FAQ and Primer for comp.os.linux.advocacy (COLA), Ed III Part 2 - same appearance - order by date

First-ever Hyperspectral Images of Earth’s Auroras

New camera provides tantalizing clues of new atmospheric phenomenon.

Press published on the November 29th, 2012 - 9:40 AM ET

CyberLink Announces Fun, Touch-Optimized Photo & Video Camera App for Windows® 8 – YouCam Mobile

Together with YouCam 5 webcam software, the new app offers Windows 8 users a powerful and engaging solution for capturing videos and photos on both desktop and portable systems.

Press published on the November 14th, 2012 - 7:56 PM ET

Intel Delivers New Architecture for Discovery With Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessors

Combination of Intel Xeon Processors and Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessors Promises to Drive High Performance Computing Innovation NEWS HIGHLIGHTS Intel® Xeon Phi™ coprocessors, when combined with the ...

Press published on the November 12th, 2012 - 3:00 PM ET

C Spire Wireless Launches New Dynamic Employment and Career Website

Wireless company creates user-friendly online career search experience to let candidates know about #BrightFutures at C Spire.

Press published on the November 7th, 2012 - 7:00 AM ET

Gmail: a new way of writing messages

Gmail now has a new way of writing messages, with a new interface that is displayed in a pop-up window in the same way as instant messaging.

News published on the October 31st, 2012 - 3:15 PM ET

Geomagic Helps Experts Make Beautiful Faces and Restore Function; Digital Design Solutions Showcased at MaxilloFacial Prosthetics Event

Facial Prostheses, Custom Implants and Surgical Guides Show Design Precision with Geomagic® Freeform® and Geomagic Studio® Software; Workshop Provides Hands-On Experience.

Press published on the October 25th, 2012 - 9:34 AM ET

Hitachi Automotive Systems Americas, Inc. to Demonstrate Commitment to Aftermarket Sector at 2012 AAPEX and SEMA Shows

--Company to Showcase How Products Meet Evolving Customer Needs and Celebrity Appearance by Team Penske IndyCar Driver Helio Castroneves--.

Press published on the October 25th, 2012 - 9:13 AM ET

FAQ and Primer for comp.os.linux.advocacy (COLA), Ed III Part 2

Following are excerpts from the official FAQ, entire text is found at: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/linux/advocacy/faq-and-primer/ and is also posted at: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/os/linux/advocacy/% ...

Message posted on the December 6th, 2011 - 9:31 PM ET

2 questions and 2 gifts

Hi gang, As one or two of you who remember me from an occasional previous appearance may know, I have been using 98SELite for about 3 or 4 or 5 years. Before that, I used 95B and was perfectly happy with it. But 95B does not do ethernet properly. ...

Message posted on the November 17th, 2011 - 6:42 AM ET

Bug#648157: lynx-cur: Using utf-8 display, lynx eats bytes of value >= 80hex. Corruption results.

Package: lynx-cur Version: 2.8.8dev.8-1 Severity: normal Using unicode utf-8 is broken. Looking a a Russian site which is utf-8 results in about half of the Russian characters missing (and replaced by escaped codes like ~B, ~D, etc. I use a utf-8 ...

Message posted on the November 9th, 2011 - 4:20 AM ET

Bug#640876: crash-whitepaper: diff for NMU version 1.0-1.1

tags 640876 + patch tags 640876 + pending thanks Dear maintainer, I've prepared an NMU for crash-whitepaper (versioned as 1.0-1.1) and uploaded it to DELAYED/10. Please feel free to tell me if I should delay it longer. Jakub Wilk diffstat for ...

Message posted on the September 20th, 2011 - 7:10 PM ET

Ksplashx will not show right after login.

I have an up-to-date squeeze i386 fresh install which is not displaying ksplash properly right after login. It just shows a white rectangle on screen's top left corner, and then it presents my desktop. I assumed that there was something wrong with ...

Message posted on the August 18th, 2011 - 11:00 AM ET

Bug#637343: desktop-base: Default Debian background reported as 'missing' but it is not

Package: desktop-base Version: 6.0.6 Severity: important I rebooted this morning and noticed there was no background on the gdm signon screen (just grey), then when the gnome desktop came up everything was green instead of the nice space swirls. ...

Message posted on the August 10th, 2011 - 10:40 AM ET

Square Enix: Next gen to bring 'a big leap' in graphics

Square Enix: Next gen to bring 'a big leap' in graphics Stylised games may seem to plateau, but realism will raise the bar, says technology director Julien Merceron. The next generation of games machines will be driven to new levels of graphics ...

Message posted on the July 25th, 2011 - 2:05 PM ET