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1/4/2011 Winning number 4, 8, 15, 25, 47, with 42yes the last number is 42. Two winners to split lot of zeros.The LOST number 4 8 15 16 23 42 miss by just two. off by many zeros but you match 3+ 1 you got $150. There were 25,587 ticket with that number.

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Apple is a neat company with great products and when Steve Jobs speaks everyone listen (kinda like Warren Buffett in the stock market).So what is Steve's throughts on flash? The long version you can read for yourself, but in short; big, fat, slow, "can't touch me" and last by not least, here comes H.264 By the way, adoble flash doesn't just do "video" but in term of watching video online I

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Normally I don't do much cee (actually it's Pro*c) my choice of editor in c is vi for quick change, but for larger project I needed to be able to code offline and have all the comfort of modern IDE.Here is how I make my life easier. I do not have Pro*c compiler setup on Windows so the actual "make" is taking place on the Linux box. Which is fine during the coding phase and no need to deal

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After about 7 years the continues beating my 120 GB WD finally gave up. Saturday morning press the power button thinking the computer is in sleep mode. Walk by kitchen to get a cup of coffee... still sleepy. WTF, blue background with deathly font froze on screen. I kick and scream but nothing will bring this coaster back.I knew that my last backup was about 6 month ago... which would include

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prime location and priceless

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Google's phone is finally here... again? Personally I think it's more marketing's doing by calling it google phone than anything else, because the "google" phone has been out aka Android OS (DROID, Hero, G1). But this time Nexus One which is made by HTC.Lots of news on the wire, I was hoping for video but live blog of the event is here.PC magazine also has write up. It does seem WOW.... but

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very interesting look at how the online ad have developed. I use yelp from time to time, for big city it's very good source / reference!http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10418625-265.html

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Intuit (i.e. Quicken, QuickBooks, TurboTax also has the free online version of Quicken) is buying Mint for approximately $170 million.wow, after reading this I was thinking poor Mint got taking over, but the blog talks about Intuit's plan!...After the acquisition closes, the Mint.com team will be leading the development of both Mint.com and Intuit’s existing personal finance products, Quicken

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I am a unwelling Quicken user but couldn't believe Microsoft would drop their only entry into personal finance software. MS Money no more after June 30th, 2009!The excuse:With banks, brokerage firms and Web sites now providing a range of options for managing personal finances, the consumer need for Microsoft Money Plus has changed. After suspending annual updates of Money Plus in 2008,

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Today (June 12th) is the official end of analog tv broadcasting in the US. All full power tv stations must stop analog broadcasting forever. This does NOT include low power stations and translators, they can continue analog operations as normal. http://www.dtv.gov/consumercorner.html some FAQhttps://www.dtv2009.gov/ not sure if gov has money but here is the coupon for your converter box.hope

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I do not own an iPhone so this is just my option :-) But from handling it in store and friends who have it (claiming it's greatest thing) I can tell you it's an awesome eye candy. iPhone shows well (a term realtor or car sales person uses often), but when you try to use it as a PDA that is when it fell short. btw, Apple never claim iPhone as a PDA like device, but lot of office worker treat it

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Wife planned a family trip over the Memorial Day weekend (in the U.S it's kinda like a start of the summer). I knew we'll be spending LOT of time driving, so I had the audio book pick out for the weekend road trip.Since it's a day that we commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service I think it's appropriate to read (whoops LISTEN to) the "Lone Survivor - The eyewitness

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I have not encode (rip) any CD for a long long time, now a day you can just buy songs from Amazon mp3, iTunes. But lately I'm thinking of convert some old LP and rest of CD to digital :-)Back in '97, I was running Windows 95 and it takes 45 minutes to rip and encode ONE song! Early days there were only few software that can correctly rip and (wave-> mp3) encode songs. Now a day there are many

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I'm no lawer either so I googled and this is my draft version from Serp Rank. Privacy Policy for iamnobanker.blogspot.com If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact me see my profile. At iamnobanker.blogspot.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of

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just had my coffee and saw this news wsj , washingtonost not much detail is released. Knowing how Oracle and its famous CEO Larry Ellison work, not much will be release until all dust are settled. Of course two weeks ago there was the IBM's plan to buy Sun.Appearly, the Board of Directors of Sun Microsystems has unanimously approved the transaction.MySql now the new Oracle Lite?Update: found

