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As a big thank you to all our regular visitors, supporters and clients we are giving away a 48 inch, plasma, HD TV and what is more, we are even throwing in free delivery to anywhere in the world!

vector writes:  

ngnuke.com would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday and hope you are surrounded by family and friends during this special time of the year. Take some time to just relax and enjoy the little things that mean the most. 

 

Also the site is at the point where i can now take some custom graphics requests for Topic Icons and Csutom Avatars to match your theme. So come on over to www.ngnuke.com and register so you can make your graphics requests. The small things can make a big difference. Let me help you by making some graphics to match your sites theme..

 

Thank you and Happy Holidays,

webmaster at ngnuke (George Halstead)

www.ngnuke.com

xGSTQ writes:  

Aion : The Tower of Eternity is a very popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer on-line role-playing game) game. This theme "Aion Eternity" takes all those great features of the Aion Game and puts them into a unique one of a kind theme that will impress all of your visitors. The theme compromises of dark blues and contrasting light colours with matching PHPBB forums. The theme is a fixed width theme suitable for screen resolutions above 1024x768 and will still look great with resolutions above 1920x1200.

Features:
Top Navigation Links Bar with Hover Effect (image color changes when you hover over it)
Custom Editable Header Image for your Guilds Name/Logo
Flash MP3 Player Module and Block Fully Admin Integrated (fully styled to match theme)
4 Last Forums posts in header
4 Last News posts in header
Aion Armory Syndication Script Integration
Aion Armory Syndication Forums integration MoD included (not installed)
Aion Armory Search Block
Custom RSS Block
And Much Much More, too much to mention...

Extras:
Blank Header Image And PSD
Matching Flash Clock
Welcome Image and Block + PSD
Your Account Images
And Much Much More, too much to mention...

You can view the Aion Eternity Theme and all of its other unique features.

www.clanthemes.com
Making Clans Look Good

What do French gendarmes, Wikipedia, Google, Spanish school children and San Francisco International airport have in common?

All of them are big users of the free Ubuntu operating system.

The French national police force runs its operations on the open source OS; computer systems supporting Spanish schools have their own version; Google uses Ubuntu internally, the online encyclopaedia runs its hundreds of servers on Ubuntu and SFIA's internal computer system is based around it.

Ubuntu is based on Linux - the open source operating system that is maintained, expanded and extended by legions of fans and professional programmers around the world. Thanks to their efforts Ubuntu has become the most popular of all the Linux distributions.

On 29 October, version 9.10 of Ubuntu is released. All versions of the operating system have an alternative alliterative appellation. Ubuntu 9.10 is known as Karmic Koala. The launch comes in the wake of Microsoft's fanfare around Windows 7 - the latest incarnation of its flagship operating system.

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Ever wondered what your site looked like to Googles crawler? Thanks to a brand new tool from Google, you can now see exactly how your site appears to Googles GoogleBot.
1 - Log-in to your Google account and go to your Webmaster Tools area.
2 - One you are there, you will see a list of your site; just click the link to one of them.
3 - On the left hand side, you will now see the 'Labs' link. Click on that and use the 'Fetch as Googlebot' link.

A 'Pending' notice will appear on the right and shortly afterwards, is replaced by a 'Success' link which you can now click to see exactly how your page looks to Googles bot.

The internet is on the brink of the "biggest change" to its working "since it was invented 40 years ago", net regulator Icann has said.

The body said it that it was finalising plans to introduce web addresses using non-Latin characters. The proposal (initially approved in 2008) would allow domain names written in Asian, Arabic or other scripts. The body said if the final plans were approved on 30 October, it would accept the first applications by 16 November.

The first Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) could be up and running by "mid 2010" said the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann). "Of the 1.6 billion internet users today worldwide, more than half use languages that have scripts that are not Latin-based," said Rod Beckstrom at the opening of Icann's conference in Seoul, South Korea. "So this change is very much necessary for not only half the world's internet users today but more than half, probably, of the future users as the internet continues to spread."

Relaxed rules
Plans for ILDs were approved at a meeting in June 2008. However, testing of the system has been going on for much longer, said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the board in charge of reviewing the change. "You have to appreciate what a fantastically complicated technical feature this is," he said. "What we have created is a different translation system."
The changes will be applied to the net's Domain Name System. This acts like a phone book, translating easily understood domain names such as code-authors.com into strings of computer readable numbers known as IP addresses. The tweaks will allow this system to recognise and translate the non-Latin characters.
"We are confident that it works because we have been testing it for a couple of years," said Mr Dengate Thrush. "We're really ready to start rolling it out."
Some countries, such as China and Thailand, have already introduced workarounds that allow computer users to enter web addresses in their own language. However, these were not internationally approved and do not necessarily work on all computers.

The meeting in South Korea will also discuss its plans to introduce generic Top Level Domains (TLDs), such as .uk or .com. Last year, the body voted to relax rules on TLDs meaning companies could turn brands into web addresses, while individuals could use their names. Icann, set up by the US government, was founded in 1998 to oversee the development of the net. Last month, after years of criticism, the US government eased its control over the non-profit body, signing a new agreement that gave Icann autonomy for the first time. The agreement came into effect on 1 October and puts it under the scrutiny of the global "internet community".

 

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/technology/8326241.stm