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p-- ba href="http://gannettblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/breaking-toll-nears-1000-as-louisville.html" title="Gannett swings the big ax, slashing 1,400 jobs this week"Gannett swings the big ax, slashing 1,400 jobs this week/a:/b Jim Hopkins, the former Gannett (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GCI" class="ticker" title="GCI"NYSE: GCI/a) chronicling the company's travails, has had a busy two days tallying the 1,400 jobs that are now gone as of this week at the company's ailing newspapers. The job cuts are part of the 3,000 staffers at local papers Gannett said would have to go. Gannet made the a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-gannett-to-slash-more-than-3000-jobs-across-local-papers" title="announcement"announcement/a at the end of October. The latest casualties are at iThe Nashville Tennessean/i (92 of 1,000 jobs cut); iPoughkeepsie Journal/i in New York (59 of 250), and South Carolina's iGreenville News/i (36 of 500). /p p -- ba href="http://www.startribune.com/business/35400639.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aU7EaDiaMDCiUZ" title="Star Tribune wants $10 million in union givebacks"Star Tribune wants $20 million in union givebacks/a/b (via a href="http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45aid=155018" title="Romenesko"Romenesko/a): The Minneapolis/St. Paul daily is asking its union to help identify $10 million cost savings by early next month. The paper's execs hope the additional savings will convince lenders to forgive some of nearly $400 million in long-term debt. The $10 million being sought is on top of $20 million the iStar Trib/i has separately asked from contract workers. Chief Executive Chris Harte says that if the union doesn't comply, the paper may have to file for bankruptcy protection. /p p -- ba href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/081201/20081201005554.html?.v=1" title="Canwest relaunches 10 newspaper sites"Canwest relaunches 10 newspaper sites/a/b: After scaling back on print delivery, Canada's largest newspaper publisher is unveiling 10 redesigned newspaper sites. Aside from making simplifying the newspaper sites' navigation, Canwest also is trying put more emphasis on hyperlocal content, including billing its classifieds as "hyperlocal" as well. /p p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=Cm1XnM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=Cm1XnM" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=QvjrO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=QvjrO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=PwdqO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=PwdqO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Fs8Ao"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Fs8Ao" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=VbGVO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=VbGVO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=EIEVO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=EIEVO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/474290838" height="1" width="1"/

iSupplis preliminary 2008 top-20 chip rankings are out as memory chip makers fall upon hard times.

We just confirmed exclusively that the full trailer for New Line Cinema and Platinum Dunes' Friday the 13th will debut online tomorrow (Thursday) and will also play before prints of Lionsgate's PUNISHER: WAR ZONE this weekend in theaters everywhere. The trailer will include brand new footage from Jason Voorhees' return to the big screen. The film directed by Marcus Nispel follows a group of young adults that find themselves going toe-to-toe with the infamous Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears) at a cabin near Camp Crystal Lake. New Line Cinema will release the film in theaters Friday, February 13, 2009. Click the title above for stills and more info, you can watch the first teaser over at BDTV or check out our massive set visit for the inside scoop.

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A judge has granted an injunction request by Mattel Inc. that permanently bars MGA Entertainment Inc. from manufacturing Bratz dolls.

How to embed resources at runtime by creating dynamic assemblies

A fifth boat in two months is found carrying asylum seekers toward Australia.

I have a MacBook Pro Model: A1260 and it has the DVI video out (I bought it 3 weeks prior to the new model... grrr!). I want to know if I can adapt from my DVI output to the Displayport input of a new 24" LED Cinema Display... actually what I really want is dual 24's but I don't think is in the budget, nor am I sure if the laptop is capable of it. I am running at 1440 x 900.

Yes it’s crass commercialism at best but I’ll be damned if this years Gap holiday campaign isn’t brilliant. It’s funny, catchy and doesn’t necesarily beat you over the head with the merchandise.  Rainn Wilson and Selma Blair turn in a topsy-turvy take on the Frank Loesser classic “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”. It’s definitely kick started my late blooming holiday spirit. You can catch the rest featuring The Dixie Chicks, Janelle Monáe, Jon Heder and many more at the Gap site, but here’s my favorite…

Rainn Wilson & Selma Blair - “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”

iThis is a lightweight image viewer for electronic comics./ibr / br / bAbout this version/bbr / br / v 0.0.4 (2008/11/22)br / br / * Fix issue - reopening images can't be correctlybr / * Add best fitbr / * Modify briefing to slideshow, and 10 secs to 03 secsbr / * Add logo file (design by bow: http://www.ismall.com.tw/qpainter_view.php?id=5 and mode=1 and page=1)br / * Make deb package for lenny br / br / v 0.0.3 (2008/05/31)br / br / * Multilingualbr / * Solutions to the absence from glade br / br / v 0.0.2.5 (2008/04/06)br / br / * Change to cmakebr / * Some easy installments for modification of .h br / br / v 0.0.2 (2007/10/13)br / br / * Fix the already-known bug of 0.0.1br / * Drastic modification of program (since I am not familiar with glade, I misuploaded items.)br / * New function for briefing (1 sec and #12289; 5 sec and #12289; 10 sec, respectively.)br / * Support the operation of keyboards. br / br / v 0.0.1 (2007/10/08)br / br / * Normal fitbr / * No more scrollbar, and you can move the location for pictures directly.br / * Contained with functions of opening table of contents and preview after opening files.br / * Use roller to control the change of page. The next page after the final one is the first page, and vice versa.br / * Pushing the middle button comes full screen. br / br / Installment instructions:br / br / source code:http://ghunter.googlecode.com/files/ghunter_0.0.4.tar.gz br / br / USD wget http://ghunter.googlecode.com/files/ghunter_0.0.4.tar.gz br / br / USD tar xf ghunter_0.0.4.tar.gz br / br / Please install cmake first. (ex. aptitude install cmake) br / br / Then disclose the file, operating br / br / USD cd ghunter-0.0.4 br / br / USD cmake . br / br / USD make br / br / USD sudo make install br / br / or br / br / deb file:http://ghunter.googlecode.com/files/ghunter_0.0.4-1_i386.deb br / br / USD wget http://ghunter.googlecode.com/files/ghunter_0.0.4-1_i386.deb br / br / USD sudo dpkg -i ghunter_0.0.4-1_i386.deb br / br / This way, everything will be solved.

