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Tybee Sounding Safer
Tybee Island continues to work at the forefront of emergency planning by cooperating with Chatham County’s Emergency Management Agency (CEMA) to replace their old, single site, warning siren with a multi-site system comprised of four Whelen Model 2910 omnidirectional speaker systems. This new system includes both old-style tone warnings, as well as eight pre-recorded messages [...]
Google software: Linux repositories for all distros
Google software: Linux repositories for all distros: “Google’s Linux software repositories make it easier to download and stay up-to-date with current releases of Google Linux applications. Please choose one of the guides below to help configure your system to use these repositories.”
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How to Start a Local Support System Using Social Media
The Real World Change 2.0 series with Leslie Poston is an ongoing look at how people are using social media tools and their personal and professional social media networks to bridge the chasm from the Internet and social media bubble to the real world and do a variety of things to effect true change.
The biggest [...]
Microsoft To Patent Page Up/Page Down Functions
I don’t know what the boffins at Microsoft are smoking, but they have apparently filed for and received a patent that is tantamount to Page Up/Page Down functionality. According to the patent’s own words, it covers a ‘method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments,’ with an example of pressing either Page Up [...]
Google News informs us that the Russians are invading the South - Great Moments In Journalism
Did you know that Russian troops are thrusting into the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia? That’s what readers will learn from a Google Maps graphic accompanying a news story about Russian incursions into Georgia — the nation-state in the Caucasus, not the Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern United States. Google’s mixup will not help Yahoo Answers [...]
Biggest Military Hack of All Time Was Done Over a 56k Connection
Gary McKinnon, the British hacker who broke into military computers looking for evidence of UFOs in the ‘biggest military hack of all time,’ did so using his home computer and a 56k modem. I think we just lost our rights to complain about not having Japan-fast broadband.
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