Brian Laws had nothing but praise for his Burnley players after watching them respond to being mauled at Manchester City last week with a 4-1 defeat of Hull City.
It looked to be a similar story of woe for the Clarets when they fell behind in just the third minute to Kevin Kilbane's
But after drawing level through Martin Paterson
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11708_6086289,00.html
Rafa Benitez has rounded on those who continue to question his handling of star striker Fernando Torres.
The Liverpool
The Reds entered that contest desperate to secure three points in order to keep their top-four dreams alive.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_6085308,00.html
Derek Adams was full of praise for his side after watching Ross County dump Celtic out of the Scottish Cup.
The First Division side entered their semi-final clash at Hampden Park as massive underdogs, but pulled off one of the biggest shocks in the history of the competition.
Second half goals from Steven Craig
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_6085488,00.html
Champion jockey Tony McCoy triumphed in the John Smith's Grand National at the 15th attempt, when Don't Push It landed a public gamble in the world's greatest race.
McCoy, who only chose to ride the horse over stable companion Can't Buy Time in the last seven days, laid the ghost of many bad luck stories in the Aintree spectacular with a textbook ride on the 10-1 joint favourite.
Priced at twice those odds in the morning, the 10-year-old had never been the most fluent of jumpers and overcame a number of errors in the race to win for McCoy's boss - owner JP McManus - and trainer Jonjo O'Neill.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12040_6085902,00.html
Champion Hurdle runner-up Khyber Kim gained ample compensation for last month's Cheltenham defeat when he won the John Smith's Dick Francis Aintree Hurdle.
Paddy Brennan gave the 7-2 chance a quiet ride as Quwetwo set a steady pace, but the complexion of the race changed entering the straight as the leader fell away.
Celestial Halo, second in the Champion Hurdle two years ago, took up the running but crashed out at the third last allowing Khyber Kim to take it up.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12426_6085699,00.html
Biarritz have booked themselves a home semi-final in this season's Heineken Cup after beating the Ospreys 29-28 in San Sebastian on Saturday.
Despite being behind for almost the whole of the match, the Welsh region never let their opponents pull convincingly clear at the Estadio Anoeta and were poised to snatch the win following a late try scored by replacement Nikki Walker.
Having been awarded a penalty in their own half, fly-half Dan Biggar kicked to touch - but the Ospreys could then have been awarded another penalty for offside within kicking distance.
http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/match_report/0,20244,11069_38565_1,00.html
More late heroics from Miah Nikora sealed Connacht a home semi-final in the Amlin Challenge Cup with a 23-20 comeback success over Bourgoin.
Bourgoin thought they had claimed the scalp of the top seeds in the last eight stage for the second season running when Benjamin Boyet converted scum-half John Senio's try to put the French side 20-14 ahead.
But Connacht, aided by a yellow card for Boyet, fought back in style as Nikora nailed his kicks after hard graft from his forwards paid dividends in the last 20 minutes.
http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/match_report/0,20244,11069_39532_1,00.html
Brothers Delon and Steffon Armitage were the heroes as London Irish came from behind to beat bottom side Worcester and boost their Guinness Premiership play-off hopes.
The England international siblings both crossed to give their side the advantage after Worcester had failed to build on a 10-3 lead.
Exiles fly-half Chris Malone notched 13 points with his boot to seal a victory which moves them into fourth, three points above Wasps.
http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/match_report/0,20244,11069_39536_1,00.html
Western Force picked up their second Super 14 victory in a row with a six-try demolition of the Highlanders in Queenstown.
Just a week after picking up their first win of the season against the Stormers, Force out-scored their opponents by six tries to three with Ryan Cross and the returning Cameron Shepherd picking up two apiece.
Young full-back James O'Connor also crossed and added four conversions and a penalty for a personal tally of 16 points, while replacement Jason Turner completed the try haul.
http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/match_report/0,20244,11069_38336_1,00.html
Western Force picked up their second Super 14 victory in a row with a six-try demolition of the Highlanders in Queenstown.
Just a week after picking up their first win of the season against the Stormers, Force out-scored their opponents by six tries to three with Ryan Cross and the returning Cameron Shepherd picking up two apiece.
Young full-back James O'Connor also crossed and added four conversions and a penalty for a personal tally of 16 points, while replacement Jason Turner completed the try haul.
http://www.skysports.com/rugbyunion/match_report/0,20244,11069_38336_1,00.html
Lionel Messi stunning four-goal performance against Arsenal may have people talking about whether he is the best player of all time, but Real Madrid's Marcelo doesn't even think he is the best player at the moment.
