After Facebook, what?

The delicious riddle of Facebook’s future is part parlour game, part billion-dollar question. It might just be me, but I’m hearing more grumbling than raving about the site these days. For people who joined earlier in the year, the novelty has worn off. The rush of long-lost acquaintances clamouring for renewed “friendship” has petered out. After all, one can only have gone to grade school with so many people.

A very interesting read!

Source: Globe & Mail

~LC

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Or maybe this should be titled what is really wrong with health care here in the states. As some of you know I have been getting ready for some surgery in the last few months and I am still sitting and waiting for that. Why you ask? Well it seems that the Doctors have to run some more tests on my little over age body before they decide if and when they want to go through with the operation. Now I have the patience of a coiled cobra to start with and this never ending series of tests are really starting to get on my nerves a tad. And this could be the fact that every time they get close to doing it they have to drag in another “specialist”. Fine I want the best if they are going to have their fingers in my body, however I just passed the $10,000 mark just on tests, and have more planned for next week.

Good gravy, lets see maybe the idea to drive my into bankruptcy before so they can say nope you are poor so you have to go to a different doctor now. If this is “normal” actions of the medical profession in this day and age no wonder that so many people are leaving this country in a way that has never been seen before. Now don’t get me wrong yes I want the best there is and yes I want it done, but with the doctors so scared they are going to be sued these days, it costs two,three, or four times that it should cost. And they say health care is getting better. Phooey!

Well off to get some more tests and maybe I will get this done before I retire. Sorry about the personal rant but I just had to do it.

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A Vista Service Pack is on the way — Microsoft says a beta of Service Pack 1 will be available “in a few weeks.” Many users, waiting for SP1′s arrival before taking the upgrade plunge, will wait even longer with the news that the pack will contain mostly bug fixes — and few new features.

Don’t you just love windoze?  first they release a OS that is not ready for prime time and then they fail to come through with the promises they made just after the release of said junk. And people wonder why I like Linux.

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First Vista Service Pack to Contain More Fixes Than Features

How To Prank A Telemarketer

Warning: May cause acute cases of cachinnation in some viewers!

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So what does this have to do with Linux? Smarter people than I have already mentioned the possibility.

There could come a day when it will be against the law…at least in the United States to use, possess, advocate or distrubute any Linux Operating system.

Source: blog.lobby4linux

~LC

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By Nathan Willis on August 28, 2007 (9:00:00 AM)

My Series 1 TiVo is getting old, so I am planning an escape route based on MythTV, a free software system that turns an old computer into a personal video recorder. This week I tested three MythTV-specific Linux distributions: KnoppMyth, MythDora, and MythBuntu. I found MythDora the best overall fit for my needs — but there are important distinctions between the three that may lead you to a different decision.

Source: linux.com

~LC

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If Linux is hardly affected by viruses, why do system administrators use anti-virus software on their Linux email servers? Because an anti-virus scanner on a mail server can serve as another level of defense for Microsoft Windows desktop users. Linux provides several server-based anti-virus applications, most of which can be configured to interact with a variety of messaging servers. Many use the actively developed ClamAV open source virus toolkit on the back end; others work with proprietary or commercial scanners. In this article we’ll compare MailScanner and Anomy Sanitizer on a Sendmail messaging server.

Two open source email virus scanners for Linux

The open source model of developing software is making a significant impact, not only in the software development and broader high-tech community, but more generally within corporations, other types of businesses and organizations around the world, as Part 1 of this series describes. Whether it’s on servers, desktop computers or mobile devices, it’s increasingly likely that you’re taking advantage of an open source-based product or service.

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Open Source: Changing Models, Changing Mindsets, Part 2

Yahoo Inc. said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users.

The new e-mail-to-phone connection is one of the features the Internet media giant plans to add as it makes available to the more than 250 million Yahoo Mail users a new version of the world’s most popular e-mail program in coming weeks.

Source: Yahoo News

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Taiwan’s Acer on Monday said it will buy Gateway for $710 million, creating the world’s No. 3 PC maker, as Acer doubles its presence in Gateway’s lucrative but highly competitive home market.

Acer said it would pay $1.90 per Gateway share, representing a premium of 57 percent over Gateway’s last closing price.

Source: ZDNet

~LC

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