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DREAM THEATER Begins Recording New Album 
(unknown author) via BLABBERMOUTH.NET Latest News on Thu, 27 Nov. 2008
Drummer Mike Portnoy of the progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER has finished laying down his tracks for the band's new album, due in early 2009 via Roadrunner Records.
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Massive Martian Glaciers Found
(unknown author) via Slashdot on Fri, 21 Nov. 2008
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Okay. Let's go start a colony! (And by "let's" I mean "people who need little more than water and dirt to be happy.")
Kozar_The_Malignant writes "Scientific American is reporting that 'data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.' Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO reveale
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Adobe Releases C/C++ To Flash Compiler
samzenpus via Slashdot on Wed, 19 Nov. 2008
SnT2k writes "Adobe recently release the beta version of Alchemy which compiles C/C++ code into AS3 bytcode (which runs on AVM2) that can run on the Flash or Flex platform and boasts increased performance for computationally-intensive tasks (but still slower than native C/C++). It was demonstrated last year during the Chicago MAX 2007 to run Quake. A few months later it has been demonstrated to ru
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Vim Follow-up
Jamis via the { buckblogs :here } - Home on Mon, 17 Nov. 2008
So, it’s been over a month and a half since I switched back to Vim, and I figured I’d post a bit about how things are going.
I love it. Though the future is notoriously difficult to foretell, I think it’s safe to say that I won’t be switching editors again anytime soon. Vim is where it’s
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Titan Balloon Mission Being Drafted
timothy via Slashdot on Tue, 11 Nov. 2008
eldavojohn writes "After Huygens & Cassini corrected our assumptions about Titan (a moon of Saturn), scientists are now debating on their next mission and one of the choices is the Titan and Saturn System Mission. What makes Titan a good choice? "Although the atmosphere of Titan is filled with a smoggy orange hydrocarbon haze, it is primarily composed of nitrogen — just like Earth&
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Halliburton Applies For Patent-Trolling Patent
ScuttleMonkey via Slashdot on Mon, 10 Nov. 2008
An anonymous reader writes "Halliburton, the company many folks know as Dick Cheney's previous employer, has apparently taken an interest in methods of patent trolling. In fact, according to Techdirt, the company has applied for a patent on patent trolling. Specifically, it's applied for a patent on the process of finding a company that protected an invention via trade secret, figuring out what th
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Website Optimization
samzenpus via Slashdot on Fri, 07 Nov. 2008
Michael J. Ross writes "As Internet users' expectations continue to ratchet upwards, it is increasingly essential that every Web site owner maximize the chances that those users will find the site in question, and, once found, that the site will perform well enough that those visitors become customers or members, and recommend the site to others. Key elements of a successful strategy incl
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Reuse Code Or Code It Yourself?
kdawson via Slashdot on Wed, 05 Nov. 2008
eldavojohn writes "I began coding for a project that had simple requirements for my employer — Web services and a test application for them. But requirements have been creeping, as they always do. Initially I had decided to use the Spring Framework with Hibernate. And I re-used a lot of libraries that made things simple and quick for me. The new requests coming in involve capabilities beyon
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DEFTONES Bassist In Coma After Car Crash
(unknown author) via BLABBERMOUTH.NET Latest News on Tue, 04 Nov. 2008
Rachel Leibrock of The Sacramento Bee reports that DEFTONES bassist Chi Cheng is in a coma in a San Jose hospital following a car accident in Santa Clara on Monday (November 3).
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Amazon takes a stand to eliminate wasteful, hard-to-open gadget packaging
Darren Murph via Engadget on Mon, 03 Nov. 2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Come on folks, say it in unison with us: "Finally!" At long last, a company with a little clout has stood up and questioned the neces
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USB Port is neither USB nor Port, just amazing
Thomas Ricker via Engadget on Thu, 30 Oct. 2008
With the word "Port" now restricted to use by Portuguese wine makers and kin, California-based Peltier Station was forced to
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New Features In Windows 7
sarahintampa via Channel 10 on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
The wait is up! Today at PDC, we finally got to see a demo of the next OS from Microsoft: Windows 7. One of the biggest improvements in Windows 7 is the new taskbar, but there have also been other improvements like better networking features and a less noisy UAC. If you're just looking for Windows 7 screenshots, th
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All the FriendFeed extras on one page
Dan via FriendFeed Blog on Tue, 28 Oct. 2008
Did you know that FriendFeed has a bookmarklet that lets you share links and clip images directly from your browser? Did you know that you can email messages and photos to FriendFeed from your phone?
We have a lot of cool extras you might not have heard about, so we created a
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System Explorer All-In-One PC Monitor and Manager [Featured Windows Download]
Gina Trapani via Lifehacker on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
Windows only: When you want to manage your PC's processes, startup items, network connections, windows, tasks, open files, and installed software, you can do that all using the free all-in-one monitoring tools System Explorer. The long list of f
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Introducing Google Earth for iPhone
(unknown author) via The Official Google Blog on Mon, 27 Oct. 2008
Even before we introduced Google Earth back in 2005, the team had long dreamed of being able to carry the Earth around in your pocket. Well, today that dream becomes a reality as we introduce Google Earth for iPhone and iPod touch. With just a swipe of your finger you can fly f
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Cats:
ichctcf via Lolcats 'n' Funny Pict on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
Cats: really just tiny ninjas in fur coats
nd u dont wantz dem ninjas 2 flip awt.
picture: dunn
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Beautifully Minimalist Conky Setup [Desktops]
Kevin Purdy via Lifehacker on Fri, 24 Oct. 2008
Topping off our fascination with Linux desktop monitor Conky this week, here's a remarkable setup on Ubuntu that delivers Gmail counts, Yahoo weather with graphics and system stats, all with an eye for uncluttered text and transparent integration w
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