| Tuesday 7th March 2007 |
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Huge uptake in broadband adoption The takeup of broadband services in Australia continues to increase, according to the latest Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Snapshot of Broadband Deployment, issued today. |
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Chinese gamer dies after 15-day session Nothing else to do during Lunar New Year holiday... More |
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Security vendors lagging on support for Vista Windows Vista's revamped security features are posing difficulties for some IT security vendors looking to make their software work on the new operating system. More |
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Microsoft: Five years support for Vista Home, Ultimate Microsoft has said it would limit support for three versions of the Windows Vista operating system, including its most expensive, to five years rather than the usual 10 years. More |
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Vista firewall easily tricked, says Symantec Windows Vista's firewall can easily be subverted because of design decisions made by Microsoft, a researcher at Symantec said Friday. More |
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BBC sets up YouTube channels But new report suggests this is a big mistake. More |
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Boffins store data in bacterial DNA Researchers promise robust stortage lasting 'millions of years'. More |
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Researchers create world's thinnest substance Atom-thick sheets could revolutionise computers. More |
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Quicktime has 8 flaws that need patching More |
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Black Hat Demonstrations Shatter Hardware Hacking Myths At the Black Hat Briefings, two prominent security researchers show that long-held notions of hardware resistance to hacking are nothing more than folklore. More |
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Berners-Lee gives lawmakers a view of the Internet's future Very smart phones and hyperdata sharing are all part of his vision. More |
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I copied from Burke's Backyard a recipe to make a "breakfast bar" but it has skim milk powder in it and the granddaughter and milk are not on the best of terms. If you have a favourite receipe for a muesli or breeakfast bar that has little to no sugar in it I would like to give it a try! In case you are interested in it the link to the recipe I copied is: More |
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Consumers fall for Havidol pharmaceutical parody that promotes a fictitious anxiety disorder What happens if you create a fake disorder and offer a fake drug to treat it? You get thousands of people fooled that they might have an invented disease called Dysphoric Social Attention Consumption Deficit Anxiety Disorder. More |
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Creative brilliance with hands... here |
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Apparently the biggest cruise ship in the world... here |
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A collection of bloopers... here |
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Some interesting data not in your standard history books... here |
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Rowan Atkinson's black humour as an headmaster... More |
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1. An article on the world's possible economic future, "First Inflation then Deflation? - Financial Crash" by Chris Laird via the Kitco.com site. This article is interesting for its information on the competition among industrialised nations to keep their interest rates low and the associated rapid increase in the money supply in many nations: More |
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Warren Buffett says that the key to being a good investor is being "Greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy." |
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