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Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem?

Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem? 02/12/2004 12:51 PM
After POST but before win xp starts up I hear two beeps and the computer never gets past detecting the drives (the hard drives and dvd-rom). Most of the time it boots fine. Then when I shut the system down sometimes I get the two beeps agian and it never shuts off...

A look at the problem

A look at the problem 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:57AM GMT

Win XP Sp2 Problem

Win XP Sp2 Problem 08/27/2004 01:56 PM
Introduced in Service Pack 2, along side many other security features, Windows XP gained the "security center" (screenshot). A nice addition, and a central place for people to check their system's security status. So we thought.

eWeek and PC Magazine have published reports suggesting that the system can be spoofed very easily, allowing potentially nasty programs to perform un-wanted tasks. "Based on an anonymous tip, we looked into the WMI and the Windows Security Center's use of it, and found that it may not only be a security hole, but a crater in the wrong hands. Due to the nature of WMI, the WSC could potentially allow attackers to spoof the state of security on a user's system while accessing data, infecting the system, or turning the PC into a zombie for spam or other purposes."

The PC Magazine article explores the problem and how it can be exploited in good depth. It makes very depressing reading for users who had hoped that Microsoft had over-come this kind of problem with Service Pack 2. Microsoft responded to the article suggesting that they didn't think it was a problem at all; they added that you needed to be running as an administrator for it to be an issue; true, PC Mag agreed, but they also noted that XP Home runs (by default) as Admin, and most users of XP Pro make themselves administators to save hassle when installing and running programs.

Service Pack 2 is a necessary upgrade for all users, and everyone should install it. However, as the article and Neowin recommend, don't rely to heavily on these new security features. Ensure you update Firewall / AV / Windows often, and check the status of your protection often. Microsoft will never be able to be 100% safe / problem free, but they are trying, and should be commended for their effort.

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What's the Problem?

What's the Problem? 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
and Tim Meehan Freud asked, "What does a user really want?" Ten-plus years into web development, we still don't know. One of the biggest problems in creating and delivering a site is how to decide, specify, and communicate exactly what we're building and why. Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project. In this quick-reading article, Messieurs Carr and Meehan introduce use cases and their, uh, uses.

What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem? 11/27/2002 07:36 AM

Another Day, Another IE Problem

Another Day, Another IE Problem 07/02/2004 08:22 AM

Security risks swell for Microsoft's Explorer: From the Gee, That's Obvious Department.

Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to surf the Internet has become a marked risk — even with the latest security patches installed.

That's the upshot of the discovery of yet another Internet Explorer security hole being exploited by intruders bent on swiping personal information from unwitting Internet users.

[...] "Internet Explorer's track record is such that the software just cannot be trusted right now," says Jeremiah Grossman, CEO of WhiteHat Security.

Again, I ask: if you're still using IE...why?

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What RSS Bandwidth Problem?

What RSS Bandwidth Problem? 02/05/2005 10:12 PM
The so-called RSS Bandwidth Problem is a meme that just won't frickin' die. I think Joel Spolsky started it way...

The Problem with Web Polls

The Problem with Web Polls 01/24/2004 10:36 PM

Gay Marriage Poll Gets Annulled: Here's a example of why Web polls are silly. The American Family Association put a poll on their Web site asking people if they were opposed to or in favor of gay marriage with ultimate plans to take the results to Congress. Of course, they assumed that with their sympathetic visitor base, they'd have great results. Sadly:

Against the wishes of the AFA and its members, the poll leaked to the outside. And soon, people like Gabe Anderson began posting it to blogs, social-networking sites such as Friendster and sundry e-mail lists. When Anderson posted it to his blog on Dec. 18, 2003, the anti-gay-marriage position was leading, with 51.45 percent of respondents opposing gay marriage or civil unions.

But with his posting, in which he alerted his readers to the poll, Anderson — and many like him — began to unleash the democratic power that the Internet promises, and which organizations like the AFA must have forgotten: the ability to bring people together to fight for, or against, a cause.

You have to wonder why the AFA would do this in the first place. Web polls are not even remotely scientific, so what results did they plan to take to Congress? Incredibly biased ones?

This reminds me of something that happened with Microsoft two years ago. There was a poll by ZDNet about which platform was better: J2EE or .Net. .Net was trailing, until...

