As if Flickr wasn’t impressive enough, the developers decided to switch from Flash to DHTML (Ajax, etc.) on some pages. If you didn’t pay attention, you might not even notice the change in technologies. This has a lot of potential uses…
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In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new release of the Firefox web browser. Version 1.0.4 fixes security vulnerabilities in earlier versions. Everyone should upgrade.
This is great news for VoIP users! I’m currently in an area serviced by SBC, so hopefully this means true 911 service in the future.
SBC Communications announced plans on Wednesday to help Internet phone companies offer more-reliable 911 services for their subscribers, becoming the last of the Baby Bells to tackle worrisome emergency-service defects.
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2005 One Lap of America
Want a sedan with power? Check out the 300C SRT8!
The company-sponsored SRT team won the luxury class with car no. 11, a slightly-modified Chrysler 300C SRT8, driven by two SRT employees: David Zelkowski, Power Train Performance Engineer, and Erich Heuschele, Vehicle Dynamics Specialist.
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The Superbowl planning committee has been busy.
In marketing Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in 2006, Detroit officials constructed a mock downtown loft — two walls, tables, chairs, a couch and fireplace. The loft was at the media headquarters in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, which hosted last week’s Super Bowl.
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Our driveway has finally been poured! They said to wait 8-10 days before driving on it.
They’ve finally started to work on a driveway. So far it’s framed out. I’m hoping that it will be finished by the end of next week so we can use our garage again.
Interesting stuff going on with Linux in places you might not expect it.
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I’ve been having problems with my web-server. For whatever reason, it just stops accepting connections to port 80. I suspect it’s either Apache crashing (the logs don’t show anything), or one of the various security applications thinking there’s a threat and shutting down that port. I was in the process of moving [...]
Join Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, and Kevin Rose each week on their new podcast “This Week in Tech”. This week’s guests include Robert Heron and John C. Dvorak.
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