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'Secret Millionaire's' upside and downside |
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I am of at least two minds about “Secret Millionaire," a new reality show from Fox -- based, like so many reality series, on a foreign model -- in which the very rich go incognito among the very poor for six days to learn or remind themselves what it's like to live on a pittance. At the end of each episode, the millionaire will give at least $100,000 of
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 Secret Millionaire Gregory Haerr of Salt Lake City (R) and his brother Paul (C) meet Aaron when they go undercover in Las Vegas.
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West Maui resident helps needy people as a ’Secret Millionaire’ |
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LAHAINA – “You can imagine my surprise when I received a phone call from a Los Angeles television casting company,” explained attorney Greg Ruzicka, co-owner of Island Spirit Yoga and Dance Studio in Lahaina.
“When they asked me if I would like to be a participant on the reality show ’Secret Millionaire,’ I thought it was a hoax; a crank call.”
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Fox in the money with "Secret Millionaire" bow |
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Fox's new reality effort "Secret Millionaire" performed much better than expected Wednesday, suggesting that the short-run altruistic series could have a future on the network.
The evening's two episodes of "Millionaire" averaged 7.4 million viewers, according to
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The last time Fox had a show with "millionaire" in the title, it was about a bachelor who pretended he was rich but was not. The joke was on the gold-diggers who pursued him.
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Introduction to Microwindows Programming, Part 3 |
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Nowadays, it seems that when I've got an idea for a new program I want to write for Linux, if I search the Net, someone's already published an open-source version of it. Such was the case recently when I thought it'd really be fun to have a graphical solitaire game for Microwindows. Entering Solitaire+Linux into the search engine gave me quite a few different implementations of Klondike, as well as an old favorite, FreeCell.
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An Overview of Linux for Embedded Developers |
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This whitepaper by Greg Haerr (CEO of Century Software and founder of the Microwindows and ViewML projects) provides an introduction to the use of Linux as an embedded operating system. Haerr reviews the benefits of Linux to embedded applications, explains the basics of graphical windowing system technologies, and provides a technical and architectural overview of both Microwindows (a windowing system for embedded devices) and ViewML (an embeddable web browser).
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Greg Haerr on Microwindows |
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Greg Haerr is CEO of Century Software and founder of the Microwindows project, a GUI/windowing solution for embedded systems and devices. In this interview, Haerr relates how he came to be working with embedded Linux, explains why he created Microwindows, offers a brief comparison between Microwindows and alternative embedded GUIs, contemplates the future of Microwindows, and offers his perspective on open source.
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