Stoking the fires ahead of Saturday night's El Clasico, where the winner will have one hand on the league title, the Brazilian winger admits Messi will be a major threat but thinks Cristiano Ronaldo is the better player of the two.
http://www.skysports.com/tv_show/story/0,20144,12385_6079673,00.html
GB disability swimming executive director Tim Reddish tells BBC Sport's Nick Hope that he is confident his squad are in good shape for this year's IPC World Championships after their performances at the British Swimming Championships in Sheffield.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/disability_sport/8603013.stm
Scotland face a play-off with USA after an exciting finale to the World Men's Curling Championship round robin left Norway and Canada in the top spots.
Torger Nergard's Norwegians finished in pole position in the table after defeating Kevin Koe's Canadians 9-8.
Warwick Smith's Scots, the only rink to have defeated Norway, slumped to a 9-7 defeat by Switzerland in Cortina.
That left the Scots with an 8-3 record, the same as Pete Fenson's improving USA and with one less victory than Canada.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/8602332.stm
Olympic champions Pete Reed and Andy Hodge aim to use this weekend's GB trials to secure a second chance to win a world title in the coxless pair.
The duo, who won gold in Beijing in a four, moved into a pair last season and came second at the World Championships.
But Reed said: "If we were in the pair, I think it could be the fastest boat that Britain can field in its event."
Players must take quantum leap - Hearn
World number one Ronnie O'Sullivan has urged his fellow professionals to back World Snooker chief Barry Hearn's radical makeover plans for the sport.
Hearn's reform proposals include plans for an extended professional tour.
The promoter has also confirmed that players will break from tradition at April's World Championship, entering the Crucible to their choice of music.
O'Sullivan said: "Sometimes you have to back people with a little blind faith. It has to be voted through."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/8607633.stm
Audley Harrison produced a stunning last-round left hook to stop Michael Sprott and perhaps keep his faint world title hopes alive.
Harrison went into the fight claiming he was close to challenging for a world heavyweight title, but by the final round was behind on all three cards.
Despite an injured right shoulder, he caught Sprott with a huge shot to secure the vacant European title.
Andrew Dixon and James Roby scored two tries apiece for St Helens as they held off rock-bottom Harlequins to go third in Super League.
Full report to follow.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/super_league/8607201.stm
Michael Schumacher insists his comeback with Mercedes is going "according to plan" despite a disappointing start.
He has nine points from the opening three races after front wing problems in Australia were followed by his first retirement of 2010, in Malaysia.
"The last two races have not been very fortunate to me," Schumacher, 41, said.
"But I know how things go in F1 and everything is still going according to plan. You can only improve step-by-step and I'm confident we're achieving it."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/8605793.stm
Lancashire are in talks with former Pakistan captain Younus Khan over becoming their overseas player, BBC Sport understands.
The county side are targeting Younus as a replacement for Kumar Sangakkara, whose Sri Lanka commitments appear to have scuppered a move to Manchester.
Younus, 32, has played county cricket for Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire.
Last month, he was banned from playing for his country for allegedly causing infighting on a tour of Australia.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/counties/lancashire/8600926.stm
Britain's Nick Woodbridge could only manage 14th place in the final of the men's Modern Pentathlon World Cup Series event in Medway, Kent.
Woodbridge, Britain's lone remaining man, started badly in the fencing and a good combined event was not enough as Hungary's Adam Marosi won.
"I think it could have been something more for me," admitted the Shropshire 23-year-old, who rued his bad start.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/modern_pentathlon/8607036.stm
Lance Armstrong's preparations for the Tour de France have suffered a setback after illness forced him to pull out of the four-day Circuit de la Sarthe race.
The seven-time Tour winner, who was 24th after the first stage, withdrew before Wednesday's 6.8km time trial.
His RadioShack team spokesman Philippe Maertens said: "Lance is not starting because of gastroenteritis."
Armstrong had indicated after stage one that six of his team's riders in France were struggling with a stomach bug.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/cycling/8606746.stm
World 800m champion Caster Semenya has vowed to return to athletics at a meeting in Zaragoza, Spain on 24 June.
The 19-year-old has not raced since winning her world title last year, when a controversy over her gender erupted.
