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Saturday, November 11, 2006

South Korea hits 100Mbps

Those stuck with slow broadband connections have another reason to look across the Pacific with envy. Some South Korean cable Internet subscribers are now able to get 100Mbps connections thanks to deployment of pre-DOCSIS 3.0 hardware by cable operator ARRIS.

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The war is over and Linux won

IBM sponsored study shows: At least in the server world, Linux has won. Web servers and database servers remain the dominant applications, but development environments are now among the most popular systems in production, meaning the trend toward Linux and open source applications should accelerate.

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Windows Chief Says Vista Won't Need Antivirus

During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin told a reporter that the system's new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that he was comfortable with his own seven-year-old son using Windows Vista without antivirus software installed.

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Judge orders RIAA to justify its piracy charges

A US COURT is forcing the Recording Industry of America to explain why it charges people it catches pirating $750 a single rather than the 70 cents they flog them to retailers for.

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Free Open Source Gaming at its Best!!!

True Combat Elite is a pretty decent conversion of Castle Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. Its a 1st person tactical shooter made by Team Terminator. The cool features of this game are - its OPEN SOURCED - its a quality game - Its on all computing platforms (win,lin,mac) and its dynamically ranged to run on sub P3 machines. Its free check it out!!!

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Slashdot Gets Pwned... Taken Down

Slashdot gets taken down after a random Ontario musician posts the 16,777,215th comment. Since the Databse could only handle 2^24 comments, slashdot then crashed :-).

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