Only 21.5 percent said they planned to use Microsoft .Net--even less than the figure (23.5 percent) planning to use neither. But by the time the poll closed, on January 5, the results had dramatically changed, with three quarters of voters claiming to be implementing .Net.

Sadly, there was a clear trail of an email campaign.

Several of the voters evidently followed a link contained in an e-mail, the subject line of which ran: "PLEASE STOP AND VOTE FOR .NET!" ZDNet logs include the Web address from where the e-mails were sent and showed that the people who followed that link all had e-mail addresses in the microsoft.com domain.

It got worse. ZDNet claimed to have proof of bots voting multiple times, and people casting multiple votes.

These things are obviously bad, but is there any problem with the email campaigns in either case? Companies put these things on the Web to get input, and can they realy complain about world-of-mouth. It's anyone's right to email anyone about something they think they'd be interested in. The problem comes when there's a tipping point and the results get irretrievably skewed.

Which leads me back to an important point: Web polls are of no use to anyone. Period.

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No regs, no problem

No regs, no problem 01/24/2004 03:30 AM
USA Today Jan 24 2004 7:11AM GMT

The Version Problem

The Version Problem 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
The cobbler's children go barefoot -- or, why the Safari guy's Safari blog doesn't work right in Safari 1.0 -- or linking the browser to the operating system. Wasn't that supposed to be a bad thing?

Bluetooth Problem!

Bluetooth Problem! 12/25/2004 04:52 PM
All About Symbian Dec 25 2004 9:42AM GMT

The only problem was that there was two
women for every man.

The only problem was that there was two
women for every man. 01/22/2004 02:12 AM
50's Women and Their World
:: via blort and Madamjjj ::

Another includer.cgi problem?

Another includer.cgi problem? 03/19/2005 03:11 AM
cout_at_cyberspace.org (Mar 16 2005)

No files, no problem

No files, no problem 05/21/2004 03:52 AM
USA Today May 21 2004 7:05AM GMT

P2P Porn Is Not The Problem

P2P Porn Is Not The Problem 12/12/2003 12:51 PM
A few months back, when Senator Orrin Hatch was convinced by some wealthy backers that the real problem with P2P file sharing systems was that porn was available, we wondered how that was any different from the internet. There's lots of porn on the internet, but politicians aren't running around saying that we need to shut it down. But, because of some misleading statements by the entertainment industry, politicians are freaking out about the file sharing networks. If they do try to do something to shut them down, of course, the porn will just move elsewhere where it will be harder to shut it down. In fact, the porn already is elsewhere - as it has been all along. The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) is telling Senator Hatch that P2P porn is no worse than what's already available on the web. Hatch's original statement was based on a GAO report, but they're now saying that wasn't based on a comprehensive study, but tips that were sent in to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Only about 1.4% of those tips concerned P2P networks.

The Problem With Presntations

The Problem With Presntations 12/18/2003 05:45 AM
Doc Searls' advice on PowerPoint .. The Problem With Presentations .. It’s the story, stupid .. piece

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What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem

What Happens When You Don't Understand
The Problem 12/16/2003 06:28 PM
The real source of the vulnerability is not Apple's code, or really even their implementation. But the DHCP standard itself. (John C. Welch via MyAppleMenu)

om on the problem with free

om on the problem with free 06/15/2004 11:56 AM
free blogging has its place, and it also has its costs. god bless the export button.

Policy problem

Policy problem 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
USA Today Jan 3 2005 2:07PM GMT

AMD compatibility no problem

AMD compatibility no problem 02/16/2004 06:49 PM
CNET Asia Feb 16 2004 9:55PM GMT

Why a new PC is a taxing problem

Why a new PC is a taxing problem 06/23/2004 02:19 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Jun 23 2004 6:35PM GMT

An absurd problem

An absurd problem 07/04/2004 08:56 AM
The first kiss. When you see it coming, you sort of want to make it memorable. (Yeah, I'm a romantic. Sue me.) It's even worse, when the other person is equally romantic: you both want it to be just right.

So we circle around each other for hours, probing, thinking, wondering about the perfect moment, and how to realize it without breaking the fragile feelings you think you are sharing. Then, with common, wordless agreement, we take a long, romantic walk in the middle of the nightless night, go to this beautiful spot by the lake, laugh and take over a play field, play in the swings for the first time in ten years. Then, on a beautiful bridge we stop - and get immediately attacked by a huge swarm of mosquitos. So we swat them in vain and run away to stop in another beautiful place.

