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A team in Venezuela went up a mountain and came down the unofficial holders of the longest Wi-Fi link record at . They used Linksys WRT54G using open-source firmware (DD-WRT) using retrofitted satellite parabolic dishes.

http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006518.html

Whats missing from Google Calendar? Some way to remind you of your personal events while your not looking at it!

The Google Calendar Notifier is an extension for Firefox – that does exactly what it says.

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In an illustration of just how rapidly change is sweeping the database market, MySQL Chief Executive Martin Mickos named Oracle as a partner of the year just minutes after effectively calling one of its products “crippleware.”

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Google will turn off (http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/upgrade.html#WhoNeedsToUpgrade) support for maps created before April 3rd, 2006. VirtualTrespassing.com has a wysiwyg google map editor that generates Google Map 2.x code. Virtual Trespassing also has a virtual billboard application.

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PIRATED software users be warned. Microsoft Corp is going to start “nagging” Windows users who do not have a legitimate copy of its operating system (OS).

Starting tomorrow, the software giant will permanently flag personal computers that are not running a genuine copy of Windows. 

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This is an updated mind map of all the Linux distributions. All the suggestions and ideas have been incorporated in this new mind map and even more linux distributions have been added. Truly awesome!

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Categorized by Language, A Very Nice List

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With the imminent launch of IE7 your usual CSS hacking methods are going to fail. If you want to save web design, as we know it, it’s time to take some drastic action.

http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/css/stop-css-hacking

See what happens when “yesterdays” big boys on the block (Amazon, eBay, YAHOO!, Microsoft) become the kids that no one remembers.  What do they do …. find a way to use a gang technique to try to save face.
Many of the items from this article can be applied to any search engine, so why are they all going after GOOGLE?

A phalanx of foes — from eBay to search rivals and Uncle Sam — is lining up to keep the search giant in check

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Fujitsu recently launched what it claims to be the world’s largest storage array, the ETERNUS 8000 and ETERNUS 4000 storage arrays. Weighing in at 1.36 petabytes, or 1.36 million gigabytes, the ETERNUS file storage arrays push the envelope for enterprise data storage systems.

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