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Archive | May, 2007
Microsoft XBox Support Doesn’t Exist
Well it’s been a whopping 6 months that I’ve had the XBox 360 HD-DVD player and it’s trashed. Turn it on today to watch a movie and the XB0x 360 doesn’t see it at all. Been on support for 55 minutes now to have a lady I can barely understand ask me every question 3 [...]
Continue reading...Firefox *IS* Bloated
17. May 2007
A lot of articles going around these last 2 weeks about Firefox being bloated. For the folks in the know, we’ve seen Firefox (from 1.1 and on) get increasingly memory hungry; taking 400mb of ram and more with only 2 tabs open and browsing for 10mins. For those of you that use a lot of plugins, [...]
Continue reading...AACS HD-DVD Copy Protection “Fix”, Cracked
17. May 2007
This is gold… the AACS sat down and revised a fix because of the master-key leak that occurred. And before the revision that “fixes” the problem is released next week, it looks like it was already cracked again. When you look at the pure frustration that copy protection brings to both consumers and distributors and then [...]
Continue reading...DreamHost Support Strategy Retarded
17. May 2007
Looks like DreamHost is asking it’s users to setup .htaccess files to block GoogleBot because the DreamHost servers can’t handle the load (since they oversell those things like crazy): According to the blog entry, customers of DreamHost are already discussing actively. That’s an interesting strategy… let’s break-it-down: Setup cheap servers Oversell them by a factor of 4 or [...]
Continue reading...Folklore
17. May 2007
Folklore looks awesome. I hadn’t seen anything about this game until the Sony media release today for their event. It looks like Pan’s Labyrinth meets Final Fantasy… or something like that.
Continue reading...Heavenly Sword
17. May 2007
Heavenly Sword I’m surprisingly excited about. When I originally saw it and it just looked like a fighter, I didn’t care all that much. But the more story that it looks like it has make me think it’s going to be very God-of-War-ey… which is A-OK in my book. It looks like a cross between God [...]
Continue reading...PAIN: Burnout Meets Humans
17. May 2007
I am not sure how to describe this other than “totally awesome fun”?
Continue reading...Completed Cracked Version of Vista Floating Around
17. May 2007
Looks like the pirate group “NoPE” has released a completely cracked install of Vista. It’s not just deferring the activation, or tricking it… it seems it’s a totally active copy of Vista that needs no activation. Updates and other system/security features all work. I actually own Windows Vista Ultimate so I haven’t tried this out, but [...]
Continue reading...Jura-Capresso Impressa S9 Avantgarde Review
16. May 2007
Note: I have had this coffee maker for about 6 months now and most of my impressions are still the same. The bottom line is the coffee is excellent, but the machine requires daily (quick) cleanup, weekly (few minutes) cleanup, longer (10 minutes) decalcification every few hundred cups of coffee cleanup and really long (1 [...]
Continue reading...Buying Beer, SNL Digital Short Style
16. May 2007
I’m sure you’ve all see this video by now, but I just loved it so here it is again:
Continue reading...The Greatest Martial Artists of Our time
16. May 2007
These could possibly be the greatest martial artists… nay… the toughest men on the planet in the whole world of earth:
Continue reading...Mitsubishi Announces More 1080p DLP Sets
15. May 2007
EngadgetHD has the scoop on the new sets Mitsubishi is releases in their 1080p DLP series. Previously the series were: 731 732 831 The new series are: 733 - 6-Color Light Engine, x.v.Color, PerfectColor, three rear HDMI 1.3 ports, and a front component input. 734 - [733 Specs Plus...] Dark Detailer, PerfecTint, DeepField Imager, SharpEdge, NetCommand, and a front HDMI port. 833 [...]
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18. May 2007
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