Girl drops out of school over Ubuntu

McFarland (WI) – After receiving her new Dell notebook, a young female student at Madison Area Technical College (MATC) in Wisconsin realized it contained Ubuntu for an operating system (a version of Linux), and not Windows. Unable to load her Verizon High-Speed Internet CD and the subsequent inability to access the Internet, coupled with no Microsoft Word (which is a MATC requirement), she dropped out of school for two semesters. The Linux community was soon up in arms.

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Internet is obeying a form of Moore’s Law

An investigation was conducted by researcher Guo-Qing Zhang of the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Science as to how the internet is structured and connected. The researchers were able to predict the growth rate and evolutionary patterns by observing routing data in intervals of six months.

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