And again, the angry insects force us to leave an unvoluntary donation to the Breed More Mosquitos -fund and we escape barely with our lives.

Frustrated, we return indoors. The perfect moment seems to be gone forever.

We gaze at each other, uncertainly and apprehensively. I can feel her thoughts: she's thinking the same thing as you, but neither knows how (dares?) to go on. Then a spark of something flies across the room.

"Oh bugger, let's just do it", we say in unison and laugh out our surprise.

And then the moment is just perfect.

PCs certain, Left no problem

PCs certain, Left no problem 05/29/2004 06:16 PM
Calcutta Telegraph May 29 2004 9:57PM GMT

The Problem With Blogs . . .

The Problem With Blogs . . . 05/26/2004 07:59 PM
Blog Obsessed Losers (NYT link) "It seems as if his laptop is glued to his legs 24/7," Ms. Matthews said of her husband.

The Barbie Problem

The Barbie Problem 05/24/2004 06:27 AM
What is it with Barbie and commitment?

Bad Search Is Still A Problem

Bad Search Is Still A Problem 07/23/2004 06:25 AM
Bad Search Is Still A Problem
http:/ /www.cioinsight.com/article2/0,1397,1610163,00.asp

Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen says that one of the most persistent challenges facing the Web is the difficulty in finding anything: "Bad search continues to be a problem today even though, from a technology perspective, great progress has been made. You can see this plainly when you use the public search engines. They're much better today than they were ten years ago. But the search on individual Web sites or inside intranets is, typically, still bad. [On intranets] things are divided up into different knowledge bases, so you've got to know where to search, and if you need to know where to search, then that defeats the entire idea. The other problem about search is the content, which is to say the individual pages, or units of information, are typically poorly described in terms of things like the headline and summaries, which is all people have to choose from when they get the search-results listing. So if there was just one thing we could fix on the Web, and for intranets as well, I would say let's fix search; that's still the number one thing that's causing people problems." Nielsen estimates that an average mid-size company (10,000 employees) could expect a return on investment of 1,000% and a gain of $5 million a year in employee productivity, simply by improving the usability of its intranet.

Houston, We Still Have A Problem

Houston, We Still Have A Problem 07/28/2004 09:41 AM
According to Walt Mossberg of Wall Street Journal, Sony's latest Network Walkman (what a stupid name) is "markedly inferior overall" when compared with the iPod.
Which means that the entire tech industry has yet invented the iPod-killer.

Image problem

Image problem 08/02/2004 08:46 AM
I'm a strait-laced progressive. Why do people think I'm a Republican?

The Problem with .NET Generics

The Problem with .NET Generics 08/05/2004 03:28 AM
One of the most awaited features of Microsoft .NET 2.0 is generics. Generics promise to increase type safety, improve performance, reduce code duplication and eliminate unnessecary casts. The most obvious application of generics in the framework class library are the generic collections in the new System.Collections.Generic namespace. Much has been written about those, but they are not the topic of this article.

An $8 Billion Problem

An $8 Billion Problem 08/05/2004 04:12 PM
Plus, Microsoft wants your thoughts, Gap takes a spill, and Sara Lee has indigestion?

Low Numbers, New Problem

Low Numbers, New Problem 08/06/2004 10:25 PM
In the face of paltry numbers on job growth, President Bush's new slogan, "we've turned the corner," sounds premature at best.

The Problem of Consciousness

The Problem of Consciousness 08/07/2004 09:01 PM
Time for another paper on the problem of consciousness! This new one by Murat Aydede and Güven Güzeldere has the impressive title, Cognitive Architecture, Concepts, and Introspection: An Information-Theoretic Solution to the Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness (PDF format). It goes over a lot of the problems and disagreements that persist among philosophers and scientists about consciousness, and then proposes a new theory. Their idea, which should be good news for anyone working on intelligent machines, is basically that good old-fashioned information theory contains everything that's needed to explain phenomenal consciousness. Along the way, they talk about introspection, daydreaming, phenomenal zombies, vertical versus horizontal information processing, and other fun stuff. The 65 page article includes loads of lengthy footnotes referencing just about every modern philosopher who has philosophised about consciousness, from Dennett to Searle (with cameo appearances from Descartes and Locke).

