Elonex phoenix crashed, but not burned
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Administration again Elonex Ltd has gone into administration, just three months after it was formed from the ashes of Elonex Plc by Staffs-based stationer Afic.â¦
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By STEVE HARTSOE  RALEIGH, N.C. - Oxygen generators similar to those blamed for the 1996 ValuJet crash likely caused the rapid spread of a chemical fire that forced the evacuation of thousands last year, a federal agency said Wednesday.  The U.S.
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On Christmas day, after the potlatch subsided, I headed out for a run. When I flicked on my MP3 player, however, I heard ... nothing. Glancing down at the display of my Creative Nomad MuVo TX I saw an unwelcome message: "File system error." Grrr.
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(InfoWorld) - Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.Â (Panasonic) said it has developed a lithium-ion battery that won't overheat even if a short circuit occurs. The new battery includes a heat-resistive insulator inside the battery cell, next to an existing separator that insulates the anode and cathode. If that separator is punctured a short circuit occurs that typically causes the battery to overheat and in some circumstances catch fire. Panasonic said its insulator layer ensures that the battery won't overheat even in the event of a short circuit. Panasonic's announcement responds to consumers' concern about the safety of lithium-ion batteries following a number of incidents involving them. Earlier this year most major laptop computer makersÂ started recall or exchange programsÂ for batteries containing lithium-ion cells made by Sony after a number of batteries overheated and caught fire. Sony blamed the problem on metallic particles that got inside the battery during production, puncturing the separator layer and causing a short circuit. The replacement program covers 9.6 million batteries and willÂ cost SonyÂ up to Â¥51 billion (US$432 million). Then on Dec. 7, Japanese mobile-carrier NTT DoCoMo and handset-maker Mitsubishi ElectricÂ recalled 1.3 million cell-phone batteriesÂ made by Sanyo Electric, saying they could overheat and catch fire. Panasonic's new batteries are made by another company in the Matsushita group, Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., and are ready for mass production, said Akira Kadota, a spokesman for Panasonic in Tokyo. The batteries aren't available directly to end users but are sold in bulk to electronics product manufacturers, so Panasonic wouldn't reveal their price. Kadota said they could be more expensive than current cells but could also work out cheaper if large orders are placed. Matsushita Battery Industrial is one of the largest battery makers in Japan. Â
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Blog: In the 91st Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, the much-hyped 'Linux car' crashes, but since it isn't Windows, there was no blue screen of death.
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Christopher Jones has posted to his Oracle blog today about the release of a new beta for the PECL Oracle (OCI8) drivers for PHP.   I've created a PECL OCI8 1.3.1 Beta bundle of the code with Connection Pooling support that I mentioned in http://blogs.oracle.com/opal/2008/01/31.  You can get it from http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8.  The README contains the details.   Of course, it's still in beta, so any testing and feedback is more than welcome. This bundle also includes several other "non-DRCP related bug fixes" including an issue that caused constant pinging for persistent connections.
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Rob Richards mentioned in a previous book review about some of the issues he was having getting the Oracle extension enabled on his Fedora 8 system. Well, he's come back after doing some more testing/compiling and has found some resolution to his issues.   I really didn't need to get it running, but the sheer fact that I tried it and it wouldn't work, pissed me off enough to spend some time getting it resolved. Hopefully this helps anyone else having the same problem. I am currently using instant client 11.1, but I did try the 10.2 version with the same results.   He steps through the process he followed - tracking down the missing libaio files, correcting an issue with SELinux loading the Oracle libraries and his realization: he just needed to allow text relocation. Included in the post are the command line calls that'd need to be made to make it all happen.
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Help! Flaws in an ActiveX component incorporated in many technical support support packages create a risk of hacking attacks, security watchers warn.â¦
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Latest PEAR Releases:Testing_Selenium 0.4.0MP3_IDv2 0.1.4pearweb_index 1.16.10Validate_IE 0.3.0DB_NestedSet 1.4.0RC1
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS, Utah -- NASA&#39;s Genesis return capsule crashed into the desert Wednesday morning due to an apparent malfunction in its parachutes.
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Battery maker insists that the risk of devices' catching fire is low.
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Thousands of rechargeable batteries for use in Apple&#39;s Powerbook G4 laptop are being recalled. The batteries can overheat, posing a fire hazard. However, no injuries have been reported.
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A state fire marshal said a plugged-in Dell laptop caused a $100,000 blaze that destroyed a home in Biddeford, Me. No one was hurt in the blaze.
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Come ampiamente annunciato, Mozilla Foundation, dopo Firefox, ha rilasciato la versione 1.0 di Thunderbird, client di posta elettronica che dovrebbe costituire una valida alternativa ad Oulook. Le premesse
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NEC Corp. (6701.T) said on Monday there  had been two cases of overheated power unit parts used in its  Japanese desktop computers catching fire, but no one was  injured.
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Black Rocket Euro RSCG has crashed here, and only Heat remains.
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Despite Window Server vulnerability recently reported, company says there's no cause for alarm.