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Archive for January, 2007

Click-n-Run Linux

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January, 2007 (, )
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LinSpire/FreeSpire has announced they’ve developed an inter-distribution version of their CNR-technology, which should bring installing applications on Linux on par with Windows and the Mac. CNR is a website that syncs with the most popular Linux Distro’s (currently supported: Debian, Fedora, LinSpire/FreeSpire, Ubuntu and OpenSUSE) and shields the user away from dubious package managers and [...]

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IsoHunt back online

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January, 2007 (, )
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IsoHunt, one of the larger BitTorrent Tracker sites is back. The MPAA filed a lawsuit because of the large amounts of illegal content that’s available on IsoHunt (and ANY other tracker site). After being offline for 4 days, they somehow managed to get back online. Good.
Whilst it is truthful that there’s a bunch of [...]

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Flash in XHTML 1.0 Strict

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January, 2007 (, , , )
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Ever tried to insert a flash animation into a valid XHTML webpage? I certainly have, and it always breaks your markup. The standard markup flash uses to render its animations stems from an ancient era of semantically misused tags and properties. There must be a better way, I hope…
Several methods have independently been developed, each [...]

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Higher capacity HD-DVDs

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January, 2007 ()
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Toshiba is currently drafting a new breed of HD DVD discs which should top Blu-Ray’s maximum capacity barrier by one gigabyte (totalling 51GB of space) – hence removing the claim that HD DVD is inferior to Blu-Ray, capacity-wise. It will incorporate three (3) layers, 17 gigs each. Toshiba claims this disc could hold up to [...]

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