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»GPS And Galileo Will Work Together

As it probably will happen, <a href="http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn12278">there will be GPS receivers that use both systems</a>.

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The US-run Global Positioning System (GPS) is the most widely used satellite-navigation system in the world. But the EU wants to have alternative that is not under US control, and is developing its own system called Galileo, which has yet to be launched. The benefits of a US-EU agreement will depend on makers of receivers making use of both systems, but one senior US official involved in the talks says this is inevitable. "The market probably will drive dual-use receivers," said Raymond Clore, a GPS-Galileo senior adviser from the US State Department. "It just doesn't make sense to limit yourself to just one system."

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http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=2427dc52-0027-4a74-b66b-2668270b1890

Awesome?

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The truth is out there. And now, so too is a release date.

David Duchovny has given credence to the persevering rumors that a second X-Files movie was in the works, telling reporters at Saturday's Television Critics Association tour that production on the long-gestating project could kick off as early as November.

"I'm supposed to see a script next week," he said during a session promoting his new Showtime show, Californication. "I'm actually supposed to see it next week. Before I would just say that because they told me."

There is a site that is basically trying to be a middle man for domain name registrations by checking when the domain name expires and sending you a renewal notice. This does NOT come from your registrar, but instead it asks you to renew through them for the lofty price of $70. Always go through your registrar.

Ohh, and their 'click here to be removed' thing isn't even a link.

Do not go to http://www.domainrenewal-online.com/

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»PHP 4 End Of Lifed

As of the end of this year, there will be no more PHP 4 updates. <a href="http://www.php.net/archive/2007.php">I don't know who is still using PHP 4</a>, but I suspect most people are using PHP 5 as I am.

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The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.

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Wow, I really did get my internet back on Wednesday (July 4th) XD it just took me much longer to get my bearings. This internet is a bit slower than my old one for some reason and I'm apparently very impatient because it's driving me crazy. Anywho, the modem was actually delivered on June 28th, sooner than expected, so soon infact that we hadn't even signed the lease yet and the package got sent back to UPS to sit around until we got a notice July 3rd saying if we didn't pick it up by the 5th, they'd send it back. Fun. Then we hooked it all up and it didn't work (infact, the phone jack we were using popped right out of the wall - the wires weren't even connected to anything!), so we had to wait until the 4th for my mothers boyfriend to come and fix it, which he did by figuring out that the working phone jack was a hidden one in the kitchen. Then of course there was all the unpacking and furniture hunting (we need bookshelves, for we have many books rotting in boxes).

Just thought y'all would want to know where I've been XD I'm back, anyhow.

I've moved alot too, ACCER and Roxy, so I'm used to it XD In fact I was in Florida briefly (6 months) before moving all the way back to California. And that's a real hike, let me tell you. Other than that, I've moved to various places in the desert as well as a few times in LA. Usually quite dramatic every time, problems always seem to pop up whenever we try to move. We even had a mover show up and then just leave without moving our stuff because he didn't want to drive on the hill we lived on (despite the many many MANY times we stressed about the daunting hill and insisted they look at it to make sure they could do it, which of course they refused saying they could definitely do it). That was a fun day...

To be honest, I thought the 5th book sucked (especially after the awesome 4th one), and I thought the 4th movie was too dramatized, so I'll probably skip this one.

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»MythTV TV Guide May Be Saved

A new development on the the guide data for MythTV means that Myth users should have a new source for information before the September shutdown of Zap2it's service. <a href="http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-dev/2007-July/056317.html">The announcement was made on the MythTV mailing list</a>.

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We know that many of you are waiting on the edge of your seats to find out what's going on behind the scenes here, and we're just as excited to tell you, but we can't give you many details while we are still involved in negotiations. We can, however, let you know that we are actively working on a solution that will provide what we hope will be a smooth transition away from Zap2it Labs by the September 1 deadline. We will release more details as soon as we are able to do so, so please keep an eye on http://easytvdata.org/ for updates.

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»Wine 0.9.41 Released

A new version of Wine has been released with new updates and bug fixes. <a href="http://winehq.org/?announce=0.9.41">Fire up apt-get and update your packages</a>.

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This is release 0.9.41 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.

What's new in this release:
- A number of gdiplus functions.
- More complete pdh.dll implementation.
- Support for MSI remote calls.
- Messaging support in crypt32.dll.
- Lots of bug fixes.

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Thats awesome. Yeah if you did just say somthing back they'd probably just get embarased. try it

9 years old. Why?
In any case, I got it to work right again.

Aron, theres this cool game called "WiiFit" coming out, It comes with a pad, and some how it can tell with the pad and the controller whether you are doing the exercise correctly and effectively. Not sure when the release is, but it looks like a cool game, they say over 40 activities will be included on it.

Many notebooks are really cheap and I mean like $400 cheap... Asus needs to offer something more than crappy battery life to sell me on this.

