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Carbon Footprint and Population

After a week (or so) of living with them, it was calculated that to live the environmentally friendly way would require 1.8 planets to provide the resources required.

Environment
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Make way - spin doctor coming through

> "\[...\] Microsoft said today that it sold more than 20 million Windows Vista licenses in the first month after the OS's general debut on January 30. This compares to 17 million licenses of XP sold ...

Random
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Winning Against Linux The Smart Way

Here's what a Microsoft partner is persuaded to do:

TechnologyOpen SourceSecurity
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Do you have uni assignments hosted anywhere?

One of the things I learned about was data storage, and how it actually works. For example, an array of data is a single data store that allows you to store multiple items. For example, you might have...

Patents
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Access cards to protect personal identity

Interestingly, the government is planning to place a photo of the card holder on the card, which will protect personal identity. Given the unnaturally early time of this news item, I don't remember th...

PoliticsPrivacySecurity
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File sharing

Their view is that many peer-to-peer file sharing applications include technological features that make it easy for people to inadvertently share files they might not want to, such as copyrighted mate...

CopyrightPatentsPoliticsSecurityUncategorized
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BarCampMelbourne has two more sponsors!

BarCampConference
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Creative Contingencies sponsor BarCampMelbourne

ProfessionalConference
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Troop reductions != Withdrawal

FunPoliticsUncategorized
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Joint second BarCamp Sponsors

[![Linux Australia](https://bendechrai.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/02/linuxaustralia.png)](http://osdc.com.au/osdclub/ "Linux Australia") [Linux Australia Inc.](http://linux.com.au/ "Linux Australia")...

BarCampConferenceOpen Source
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HostingUncategorized
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BarCampMelbourne gets its first sponsor!

Most recently, as well as settling back into a relatively new job, The [BarCampMelbourne](http://barcampmelbourne.org/) organisers have been working hard to find a venue and secure Internet access. Th...

BarCampConferenceOpen Source