Hello everyone, well i just spent an hour writing a new thread only to loose it ! no I'm really bummed!

To cut a long story short, i spent alot of money on my home studio and i don't have the brains to get it working ! I'm at least six months into having everything set up and have nothing to show for it ! my main hang up is getting my head around midi stuff and how to get it to bounce to disc with the other audio tracks ? do you need to make midi into an audio track to bounce to disc ? I find it hard to learn this stuff when i often don't even understand what the manual is telling me to do? need a dp for dummies ! oh i'm so lost don't know where to start or who to ask ? anyone know of any good tutorials for beginners or dvd's that speak in a newbies language ?

If i could just get the midi stuff figured out i'd have enough to start making my music and i'm sure i'd work the rest out along the way !

Well thanks for listening.
Any west australians here using dp ?

Hello all. Recently, I've seen a video of Darfur and the children being abused since they were four years old. This greatly saddened me about how the world revovled around me while I'm here living in America with a good wife, sister, brother, family, car, house, clothes, shelther, and food.

I just want some input from the MacRumors community on what you guys believe should a basic human life should be.

Here is my list

• Food
• Shelter
• Family
• Love
• A Macintosh :P
• 
  
  I really believe that we should currently do more than what we are doing in order to stop this international crisis of genocide. It truly does sadden me.
  
  Thank you to everyone who contributes to this thread.
  
  Please do not go into politics or economics on this matter. This is only about what the basic human life should be. What should be allowed/should not be.

So I've cleaned all my components except the HDD bay fans on my G5 Powermac. I've searched google about 5 pages deep and no luck. I have the service manual but it doesn't show how to remove those fans either. Anyone know of a link that shows how to remove them? I'm very good at taking stuff apart but I just can't seem to take this fan assembly apart. Maybe it's my kryptonite? :confused: Thanks.

Hey guys, soon Il be heading off to college so I wanted a new laptop for Christmas. I was searching for high quality laptops and came across the new MacBook and instantly fell in love with it. I would REALLY prefer the 2.4 because of the speed and keyboard, plus, I intend to keep it for a few years so I figured the 2.4 would be the way to go.

The problem is convincing my dad to shell out that kind of cash, so this will probly be my only present for Christmas lol. I know that there is a student discount which will help my dad out so I was wondering if anyone knew how much the discount would take off of the $1600 price tag.

Also, when (if) I think that he is going to get it, Im getting myself the 4gb ram and 320gb 7200 rpm hdd!

A friend of mine gave me a PowerPC G5 that he never uses. I would like to give my Intel MacBook to my wife to replace her WinXP laptop, but if I do, then I wont be able to write iPhone apps on the G5 (it needs to be intel based). So I was wondering in it's possible to buy an Intel motherboard and chip that is compatible with the G5's case? Before I pry it open I want to know if all of the networking, video and other components will still work when I put in a new mobochipram.

Also, is there anyway that I can look in the System Profiler or Disk Utility to see if this machine has a RAID card? When I go to the Raid tab in Disk Utility, it lists a RAID name, format and type. I'm assuming that means there is some kind of RAID on the G5. Or are those default values that are always there?

When I try to run solver in Excel, it crashes the program. It started happening only occasionally, usually if I tried to run Solver more than once in the same spreadsheet, but now it happens every time. I uninstalled and reinstalled the value pak, installed all updates, and did the disk utility repair, but all to no avail. I've seen this same question pop up pretty frequently in older posts - is there a solution?

I've got an ibook G4 running OS X 10.4.11 with Excel 2004.

I feel like I have no brains. I am having trouble copying and pasting. Specifically, I want to copy the code on Playlist.com and paste it to my page on Sodahead.com. I know all about ctrl - C, ctrl - V, I even bought a rt and left click mouse. I highlight the appropriate code, go to Edit or rt. click mouse to copy. When I move the cursor to where I want to paste it, the paste is no longer an option because it brings the Sodahead page to the front. I've been able to add pictures and text to the site, (questions and answers) and I've 'added media' to my profile. But to save my life I can't get my playlist to paste on my profile page. Has anyone who has a MacBook had the same problem or am I the only 'dense' one of the bunch.:confused::confused:

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Post: Youtube overload due to Obama vid?
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Original Post: Quote: Neither my pc or my ipod touch can connect to youtube right now... im guessing its cuz of the video that proves obama isnt born in the U.S found here:
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So just yesterday I was charging my ipod. When registering, I accidently put replacement ipod (though I also just have a regular ipod sharing the same computer with my iTouch now). I saw that my old songs where downloading onto my new itouch. Not likeing most of the songs, I quickly exited iTunes and stopped charging my itouch.

Anyways, after that I clicked on one of my four apps. to play with, but they would load momentarily then quickly exit on me before I could actually play around on the apps (I have Urbanspoon, Spawn, Translator and iDoodle2lite). I began fiddling around with the iTouch in hopes to fix it, I began moving the icons arounds and noticed that all 4 has small 'x's in the top corner.

There still not working from me and this is day two or three. DId I do something wrong that caused this to happen like stated in the first paragraph? Please HELP!!!!!!!