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I couldn't really get into Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash back in 6th grade, despite how much my friend recommended it. I simply wasn't into cyberpunk back then, and I thought the book was really more of a satire as opposed to something serious. Despite that, I'm still trying to search for it at the library now since I actually ended up reading about halfway through a few months ago.

That's similar to the experience I just had with "The Sun Also Rises." In high school I saw it as a tragic love story, but memorized all the bits the teacher lectured on about the analogies to the lost generation. Reading it as an adult, however, I suddenly saw that it was an analogy on a much larger scale. It wasn't so much about failed love as about the tendency of people to fall into the "if only this wouldn't have happened, I could have done that and been happy" line of thinking.

I just finished "A Farewell to Arms," though, and didn't get much out of it It must have been hard for Hemingway to follow up "The Sun Also Rises." Maybe 10 years from now I will reread "Farewell" and see it more clearly.

Retard! Dunno reality! What a fool! Waste of my time!

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»IBM Gives IP Access To Standards

IBM has pledged to give universal access to standards IP that it has. <a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1249882244;fp;16;fpid;1">This means people can use their IP for these standards without fear of infringement</a>.

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Under a pledge issued by the company Wednesday, IBM is granting universal and perpetual access to intellectual property that might be necessary to implement standards designed to make software interoperable. IBM will not assert any patent rights to its technologies featured in these standards. The company believes its move in this space is the largest of its kind. "These are what I could call the core infrastructure standards that people now use around such things as SOA," said Bob Sutor, IBM vice president of open source and standards. Web 2.0 applications also could be developed, for example. The company seeks to spur development of software that leverages these standards.

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E3 may have been 'press only' but now it is only a few media players.

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»Linux Gets Completely Fair Scheduler

Some goods news out from the Linux Kernel devs. <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/11737">A new and better scheduler has made it into the 2.6.23 branch of the Kernel</a>.

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"CFS's task picking logic is based on this p->wait_runtime value and it is thus very simple: it always tries to run the task with the largest p->wait_runtime value. In other words, CFS tries to run the task with the 'gravest need' for more CPU time. So CFS always tries to split up CPU time between runnable tasks as close to 'ideal multitasking hardware' as possible. "Most of the rest of CFS's design just falls out of this really simple 32 concept, with a few add-on embellishments like nice levels, 33 multiprocessing and various algorithm variants to recognize sleepers."

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Cashcrate just stole $400 and are refusing to satisfy the promises they've made! They're fucking bullshitters! Fuck cashcrate! Their full of crap!

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»Boeing 787

Boeing has unveiled its 787 Dreamliner. <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-11397_3-6195376.html">Better comfort and fuel consumption lead airlines to order quantities of this jet</a>.

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For Boeing, the 787 is a huge play. It is its first plane made largely with composite materials instead of aluminum, and it is promising its carrier customers that the plane will be far more fuel efficient than today's planes. The commitment seems to be paying off, as the company has already taken 677 orders for 787s, making it the first plane to ever rack up more than 500 pre-orders. And this despite the fact that the first passengers won't get on a 787 until next May.

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»Linux Kernel 2.6.22 Released

Fire up your browsers to see the newest stable Kernel for Linux. <a href="http://kerneltrap.org/node/11721">It has some new addition such as the SLUB allocation for high end super computing</a>.

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The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago on April 25'th. An overview of all the changes merged into the latest version of the kernel is maintained in the Kernel Newbies wiki. Included in the list of changes are the SLUB allocator which replaced the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new firewire stack, and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree.

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Haha...well I've put up with "their kind" before and all they want is a power trip, which I won't let them have. Plus, I'm pretty secure with myself, so I had nothing to worry about!

Invasion of privacy is everywhere now. Congress is trying to pass a bill requiring eBay to collect SSN so we can all be hunted down and taxed for our piddly (some of us) auction winnings.

Has anyone else been seeing adds for this show? The weird thing is that I think two networks are doing similar show because I keep seeing different ads for the same premise. Personally, I don't think I will be able to get much past the bad singing, but I like the idea...probably because my brain contains a useless amount of lyrics.

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BTW, William Hartnell was the original Dr. Who.

And we found out last season that the doctor had been a dad, so Susan could have been his grand daughter after all

I've been debating whether or not to go watch it. I'm pretty sure if we do, it'll just be my husband and myself. I don't think my kids could handle the intensity of the Die Hard movies.

Thanks Aron. Somehow I wasn't able to make a second partition, so I ended up using Partition Magic instead, but then again, I suppose I could make multiple partitions using it as well, though.....

Edit: Split it into 2 partitions, 1 100GB OS partition and 1 280GB data partition.

Dr. Phil used to be a favorite of mine, no more. I am sure he tells all his guests what to say in order to get those <ratings>. What a fake.

That sounds slightly more promising than corn-based ethanol. Really...there is problems with food supply, who though that using one of the major food staples for fuel would be a good idea?

We are all going to the lake, loads of fun and food there. The kids are coming and all the animals.