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    Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route

    vandigeth, if you think movies and music all suck, why the hell are you wasting your time pirating them? Obviously, you think *something* out there is worth listening to.
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    Lightroom 2 Released to suspecting public

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KnightRT:<BR>I've yet to find any combination presents, calibrations, or adjustments that emulates, or even approximates, the superior Canon conversion...
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    Six botnets churning out 85 percent of all spam

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ethana2:<BR>This is either a reason to really love gmail or really hate windows users. ...if you want help switching to, say, Ubuntu or Fedora, feel...
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    Adobe announces pricing, availability for Lightroom

    Well, I can say with some certainty that the release version of Lightroom has no activation, since I work on the project.<BR><BR>I don't know anything about academic pricing, but 1.0 does have a redeye removal tool.
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    Adobe announces pricing, availability for Lightroom

    No, it does not have product activation.
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    Consumer networked storage market to pick up

    The article mentions hearing good things about Buffalo's NAS products. When I was researching NASes a month ago, I was hearing much more negative things - mostly about speed - so I bought an Infrant NV+ 1.6TB box. It was a bit more expensive, but I've been very happy with it.<BR><BR>It is sad...
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    What can stop a car-lifting robot? A licensing contract

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> Despite the recent legal trouble, though, Haag has shown that the system does in fact work'”drivers in Hoboken can park and retrieve cars in 30 seconds to a minute, and...
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    Citing its underage eroticism, Sony America pulls plug on Japanese video game

    <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">While pundits have long lamented America's "puritanical" attitudes toward sex and its comfort with ultraviolence, it's interesting to note that violence in video games has...
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    I want my DTV.

    What I've never understood is why we Americans seem to think that television is a basic necessity. Low income households can get their cable bill subsidized, and congress seems to think that $1B is better spent making sure everyone can watch Survivor than on, say, education.
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    BitTorrent creator, MPAA strike deal

    I completely disagree about P2P being a good way to distribute commercial content, such as DRM'd movies. The only reason people today allow their bandwidth to be used for sending content to others is the feeling of participation, particularly enhanced by the illicit aspect (sticking it to da...
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    Class action settlement on Deskstars reached

    Yeah, I had four 60GXP drives fail on me - the original 2 that I bought, then both replacements died. Why does this cover only the 75GXP?<BR><BR>Does anyone know if the quality has gone up since Hitachi took over the business?
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    Compex NetPassage 16 Broadband Internet Gateway

    I'm looking for a way to bridge an ethernet network to my existing 802.11 network. What I want to do is to buy an MP3 player for my stereo system in the living room, like the Turtle Beach Audiotron (http://www.audiotron.net/audiotron/producthome.asp), but I don't want to run an ethernet cord to...
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    DLL/EXE Information in Windows

    There are some windows calls to get that information. For the file version, for example, there is GetFileVersionInfo(). You'll need to do some munging with code pages for various languages, but the info is there. I think all the info in the properties can be found with this call, but if not...
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    Nimda worm hits big

    The original posting said that the virus was triggered through the preview pane, which is worse than most of the viruses that have been around lately. Is there a patch for Outlook Express (not Outlook 2000; I know about that patch), to fix this vulnerability?