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...dial-up modem speeds, however, it's more like Click-N-Crawl. Lindows tries its best to act friendly and look Windows-like, but right now it's hard to use for half an hour without a lot of jargon about the root directory and other comp-sci stuff appearing on the screen. It will run a lot of Windows programs - games being the major exception. (Robertson has backed off earlier claims that his system is entirely Windows compatible.) Basically, Lindows is a work in progress. Stand by for the final release...
...next act of corporate terrorism will occur and helpless as markets and savings fall to lows not seen in years, most Americans no longer know whom to trust or how to invest. Forget Osama bin Laden. For now, the enemies are indeed within our borders. We need to root them out and prosecute them. BRUCE SHIVLEY Oxford...
...Mike Root, 58, who owns his home free and clear in Ann Arbor, Mich., sharing his house is mainly about companionship, not money. Never married, Root, a retired vocational counselor, uses a wheelchair, although he has some mobility in his legs. He relies on his housemate, construction worker Eduard Koopman, 54, to shop for his groceries once a week. In exchange, he offers reduced rent. His previous housemate, Maureen Salazar, 54, is a single woman who three years ago decided to leave the corporate world to pursue life as an artist. "I had to cut my living expenses," she says...
Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis ’98 said yesterday that HASCS did not know what is at the root of the repeated failures. But he said that Hewlett Packard (HP), the vendor of Harvard’s servers, was called in within the first half-hour of the failures, as HASCS believe the problem most likely lies with the equipment provided by the vendor...
SECOND OPINION A bit flaky, or at least an oversimplification, say independent dermatologists. "No one knows for sure what causes dandruff," says Bruce Robinson, a dermatologist and spokesman for the American Academy of Dermatology. "That's the frustrating part." Fungus may be the root cause, says Robinson, or it may simply be "a bystander" that likes to hang out with big clumps of skin cells. Inflammation of the scalp or excessive oil secretions may also play a role. For each theory, there's a remedy. Products like Head & Shoulders, Nizoral A-D and Selsun Blue have compounds that fight fungus...