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“We went down to New York for the long weekend. Despite the 16-degree weather, we walked down to Times Square – all the bright lights lured us the ten blocks from our hotel. When we got there, we stood like, well, tourists, gaping at all the electronic billboards. And then, across the square, I saw it: the world’s largest Windows error message – on a two-story high e-billboard (I guess everything really is bigger in New York). It was the only billboard in the entire square with absolutely no movement – since the PC running it had obviously frozen.”

Source: Network World
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Only around 11 days till Ghost Recon: Advanced War Fighter comes out for Xbox 360 and still no update for COD2 Multiplayer. Good or bad? I think this is bad for COD2. For people I have chatted with when gaming, talking to friends and reading some online forums. A lot of people, like myself, will be moving to Ghost Recon: Advanced War Fighter and either using COD2 as a dust collector or selling it. I know I’ll keep it and maybe play it here and there but Ghost Recon: Advanced War Fighter is looking to look COD2 online because of many features/abilities that we can not do with COD2 and I’m sure will be able to do with Ghost Recon without a doubt because of their history and most likely the experience will be the same and probably better.

They need to send out the COD2 Multiplayer update fast if they want people to continue playing it online. It may not seem that important but really, it is. If less people are going to play it online and move to another game, the sales are going to drop in a sense as people will recommend they get GR instead of COD2. Now of course there are people that only play single player and all but even a small hit is something I think they would not want to take and actually make that little more money for their title rather than just hand it over to GR.

Come on and release the long awaited update already. At least I’ll still be able to recommend people COD2 or even both (GR+COD2) rather than just GR. I know GR is not out yet and who knows if it will have problems, doubtful because I have never experience any big problems with GR games in the past online, always been a great experience but true, I can’t say it won’t but only say it is doubtful or the experience of playing online will at least be better then COD2. With its inability to pick maps, servers, lag free games (not just hosting issues but actually lagging in the game that does not deal with your connection/or hosts at all) and so forth. Oh and even more features that would be great like private servers and ability to create your own (sort like I said before, picking your own map but with more customized settings-how many kills, how many ctfs, etc). I’ll end this here.

We are releasing the first pictures of Knoppix 4.0 running on a 17-inch iMac Core Duo. The X Window system is shown running at full resolution (rather, fuller resolution ? 1472×900 ? notice that the bottom right edge of the KDE “dock” is cut off). Most (but not all) aspects of the hardware seem to work, but we have yet to analyse exactly what doesn’t work and assess how much work it might take to get such things working.

Once we have tested the system a bit more, we will try to release a full Knoppix distribution through Bit Torrent. We also have to trawl through the kernel source and the umpteen kernel “config” files so that we can release a coherent set of patches.

Source: http://www.osxbook.com/book/bonus/misc/knoppix/

We now have Windows XP running on the Intel-based Macintosh ? as a guest operating system under the Linux version of VMware. This is quite exciting and promising, especially since the performance of Windows XP seems quite amazing (based on our limited test run so far) ? mind you, the kernel and the environment we are using experimental and unoptimized, so it would not be unreasonable to expect even better performance.

To anybody who has used Windows XP under Virtual PC on the PowerPC version of Mac OS X: you will simply be blown away by how fast Windows XP runs under VMware on the new hardware.

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Paris Hilton made a lesbian sex tape with a Playboy pin-up, it has been claimed. The hotel heiress allegedly made the “horniest videotape of all time” with Playboy beauty Nicole Lenz.

The model claims she romped with Paris – who unintentionally starred in X-rated home movie ‘One Night In Paris’ with ex-boyfriend Rick Solomon – for the camera in 2003.

The pair had checked into a £500-a-night suite at the Bellagio Hotel, in Las Vegas, after a night out partying when things allegedly got steamy.

Lenz is quoted in Britain’s News of the World newspaper as saying:

“The moment we were in the room Paris had only one thing on her mind – sex.

“We lied down on a king size bed and took it in turns to play with each other. It wasn’t long before we were naked and rolling around together.”

Lenz also claims she and Paris pleasured each other with sex toys.

She added:

“We just pleasured each other for hours, recording it all.

“Paris had brought all manner of sex toys – to make sure we didn’t miss out on anything simply because there was no man in bed with us!”

Source: Hollywood Rag

Okay, I know Infinity Ward is too blame here because their font choice sucks in Call of Duty 2. But still, I am annoyed when people call me “steveo” and not “steve” when playing matches (on xbox live-360). It bugs the hell out of me, a lot. It is not like I do not wish I would of taken mistical years ago on xbox live and not had to resort to steve0384.

