Learn how to build an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader, as well as a Web component that you can place on any Web site to look at the articles in the RSS feeds.
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OSDL expects low cost Linux Office version to keep Open Office at bay. Microsoft within the “next couple of years” will release a version of its Office productivity to run on Linux, Stuart Cohen, chief executive for the Open Source Development Labs, predicted in an interview with vnunet.com at the Linuxworld conference in San Francicso.
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The site allows you to select servers to ping from around the country on an interactive map and graphically displays connections as they travel with varying speeds along the way. It also lets you store results of tests for your computer and sort them by date, time, speed and distance.
“Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing got a reply from the RIAA saying that they will drop the case against the grieving family who they’re going after because their dad was recently a victim of their sue ‘em all strategy.”
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Looks like Microsoft is giving away free Vista Cd’s if you can answer a small quiz. I hope it isn’t like the free USB flash drives that was posted a while ago…
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The recall affects certain Inspiron, Latitude and Precision mobile workstation units shipped between April 2004 and July 18, 2006.
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“Corporate suits take a leave of absence as dress codes become more relaxed. But the trend has created a backlash. `Tie Tuesday,’ anyone?” They credit the likes of Steve Jobs and his trademark ensemble (they claim t-shirt and jeans…we know better: black turtleneck and jeans) for the trend.
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RIAA member companies have pulled a long list of legal stunts. This trumps them all in my opinion. To put it in plain and simple English, what Sony BMG have asked is that the court remove the 1st amendment rights of the defendant and the defendant’s council in order to save them from public scrutiny of their own words during deposition.
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Now, open source messaging and collaboration software providers are a normal part of the IT business landscape. And, according to OpenXchange Executive Vice President of Marketing Strategy Dan Kusnetzky, their products’ acceptance is increasing steadily — and not just among hard-core GNU/Linux and open source devotees.
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Want to hear what 5Hz sounds like? A new woofer technology unlike any other and a new product category for home audio. This is the first home audio woofer delivering true response to DC. The Thigpen rotary woofer is the worlds first true infrasonic home audio or home theater woofer. Conventional subwoofers roll off rapidly below 20Hz.
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