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Sevierville doctor charged with raping 2 men, boy at office

A Sevierville doctor is held on a $200,000 bond after being charged with rape. Dr. Rodney Carter has been arrested and charged with three counts of rape and three counts of sexual battery. He stands accused of raping three male patients at his office.

Oak Ridge football coach reprimanded after pulling out knife

Oak Ridge High School head football coach Stanton Stevens received a verbal reprimand from school officials Friday for pulling a small pocket knife on six players while they were joking around during practice, superintendent Tom Bailey said Wednesday.

Two killed in Roane County crash

Two people were killed early this morning when a Sparta man lost control of his 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier and drove off U.S. Highway 70 in Roane County, the Tennessee Highway Patrol reported.

Trooper arrests Florida fugitive after minor wreck

A Florida fugitive was arrested Tuesday morning by a Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper investigating a minor crash in Loudon County.

THP, FBI, Homeland Security stopping trucks today

Trucks carrying hazardous materials got more scrutiny today as part of an intensive effort by the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

Blizz exec hints at Starcraft 2

"As a Starcraft player I can tell you that I hope it wouldn't go a decade - we launched Starcraft in '98 - I hope it wouldn't go a decade before we stand here and celebrate the next Starcraft together," Itzik Ben Bassat told crowds gathered at World of Warcraft expansion The Burn …

Apple introduces new AirPort Extreme with 802.11n

During the Macworld Expo on Tuesday, Apple introduced its new AirPort Extreme, a simple and elegant wireless networking solution delivering up to five times the performance and twice the range of the previous AirPort Extreme.

iTunes Store reaches 2B sales milestone, adds Paramount flicks

Apple said Tuesday that more than two billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature-length films have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, making it the world's most popular online digital media store.

Apple stuns Macworld crowd with multi-function iPhone device

Apple on Tuesday made a bid to change the world once again with the introduction of iPhone, a revolutionary mobile phone that also combines a widescreen touch-control iPod and breakthrough Internet communications device.

'Apple TV' coming to a living room near you

Apple on Tuesday premiered Apple TV -- its official name for iTV -- an easy to use device for the wireless playback of iTunes content on big-screen living room television sets.

How to get a Windows tax refund

If you buy a computer, you often pay for Microsoft Windows even if you didn't ask for it and aren't going to use it. This article shows you how to return your unused Windows license and get your money back, freeing yourself from the Windows tax.

SPI to transfer domain names to OSI

Software in the Public Interest's (SPI) board of directors has voted to approve the transfer of the opensource.org and opensource.net domain names to the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

Adobe and Mozilla Foundation to Open Source Flash Player Scripting Engine

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and the Mozilla Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has contributed source code for the ActionScriptâ„¢ Virtual Machine, the powerful standards- …

LinuxBIOS ready to go mainstream

After seven years of work, the LinuxBIOS project is on the brink of making a free BIOS a standard option for computers.

Blizzard Unbans Linux World of Warcraft Players

World of Warcraft players using Cedega (the Linux-based Windows emulator) had their bans lifted after an investigation by Blizzard in cooperation with the Cedega development team revealed that the bans were in fact made in error.

Tips for new Gentoo users

Gentoo is one of the most difficult distributions to learn, though veteran Gentoo users might point out that its friendly community and extensive documentation can help new users. Here are some tips that might make Gentoo easier for anyone who wants to give it a try.

Spicing up IT management

This month, Spiceworks released the latest version a new IT management application called Spiceworks IT Desktop that allows IT managers to inventory their networks.

How to bridge networks with OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an easy-to-use open source VPN software based on SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) that offers cross-platform interoperability.

SoftMaker Office 2006 beta: Not a killer app

German software developer SoftMaker has released a free 30-day download of the beta GNU/Linux version of SoftMaker Office 2006, a proprietary office suite that retails for $70.

Easy video creation using only FOSS software

While digital video editing today is an affordable, popular activity for both the computer hobbyist and amateur cinematographer, many people seem to think that video creation under Linux is either impossible or too difficult for the average computer user.

Del.icio.us bookmarks extension for Firefox

Organizing your favorite Web sites with bookmarks on Firefox can be tedious, especially when you want to keep your bookmarks synchronized across several computers at the same time.

Seven tips for leading FOSS programmers

Books about management techniques rarely mention how to lead computer programmers. The few that do sooner or later reach for a cliché and compare the effort to herding cats -- J. Hank Rainwater, for instance, uses the phrase as his title.

Bring back deleted files with lsof

There you are, happily playing around with an audio file you've spent all afternoon tweaking, and you're thinking, "Wow, doesn't it sound great? Lemme just move it over here." At that point your subconscious chimes in, "Um, you meant mv, not rm, right?" Oops.

Mapping the universe with open source software

Astronomers at New York City's Hayden Planetarium and Rose Center for Earth and Space think space exploration should be easily accessible to anyone. To make that possible, they offer an interactive atlas of the universe that anyone can download for free.

Getting started with ParallelKnoppix, a live CD for clusters

ParallelKnoppix is a modified Knoppix live CD designed for use in creating HPC clusters. You can start up PK on multiple nodes to run a cluster, and customize PK to add or remove applications.

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