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• Wikia Acquires Distributed Web Crawler Grub

  Published: July 27, 2007, 3:51 pm

  Tags: Company Amp 038 Product Profiles, Grub, Wikia

  web crawling engine Grub from Looksmart. Grub utlizes spare computing cycles on users’ computers to index the web, a similar concept to that used by SETI@home in the search for extraterrestrial life. Grub originally started in 2000 and was purchased in 2003 by LookSmart. Grub was shut in 2005 following some minor controversy over

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• Egads! Change at Peter Luger!

  Published: August 7, 2007, 10:54 am

  Tags: Grub Street, Brooklyn, Food, Peter Luger, Restaurants, Steak, Williamsburg

  other cuts (or to, as the Grubbies say has recently happened, force some diners to eat fish). Grub Street is not displeased with this development: "Truly great porterhouses are hard to come by; they’re not marbled the way rib eyes are, and they don’t have the same depth of flavor." Perhaps, but we won't be eating them. You go to

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• Amuse-Biatch Finally Makes It in Chow Business, Hears His Mistress's Voice

  Published: October 11, 2007, 10:34 am

  Tags: Grub Street, Chow Com, Television Without Pity, Shameless Self Promotion, Amuse Biatch

  of New York Magazine's Grub Street, and the Great Keckler of Television Without Pity at the table.We had a nice, rollicking little chat, and we think we managed not to spill cranberry sauce on anyone. Fortunately, the editors snipped away the bits where we went on drunken rants, made football predictions, and tried to shave Miss XaXa's

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• Another Gutsy major update before the release, but this one was painless

  Published: October 10, 2007, 1:48 am

  Tags: Ubuntu, Compiz, Gnome, Grub, Gutsy, Kernel, Secondlife, Upgrade

  You may remember that I did a major Ubuntu upgrade back on the 5th, and I ended up with some pretty bad video issues. I saw that there were some updates earlier this evening, including another rather minor kernel upgrade, from 2.6.22-13 to 2.6.22-14 and the obligatory video driver upgrades. The change notes weren’t available yet so I waited

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• I’m back, but it wasn’t issue free

  Published: October 24, 2007, 7:44 pm

  Tags: Ubuntu, Bios, Grub Error 15

  As I posted last week, my power supply decided to give up the ghost a week ago Sunday, and for the past week and a half (up late until yesterday morning) my computer was dead in the water, leaving me to use friends’ computers to check email and the blog. I was finally able to get to MicroCenter yesterday to buy a new power supply, but

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• Nob Nation Adverts

  Published: November 28, 2007, 4:12 am

  Tags: Podcast, Quits, Humour, Gift Grub, Nob Nation, Ireland, 2fm, Irishblogs, Gift Grub, Humour, Mp3, Mp3, Nob Nation, Sport, Rte

  Nob Nation, Td Tv, Gift Grub, Tv Willie, Odea HostsKeywords: nob nation, nob, td tv, gift grub, tv willie, odea hosts, il channel, grub, nation, gift, he's accepted, willie odea, sensationally left, odea, premiership managerCategories: Podcast, quits, Humour,, gift-grub, Nob-Nation, Ireland,

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• Notes From Chancerdom 28/11/07

  Published: November 28, 2007, 10:17 am

  Tags: Ireland, Irishblogs, Podcast, Podcast, Blog, The Swearing Lady, Irishblogs, Tech, Nob Nation, Humour, Friends, Jack Charlton, Gift Grub, Images, Jerome Hughes

  Nation, Much Bertie, Gift Grub, Td Tv, FartoomuchbertieKeywords: nob nation, nob, gift grub, grub, td tv, nation, tv willie, odea hosts, il channel, YEAR2007, gift, much bertie, MONTH11, he's accepted, sensationally leftCategories: Ireland, Irishblogs, Podcast, podcast,, Blog,

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• Feed Bags [Sigh]

  Published: January 8, 2008, 3:35 pm

  Tags: Celebrity, Grub Street, Restaurants, Sigh

  New York Magazine's Grub Street blog has a little interview with Michael Rankin, a waiter at Brooklyn eatery Diner. In it he discusses his various celebrity encounters and gives some...

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• Baird Jones Memorial Party at the Plumm Might Have Actually Pissed Him Off

  Published: March 6, 2008, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Grub Street, Baird Jones, Ivy Supersonic, Nightlife, Noel Ashman, Plumm, Webster Hall

  memory. Except, according to Grub Street, the venue might not be one that Baird himself would have been too happy about. In fact, at times he even worked to shut the club down. Baird called New York to complain of some of Plumm owner Noel Ashman's poor business practices, including paying for underage models to visit the club and ripping off

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• James Beard Award winners for 2008 announced

  Published: June 9, 2008, 1:05 pm

  Tags: 2008, Barbara Kingsolver, Barbarakingsolver, Grub Street, Grubstreet, James Beard Awards, James Beard Foundation, Jamesbeardawards, Jamesbeardfoundation

  York Magazine's food blog Grub Street for grabbing the award for Multimedia Writing on Food. Make sure to check out all the nominees and winners, as there is so much amazing writing, radio and television on that list. It could potentially keep you busy until the awards are announced next year.Read   Permalink   Email

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• Full Circle #15 teaches us new tricks

  Published: July 26, 2008, 12:37 pm

  Tags: Gnu Linux, Open Source, Tech, Ubuntu, Full Circle, Grub, Tutorials, Gimp, Partitions, Printers, Testimonies, Server

  using GIMP; and working with GRUB, the bootloader that lets you select which operating system or kernel version you want to use. My Story: Ubuntu Saves the Day and From Mickey’s ABCs to Kubuntu A review of the HP Photosmart C3180 printer much more My article about Mac4Lin 0.4 still isn’t included, but Full Circle editor Ronnie Tucker

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