18 months ago, Scot Adams, the creator of Dilbert, lost his voice. Permanently. It’s something exotic called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Today, he got his voice back! Apparently he is the first person to ever get his voice back from this. Read his account of it in his blog.
A LOT of business travelers are walking around with laptops that contain private corporate information that their employers really do not want outsiders to see.
Until recently, their biggest concern was that someone might steal the laptop. But now there’s a new worry — that the laptop will be seized or its contents scrutinized at United States customs and immigration checkpoints upon entering the United States from abroad.
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Subnets began dropping off the MortgageIT network one after another. Entire bank branches went offline for days as Joe Bruner, network engineering manager there at the time, scrambled to purchase and install replacement parts.
At first, he figured some of the new WAN interface cards (WIC) he recently installed to upgrade 50 Cisco 2811 routers during expansion and reorganization were faulty. But as more routers failed and dropped off the network, Bruner realized he was dealing with fakes.
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As a long time Firefox user I decided to spend a week using IE7 as much as possible to see if it could convince me to switch back to IE when using Windows. I usually use a number of platforms including Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. As IE7.0 is only available for Windows XP and above I've tried to restrict web usage to this platform wherever possible for this week.
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This is an absolutely amazing demo. If this new product can do what it claims in the video demo, the impact could be huge! I highly recommend that you take the time to watch the entire 7 minute demo.
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Silicon Graphics has sued ATI Technologies, alleging the graphics chipmaker infringed a computer-graphics patent that ATI's competitors have licensed.
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Over the last 5 years the traditional telecoms' share of the telephone market has shrunk significantly as upstart cellular and VoIP competitors continue to gain ground. But even more bad news is on the horizon for the likes of AT&T and Southwestern Bell; projections indicate that by 2010 more than 25% of American households will no longer even own a traditional land line.
But this collapse isn't just a case of good companies struggling because of new competitors and new technology. Rather, there are a number of ways that the telecoms actually brought on their demise...33 reasons in fact. And if you want to know why nobody is going to own a landline in 5 years, and why there is almost no hope of an AT&T turnaround, you better read this...
Red Hat released Fedora Core 6 on Tuesday, its newest hobbyist version of Linux, with an expandable new installation routine and a third try at incorporating Xen virtualization software.
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Obtaining a hot-fix from Microsoft is far from easy, even if you work for the software giant. That's what Microsoft Developer Solutions group manager Josh Ledgard (his blog here) discovered when he tried to obtain a software patch for Visual Studio 2005 to correct performance problems he was experiencing.
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If your applications are slow even on Fibre Channel hard disks, Baydel reckons it has the answer - a 3.5-inch 4Gbit Fibre Channel drive full of Flash memory.
The devices are called Maracite and run up to 146GB each. Baydel's also offering four of them in a 1U rackmount chassis called FlashStor, so you can have half a terabyte of super-fast RAID.
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ATI will next week launch its 80nm RV560 chip as the Radeon X1650 XT, it has been claimed. By then, of course, the company will almost certainly be part of AMD and possibly no longer known by its original name.
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Sony plans to recall 340,000 rechargeable lithium ion batteries that shipped with notebook computers in the U.S., the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Monday.
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A new Google tool will let people use Google's search platform to create search engines focused on the content of their choice.
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Oracle on Monday announced plans to pay $219 million for MetaSolv Software, which specializes in serving the telecommunications business.
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AOL announced on Monday that Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom, has signed on to offer downloadable movies and TV shows via AOL Video. Some of the titles Paramount is releasing to AOL Video include film classics such as "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Chinatown," as well as newer titles such as "Failure to Launch." In addition to Paramount, AOL also announced partnerships with BlueHighways TV, Plum, MyPath*TV and The Employment & Career Channel.
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Adobe Systems thinks it's time to revisit electronic books.
The publishing software company on Tuesday is scheduled to release a beta of an e-book viewer and manager called Digital Editions at its Max 2006 customer conference in Las Vegas.
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The Internet Society of China has recommended to the government that bloggers be required to use their real names when they register blogs, state media said on Monday, in the latest attempt to regulate free-wheeling Web content.
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