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Didn’t know this before about Ubuntu

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Arun

I didn’t know the bullet points before, until I stumbled upon this BBC article. The French national police force runs its operations on Ubuntu Computer systems supporting Spanish schools run on Ubuntu Wikipedia runs hundreds of its servers on Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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Google Earth 5.0 released with 3D Ocean and Mars mode

Posted on February 2, 2009 by Arun

Google has released Google Earth 5.0 with 3D Ocean view and Mars mode. The ocean imagery are now 3D terrain. According to Google Earth blog Move your mouse over the ocean and you’ll see below sea level elevations (negative numbers). … Continue reading →

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Wife murdered for Facebook status

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Arun

People are going insane. A man murdered his estranged wife after becoming “enraged” when she changed her marital status on Facebook to “single”. Is life so cheap? Technorati Tags: BBC, Facebook

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Mobile phones cause skin rash

Posted on October 16, 2008 by Arun

The British Association of Dermatologists says prolong use of mobile phone causes rashes on face and ears due to nickel on the handset. Nickel is often found in the handset casing or buttons. The BAD said women who reacted to … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu and Kubuntu 8.10 beta released

Posted on October 3, 2008 by Arun

Ubuntu team has released the first beta of Ubuntu 8.10 code named Intrepid Ibex. There are couple of issues I’m having with Ubuntu 8.10. The 1st one is the ATI proprietary driver fglrx which is not compatible with the new … Continue reading →

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BBC moves to Linux for TV production

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Arun

BBC is moving to Linux for tapeless TV production. The current process of copying to digital tapes is expensive and error prone, so BBC research team developed Ingex for tapeless TV production using Linux. Ingex is used to get the … Continue reading →

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ESPN 360 sucks

Posted on December 5, 2007 by Arun

I wanted to watch the video of my school’s football match on ESPN 360. I logged into my desktop (I use Ubuntu), opened Firefox and went to ESPN 360 website. I was shocked to see that ESPN 360 supports only … Continue reading →

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