CSS Problem-Solving

CSS Problem-Solving 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
Save your sanity. After spending an hour debugging CSS with Tim Bray this morning, I've written up some of my handier CSS problem-solving techniques.

Quitting Is Not A Problem

Quitting Is Not A Problem 12/02/2003 01:26 PM
A new study has found that, despite the slower job market, employees are just as willing to quit their job now than they were at the height of the boom years, when jumping ship seemed like a monthly option for some workers. Many people will jump for just a little bit more money, but good working conditions and the belief that the company is going somewhere helps. Of course, many companies have been treating their employees terribly lately, believing that they have no other options - but that may be changing.

ANTISEMITISM ISN'T A PROBLEM

ANTISEMITISM ISN'T A PROBLEM 12/07/2003 07:07 AM
Noam Chomsky .. no mention

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Mac Or PC, No Longer A Problem

Mac Or PC, No Longer A Problem 04/05/2005 04:18 AM

There is a blurring of lines between computer platforms these days, and it might be good news for computer users of all stripes. By Mark Kellner, Washington Times

The problem with abundance

The problem with abundance 11/01/2003 07:33 PM
BoingBoing pal Clayton says:

Here's an interesting piece on the unforeseen problems that can arise in modern society when previously scarce resources become commonplace... from obesity to P2P. And it kind of puts the Amish desire to "freeze" progress in a new light, as if it were the desire to blunt massive societal upheaval from new tech developments.

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Suggestions on a PHP Problem Anyone?

Suggestions on a PHP Problem Anyone? 01/15/2003 12:51 PM
Suggestions on a PHP Problem Anyone? Here's the problem. I need to pull X bytes of HTML formatted text out of another HTML file for "safe" inclusion into another html page. What's the best way to do this while not getting into markup issues like a partially formatted table or splitting "" at "

A Problem with Tagging

A Problem with Tagging 06/17/2005 03:45 PM

I wonder how long before the whole tagging phenomenon jumps the shark? I like it and everything, but have a sneaking suspicion that we're going to come full circle back to taxonomies.

We've talked about tax onomies before — these are the big parent-child tree structures that have traditionally defined information architecture. Tagging is a direct response to the complication and "monolithic-ness" of the taxonomy — instead of defining the entire tree, you just label the one leaf that you're working with.

But what happens when the tree starts creeping back?

For instance, one of the drawbacks with tagging is that people have different names for the different things. What I call "automotive," you might call "cars," so our entries don't appear under the same tag. Have this happen enough times, and it gets annoying.

How do we get around this? Well, let's create a thesaurus then. Let's tell the system that "cars" and "automotive" are more or less the same thing, so if someone searches for anything tagged "automotive," return anything tagged as "cars" as well. Awesome — now we're back in action, even though we have a bit of a top-down system to maintain. It's a small price to pay.

But what happens when someone wants to broaden their search beyond just a simple tag? Instead of just automotive-related items, I want to find anything to do with vehicles.

How do I back up from "automotive" to "vehicles"? Well, we need to tell the system that "cars" is a child of "vehicles." For that matter, there are more than just that in "vehicles." "Vehicles" is really a parent of "planes," "trains," and "boats" too. No problem, we just need to create a recursive table that tracks how tags are related to each other, like...a taxonomy of tags...

And, with that, we've come full circle back to the top-down taxonomy. Wow, that was quick.

I don't think this is so bad, because it still has some advantages. The editing interface for tags (a simple texbox) is much better than the mess we get with parent-child stuff (usually a huge list of checkboxes).

Additionally, tag-based organization can kind of define itself. Instead of sitting around thinking up a huge taxonomy before you get started, you can watch the tags that come rolling through the system and just organize them as they come in. ("Oh look, another tag for 'hydrofoils.' Maybe we can stick that under 'boats'..")

Finally, if you're really anal retentive, you can "normalize" the tags as they get applied. When an item gets submitted with "cars" and "howto" assigned, you can detect and change them to "automotive" and "turorial" if you like. Be sure to notify the user, however, so they know where to find the thing when they go looking for it (or just make sure the the thesaurus has the correct relationships defined).

Anyone have thoughts on this? Am I just trying to rain on the tagging parade?