Semenya has agreed to wait for gender-test results to be revealed after a previous comeback in March was blocked by Athletics South Africa (ASA).
Athletics' world governing body the IAAF is expected to reveal its long-awaited findings in early June.
I'm good enough to win - Westwood
Lee Westwood insists he is ready to win his first major title after taking a share of the lead with two rounds remaining in the Masters at Augusta.
The 36-year-old Englishman is joined by compatriot Ian Poulter on eight under par, two shots clear of the field.
"I'm good enough to win a major," Westwood, who finished third at the 2008 US Open, told BBC Sport.
Poulter, also seeking a maiden major, added: "To be sitting at the top of the leaderboard was in my dreams."
Kim Clijsters made a shock early exit at the Andalucia Open in Marbella, losing to world number 258 Beatriz Garcia Vidagany of Spain in round two.
The reigning US Open champion lost the opening set but looked to have regained control when she took the second.
But Garcia Vidagany stunned the Belgian as she broke her three times in the deciding set to seal a 7-5 4-6 6-4 win.
The tournament was Clijsters' first on clay in three years following her two-year spell in retirement.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/8610487.stm
Takudzwa Ngwenya starred in a Heineken Cup quarter-final of dazzling attacking prowess as Biarritz controversially edged out the Ospreys in San Sebastian.
The wing scorched Shane Williams for a superb 70m first-half try, before Ryan Jones and Lee Byrne struck back.
A stronger Biarritz set-piece helped Ngwenya set up an Iain Balshaw try and Damien Traille land three drop-goals.
Nikki Walker's try set up a late surge, Dan Biggar missing a last-second drop goal as the Ospreys claimed a penalty
Holders Chelsea moved a step closer to the club's first Double by seeing off a stubborn Aston Villa side to reach the FA Cup final for the second successive year.
In a game largely ruined by the latest incarnation of the much-maligned Wembley pitch, Didier Drogba broke the deadlock midway through the second half before late goals by Florent Malouda and Frank Lampard made the scoreline look more emphatic than was deserved.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/fa_cup/8611094.stm
They say overnight success can take 10-20 years. The line could have been invented for Lee Westwood.
But it applies to English golf in general, still searching for a first major winner for 14 years since Nick Faldo was supposed to have inspired a generation.
Major success may be taking its time coming, but with three Englishmen in the world's top 10, and two of those - Westwood and Ian Poulter - leading the Masters at halfway, relative success is already here.
Westwood admits, only half in jest, that he has "always been a slow learner" but his is a career that could define the term "slow burner".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/robhodgetts/2010/04/england_expects.html
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To listen to the debate and comment over the last week, both here in Spain and elsewhere around the world, you might think that only two players will be on the pitch at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Saturday for the latest edition of El Clasico between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
The headlines have been dominated by Barca's amazing Argentine and his Portuguese predecessor as the World Player of the Year, who pulls on the predominantly white apparel of arch rivals Real.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philminshull/2010/04/the_other_stars_of_el_clasico.html
I have a program that I can run off a CD on many different distros but when I try it on an old Fedora6 machine it gives Permission denied, even though I'm in root and the program on the CD shows -r-xr-xr-x
It runs fine of the HD but not off the CD. I disabled SELinux. What else could it be?
http://www.linux.com/learn/answers/18-systems-management/380-why-permission-denied-running-off-cd
Hi can anyone help with where I can find a driver for an epson all-in-one printer that I wish to use on ubuntu 9.10 or for that matter on any of the main linux O.S.
PLEASE HELP AS I WISH TO PUT MICROSOFT WINDOWS OUT TO GRASS
http://www.linux.com/learn/answers/2-drivers/375-linux-driver-for-epson-all-in-one-printer-scanner
Changes impacting storage are taking place at every layer of the network architecture: Disk drives are continuing on a Moore's law-like cost/capacity curve, yet concurrently we are also seeing the growth of solid-state technology to overcome the inherent performance limitations of mechanical disk; virtualization is changing how architects think about storage, as we now have operating systems running entirely in user space within a virtual machine; and applications are choosing HTTP over FC as the preferred storage protocol.
