Boboy Newz

During summit talks with South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, the North Korean leader proclaimed “”I’m an Internet expert too. It’s all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.”

The South Korean leader asked that SK businesses be allowed access to the internet. Il proclaimed if the problems were addressed there would be no problems allowing access to the internet.

North Koreans are only allowed TV and radio that picks up state run broadcasts, and regular citizens are not allowed cell phones, let alone internet services. Read more »

China: Xia Xinfeng has been sentence to death for killing her partner. Xinfeng, suspecting that her lover was cheating on her, slipped a capsule of rat poison into his mouth during a kiss.

The capsule proved fatal within a short space of time. According to local media reports her lover, Mao Ansheng, had been spotted “talking” to another woman.

“The couple had said that if either one of them cheated on the other, he or she would have to die,” reported the Shanghai Daily. Read more »

Control-Alt-Delete is a very popular keyboard shortcut for rebooting a Windows PC, NT logon or for invoking the Windows Task Manager in XP systems.

The time saving Ctrl+Alt+Del keyboard combination was designed by David Bradley, a designer of the original IBM PC.

Bradley originally designed Control-Alt-Escape to trigger a soft reboot, but he found it was too easy to bump the left side of the keyboard and reboot the computer accidentally.

He switched the key combination to Control-Alt-Delete, a combination impossible to press with just one hand.

Bradley did not intend Control-Alt-Delete to be used by end users - it was meant to be used by people writing programs or documentation, so that they could reboot their computers without powering them down. But the key combination went on to become a cultural icon especially for hiding the Windows 95 BSOD. Read more »