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Poll: Obama Leads McCain by 8 in Ohio

Politics – According to a new poll by Public Policy Polling released today, Barack Obama leads John McCain 48%-40% in the state of Ohio. Twelve percent of those surveyed were undecided. As has become the trend in many of these state polls, Obama leads with women and African Americans, while McCain does best with men.

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Submitted and Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:30pm

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Funny Windows Errors

Humor – Computers are showing errors all the time, but some are really weird. Let;s see some examples:

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:28pm

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Requiring CMake >= 2.6.0 for svn trunk starting August 4th

Gadgets & Tech – starting August 4th, i.e. Monday in 2 weeks, CMake >= 2.6.0 will be required to build KDE from svn trunk, which will become KDE 4.2 in a few months. So please update your CMake. In case there are no distribution packages yet, you can get the sources...

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:28pm

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We Want A Dead Simple Web Tablet For $200. Help Us Build It.

Gadgets & Tech – Just a Macbook Air-thin touch screen machine that runs Firefox and possibly Skype on top of a Linux kernel. It doesn't exist today, and as far as we can tell no one is creating one. So let's design it, build a few and then open source the specs so anyone can create them.

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:28pm

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Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 (with Data Corruption Fix) Launches

Gadgets & Tech – We've written about the Windows Home Server (WHS) data corruption bug several times since it first emerged in late December. On Monday Microsoft finally - finally, released WHS Power Pack 1, which contains the fix, as well as a bunch of other stuff no one really cares about.

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:28pm

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How to convert OpenXML docx files to OpenDocument odf in Windows and vice versa

Gadgets & Tech – This guide might be a little different from the others because I write this for the Windows users. Here;s how to convert Microsoft OpenXML docx files to odf OpenDocument files (and vice versa) in Windows using only commandline : First, make sure...

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:27pm

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India to have OLPC in retail by the end of the year

Gadgets & Tech – From the looks of it, that is. It sounds like a cool thing to me. If more people have access to OLPC for their children, the better. If governments do not want to make that investment in tools for learning, then it;s up to the people to decide w...

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:27pm

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Poll results update: 38 votes

Gadgets & Tech – Your votes were: I was getting tired of using other operating systems. - 10 (26% of all votes) I just got curious about it. - 10 (26% of all votes) The school/office changed the operating system on the computers we use and I got hooked after that. - 1...

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:27pm

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Printing CD Labels with GIMP and Canon Pixma iP3000

Gadgets & Tech – This tutorial will explain how to Print CD Labels with GIMP and Canon Pixma iP3000Preparing your systemIf you don't have it, install GIMP trough apt, aptitude, synaptic... whatever you like.CREATE A PRINTER CLASS On this part we will create a printer c...

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:27pm

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Linux T-Shirt of the Year

Gadgets & Tech – People seemed to have a good time with my last Linux T-shirt post, so here;s another one for you. I really like this one: Click for a slightly larger version. So again, where can I get one of these?

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:27pm

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If you haven't already, take a look at Flash 10 for Linux

Gadgets & Tech – If you haven;t already, take a look at the new features available with the new Linux Flash 10 Beta. Such new features include: 3D Effects Custom Filters and Effects Advanced Text Layout Enhanced Drawing API Visual Performance Improvements Enhanc...

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:27pm

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High Gas Prices Solved - With Water?

Gadgets & Tech – Yes, it's true. When my wife first told me about what she had seen, I almost didn't believe her. The YouTube video below shows the genius inventor who is now running his car on water. You have to see it to believe it.

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:26pm

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5 must-see historical places in Italy

Travel – Italyââ;¬Â¦ a country so rich in culture, art and history that it's hard to narrow down its highlights. The number of books on the subject shows just how fascinating the area is to so many tourists with a yen for historical discovery, and this article could in fact be several tomes in length.

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:26pm

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The Economic Impact of Getting Rid of Your Car

Do-It-Yourself – Recently as my wife and I were looking at our budget and seeing how much of it was "gas", I did a little bit of math to see what the impact on our budget would be if we got rid of one of our cars. Here is what I came up with:

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:26pm

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'Unchurched' worshipping more, 'churched' less?

Religion – A new survey shows that "unchurched" Americans may be worshipping more, and "churched" Americans worshipping less, than many people might think.

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Voted for on July 21, 2008 06:26pm