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Can you imaging this?

I have to wait for 33778 Days and 6 hours for copy 18.8GB data from external disk to Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 desktop. Shall I wait?

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Look at my download speed - 375.2KB/sec.

I had a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Datacenter, Enterprise and Standard edition download from MSDN today. The file size is about 1.7G and it took me about an hour for fully download.

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As promised, this is AdsenseWealthEmpire Part 2 that started from chapter 10 - chapter 15 contains of 75 pages.

Below are part of the Table of Content:

Chapter 10: Purchasing Domains
10.1 What is a Domain Name?
10.2 The Domain Name’s Structure
10.3 How to Choose a Domain Name?
10.4 Using Sub-Domains verses Full Domains
10.5 Registering Domain Names
Chapter 11: Building Your Money Sites
11.1 The Structure of Your Money Site
11.2 Creating the Site’s Web Pages
11.3 Are You Ready to Generate Your Web Pages?
11.4 Building Your Sites Using the Website Generator
11.5 Uploading the Site to the Internet
Chapter 12: Building Your Network of Support Sites
12.1 The Importance of Strengthening Your Money Sites
12.2 Why Build Your Own Network of Support Sites?
12.3 The Three Main Patterns of Support Sites
12.4 Search Engine Friendly Directory (SEFD)
12.5 How to Build Your SEFD?
12.6 Using the Link Builder to Build your SEFD
12.7 CRSS & DCRSS
12.8 Strengthening the Support Sites
Chapter 13: The Blogosphere (The 3rd circle)
13.1 What do we need blogs for?
13.2 What’s so special about blogs?
13.3 How blogs can strengthen your AdSense Empire?
13.4 Blogging Jargon
13.5 Blog Platforms
13.6 How to use your blogs effectively?
13.7 The Blogs’ Content
13.8 Strengthening your 3rd Circle

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Ubuntu 8.04 codename Hardy Heron alpha 4 was officially released 2 days back and is now available for download. This alpha 4 released offers an early look at some of the features that will be included in the final 8.04 release, which is scheduled for April 2008.

Personally I took the opportunity to test it on my VMware Workstation 6 today. Please note that please do not enable network setup during Ubuntu installation, the system try to locate for some update that make me wait for more than half an hour. Basically I have found 2 bug in this testing so far.

The first bug I was found is Firefox, according to Ubuntu 8.04 alpha 4 I suppose to have Firefox 3 beta 2 but it’s running on Firefox 2.0.0.10.
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Wow! It’s been rumored for a long time -Microsoft buy Yahoo, but now it’s reality.

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, made an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo! Inc. to challenge Google Inc.’s dominance in Internet search services and advertising announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

The $31-a-share bid of cash or Microsoft stock is 62 percent more than Yahoo’s closing price yesterday. Before today, Yahoo had dropped 18 percent this year in Nasdaq Stock Market trading, and this week posted a 23 percent profit decline for the fourth quarter.

Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is attempting the biggest-ever technology takeover after failing to compete with Google in a market that may almost double to $80 billion by 2010. Google has grown faster than Microsoft in every quarter since Google’s 2004 initial public offering as its search engine won more users.

“Microsoft is under massive pressure to expand its Internet business to fend off competition from rivals such as Google and this deal shows how desperate they are,” said Thomas Radinger, a fund manager at Pioneer Investments in Munich, which oversees about $95 billion, including Microsoft shares. “It’s a huge gamble as the price is very steep and it will take years to successfully integrate such a massive acquisition.”

Yahoo rose $8.58, or 45 percent, to $27.76 at 10:46 a.m. in Nasdaq trading. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington, fell $2.02, or 6.2 percent, to $30.58, while Google dropped 9.5 percent to $510.75.

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