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The Controvery

Some technology analysts feel that Linux is still not ready for the desktop. Please don’t tell that to any of the community members who last year logged in 40,000 times to the 28 Linux stations in our small town library and community center.

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Yahoo may be after Jaiku rival Twitter, the company that put “microblog” in everybody’s mouths when it hit the scene at this spring’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival.

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What would happen if Internet bandwidth was infinite — what would that change about the Internet itself?

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Sometimes when I look over my business experience, I kind of wonder how I got here. I have no fancy MBA, I
’ve never held a job for someone else, and my college degree is in Holistic Psychology. In fact, when I started my first business, I had little experience to lean on other than working as a waitress. Hear are 6 lessons I learned waiting tables.

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Internet2 now rockets along at 100Gbps, and it also allows researchers to set up dedicated 10Gbps point-to-point links on the fly. Want to transfer a third of a terabyte in the time it takes to order a burger? Now you can.

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Dell will neutralize its carbon emissions and become carbon neutral by the end of 2008, chairman and CEO Michael Dell announced Wednesday.

“Carbon Credits” are hotter than ever. We have had reliance selling them, will this trend continue? I do think it is a good money making concept, but doubt its actual +ve environmental impact.

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Every action indeed has equal and opposite reaction! Who says universe is infinite. Can it beat imagination in infinity?

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Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, and it has been popular because of the website ranking service offered for the websites. Alexa evaluates a website on the basis of its popularity among the Alexa Toolbar users and assigns a rank to it. The lower the rank value, the higher is the popularity. But do you really know the workings of Alexa?

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A mother’s wrath against poorly sanitized data inputs.

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