Lenovo decided to withdraw from the U.S. retail market its Linux-powered ThinkPads, less than a year after the company made them available. The first ThinkPad T61 and R61 notebooks to feature pre-installed Novell SLED (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop) were shipped in January this year, and a lot of enthusiasts cheered ... |
12 September 2008
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Sled dogs, like the Samoyed (western Siberia), Alaskan Malamute, Canadian Eskimo Dog and Greenland Dog, are generally called Husky, but the only variant officially recognized as a breed is the Siberian husky (a better term for naming northern dogs is "spitz"). The Siberian husky was used by the nomad Inuit (Eskimo) p... |
14 February 2008
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We are more used to see beasts like horse, donkey, mule, cattle, buffalo, camels, llama, yak, or elephant being used as working animals. At least in the documentaries. But in the 19th century Europe, dog traction was a popular mini-version of horse traction. Usually, dogs were harnessed to a two wheel (rarely four wh... |
10 December 2007
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Since ancient times, people used animal power, from horse to donkey, mule, cattle, zebu, buffalo, camels, llama, yak, and elephant. Even if technology has eliminated or greatly decreased animal labor in many countries, in some developing countries their energy is still important and in some environments it may be the... |
21 February 2007
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