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Jasper Bryant-Greene writes “Although a tzdata release that includes New Zealand’s recent DST changes (2007f) has been out for some time, Debian are refusing to push the update from testing into the current stable distribution, codenamed Etch, on the basis that ‘it’s not a security bug.’ This means that unless New Zealand sysadmins install the package manually, pull the package from testing, or alter the timezone to ‘GMT-13′ manually, all systems running Debian Etch in New Zealand currently have the incorrect time, as DST went into effect this morning. As one of the last comments in the bug report says, ‘even Microsoft are not this silly.’ The final comment (at this writing), from madcoder, says ‘The package sits in volatile for months. Please take your troll elsewhere.’”

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Ever have one of those dragging days? The Happiness Project suggests you can get an instant short-term energy boost simply by going outside:Go outside into the sunlight; light deprivation is one…

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When negotiating your fee for a job with a potential business client, it can be tricky to come up with a reasonable estimate. Web Worker Daily suggests that you estimate your numbers from small to…

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Colin Smith writes in with an object lesson in backup methodology — once you have backed everything up, take it somewhere else. “Film director Francis Ford Coppola has appealed for the return of his computer backup device following a robbery at his house in Argentina on Wednesday. He told Argentine broadcaster Todo Noticias he had lost 15 years’ worth of data, including writing and photographs of his family.”

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I took an accidental walk down memory lane last week after finally signing up for a Facebook account.

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Henri Richard says the time between product launches was the best for jumping from AMD to Freescale.

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If Firefox has a flaw to get bummed about, it’s that it slows down your machine after a few hours of steady computing. Digital Inspiration has a workaround for this that (yay!) does not include any…

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The success of Apple, Intel, Google and scores of other technology companies has as much or more to do with their process innovations as the products.

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In an era when software matters more than steel, Olin College wants to produce technologists with soul.

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To the extent that the United States is not winning militarily in Iraq, the roadside bomb, which as of yesterday had killed or wounded 21,071 Americans, is both a proximate cause and a metaphor for the miscalculation and improvisation that have characterized the war.

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