You know, we should have paid a little closer attention to Microsoft’s decision yesterday to extend Windows XP sales to “June 2010 or one year after the general availability of Windows 7″
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Tags: availability, digg, gadget, Microsoft, news, Window, Windows, Windows 7, windows xp, X

What’s new in this release: Improved support for the .NET framework. Better services handling through a separate services.exe process. Support for ATI fragment shader. Better support for http proxies. Window management fixes. Pre-compiled fonts are now available in the source tree. Lots of bug fixes.
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Tags: ATI, compile, digg, framework, Hat, Linux, NET, nix, source, UNIX, Window, wine, X

From next term, all computers at schools in the Swiss canton of Geneva will have MS Windows removed and will only run Ubuntu Linux and FOSS.
Director for the schools IT services sees this move also to “encourages participation and the democratization of knowledge ” and provide equal opportunities.
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Tags: ATI, computer, computers, digg, EDGE, FOSS, Linux, nix, Ubuntu, UNIX, Window, Windows, X

KDE, the leading Free Software desktop, continues to release updates for version 4.0 on a monthly basis. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements, especially in KHTML web rendering engine and KWin window manager. As always, there are also lots of updates to translations.
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Tags: ATI, Desktop, digg, free software, hp, KDE, Linux, nix, Software, UNIX, Window, X

Customers looking for great deals on Dell laptops, desktops, and accessories should check out dell.com everyday over the next week for amazing offers on our award-winning XPS products.
Starting today, customers can find incredible value on their favorite systems and accessories during the first-ever XPS Annual Spring Savings event. In addition, Dell will also offer savings for a limited time on popular features such as graphics card upgrades, Blu-ray optical drives and the latest wireless technologies on select systems. As part of this event, Dell will offer exceptional value on technology …

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN, , 2008 – MSI today announces a new model to its line of notebook, the VR340. VR340 applied the exterior with an aerodynamic and elementary design, also conceal ling all the openings at the connecting edges. There are no unnecessary gadgets for a simplistic and practical styling, elevating our swift and practical feature. Just like a hard-cover book added with the seal of approval, a perfect work of art on display. Besides, along with the VR340 which has a 13.3 inch LCD …

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Welcome to the Ubuntu
Weekly Newsletter, Issue 84 for the weeks March23rd - March 29th, 2008. In
this issue we cover: new MOTUs, Ubuntu6.10 End-of-Life, Xubuntu refocuses,
Ubuntu countdown graphics,Launchpad 1.2.3, Launchpad logo contest closing,
Ubuntu UK Podcast #2,Reside@HOME: Linux Health Care, PWN To
OWN (Ubuntu wins), and much,much more!
== In This Issue
==
 * MOTU Team news * Ubuntu Stats * Launchpad
news * Ubuntu Forum news * In the Press &
Blogosphere * Ubuntu UK Podcast #2 * Reside@HOME: Linux for Elderly Health Care * Automatix
discontinued * Full circle Magazine #11 * CanSecWest PWN2OWN
2008 - Ubuntu Wins! * Meeting & …

Why, in the midst of a major Windows Home Server push, would HP introduce a little Linux-based NAS at half the price? And why would HP make the $300 Media Vault mv2120 so full featured and easy that its $600-and-up MediaSmart Servers look
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RENTON, Wash., March 20, 2008 – Parallels today announced that its Parallels Automation data center solution now supports Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0, a fully integrated customer relationship management (CRM) system. Parallels Automation provides a complete back-office infrastructure so service providers can go to market quickly and incorporate CRM into their service offerings.
Parallels Automation provides both operational and business support systems to help service providers optimize the use of server resources. Using a single login, service providers can deliver integrated offerings that include multiple services such as hosted Microsoft Exchange, hosted …

In Unix-like operating systems, /dev/null or the null device is a special file that discards all data written to it (but reports that the write operation succeeded), and provides no data to any process that reads from it (it returns EOF). In Unix programmer jargon, it may also be called the bit bucket or black hole.
The null device is typically used for disposing of unwanted output streams of a process, or as a convenient empty file for input streams. This is usually done by redirection.
This entity is a common inspiration …