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Intel Merced is a slow CPU?
According to ZDnet, the dirty, little secret is 32-bit Windows applications won't run as fast on Merced (the future 64-bit Intel CPU) once they are compiled. Microsoft is pissed, says anonymous developer.
La dé-fête de l'Internet
The French free web-page provider Altern.Org has just been trialed and condemned for hosting some illegal pages I invite you to go get the news about it (and support) on the site itself.
Copyrighting software is easy
If you ever wondered how to deposit a copyright for your software, your book or your CD-ROM, just go to the Registrar of Copyright. Download help and the "form TX", pay 20$ and up you go!
You can also have a look at 10 Big Myths about copyright explained by Brad Templeton.
Boycott the Big Brother
from Santa Clara, CA
With the Electronic Privacy Information Center, JunkBusters and Privacy
International, I support the call for a boycott of Intel Pentium III
processors, because they represent a significant risk for our private
lives on the Internet. For details go and see BigBrotherInside.com.
Looking for a good search engine?
Go and see Northern Light.
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YGrep Search Engine is improved for Visual Basic users
The YGrep Search Engine has been improved for users of the scalar interface. Version 7.02 now includes the capability to search forward after a first "match" has been added to the YGrep Search Engine. Version 7.02 is adding three new functions SAGrepNext(), SRGrepNext() and SSGrepNext().
SPAM Directive at the European Commission
The European Commission is looking at a project of Directive that could really ease the life of European spammers. Please, go to SPAM.Anti! to sign the petition.
I have switched ISPs
I just left Compuserve (too expensive) to go to Magic-online).
If you use an @usa.net email address for my email, you should see no difference. If you use one of my virtual hosting sites (.cjb.net or http://i.am/), you will not suffer any problem either. If not, please update your bookmarks now.
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