Read more at LinuxInsider
http://www.linux.com/news/enterprise/storage/299427-next-gen-linux-file-systems-change-is-the-new-constant
Virtualization on Linux is nothing new. It's been around now more than 10 years and has advanced considerably but that doesn't mean it's simple. To the contrary, shops have a dizzying array of virtualization options to manage workloads and storage, and to reduce complexity, costs and energy usage. There's no question about whether to deploy virtualization; the real question is what virtualization solutions to look at and what workloads to virtualize. We'll help cut through the complexity and help set the options straight.
http://www.linux.com/news/technology-feature/virtualization/298564-todays-guide-to-linux-virtualization-
Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, announced today that open source industry veteran Matt Asay has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO) -- responsible for aligning strategic goals and operational activities, the optimization of day-to-day operations, and leadership of Canonical marketing and back-office functions.
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/matt-asay-coo-canonical
LONDON, March 2, 2010 – Canonical Ltd., the company behind Ubuntu, announced a program for the ISV community – including a series of webinars -- to highlight the benefits of certifying software on the the long term support version of Ubuntu 10.04.
http://www.ubuntu.com/news/isv-webinars-march-2010
The new lawsuit said Google has scanned more than 12 million books and may eventually scan the rest of the 174 million books, along with periodicals. It said Google's plans will diminish the value of pictures and art in the books, causing the photographers and artists to lose profits and opportunities and have their reputations damaged.
Groups representing photographers and artists on Wednesday accused Internet search leader Google of copyright infringement in a lawsuit that mirrors complaints book publishers and authors have made for years about the company's attempt to create the world's largest digital library.
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Photographers-and-Artists-Sue-Google/story.xhtml?story_id=0220020SLITC
Much of the Apple iPad tablet's electronics powers its touchscreen and other user-interface aspects, according to a teardown analysis conducted by research firm iSuppli. Flash memory chips were also a significant portion of the iPad's costs. Other chips in the iPad also proved more costly and more numerous than iSuppli had originally estimated.
Apple's iPad tablet computer costs as little as $259.60 to build, according to analysis by the research firm iSuppli.
Materials for the iPad, which went on sale Apr. 3, include a touchscreen display that costs $95 and a $26.80 processor designed by Apple and manufactured by Samsung Electronics, according to El Segundo [Calif.]-based iSuppli.
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Apple-iPad-Components-Cost--259/story.xhtml?story_id=022001OSCT8M
The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China says denial-of-service attacks have taken the organization's web site down. Yahoo e-mail accounts belonging to foreign journalists in China have also apparently been hacked in recent weeks, and the web site of the Hong Kong-based China Human Rights Defenders was also the victim of a cyberattack.
An organization for foreign journalists based in China has become the latest victim of cyberattacks targeting the Web sites or e-mail accounts of human rights groups and reporters focused on China.
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Another-China-Related-Cyberattack/story.xhtml?story_id=022002GSX2OI
The software in Toyota's "black boxes" is like having a car with its hood welded shut. Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst calls for more openness in autos. Given that a typical luxury car can have more than 100 million lines of software code, ways of reducing the defect rates of software are critical, as users help understand the code and find flaws.
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Why-Toyota-Should-Go-Open-Source/story.xhtml?story_id=022001ALIUT6
A new report says that a cyberspy network based in China has recovered Indian national security documents marked "secret" and "confidential," including ones referring to security in India's far northeast, which borders China. Others related to India's relationships in the Middle East. The motivation of the hackers remains unknown.
China-based hackers stole Indian national security
http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Report--Chinese-Hackers-Target-India/story.xhtml?story_id=022000RBBGFQ
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The U.S. Public Interest Research Group, the Center for Digital Democracy, and the World Privacy Forum want the Federal Trade Commission to crack down on online data collection. The said unregulated data-collection practices by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and others threaten privacy and rob consumers of the "financial benefits of their own data."
Three consumer advocacy groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the online data
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=02200255RZ5A
Despite the introduction of iAd, which could track iPhone users for advertising, Apple has made it possible for iPhone OS 4.0 users to control tracking. Arrows will alert iPhone OS 4.0 users when an app is tracking them. Apple's privacy feature in iPhone OS 4.0 may be a trend. But Apple's blocking could reduce the value of mobile advertising.
Two months ago, Apple began rejecting content for its App Store that used the iPhone's GPS capabilities to provide location data
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0220026Z9NO8
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Research In Motion is acquiring QNX Software Systems, whose open Neutrino operating system is used across many industry verticals, including autos. RIM may plan to let its BlackBerry smartphones control automotive and other functions. The QNX technology has been licensed for more than 17 million in-vehicle systems worldwide.
Research In Motion has put its buying power
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