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Great research, finding out that there are millions of phones in Sri Lanka. Just use Google to find a hundred or so.

WELCOME TO THE GALADARI HOTEL
The Businessman's Home in Sri Lanka
64, Lotus Road,
Colombo 1.
Sri Lanka.
Tel : 94-1-544544
Fax : 94-1-449875
E-Mail : galadari@sri.lanka.net

"The Galadari Hotel is in the heart of the city in Colombo, over looking the beautiful Indian ocean."

Presumably there is a staff of at least 200. Tell one, everyone else will know soon. They don't want their friends and neighbors to die, and they know how to reach them.

I believe most nerds have already googled for the cache but here it is.

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somecode;
}

for (<B>int counter</B>; ...)
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somecode;
}

"The main decision the C++ team was faced with in this release was to either
devote most of the effort to compliance issues, or to have a stab at making
sure C++ on Microsoft platforms was still a viable language to use to write
code in a managed execution environment. We chose the latter."

Republican Catholics ? Really ?
You U.S.-North-Americans really have the *strangest* habits!

Why, that's almost like Catholic Nazis ! Preposterous! ;-(

Commerce and Science have always striven to serve and benefit humanity. Out of nothing but the noblest and most generous ideals - the ample distribution of peace, comfort and plenty.

Like, here,
or here,
But, that's in the past. It's *today* that counts! :)

Quote from http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/xrays. htm :
X-ray machines in shoe stores

In the 1950s, every shoe store had a x-ray machine. People would try on a pair of shoes and stick their feet under the x-ray machine to look at how well the shoes fit their feet. Not only could you see the outline of the feet and the bones inside the shoe, but you could also see the nails that held parts of the shoe together.

After an increase of cancer among shoe salesmen and people using those shoe x-ray machines often, they were banned.
From TV monitors

X-rays coming from TV tube and PC monitors is general low-level. There has been efforts to provide shielding in the monitor screen to reduce any harmful rays.

Most people don't sit close to a TV for 8 hours a day, but man y do sit close to their PC monitor at work. It is uncertain if the low-level x-ray radiation from the monitor can cause harm, but it does not seem to be the case.

Oh, by the way :
http://www.amk.ca/personal/pictures/qmd.html

I'm impressed that Google thought of that, even though I'm not sure I agree with their decision. Google UK and Google Germany and Google Portugal show the new logo, but Google Brazil does not.

Even if you're infected, you should be able to use localized versions of google, such as:

http://www.google.com.br

[]s Badaro

Goofed up there, buddy. You forgot a Z. If you look on this page, down at the bottom you'll see a notice about the DMCA.

Google accepted that to spare a few pennies with laywers. They thought "'kaza lite'? only 0.00001% of the queries... screw them"

but if you all that felt that this is wrong change your bookmarks to, brazillian google that let's you find kaza lite, then they will see that they must spend those pennies to keep the community "buying" their products.

that's the essence of capitalism. If you don't like one's product, or if you have anything agains that business, just don't buy from them. That will make they change their policies or make better products (or die, leaving room for another one with better policies and/or better products to fill the gap)

ok that "buying" from google brazil isn't the best way to make them care.. maybe force yourself to use altavista instead for one or two week :)

There is a very interesting presentation on the design and development of windows NT/2000 presented on USENIX here (google HTML rendition here). I love to bash Microsoft too, but reading it, there are at least some decisions that I think they did right.

From the article:

Overall, the greatest challenges we face are with the International audience -- especially the French, Germans, and Japanese.

I would say they will face a pretty strong challenge here, in Brazil. Recently we have elected a new president, Lula, and he was the only candidate to specifically say the words "Software Livre" (Free Software) while on campaing.

Besides, there are many other points:

1) Our strongest organization that promotes free software, Cipsga, was based at a state (Rio Grande do Sul), that had a governor from the same party as Lula (PT);

2) São Paulo (Brazil biggest city) uses Linux a lot on governamental projects. Over 250 "Infocentros" (info-center) are being built or are already done and they run Linux exclusively. São Paulo's mayor (Marta Suplicy) is from the same party as Lula;

3) Connectiva is from Brazil, it's a profitable Linux company that owns a lot of the South American market share. Also, a Conectiva employee, Marcelo Tosatti, is the maintainer of the version 2.4 of the Linux kernel (but we all knew this, right ;-));

4) Lately, there has been going a lot of speculation about who will be part of the governament. The top contender for the most important Tech and Science position of the governament, the minister (sp?), is a strong advocate of free software;

Here's an evidence that will put a lot more reason into what I said: One week before winning the elections, favorite in every survey, Lula received an invitation from Bill Gates to go to the USA and have a meeting with him. True! This means uncle Bill already understand the "threat" that Lula represents to his company, and its business model.

On a side note: I have a website called Inércia Sensorial with news about technology here in Brazil, and looking at my referers log, I see a lot of Google searchs that have been increasing lately, associating Lula and the free software dream and fight. Check it out what some people have searched:

Lilus Lula

Mr. Gates and Mr. da Silva (actually, that's a title from an article which I linked at my website)

So, look at Brazil for the next couple years. I am sure a lot of pro-active actions will be taken by our governament.

From the article:

Overall, the greatest challenges we face are with the International audience -- especially the French, Germans, and Japanese.

I would say they will face a pretty strong challenge here, in Brazil. Recently we have elected a new president, Lula, and he was the only candidate to specifically say the words "Software Livre" (Free Software) while on campaing.

Besides, there are many other points:

1) Our strongest organization that promotes free software, Cipsga, was based at a state (Rio Grande do Sul), that had a governor from the same party as Lula (PT);

2) São Paulo (Brazil biggest city) uses Linux a lot on governamental projects. Over 250 "Infocentros" (info-center) are being built or are already done and they run Linux exclusively. São Paulo's mayor (Marta Suplicy) is from the same party as Lula;

3) Connectiva is from Brazil, it's a profitable Linux company that owns a lot of the South American market share. Also, a Conectiva employee, Marcelo Tosatti, is the maintainer of the version 2.4 of the Linux kernel (but we all knew this, right ;-));

4) Lately, there has been going a lot of speculation about who will be part of the governament. The top contender for the most important Tech and Science position of the governament, the minister (sp?), is a strong advocate of free software;

Here's an evidence that will put a lot more reason into what I said: One week before winning the elections, favorite in every survey, Lula received an invitation from Bill Gates to go to the USA and have a meeting with him. True! This means uncle Bill already understand the "threat" that Lula represents to his company, and its business model.

On a side note: I have a website called Inércia Sensorial with news about technology here in Brazil, and looking at my referers log, I see a lot of Google searchs that have been increasing lately, associating Lula and the free software dream and fight. Check it out what some people have searched:

Lilus Lula

Mr. Gates and Mr. da Silva (actually, that's a title from an article which I linked at my website)

So, look at Brazil for the next couple years. I am sure a lot of pro-active actions will be taken by our governament.

In systems like mine, with 3 HD's stacked one on top of the other, a cold room would not be enough. Heat dissipation was bad, and the HD's would quickly be too hot for the touch. I did no measurements, just put my hand there and felt. But it should be about 60 C or more.

I noticed that each HD model heats more or less. So I got worried about this, and bought HD Coolers. Huge difference. Now the HD's just get warm, not hot. Maybe it's not necessary when you're running just one HD, but when you have more than one, I think it's really worth it.

You can find HD coolers in lots of places, but I suggest you do a Google search.