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Remember the boy is "accused" not formally charged.A 13 year old boy was taken into custody Monday after allegedly robbing a Peoria bank (IL), with handgunThe robbery occurred about 11:34 a.m. at the bank's 2119 SW Adams St. location, and by 12:10 the suspect was in custody. The Peoria teen was apprehended in a garage behind a house at 927 S. Louisa St. in South Peoria.According to Burgess,

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UPDATE 4/21/09 Oracle can see the future of the SunThere has been many articles (forbes, computerworld, wsj) about this possible takeover.Java developer blogsphere and newsgroup have gone wild about the possible outcome.. what ifs..There are many offering that are overlap between the IBM and SUN.Sun's profilo includes, but not limit to the following:JavaOpenSolarisMySQLGlassFishVirtualBoxJavaFX

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After getting my coffee I log into gmail and saw this

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In Swahili, the word “kiva” means “agreement” or “unity”. Lenders choose a business and make a loan by using a credit card online at the Kiva website. Kiva then transfers the loan proceeds to local partners, who distribute the loans to the businesses. Over time, the local partner collects repayments and offers business updates through Kiva. Ultimately, your loan is repaid and you can withdraw the

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the letter was post on NYTIMES titled "Dear A.I.G., I Quit!" I think there is some major political jabbing behind all the media press. In one corner Uncle Sam... at the other CE* of AIG and there are minor characters of AIG have their own corner... maybe Tax payer doted the rest of the ring? I don't know if there is any win-win situation here. If we were to keep this fight up alot of

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Are you a Quicken 2006 owner? I received the follow email...Dear Valued Quicken Customer,According to our records, you may be using Quicken® Premier 2006. As of April 30, 2009, Online Services and live technical support for Quicken 2006 will no longer be available.1 To maintain uninterrupted service, upgrade to Quicken 2009.Looks like end of April is the last day you can download online

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This is 2nd part regard to Market America (MA) "Drink that purple thing! (aka OPC 3)"After trying to learn more about this Market America from the wife... it didn't lead me anywhere... but I did hear some buzzword which I wrote it down... UnFranchise, residual income, BV (business volume), IBV, business center...I decided to googling the buzzwords and found my own answer. Here are the "numbers"

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This is for Window's version of Netbean 6.5 it's needed for SVN+SSHinstruction is here http://wiki.netbeans.org/FaqSubversionSSH it's missing a minor detail of setting up environment variable in windows. Here is what I did,first download PuTTY's plink from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.htmlif you are lazy like myself you'll want to setup enviroment variable for

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WebSphere 6.0 & 6.1I didn't have time to try this yet, but http://wiki.netbeans.org/NB61NewAndNoteWorthy list a few interesting note worthy. I hope they improve the start up speed...hack if NB keeps this up I can "saved" some RAD7 $$ and actually officially test this IDE instead of used it at home.great job guys!

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This is a new feature added to NB6. Some of developer will have a few application running while working with database and IDE. Can this feature replace the basic SQL query tool?http://www.netbeans.org/kb/60/ide/mysql.html will give you a pretty good start and feel for this feature. Out of box I was able query data and even copy the row of data! But... but you can't edit the cell if you

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My background on my road to Netbean6.@ my day job I am using RAD7 like many developers this the "official" tool.@ home/side job I had been using Eclipse 3.2 with Instantiations's WindowBuilderPro it's pretty powerful GUI builder.... but I have been slowly moving to Netbeans the past year (since NB5). Since some of the projects are Swing based... if you have not create GUI from Netbeans you

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Why it's always this way.... add more "feature" and paid (see vista) Based on the few reviews I have seen of Quicken 2008, it doesn’t appear to have many new features that compel me to replace Quicken 2006. I usually upgrade every other year or so anyway. I have used Quicken since 1999 and have found it to be an invaluable tool to track my spending and manage my finances. Each upgrade I

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oh yeah, I been busy. Just notice this newshttp://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/60/index.htmlI hate to say it, this release is a little slow compare to 5.5 maybe a good excuse to get an upgrade?!but sooo many new toys pack into this powerful IDE! cheers

