ostatic.com - 2/13/2009
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Microsoft Watch's Joe Wilcox, in solemn observance of Friday the 13th, compiled a list of Microsoft's ten most unlucky breaks . The strokes of misfortune chosen were weighted according to heinousness (with #10 being least signficant, and #1 the most).
Checking in at #7 is the development of ...
reuters.com - 2/11/2009
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reuters.com —
HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba launched its own variant
of the Linux computer operating system this week in...
the latest front of the communist island's battle against what it views as U.S. hegemony. The Cuban variant, called Nova, was introduced at a Havana ...
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Cuba launches own Linux variant to counter U.S.
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crunchgear.com - 2/13/2009
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crunchgear.com —
So Microsoft is going to have themselves a
little retail space . This is, of course, ripe...
for mockery, and I’m sure tomorrow will bring the fruits of photoshop contests from around the web. Will it be wall-to-wall Vista boxes? Will you have ...
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Laugh all you want, but the Microsoft Store could be great
linuxpromagazine.com - 2/9/2009
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linuxpromagazine.com —
"At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix
time will reach 1,234,567,890. Where will you be at...
this momentous second?" - from Bell Labs This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. If you want to find out what time it will be in your ...
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One of those magic times: On Friday the 13th! - Linux ...
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