Another thing, again, to all Call of Duty 2 players. DO NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT NOT HAVING A LAG-FREE MATCH. For example “I hope this match does not lag, my last 3 have.” It is not fully-infinity ward/xbox live’s fault here. True, it could be better and will be in about 5 years when they put out the next multiplayer patch that we have only been waiting months for and we will end up moving to other new multiplayer games like Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and getting rid of COD2. But it ALL depends on the HOST, the FIRST PERSON, in the LIST when you enter a pre-match/lobby game. If they do NOT have a good connection, YOU WILL LAG. What matters? Having upstream, if you have fast upstream (which you can tell by going to speed testing sites such as broadbandreports.com) and it tells you that you have good upstream, then your set to host games, if not, do NOT ever host a game, please. I have 2 internet connections, 1 cable and 1 adsl. I can host great games on the adsl and it depends on the cable connection (80kb/s upstream+) and when I say depends, meaning, peak hours or not, of course sometime between 12am-8am or even later, in the morning, it will probably be better then 4pm the afternoon.

US record-label body the RIAA and movie-industry moguls at the MPAA are attempting to argue that copying a CD to a computer for carrying on an iPod does not, and has never, constituted fair use.

A report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation says 14 organisations, including the two mentioned, have submitted a filing as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s regular review process of exemptions to provisions against tampering with technological protection measures.

This means that, in essence, all rights to copy anything are held by the copyright owner. Those rights can be sold or assigned, which is why a record label can reproduce and distribute a given musician’s songs. Since copyright holders haven’t granted specific permission to make a copy of a song, you aren’t allowed to, by the letter of the law.

Source: Macworld UK

So ridiculous… it is only a matter of time before you can be the only person listening to a particular cd unless they hold a license to that exact cd as well.

Why do I always wait to the last minute to do most of my school work? I know I am not the only one that does this and there is nothing wrong with doing it occasionally or all the time and as long as you do not do it to certain things. Forever now I seem to do all my school work at the last minute.

Now I think I do better work when I am pressured to finish it because of time, as long as I don’t wait too late to do things. I tend to push it off by saying I have time or if I do not feel like starting it or doing it all each week.

I have a project to do this weekend, I will probably end up doing it Sunday evening through night. Why? Because I work Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Then I have finals next week. I will probably wait till the last minute to study for them and for one class I may not because I already know the class pretty much by heart. The other class might have a challenging final though. This easy class and easy final for me that I am talking about is my Fundamentals of Small Systems Class which I am currently getting 96.67% as of this moment. The class I might have a challenging final in is Advanced PC Applications for Business but I am getting a 97.06% in that class so even if I do slightly bad, I should still end up getting an A for the class as well as the other. Advanced PC Apps for Business is all about working in Excel and Access and the other class covers everything about computers from monitors to input devices to operating systems and so on.

I know I can’t keep waiting till the last minute for everything and what I am doing right now is not that bad and my end results for all the classes I have been in have all been good, all A’s and 1 B out of 8? some classes taken already. Though I know for the upcoming classes I will be taken, I can not do this, especially English classes and these others might be a little more of a challenge then I have right now.

Experts at SophosLabsâ„¢, Sophos’s global network of virus, spyware and spam analysis centers, have announced the discovery of the first virus for the Apple Mac OS X platform. The virus, named OSX/Leap-A (also known as OSX/Oompa-A) spreads via instant messaging systems.

The OSX/Leap-A worm spreads via the iChat instant messaging system, forwarding itself as a file called latestpics.tgz to contacts on the infected users’ buddy list. When the latestpics.tgz archive file is opened on a computer it disguises its contents with a JPEG graphic icon in an attempt to fool people into thinking it is harmless.

The worm uses the text “oompa” as an infection marker in the resource forks of infected programs to prevent it from reinfecting the same files. “Some owners of Mac computers have held the belief that Mac OS X is incapable of harboring computer viruses, but Leap-A will leave them shellshocked, as it shows that the malware threat on Mac OS X is real,” said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. “Mac users shouldn’t think it’s okay to lie back and not worry about viruses.”

So what does this mean? Do I need to run out and get antivirus software for Mac OSX? No, you don’t. Instead, just make sure you set a password to your OSX account. Requiring you to enter a password everytime you want to install/update/etc anything on your system. So if you ever catch this virus, then happen to open it and so on, just make sure NOT to enter your admin password when asked for it to install it.

Details: OSX/Leap-A
Source: Sophos

So it seems people now a days just don’t care anymore about others or they say they do but they really do not mean it or ever show it. Don’t you hate it when people ask you for things, something, help, or whatever but do not even have time to say hi to you or how was your day? how are you doing? and so on? Not even just before they ask you for whatever but the occasionally hi, how are you doing? type of thing would be even better then just saying that before you ask someone for something. For example, every few days them coming up to you (and actually meaning it) and just having a little chat and then after a few days, when say they need something, they come up to you and ask, it wouldn’t be so bad. I can’t stand people not doing that anymore.

How about when people ask you how you are doing but really do not want to hear what you have to say or hope you do not come out and say something (which you can most the time tell, so you say “fine”, “ok”, or anything else). How about talking about something and getting interrupted by them without any apologizies and them going on and then still afterwards not even caring for a word you have to say not that they ask you to continue anyways.

Feels good to get that out… though I have so much more to that for another time.