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December 29th, 2008 by eyal | Filed under Links. |
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Referring to Nasrallah, Aboul Gheit continued, "One of those who spoke yesterday said 'Dear Egyptian people, take to the streets and cause chaos'. They want chaos in Egypt similar to what they have caused in their country.
"This man (Nasrallah) spoke of Egypt's armed forces. These honorable armed forces are meant to protect Egypt and if he does not know that, I am telling him: No and no!
"The honorable armed forces are capable of defending this homeland from people like you. You want to create chaos in this region as a service to interests that are not for the good of this region."
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"The move to use off-the-shelf PC hardware for the naval command systems, instead of custom-built components, is expected to reduce support costs by 25-percent" Only 25%?
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Israeli's obvious crimes must not blind us to what Hamas did and is still doing to the people of Gaza, and to the Palestinian cause as a whole, otherwise we will have become false witnesses in the glorification of bloody positions. Therefore leniency towards Hamas will cause the Arab world to become a partner in [causing] the suffering of the Palestinians.
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MUSLIM women who wear the burqa in Ireland are at increased risk of pelvic fractures during childbirth because of vitamin D deficiency due to a lack of sunlight, a consultant warns.
Babies born to women with vitamin D deficiency are also more prone to seizures in their first week of life, according to Dr Miriam Casey, of the Osteoporosis Unit in St James’s hospital in Dublin.
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"Ever wanted to see what was on your desktop without minimizing all your applications? Aero Peek is the feature for you. Mouse over the small area on the right-hand side of the taskbar and you get a glimpse of what’s on your desktop" Good stuff, take the nice features from OSX and add them to a platform that runs everything instead of just 10% of s/w out there.
> runs everything instead of just 10% of s/w out there.
Technically you can run 100% of software under MacosX because you can run XP within MacosX. However you can’t run everything under Windows because the Mac only software wont work there (MacosX under Fusion is unusable).
But what do I care? I don’t have a Mac anymore… :)
Technically that’s true. But realistically I think most people wouldn’t want to do that. It would be bearable if someone just wanted to use something like IE every now or then but to run resource hungry apps or games inside Fusion or Parallels would be a nightmare, I tried :-)
I saw you finally installed Vista, congrats :-) Most people who bash Vista haven’t really used it. My comment on the VGA drivers and i7 disappeared from that post but I see the problem was solved so that’s good.
Quite possibly true, but my dislike of Vista came from using it on two very painful occasions - once trying to set up Wifi and a network drive on a friend’s PC, and the other with a laptop I bought which would crash constantly due to graphic driver incompatibility.
I still see the configuration as Vista’s biggest annoyance. The control panel changes, for example, are very unintuitive. Take the “cleartype” setup, for example - it isn’t under “fonts”. If not Aero, it’s under “Window Color and Appearance”. If you are running Aero, “Window Color and Appearance” is completely different - for no good reason - and you have to go to “classic options”. It’s completely unintuitive to have the Cleartype setting in that place and to have windows change like that. I ended up having to use Google to find it.
You comment didn’t dissappear, by the way. It didn’t appear in the first place :) I hadn’t approved the comment yet. As far as I’m aware I was using the latest official XP driver - hadn’t tried a hacked one.
Drivers issues aren’t really Vista’s fault but I guess it doesn’t make a difference if it just doesn’t work like in that laptop case.
Laptop manufacturers seldom update their drivers in my experience, unless there’s some real problem or a need for that. It was the same with Dell, Acer, Compaq, and now Apple. For the video card though there are clear advantages to upgrading drivers so I just upgrade to non-official ones. I don’t touch the other ones though.
Strange, that comment was showing for me anymore even as pending. Do you store it as a cookie? Does it expire?