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You ever think about how Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC”

The Verge

There were two products that arrived in 2007 that fundamentally changed computing: one, of course, was the iPhone. Windows getting shown up by Linux was not allowed, so Microsoft did some Microsoft maneuvering, and by January 2008 the Eee PC was running Windows XP instead. This was state-of-the-art tech blogging in 2009.

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Despite break-ins, gaming store mainstay Pink Gorilla is growing in Seattle

GeekWire

The growth comes after a difficult 2022 for the original Pink Gorilla store in the International District, which was hit with a $14,000 burglary in July, followed by an armed hold-up in October , in addition to multiple other incidents such as broken windows. “We have the lowest prices,” Spencer said.

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Business is booming: Husband-and-wife ed-tech startup Boom Learning takes off during pandemic

GeekWire

During his time in the Senate, he was vice chairman of the Education Committee, served on the Quality Education Council and helped pass education reform in the state in 2009. From her window, Mary Oemig can see a fire station that was quarantined in those first days of the health crisis.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows Home Server saves the day?

Sean Daniel

Windows Home Server saves the day… Being in my position, I often come across people wishing Windows Home Server was this way, or had this, or didn’t do that. The last course of action was to walk my dad through booting into safe mode and see if we figure out what is kicking off the virus and stop it from running.

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We have NASA’s rules for tweeting in space

Vox

Astronaut Mike Massimino peers through a window on the aft flight deck of the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Atlantis on May 17, 2009. Mike Massimino (@Astro_Mike) May 12, 2009. Of course, it’s no longer 2009. NASA; Getty Images; photo illustration by Vox. Massimino said yes and didn’t think too much else about it.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: How to use your Home Server as an AirPrint.

Sean Daniel

I have an iPad (v1), a Laptop, and of course my Windows Home Server. Over the holiday’s we had a few visitors, which of course means printing boarding passes prior to leaving for the airport. Then of course ran FingerPrint on the server. I am reducing the amount of computing power I have in my house.

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Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial

The Verge

Phil Schiller said outright that he had no idea if the App Store had brought in more money than it spent since 2009 “because that’s not how I look at the business.” (For That effort peaked with a 2015 email directly to Cook , laying out the case for an open iOS over the course of four paragraphs.

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