17 Feb 2006 Winter

 

Douglas C. Engelbart Demo

On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.

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Google WiFi hints are on Web

COMPANY COY ON POSSIBLE FREE SERVICE

By Michael Bazeley

Mercury News

Speculation that Google wants to blanket the Earth with free WiFi ratcheted up Tuesday after Internet users discovered software on its Web site that allows access to a service called ``Google WiFi.''

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Cold-war device used to cause Katrina?

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho weatherman says Japan's Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima atom bomb attack — and that this technology will soon be wielded again to hit another U.S. city.

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JetBlue plane attempts landing in LA area after wheel problem

Success landing ! Ouf

Quote of the Day

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
Unknown

CN Tower

Canada's Parlement

Ottawa

Ottawa Lion

CN Tower

Winter 2005

Free IBM book on migrating to desktop Linux

IBM has published a "Redbook" aimed at assisting those interested in migrating desktop PCs to Linux. Linux Client Migration Cookbook: A Practical Planning and Implementation Guide for Migrating to Desktop Linux provides in-depth detail on the technical and organizational challenges and includes methods for planning and implementation, according to the book's cover. The 260-page book is available for free download as a PDF file.



www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2733936279.html

1st SnowStorm

1st SnowStorm

Zoo

Got Mine !

nenanena !

Kevin Rose Great GMail Giveaway !

To day Kevin gives 1000 gmail invites !

http://kevinrose.typepad.com/

Vacations !

Hot !!! Tiger OS

Watch Apple CEO, Steve Jobs, kick off the Worldwide Developers Conference with a preview of Mac OS X “Tiger” from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA.
http://stream.apple.akadns.net/

Phone call

Harry's phone rang at 3 A.M. "What do you want?" he shouted into the receiver.

"Nothing" was the reply.

"Then why did you call in the middle of the night?" he asked angrily.

"Because the night rate is cheaper."