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Wikipedia experienced some downtime starting 5pm Eastern Time on Saturday. The problem has been attributed to a central image server that seems to be having NFS and Squid related difficulties, and the Wikipedia developers gave more of an insight to the problem in their IRC channel on freenode, and a
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The recently released Open Office Version 3 has caused such a stir by such vendors like Sun and the Mozilla foundation, OOO's servers were briefly taken offline due to enormous amounts of requests (something thecoffeedesk has suffered from in the past as well). The site has been briefly brought back
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They solve problems, they answer questions, and hell they even make money. Here is an in-depth analysis of the "big three" search engines, and how they compare to other search engines and their behind-the-scenes workings. Everyone has a favorite search engine. Google is used by the majority, next
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A couple of weeks ago we covered the Asus recovery scandal and more importantly how exactly it came to occur. A couple of days ago, however, it was discovered that Asus has graduated from simple keygens and private documents to full on viruses. First it was keygens, source code, Microsoft doc
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After a long tug of war over whether or not to pass the large bailout sum, AIG and others finally received the answer to their prayers, and the curse of many whom worried about future taxes. But the first check to be written from the sum was spent by none other than the AIG execs for a vacation of a
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In a software-centric world where we already have many, many languages to program in, from scripting to bytecode compiled languages, to frameworks on top of languages and embedded languages, now Redmond wants to bring ANOTHER language to the table, titled 'M' (for Microsoft?). The new language
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Wikileaks.org, the fearless wiki run by the Pirate Bay masterminds has gone down recently due to an expired domain name from dynadot.com. The site is notorious for hundreds of confidential documents being hosted, and recently made headlines as the site hacker group Anonymous chose to host USA VP can
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This week I will review how porting apps to a new operating system instead of rewriting them to take full advantage of the operating system they are being moved to. This review is in lieu of a COD4 for mac review as the purchase I made got cocked up in the download process. Instead lets take
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