough (AP) (Thursday 24th of January 2008 10:20:57 AM)
In what's being called a major advance in organ transplants, doctors say they have developed a
way that could free many work from having to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their
lives.
...
(more)Saving in OOXML Format Now Probably A Bad Idea (Thursday 24th of January 2008 03:45:12 AM)
Orlando writes "Much drama is polity prior to the OOXML Ballot energy Meeting in Geneva,
currently schedule for the end of February. After that there's a subsequent 30 day period while
minority groups can still change their vote. As a result, Bob Sutor ...
(more)Making a Buck Online - Without Ads (Monday 10th of December 2007 03:45:04 AM)
A New York Times article hosted by C|Net looks at the unique post of the Consumer Reports
website; they're one of the few online resources that gets by completely on public antenna boob
tube* fees. They have no ads. One key seems to be valuing ...
(more)Ohio lawmakers push autism coverage bill (AP) (Friday 09th of November 2007 12:27:42 AM)
Fully insured health plans would be compulsory to cover scrutiny as well as medication for
autism under an Ohio House bill advocates say would expose autistic drop one to early treatment
that will benefit them the rest of their lives.
...
(more)School District Threatens Suit Over Parent's Blog (Wednesday 07th of November 2007 07:00:03 PM)
Penguin_dance writes "A Texas School turf* is threatening to sue a parent over what it terms
'libelous material' or other 'legally offensive' postings on her web site and are demanding
their removal. Web site owner Sandra Tetley says they're just opinions. ...
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