Most of the folks I work with actually live in San Francisco and commute down to Mountain View each day. I wouldn't be willing to do such a long commute each day (especially given San Francisco isn't my favorite city),

Nelson wonders why you sync twice on shutdown. I was told in a BSD kernels class run by Kirk McKusick once that the answer is because typing the second iteration gave the machine time to actually push the bits to

Last night we had a special event after work: The Propeller-Head Games! We got divided into six teams and we competed in three rounds of events. In the first, we had like five minutes to fashion an outfit for someone

REPLICA guns that can be converted into fully functioning firearms have arrived in Australia, and could explode if used with live rounds.

WESTERN Australian Premier Alan Carpenter seems to be a betting man ? but he may not be betting on the future of his government.

PERTH police have defended their decision to delay the release of closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage related to the Claremont killings in the 1990s.

A RENEWED search along the banks of Melbourne creek today for any clues in the disappearance of a nine-year-old boy has found nothing.

THE four-week trial of a 10-cent levy on plastic bags will be launched this morning in Victoria.

FIRE has destroyed a wine bar on the Gold Coast.

THE Queensland Government has named the five state health organisations to implement the controversial physician assistant program.

A SEVERE women shortage has gripped Mount Isa, but the city's mayor thinks he has the answer: ugly girls.

AN 18-year-old woman has been killed in a four-wheel-drive rollover in a paddock west of Brisbane.

BRISBANE'S annual show the Ekka has been hailed as one of the best ever.

A TRUCK driver spent more than two hours trapped upside down in the cabin of his truck today after a rollover on a remote road in rural Queensland.

Yamaha’s Chris Hollis won yet another prestigious Aussie title today when he wrapped up this year’s Yamaha Australian Off-Road Championship (AORC) with one round to spare.The Ballard’s Yama...

THE Liberal Party is capable of achieving an unlikely victory in the West Australian election while its new leader is closing the gap on Premier Alan Carpenter, a new poll shows.

WHEN Cabinet meets next month to give the nod to bust open the ASX's monopoly by granting market licences to three new entrants, it should think long and hard about the current standard of regulation and supervision in the Australian

THE Country Fire Authority and police are investigating the cause of a house fire that claimed the life of an elderly man in Victoria's west yesterday.

SHARES in Gunns slumped 7 per cent yesterday after the Tasmanian timber company downgraded its full year profit and said it was considering the $170 million sale of some plantation forest.

ST GEORGE presented its best possible face this week, but will Westpac be lured into paying more for a cosmetically enhanced bank?