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Dubai and the UAE 
(unknown author) via The Big Picture on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
Tomorrow will be the grand opening of the latest addition to the skyline of Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Atlantis Palm Resort, with over 1,500 rooms, will be hosting an opening ceremony with celebrities from around the world tomorrow night. The rapid development in Dubai and across the UAE hasn't all been easy lately, as infrastructure problems (handling rising levels of waste to ma
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Google Hosts 10 Million Historic Time-Life Photos [Google]
Adam Pash via Lifehacker on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
Google announced today that they're now hosting around 10 million photos from the LIFE photo archives on Google Image search. You can search the photos—which range from the 17
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Gdb is dead. Long live Gdb!
alexl via Planet GNOME on Tue, 18 Nov. 2008
All hail Archer and Tom Tromeys python gdb integration:
Before:
(gdb) bt
#0 nautilus_file_unref (file=0xdbbc60) at nautilus-file.c:724
#1 0x004a9e74 in nautilus_directory_async_state_changed (directory=0x7bf090) at nautilus-directory-async.c:4891
#2 0x004ae363 in nautilus_directory_call_when_ready_intern
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Why is Hulu more valued by advertisers than YouTube?
Nicholas Deleon via CrunchGear on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
Something’s wrong with YouTube, and it looks like Hulu stands to benefit. YouTu
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Your Weekly Address from the President-elect
(unknown author) via Change.gov: The Obama-Biden Tr on Sat, 15 Nov. 2008
For the first time, the weekly Democratic address has been released as a web video. It will also continue to air on the radio.
President-elect Obama plans to to publish these weekly updates through the Transition and then from the White House.
Today's address from the President-elect concerns the current economic crisis:
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Record Labels to Sue Vuze, Limewire and SourceForge
Ernesto via TorrentFreak on Fri, 14 Nov. 2008
French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge.
Société civi
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Ubuntu 9.04 To Run On ARM-based Netbooks
(unknown author) via Phoronix on Thu, 13 Nov. 2008
Canonical and ARM have jointly announced today that they are porting Ubuntu to the ARMv7 processor architecture in time for the release of Ubuntu 9.04 (the Jaunty Jackalope). Ubuntu is coming to the ARM platform for emerging netbooks and hybrid computers using this architecture.
Supported by the ARMv7 architecture are ARM Cortex-A8 and Cortex-A9 processor-based systems...
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HOW TO: Convert Videos for Your iPhone (or Any Mobile Device)
Doriano "Paisano" Carta via Mashable! on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
Video on devices like the iPod, iTouch and iPhone look great because of their MPEG-4 H.264 format. The good news is that there are tons of videos that you can purchase from the iTunes store, but the bad news is that you’ll go broke in a hurry downloading every
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Alex Ott: Emacs + Git
(unknown author) via Planet Emacsen on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
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hoooray for Marius!!!
I slowly migrate to magit and at the same time I'm trying to describe it in my article about Emacs & Git integration. Working with this package, i understood, that sometimes i switch to console
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Alex Ott: Emacs + Git
Alex Ott via Planet Emacsen on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
I slowly migrate to magit and at the same time I'm trying to describe it in my article about Emacs & Git integration. Working with this package, i understood, that sometimes i switch to console, just to run some commands from git-svn. Than i decided to add missing
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Alex Ott: Emacs + Git
Alex Ott via Planet Emacsen on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
I slowly migrate to magit and at the same time I'm trying to describe it in my article about Emacs & Git integration. Working with this package, i understood, that sometimes i switch to console, just to run some commands from git-svn. Than i decided to add missing
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Daniel Burrows: aptitude 0.5.0 released
(unknown author) via Planet Debian on Wed, 12 Nov. 2008
I've released version 0.5.0 of the aptitude
package manager (release
notes). Once
the mir
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The Lazy Man’s Guide to Getting Things Done
Jonathan Mead via Zen Habits on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
Article by Zen Habits contributor Jonathan Mead.
What if I told you that you could be totally lazy and irresponsible, and still accomplish just as much? What if you could sla
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Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail
A Googler via The Official Google Blog on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
From viewing videos on YouTube to screening family events, people love being able to watch something exactly as it happened. And as webcams have become popular, more and more of us are realizing that video is the next best thing to an in-person conversation. Today we're introducing Gmail voice and video chat, which lets you have free voice and video conversations right from within Gmail.Vi
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No.... I'd Rather Not
(unknown author) via RSSmeme on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
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a smart move!
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Could Just 4 of the Wall Street Bailout End World Hunger?
(unknown author) via www.ecosalon.com on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
Going green in style: recycled, artisan, eco fashion, green news, eco-friendly tips and organic lifestyle.
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Emacs Life: js-comint.el
sness via Planet Emacsen on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
js-comint.el is a comint mode for emacs which allows you to run a compatible javascript repl such as Spidermonkey or Rhino inside of emacs.This is very nice, and is a continuuation of the goodness that Steve Yegge is doing with integrating Javascript into Emacs. I like.
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Debian Pure Blends
corbet via LWN.net on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
The Debian Project has announced "Debian Pure Blends" - essentially a
rebranding of the concept formerly known as "custom Debian distributions."
"We realised that the old name Custom Debian Distributions just sended
the wrong message to outsiders: The conclusion that CDDs are something
else than Debian was too 'obvious' if people did not read the relevant
documentation." It looks a
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Red Hat and AMD migrate VMs across CPUs between different vendors
(unknown author) via OSNews on Sun, 09 Nov. 2008
Red Hat and AMD have just done the so-called impossible, and demonstrated VM live migration across CPU architectures. Not only that, they have demonstrated it across CPU vendors. "If you look at the video here ,you will see that they did it. Live migration while streaming HD video isn't all that bad a trick mind you, but doing it between a Barcelona, Shanghai and Intel box is. 36 more of these, a
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