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Oh well... I guess time to cancel the movie nite!Due to changes in our subscription plan pricing, your current BLOCKBUSTERTotal Access™ plan, Unlimited Online DVDs 1 at a time plus unlimited in-storeexchanges each month for $9.99, will no longer be available at the currentprice. You will be moved to our new plan that includes Unlimited Online DVDs 1at a time plus up to 2 free* in-store exchanges

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What can I say... hire a consultant to handle your sensitive information and it was pass to an intern who makes $10.50 an hour. Everybody point fingers at different direction does that makes okay?A backup tape was stolen from his car last month containing at least 770,000 social security numbers (with the corresponding names) for Ohio taxpayers. It also contained the social security numbers

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lost some subscribers to Blockbuster? http://business.bostonherald.com/businessNews/view.bg?articleid=1013160http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/24/ap3946471.htmlwell, I don't really make decision base on the stock price. But I do like Blockbuster's idea of mail + drop off at the store. And I did have some of Netflix DVD from out of my states...which takes about 3 days to arrive...and 3

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Netflix strike back @ $8.99 for 1 at a time Unlimited

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If you do live near by a Blockbuster and you don't use this "service" shame on you!Why would you want to stop by a blockbuster store near you?1) there is e-coupon (I think once a month you can rent from the store).2) store checkin for you mail DVD, so they can sent you another one without the lag of mail.3) sick of browsing for DVD? Well.... they do have laptop setup for you also.looks like

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not sure if Blockbuster has any plan to upgrade their site... but I found Netflix's site to be more friendly in suggesting movies to watch. I do enjoy a short preview and customer suggestion. They also have a friend and family area...which is some what of social network setup.So base on that, I would say Netflix is doing much better here.

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It's always fun to hear about why/how a project select the technology to use. It could be cost, resource, scheduling ... policy?http://www.kerika.com/2007/06/why-we-chose-java.html.....Using C or C++ would have resulted a lot of platform-specifc coding for the graphics and file management: in other words, we wouldn't be building a cross-platform application, but rather building the same

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No it's not a race, choose your own tool for the project.Netbeans 6.0 M10http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/60/index.htmlEclipse also release it's IDE code name Europa 3.3http://www.infoq.com/news/2007/06/eclipse-europaalso release are all of it's projects.... VE seems to be missing from the list :-(

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No, I am not signing the children's song.If we only compare the mail distribution center...Currently Blockbuster has 35 distribution centers across the United States.Netflix has lot more http://www.listology.com/netflix_tracker_reports.cfm?report=centerscouldn't found the offical number for Netflix. Of course if you are near by the distribution center ... maybe you'll get it within 2 days... (

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I got my DVDs!!!! I guess there is a blockbuster or netflix distribution center around me. I quickly watch one DVD from each vendor and return today (Friday). Let's see who will receive and return back to me the fast ;-)the return envelop is a little different ....Blockbuster: the envelop is smaller compare to Netflix and it has the title of the DVD on the label!!! so if I have 3 DVDs

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Signed up on Tuesday night (6/12), both vendor have shipped the DVD. Which DVD will get to me first?I signed up for the 1 DVD unlimited for $9.99 for both. But Blockbuster has the 3 DVD for 1 month (you must cancel before 1 month or get charge). Both has sent out email that the DVD(s) are on the way.To add your DVD into the queue is pretty easy, Blockbuster gives you option to buy the DVD.

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reading this article http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/05/microsoft_mvp_threats/ makes me wondering what is M$ trying to do?? I better not "say" much ... :-) you can read and laugh.... his cherished status did not last. In December 2005, he started getting emails from a Microsoft executive called Jason Weber. The problem was that TestDriven.NET supported the Express edition of Visual

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I was searching for another java related podcast and found Netbeans podcast (where is Eclipse podcast???) thinking to myself the pain of trying out Netbeans 3 a while ago. What can it do differently? WAIT! After listen to the Netbeans podcast by Roumen and Gregg I tried NB 5.5 --- and WOW! All the the NB's plug-in are at NO COST!I currently use Eclipse at home (WSAD @ work) which works

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FBI Offers $50,000 Reward For Information Leading To An Arresthttp://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_142110742.htmlsome photos from fox newsI guess there is no "rules of engagement" on the street. They got gun and they used it... If you read most of the SOP (standard operating procedures) for bank it says to give up the money as long as "you" ask for it; well I think I simplified it

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