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Below are the entries for 08/2002. If an entry has a light red background, that means it's had at least 10 comments added to it.
105 entries
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48 comments
CNN got hold of a previously unseen video tape of Osama Bin Laden meeting with several Pakistani and one Chinese journalists. In the tape, Bin Laden declares war on the “crusaders and Jews”. He also mentions that al-Qaeda “have formed with many other Islamic groups and organizations in the…
The Register has an article about a Chinese Linux-based OS called Yangfan Linux being developed by the Beijing Software Industry Productivity Center, a group established by the government to organize Linux development in China. It’s aimed directly at Windows and looks to be already replacing it on government machines.…
It’s good to see our scientists working hard on the really important things like whether or not mice will die with drugs and loud music.
This Washington Post article on suicide bombers makes me feel sick to my stomach. In it, the authors say that suicide bombers balance the battlefield between Israel and Palestine. That the Palestinians use them because they can’t afford F-16s. What really makes me sick though, is this sentence: …
Apple isn’t alone when it comes to over-hyping their newest product. This PC World article says that Intel, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard have been named defendants in a class action lawsuit filed in Illinois. The plaintiffs say that Intel lied about the Pentium 4’s performace and that it isn’t much…
I was surprised BIG time today by the arrival of my 17” iMac! I was told I wouldn’t get it until the end of next week, maybe. I was even more surprised to find the OS X 10.2 installation…
The Mac benchmarking site, BareFeats, has put up their results between the new DDR RAM PowerMacs, the Xserve running the same DDR RAM and the old SDRAM PowerMacs. The new PowerMacs aren’t better at all. In fact, the old SDRAM Mac beat both the new tower and Xserve in…
Yet again, Steven Den Beste has written a thought-provoking article on transnational progressivism. He wrote this article after reading another written by John Fonte. Den Beste defines the movement as: fundamentally authoritarian; it believes in the rule of the enlightened few over the unwashed masses,…
This Weekly Standard article talks about the letter exchange between two intellectual think-tanks, one in Germany and one in the US. The have been debating the war on terrorism. The German group accused the US of “mass murder” and states that the real threat is the influence of fundamentalism…
If you’re a Java programmer who uses OS X, this Sun Microsystems Technical Article shows you how to install their Sun ONE Studio on Mac OS X 10.1 or later. When you’re finished, you’ll have learned how to install Sun ONE Studio release 3.0 and 4, and NetBeans 3.3.1…
