Portsmouth police received a call from the liquor store that the man and his friends were on foot, headed to the nearby Holiday Inn. Police responded to the scene. A dispatch message on the police scanner said diplomatic immunity might be involved.
The free, open source QuickTime component that adds native support for many popular video formats has just been updated and released as version 1.0. This release brings many new features/fixes such as a preference pane interface, subtitle support, Matroska/mkv support, integrated a52codec, high profile H.264 support, and much more.
Starting on July 1st and lasting through September 30th of this year, customers who purchase a qualifying Blu-ray player will be eligible to receive five flicks gratis through the mail. You’ll be able to choose five from a library of 21 titles, so we can’t really argue with the upside in this deal!
Working on a command line Linux system and want to watch a YouTube video? Until now you were out of luck. Warren Harding has designed a program that reads in a YouTube video and plays it using ASCII text! This is a must see!
The OpenMoko Neo 1973 has a touchscreen, WiFi, GPS and runs Linux. Unlike the iPhone, it is completely open for developers. They even include a guitar pick so you can ply open the case. Developer version goes on sale for $300 on July 9th.
Putin just declared that the North Pole, and all it’s oil, minerals and natural resources now belong to Russia.
Linux:77.8 %
Unix: 12.0%
BSD:0.8%
Mac Os: 0.6%
Windows: 0.4%
If dad goes for a walk with his daughter and holds her hand, apparently Virginia Department of Health officials wants you to pick up the phone and destroy his life by reporting him as a possible sexual abuser. I would’ve thought this article about this campaign was from the Onion or some satirical publication, but it’s for real.
This is a fascinating foray into what’s on people’s dinner tables across the globe, and is a telling visual of why the health of the Western world is in rapid decline from all our prepackaged, chemically processed and sugar-laden goods, and how much we’re actually paying for the privilege.
Glyn Moody discusses whether or not we should stand up for open formats such as Ogg in the battle against DRM.
But what does that say about Yahoo’s ability to deliver accurate search results? Are they going to start censoring the entire Web, removing any negative references to Microsoft or Windows, and any positive references to Linux or Open Source?
Even though it’s a corporation, Red hat has continually placed being a good member of the open source community over being one of the corporate community. Let’s make sure that everybody at Red Hat knows they have the FULL backing of our community if they stand up to Microsoft’s FUD and they they have NO backing from us if they don’t.
An open source, Linux operating system for home, office, server, and cluster users. Built upon the Fedora Core, Terra Soft has since the spring of 1999 developed and maintained YDL for the Power architecture family of CPUs. This focus and dedication has lead to the world’s leading Linux for Power OS.
The brain, like the rest of the body, can be altered intentionally. Just as aerobics sculpt the muscles, so mental training sculpts the gray matter in ways scientists are only beginning to fathom.
The black parents wanted an explanation. Doctors, lawyers, judges, and insurance brokers, many had come to the upscale Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights specifically because of its stellar school district. They expected their children to succeed academically, but most were performing poorly. African-American students were lagging far behind their
“The web belongs to people, not companies. This world view that Steve gave a glimpse into betrays their thinking: it’s [sic] out-of-date, corporate-controlled, duopoly-oriented, not-the-web thinking. And it’s not good for the web.”
Yellow Dog Linux v5.0.2, is now a single Install DVD with support for the Apple G4 and G5 computers, Sony PS3, and IBM ‘System p’ servers, including the JS20/21, OpenPower, and current POWER5 systems, among others. Seamless code migration from the former Apple PowerPC product line to the latest IBM Cell blades reduces coding complexity…
A restaurant manager talks about the clean cut elderly man who came in to his restaurant today and compares him and his behaviour to the 3 punks that came in right after him. Who would you rather have in your restaurant if you were the manager? You may be surprised when you see how each party acted from ordering to paying the bill!
Sony and Terra Soft Solutions launches their latest web commercial, showcasing the diversity of the PlayStation®3 as both a game box and home computer. View in English or Spanish in Ogg, QuickTime, and Windows Movie Player formats.
New research indicates that children who receive antibiotics before their first birthday are significantly more likely to develop asthma by age 7. The study, published in a peer-reviewed journal, reports that children receiving antibiotics in their first year of life were at greater risk for developing asthma by age 7 than those who did not.
At the time, the Soviet news agency TASS called Reagan’s visit to the Wall “openly provocative, war-mongering.” But listen closely to a recording of it today: the speech sounds as much like an invitation as it does a challenge. In the speech, Reagan would call on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, but that language was opposed strongly…
The legislature is currently considering a draft law that would prohibit mistresses. Tucked within a bill called “Women’s Rights Protection Law,” the provisions would prohibit married people from “building love nests” and from “cohabiting” with non-spouses.
With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to try to end the confusion, state media reported Tuesday. Guan Xihua, a household registration officer with the Beijing public security bureau, said the lack of variety caused trouble in daily life and the new regulation would slash repetition.
Menus in Beijing, China are confusing English speakers. “Weird and wonderful English on Beijing — like “pee soup”, “complicated cakes” and “grass with fishy smell” — are part of the city’s charm,” says Theo Theodopolopodis, a Greek businessman who has been living in Beijing for two years. “If we sanitize everything, what happens to local flavor?”
For more than a decade, families across the country have been warring with the medical establishment over their claims that routine childhood vaccines are responsible for the nation’s epidemic of autism. The outcome will hinge on a legal standard of plausibility — “50 percent and a feather.”
Here’s a travel tip: if you’re driving through Russia, make sure your plates don’t have the numbers “666″ on them. Otherwise, your $85,000 Dodge Viper will be accused of witchcraft and torched.
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee passed an important bill to restore habeas corpus, the sacrosanct Constitutional right to challenge government detention in court, by a vote of eleven to eight.
10 simple-to-make meals that fight fat, build muscle, and save you time — all for less than 50 bucks
Lightning strikes the debate exactly as Rudy Giuliani Explains his position on abortion. Divine Intervention?
Foreign Minister Taro Aso told the Diet that Tokyo had filed a request through Russia’s Foreign Ministry urging Moscow to avoid “any provocative actions” following last weekend’s visit to the islands visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
“Have you wanted a full-functionality web-server, media host, bit-torrent client and NAS box, all fully remote-controlled? Want to build it out of spare parts? Well then…” The guys at bit-tech have their Linux guru explain a complete networking solution built from old junk. Contains scripts, step-by-step instructions and lots of pics.