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Swarm Robots and the Freeze-Tag Problem

Swarm Robots and the Freeze-Tag Problem 03/06/2004 02:03 AM
The Freeze-Tag Problem is a common optimization problem when dealing with swarms of robots. You start out with a swarm of "sleeping" robots in an arbitrary arrangement. One robot has to wake the swarm. To wake a sleeping robot, it must be "tagged" by an active robot. Once a robot is awakened, it can assist in waking other robots. The problem is figuring out how to wake all the robots as early as possible. In a recent paper, The Freeze-Tag Problem: How to Wake Up a Swarm of Robots (PDF format), Esther M. Arkin, Michael A. Bender and several other researcher do a lot of interesting math that proves the problem is NP-hard; a result confirmed by other studies of the problem.

Sun Microsystems: The Java Problem

Sun Microsystems: The Java Problem 02/09/2003 11:48 AM
This document details the difficulties that keep our Solaris Java implementation from being practical for the development of common software applications. It represents a consensus of several senior engineers within Sun Microsystems. We believe that our Java implementation is inappropriate for a large number of categories of software application. We do not believe these flaws are inherent in the Java platform but that they relate to difficulties in our Solaris implementation.

We all agree that the Java language offers many advantages over the alternatives. We would generally prefer to deploy our applications in Java but the implementation provided for Solaris is inadequate to the task of producing supportable and reliable products.

There's no news like really shitty "air the laundry" bad news. Apparently this is an internal memo of Sun Microsystems that discusses the problems they are having with Java on Solaris.

"zeldman.ded"

Tool converts .Net code to Java

Tool converts .Net code to Java 08/11/2004 07:20 PM
While Microsoft already has had a tool to migrate Java code to the company?s .Net application development platform, Stryon is turning the tables.

Sun opens some Java source code

Sun opens some Java source code 06/28/2004 12:09 AM
CNET Jun 28 2004 4:45AM GMT

Xml to Java Source Code Generator

Xml to Java Source Code Generator 07/20/2004 06:19 PM
XGen2 new and improved

PHP or Java Class Code Generator

PHP or Java Class Code Generator 03/06/2004 02:09 AM
This package is meant is automate the generation of classes to access databases in Java beans style. It uses the Fast Template engine ...

Jalopy Java Source Code Formatter

Jalopy Java Source Code Formatter 06/15/2004 12:18 AM
Eclipse Plugin 0.2.7 released.

Open-source advocate: Release Java code

Open-source advocate: Release Java code 02/13/2004 06:44 PM
A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code.

Comcast(tm) Email Manager allows
arbitrary java and activex code
execution

Comcast(tm) Email Manager allows
arbitrary java and activex code
execution 07/22/2004 01:32 PM
Michael Scheidell (Jul 22 2004)

CodeFutures Updates FireStorm/DAO Java
Code Generator for Data Persistence

CodeFutures Updates FireStorm/DAO Java
Code Generator for Data Persistence 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
CodeFutures has announced the General Availability of Release 2.4 of its award-winning FireStorm/DAO tool that makes software developers more productive by generating the Java code for accessing databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' code generation approach are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. [PRWEB Mar 10, 2005]

CodeFutures Targets Senior Java
Developers with Architect Edition of its
FireStorm/DAO Code Generation Tool

CodeFutures Targets Senior Java
Developers with Architect Edition of its
FireStorm/DAO Code Generation Tool 09/23/2004 03:24 AM
CodeFutures has launched an Architect Edition of its popular FireStorm/DAO Java code generation tool. FireStorm/DAO makes Java software developers more productive by automatically generating Java source code for accessing relational databases. The benefits provided by CodeFutures' code generation approach are higher developer productivity, better software quality, and lower maintenance costs. The Architect Edition allows new custom code generation templates to be developed and integrated with the FireStorm/DAO Studio environment. [PRWEB Sep 23, 2004]

PHP Class 'PHP or Java Class Code
Generator' released

PHP Class 'PHP or Java Class Code
Generator' released 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
This package is meant is automate the generation of classes to access databases in Java beans style. It uses the Fast Template engine to process template files that define the skeleton of functions and variables of classes that store and retrieve data object property values from a given database table, getter and setter functions to access those properties and a function to delete a data object row from the respective database table. The package comes with templates to generate classes either in PHP or Java. The PHP template defines code to access data objects in a MySQL database. The Java template defines code to access data objects in any database supported by JDBC.

