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Harris frustration comes to soft end

After just three test innings, JP Duminy has his maiden century as he guided South Africa to 376 for eight on the third day of the second test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Harris frustration comes to soft end

After just three test innings, JP Duminy has his maiden century as he guided South Africa to 376 for eight on the third day of the second test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Sunday.

Gaming Frustration on Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3

I have never been one of those guys who are that serious about gaming, the reason for this is that I get bored quickly. The problem is I get frustrated with a game when I am no good at it, but I know that I need to practice in order to get better.

Linux clipboard utilities lead to frustration and defeat

"Naww, nothing is running. It turns out that xclipboard doesn't work with Gnome. Kind of a stupid error message and you'd think that the man page might have mentioned that, but hey, maybe it used to and just needs an update. Is there an update? Let's fire up the package manager and see. Strangely, a search for "xclipboard" said that no matching software could be found. So it's installed, but the package manager knows nothing about it. OK, moving on..."

Fonolo, Designed to Battle Phone Call Frustration, Goes 'Public Beta'

A couple of months back we told you about three of the Web-based businesses we're most anticipating. One of them, Fonolo, has now moved into "public beta" mode, which means that anyone can try it out. Fonolo enables users to manage their customer service/phone bank experience, skipping many steps within a corporation's often-frustrating automated phone menus.

Fonolo Gives Consumers Relief from Phone-Menu Frustration for More Than 300 North American Companies

large companies, is now offering its ground-breaking, Web-based service for free to the public for beta testing. Fonolo puts an end to the aggravation of “press 1 for this, press 2 for that.”

Teen burns down warehouse to vent video game frustration

South Korean police have arrested a teenager for setting fire to a local warehouse over unhappiness at his poor performance at computer games.

Auto Bailout: Live Blog III

Senator Jon Tester: Expressed frustration and disbelief that the TARP money was supposed to free up credit, and that the biggest thing killing auto sales is the inability of consumers to get loans. Tester said about the bankers who have gotten TARP money: “I’d like to get those birds back in here.”

CRICKET: Proteas aim to wag tail like Australia

South Africa will aim to draw inspiration from the frustration they have copped from Australia's tail this series in order to save the second cricket Test at the MCG.

Quick wickets bring England back

India's top and lower order piled on the frustration for England on day two in Mohali, building on the foundation laid yesterday by Gautam Gambhir and Rahul Dravid. The duo added India's second highest second-wicket stand during which Dravid ended one of the most publicised droughts in recent memory with a confidence-building hundred, before India's tail wagged. England wrested four wickets for 19 runs in the afternoon session and five after tea to reel India in from 320 for 1, but face a three-day rearguard.

Why techies love games -- and why it's good they do

From World of Warcraft to Civilization, computer games hone skills, reduce frustration, and celebrate tech

Guitar Hero World Tour Wii Microphone Not Working?

New owners (and gift givers) of Guitar Hero World Tour on Wii experience frustration with Wii Remote requirement for Mic.

Cricket: Windies star in hot water after smashing door

West Indies batsman Kieron Pollard could face sanctions after he smashed his bat into a door in frustration after being given out leg before wicket against New Zealand during the third one-day cricket international played at Westpac Stadium in Wellington today.

Arts body frustrations discussed

More than a hundred artists and arts organisations are due to attend two separate meetings to discuss their frustration over plans to shake up arts funding in Scotland.

Sony Says "Death to the Clamshell"

Yes, Sony has declared a war on the clamshell, packaging that is. We wrote earlier about Amazon.com's "frustration-free packaging" initiative, and this is an example of a similar initiative, aimed at getting rid of those clamshell packages that seem almost lethal.

Confidence Growing In NZ Squad

Brendon McCullum says New Zealand are growing in confidence and hoping to start seeing positive results after a summer of frustration, as they take on the West Indies in the second ODI in Christchurch.

Monks force rock opera off air

The show 'oppresses Cambodian Buddhist monks, causes more than 50,000 monks to loss their honour, value and to express frustration,' it added. -- PHOTO: AFP

Banks Cosmetic in Cutting Lending Rates

The central bank surprised the market Thursday by slashing its key rate by a record one percentage point to a historic low of 3 percent, but borrowers have shown frustration over the lukewarm attitude shown by banks in lowering lending rates.

AMD Releases Hotfix for Catalyst 8-12 Drivers

I know that many of you were looking forward to the performance increases the ATi 8-12 drivers brought. But for a select group of users the new drivers only brought frustration.

Mitigating the Risk of Encryption Related Data Loss - Expert Webcast

The deployment of a data encryption tool is intended to protect confidential information from loss and leakage. However, a poorly implemented solution can be just as bad as the absence of this technology and can cause user frustration and loss in productivity.

How Do You Stay Upbeat Amidst the Idiocy?

Techdirt has a wonderful summary of how hard it is sometimes to stay upbeat when faced with some of the complete idiocy that intelligent, tech-savvy readers often have to deal with in their day-to-day lives. While the frustration will probably never go away, nor will the news calling attention to it, it does seem that opening people's eyes to problems helps things move in the right direction, so keep it up. "Yes, we're in the midst of a brutal financial mess — but that won't stop innovation. Yes, incumbent forces, with short-sighted plans and a desire to hold back the tides are annoying and disruptive (not in a good way) in the short run. But even they are finding they can't hold back progress. Robert Friedel has a wonderful book called A Culture of Improvement that details how we, as a society, are constantly looking to improve on what

Men show the boys value of experience

'With 196 runs in this contest already, Strauss has chugged along throughout at an easy rate of one run every two balls, giving no thought to anything other than his continued presence at the crease, and India's continued frustration'

Unix And Linux PDF Telnet Curiosity - When HTTP Error Pages Don't Attack!

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "For this post, I spent a bunch of time goofing around with Telnetting to port 80 to try and force the binary modes (-8, -L), and some combination of those and the "no-escape" clause (...I mean, flag ;) and encountered terrible frustration. As odd as it may seem, downloading binary files from servers that won't serve anything but ASCII over Telnet can make it very hard to get the original product back" Full Story...

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