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BANTUL (JAVA), May 31 (Bernama) — Thousands of victims in the Yogyakarta earthquake now face water-borne diseases following five days of not receiving fresh water.
The situation is made worse by the late delivery of aid to the interior regions including Bantul and Klaten.
The earthquake claimed nearly 5,000 lives while 230,000 more lost their homes.
Siti Saadiah, [...]

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Linux kernel 2.6.16.13-4
X.org 6.9.0 (XGL/Compiz included but not enabled by default)
gcc 4.10/glibc 2.4
GNOME 2.12.2, KDE 3.5.1 desktop environments
OpenOffice.org 2.0.2 productivity suite
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.3 web browser
Evolution 2.6, Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5 email clients
GIMP 2.2.10 image editor
F-Spot 0.1.11 photo manager
Integrated Beagle 0.2.3 desktop search
K3b 0.12.14 CD/DVD burning software
Banshee 0.10.9, Amarok 1.3.8 music managers
Gaim 1.5 instant messenger
NetworkManager dynamic connection [...]

Tracert is a Windows based command-line tool that you can use to trace the path that an Internet Protocol (IP) packet takes to its destination from a source. Tracert will determine the path taken to a destination. It does this by sending Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) Echo Request messages to the destination. When sending [...]

ASUS has finally revealed what lies beneath that shiny Lamborghini-branded VX1 exterior — announced earlier this year. A 2-GHz Intel Core Duo T2500 processor, 1GB of 667MHz DDR2 memory, 120GB hard drive, dual-layer DVD±R/RW drive, and an NVIDIA GeForce Go 7400 256MB graphics card. The 15-inch 1440 x 1050 display is also a nice feature. [...]

Think your rig is the best gaming machine going? Think again. Alienware’s badboy Aurora ALX features Quad SLI, which means four top-of-the-line nVidia GeForce 7900 GPUs to fly through any games you throw at it.

Alienware’s Aurora ALX systems are now available with groundbreaking new technology from nVidia, Quad SLI, to harness the power of four [...]

Dell today starts taking orders for its “limited edition” XPS 600 Renegade quad SLI, physics engine-equipped desktop gaming rig. The kit will set you back a whopping $9,930, although this includes Dell’s 30in LCD monitor.
The XPS 600 Renegade comes in a custom-painted case inside which sit four GeForce 7900 GPUs each with 512MB of video [...]

Microsoft this week unveiled a new photo format to compete with an old industry standard. The software giant claims its Windows Media Photo (WMP) will provide better quality at half the size of a JPEG image.”One of the biggest drivers for upgrading computers is digital photography, so anything we do to make digital photography better [...]

Beating Microsoft to the Punch
Google CEO Eric Schmidt announced the deal in a Thursday webcast. The search giant is primarily targeting the millions of Dell customers on the home user front, but the company said the deal also includes Dell systems that will sell to small- to mid-sized businesses and even select enterprise customers [...]

If you have ever used a real remote computer system like Citrix, then you have probably been craving multiple Remote Desktop sessions since you first fired up Windows XP Professional and/or Media Center Edition. Here is a HACK (translated: USE AT YOUR OWN RISK), to enable multiple Remote Desktop sessions on your XP Pro or [...]

San Jose, CA, May 15, 2006 – Skype®, the global Internet communications company, today announced that all US and Canadian-based Skype customers can now make free SkypeOut™ calls to traditional landline and mobile phones in the US and Canada. Previously, Skype users in both countries were required to pay for Skype calls from their PCs [...]