Hundreds attended a memorial for CNET editor James Kim, who died in the Oregon snow last year while seeking help for his stranded family.
Stop in and take a look and find out about the James Kim Foundation a super great idea in memory of a super great guy, Baldy
Source: Photos: Celebrating the life of James Kim
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PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Alcoholics have one, and so do drug abusers. Now people addicted to e-mail also have a 12-step program designed to tackle their obsession.
An executive coach in Pennsylvania has devised a plan to teach people how to manage the electronic tool, which some users say can be as much an intrusive waste of time as it is fast-paced and efficient.
Source: Yahoo News
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A deal between Google Inc. and CBS Corp. that would let YouTube users watch clips from CBS shows such as “The Late Show with David Letterman,” has unraveled, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
The two companies had been closing in on a multi-year deal, the paper said, citing people familiar with the matter. The companies also discussed ways to peddle CBS Radio advertising spots to Google advertisers, the paper said.
Source: Yahoo News
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox jcatcw writes “David Short, an IBM consultant who works in the Global Services Division and has been beta testing Vista for two years, says users should consider 4GB of RAM if they really want optimum Vista performance. With Vista’s minimum requirement of 512MB of RAM, Vista will deliver performance that’s ’sub-XP,’ he says. (Dell and others recommend 2GB.) One reason: SuperFetch, which fetches applications and data, and feeds them into RAM to make them accessible more quickly. More RAM means more caching.”
Jeesh I only have two machines that are capable of running that much ram let alone installed on them. More proof that Linux is the right way to go these days, Baldy
Source: 4 GB May Be Vista’s RAM Sweet Spot
Posted by Baldy - Baldys Paradox This tutorial will show you how to set up a serial console on a Linux system, and connect to it via a null modem cable. This is quite useful if your Linux server is in a headless configuration (no keyboard or monitor), as it allows you to easily get a console on the system if there are any problems with it (especially network problems, when SSH is not available). In the end, the GRUB menu will appear over the serial link, as will the bootup messages (output when booting the system). I’m using Debian Etch on the server and Ubuntu Edgy on my client, although this should work on any Linux distribution.
Source: Howto Forge
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox When something goes wrong with your Linux-based system, you can try to diagnose it yourself with the many troubleshooting tools bundled with the operating system. Knowing about these tools, and how to effectively use them, can help you overcome many of the common problems on your system. Here’s a list of some of the weapons in your arsenal against Linux problems.
Source: Enterprise Linux
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox GNU/Linux is known for its diversity and freedom of choice. There are multiple window managers and desktop environments, many competing systems for handling sound, graphics and hardware autodetection. This diversity is the power and weakness of free software. Exactly the same problem concerns installing software in GNU/Linux. There are currently at least 5 popular ways of doing it:
Source: Linux Today
Posted by LinuxChick - Baldys Paradox WASHINGTON — The first time Warner Music Group took a run at British rival EMI Group PLC, satellite radio was in its infancy and the iPod was a secret prototype in Apple Inc.’s labs.
Six years and repeated rebuffs later, Warner Music confirmed Tuesday that it is “in the preliminary stages” of making yet another takeover bid for London-based EMI — a move analysts said is aimed at coping with the uncertainty of selling music in the age of digital downloads.
Source: Globe and Mail
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The Mono Project on Feb. 20 announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications.
Source: Mono brings Visual Basic programs to Linux
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In an attempt to boost its sagging fortunes, Dell, one of the leading PC makers in America, recently launched the Dell Idea Storm website to solicit ideas on how to get Dell back to the top. The most popular idea so far? Desktops with pre-installed Linux.
Source: Dell gives desktop Linux its “full attention”
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