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Running Linux, From Your Flash Drive

Post author By Ankur
Post date 21 May 2008
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OK, before anyone flames me in the comments – there are loads of tutorials online and on how to run Linux from your Flash drive; I could write one of mine too. However, Yahoo! News did a story on this recently, and I think it’s quite comprehensive. Covers all possible options, and does a good job of explaining the whole thing. For people who rather like to test Linux out before installing, this is a nice tutorial to go through. Read more on Yahoo! News on how to run Linux from your USB drive.

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No Need To Be A Better Know-It-All, Anymore

Post author By Ankur
Post date 21 May 2008
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You know longer need to be a better know-it-all than all your friends if you use Yahoo! Mail these days. Yup, in an announcement on the official Yahoo! Mail blog today, they said that ALL mails sent through Yahoo! Mail – whether they be from free or Mail Plus accounts – will no longer have the advertisement tagline attached to these mails. Those were the ones which promoted other Yahoo! services.

It’s a small step, but a significant one. Frankly, I don’t think it made much of a difference to anyone whether they added it or not, but as time progress Yahoo! Mail certainly is moving faster on the innovation front. More importantly, their Mail Plus offering – and the incentive to upgrade to it – becomes lesser as they turn out more and more features to their 255 million plus mail users.