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Friday, July 28, 2006

Microsoft To Show Arrested Development For Free Online...

"Microsoft Corp. will run free episodes of the quirky TV comedy "Arrested Development" through its MSN Video service later this year, making the show available online for the first time"

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YouTube says it will keep videos short

"Not coming soon to YouTube: full-length movies or other time-consuming video. Instead, the off-the-charts-successful online video distributor is aiming for the quick-click generation that likes its entertainment in bites of two-and-a-half minutes or so, said Chad Hurley, chief executive and co-founder of the San Mateo start-up."

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Cool picture of Space Shuttle approaching ISS (HUGE IMAGE)

Check out this amazing picture of Space Shuttle Discovery approaching the International Space Station during the STS-121 mission earlier this month.

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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 in December

The Debian project has confirmed December 2006 as the date for the next release of its distribution. The new release, alias 'etch', will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0. This release will also be the first official release to include support for the AMD64 architecture raising the number of architectures supported to 11 in total.

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Make Dapper Drake Perform on Old Hardware

I recently replaced SuSE 10.1 with Ubuntu 6.06, also known as Dapper Drake, on my main PC in a matter of minutes, and am now enjoying a clean, feature-rich computing environment that is easy to configure and just works.

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US government sues Missouri officials to squash state's subpoena of AT&T.

The federal government wants to be able to know everything you do, but they don't want anyone to know about their actions. They are willing to argue both sides of a case to prevent citizens and states from finding out what AT&T has been doing in those secret rooms.

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