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Running 165 Linux apps (plus 3D desktop) running simultaneously? Why 165 application and not 168(nice number for Chinese)? Big deal? I believed Linux can run more application simultaneously. Can Wndows Vista or XP do that? Look at the video and you will know how fast Linux can run with 165 applications simultaneously.

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Pakistan has blocked access to the popular YouTube website because of content deemed offensive to Islam.

Pakistan telecommunications authority ordered internet service providers to block the site until further notice because of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have outraged many Muslims, an industry official said on Sunday. The cartoons, published in Danish newspapers in 2005 and again earlier this month, angered Muslims because of their depiction of the Prophet Mohammad.

According to Reuters:

“They asked us to ban it immediately … and the order says the ban will continue until further notice,” said Wahaj-us-Siraj, convener of the Association of Pakistan Internet Service Providers.

Publication of the cartoons led to protests and rioting in many Muslim countries, including Pakistan, in which at least 50 people were killed and three Danish embassies attacked.

Several Danish newspapers reprinted one of the cartoons earlier this month after police in Copenhagen uncovered a plot by two Tunisians and a Dane of Moroccan origin to kill the cartoonist, sparking further protests around the world.

Attempts to access Youtube in Islamabad on Sunday were met with a generic error message saying the site was unavailable.

“Users are quite upset. They’re screaming at ISPs which can’t do anything,” Siraj said.

“The government has valid reason for that, but they have to find a better way of doing it. If we continue blocking popular Web sites, people will stop using the Internet.”

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