Category: Computing
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Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Apple has announced that the company’s co-founder Steve Jobs has died. He was 56 years old. In a statement, the company said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today. “Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world…
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The Humble Indie Bundle #3 Is Live
The Humble Indie Bundle #3 is officially live. You can get 5 classic indie games: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, Hammerfight, VVVVVV and And Yet It Moves for whatever price you want while helping the Child’s Play Charity and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The games being cross-platform mean that they work natively on Linux Mac OS…
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CentOS5 – yum – cElementTree – Python
So you updated using yum, and lo and behold yum is no longer working. An attempt to use yum gives you the following: $ yum There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named cElementTree Please install a package which…
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Project Honey Pot – 1 Billion Spammers Served
I just received an email from project honey pot, 1 billion spammers have been served. The details are below: On Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 06:20 (GMT), Project Honey Pot achieved a milestone: receiving its 1 billionth spam message. The billionth message was an United States Internal Revenue Service phishing scam sent to an email address that had been…
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Python receives Linux New Media Award
Python has received the Linux New Media Award in the category Best Open Source Programming Language. Knoppix inventor Klaus Knopper handed over the Best Open Source Programming Language prize, this year hotly disputed among the jury. The distinction went to Python. “The thing can do anything,” Knopper expressed. Martin von Löwis of the Python Foundation accepted…
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Popular UK Dating Site mysinglefriend.com Relies on MySQL to Power its Rapid Growth
MySQL AB, developer of the world’s most popular open source database, today announced that mysinglefriend.com has selected the MySQL database server for its fast-growing Web 2.0 site. mysinglefriend.com has rapidly become one of the most popular dating websites in the UK, with over 150,000 current users and a further 10,000 joining each month. At peak…