In a deep freeze

In a deep freeze 01/17/2004 10:56 PM
"And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm,  in the heart of the furnace roar;  And he wore a smile you could see a mile,  and he said: 'Please close that door.  It's fine in here, but I greatly fear  you'll let in the cold and storm --  Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee,  it's the first time I've been warm'."

Did hell freeze over?

Did hell freeze over? 12/19/2004 03:53 PM
The morning weather girl is reporting temperatures in the mid-40s with wind chill in the high 30s. I guess that's...

The Doctor Will Freeze You Now

The Doctor Will Freeze You Now 05/04/2004 05:05 AM
Human antifreeze could kick-start the cryonics game by making it easier to perform low-temperature surgery. By Wil McCarthy from Wired magazine.

Freeze, E-dirtbag!

Freeze, E-dirtbag! 01/15/2003 06:57 PM
WebTechniques Jan 15 2003 5:25PM ET

EU in disarray over treaty freeze

EU in disarray over treaty freeze 06/17/2005 03:21 PM
Three more EU countries postpone votes on the ill-fated EU constitution as the bloc faces an uncertain future.

Some Brokers Freeze Out the Little Guy
in Google IPO

Some Brokers Freeze Out the Little Guy
in Google IPO 08/11/2004 06:49 PM
While Google's Dutch auction differs from the traditional IPO process of doling out IPO shares to wealthy individuals and institutions, it's still not as democratic as some would hope.

Update: Deep Freeze Mac OS X 1.7

Update: Deep Freeze Mac OS X 1.7 09/23/2004 11:22 AM
Deep Freeze is an administrator's tool for keeping Mac OS X workstations in a standard configuration using both restrictive and non-restrictive protection.

Notes and Tips: Mac OS X Freeze Bug

Notes and Tips: Mac OS X Freeze Bug 08/03/2004 11:14 AM
Rohan Lloyd writes that Apple confirmed a Mac OS X bug that causes freezes and says they're working on it.

Deep Freeze Mac OS X 1.7 released

Deep Freeze Mac OS X 1.7 released 09/22/2004 04:20 AM
Faronics has released Deep Freeze Mac OS X 1.7, the latest version of its flagship workstation security software...

Freeze in Pigeon Server 3.02.0143

Freeze in Pigeon Server 3.02.0143 09/17/2004 12:40 PM
Luigi Auriemma (Sep 16 2004)

Australian PM doubts debt freeze

Australian PM doubts debt freeze 01/05/2005 04:43 AM
Australian PM John Howard expresses doubts about proposals for a debt freeze for tsunami-hit countries.

Bank voted 8-1 for UK rate freeze

Bank voted 8-1 for UK rate freeze 04/21/2004 05:03 AM
Minutes show the Bank of England voted decisively to keep rates on hold at its meeting earlier this month.

Tech IPOs Out of Deep Freeze

Tech IPOs Out of Deep Freeze 11/11/2003 05:51 AM
After a long dry spell, tech companies are once again raising cash through initial stock offerings. In contrast to the mayhem of the dot-com boom, however, today's newcomers tend to be profitable or close to it. By Joanna Glasner.

Weapons Freeze, Microwave Enemies

Weapons Freeze, Microwave Enemies 08/03/2004 05:26 AM
The military is investigating weapons that use directed-energy beams to paralyze attackers, shoot down missiles or repel adversaries by heating the water molecules in their skin. But some experts are concerned about unknown side effects.

MSN Search Claims to Freeze Out Web Spam

MSN Search Claims to Freeze Out Web Spam 06/10/2004 02:55 PM
"In a sample of one billion web pages, Microsoft claims that eight per cent are spam."

Labour MSP pleads for cuts freeze

Labour MSP pleads for cuts freeze 09/10/2004 05:40 AM
A Labour backbencher puts pressure on the Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm by demanding a freeze on hospital cuts.

A prefs fix for iTunes freeze on CD
import

A prefs fix for iTunes freeze on CD
import 12/27/2004 10:39 AM
I've been having problems importing CDs into iTunes 4.7 and wanted to import some Christmas albums. Each attempt failed with the "whirling rainbow of death" as someone put it. The CD/DVD drive becomes noisy and the computer...

Scientist freeze a pulse of light

Scientist freeze a pulse of light 12/11/2003 12:04 PM
In what I would classify as out of the box thinking scientist have been able to stop a pulse of...

a problem we could fix

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