Archive for December 9, 2006

Text Message Bomb Tool

Send a friend or foe’s cell phone a ridiculous amount of text messsages…lol.. This drives people crazy, but it’s hilarious!

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OpenSolaris on a USB Bootable drive

“BeleniX, a distro of OpenSolaris, can now boot from a USB thumb drive. A simple USB installer script is available that can dump the LiveCD contents to a USB thumb drive and make it bootable. “

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Hang on, Nintendo tells Wii gamers

NINTENDO has some cautionary advice for players of its Wii video game console: use the wrist strap, keep your palms dry and, whatever you do, don’t let go.

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DoCoMo recalls 1.3m batteries, and they’re not even Sony’s!

JAPAN’S largest mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo has announced a plan to recall some 1.3 million batteries installed in mobile phones made by Mitsubishi.

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New in GMail - “Get mail from other accounts

“Now Gmail can check for the mail you receive at your other email accounts. You can retrieve your mail (new and old) from up to five other email accounts and have them all in Gmail.” In limited release, but coming soon. Looks cool!

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Pirates Spoof Vista’s Enterprise Activation

It is being made available on several pirate Web sites and spoofs a Key Management Service server, used to activate a large number of copies of Windows Vista in enterprise environments.

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Activating Vista Enterprise Using a Spoofed Server

…uses a VMware image of a KMS server to activate — and keep activated — a pirated edition of Windows Vista Business. ‘Looks like Windows Vista Volume Activation 2.0 is a big bust,’ wrote a user identified as ‘clank’ on the PirateBay Web site Friday.

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Wii hunters bookmark this link.

Tired of Wii hunting from site to site. Stock runs out by the time you load Wii’s stock page. Check stock of major online stores (Canada and US). Hope this will help some reduce some clicks.

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Question to Mac and Apple - Is the Windows bashing necessary?

I agree that OSX is an amazing Operating System - a software wonder.However, Apple conveniently forgots to mention the following Windows is targeted at a mainstream customer base, where in the hardware is NOT an issue. A Windows copy [mite not be all the features all the time] will definitely run on any PC, as long as it maintains the requirements.

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Microsoft Vista Upgrade Raises PC Component Costs by 20 Percent, Says iSupp

Following analyst estimates for software and support costs for upgrading Microsoft Windows XP to Windows Vista Business, comes an estimate from iSuppli that PC hardware conponent costs jump about $100 in order to support the new operating system. Businesses and consumers will pay that increased cost plus any additional margin added during PC manuf

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Microsoft’s Next Social Failure and Another Missed Opportunity?

This story examines the tremendous social media opportunity which is directly in front of Microsoft and how they are/have failed to respond.

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How to get ATI Drivers working on Linux openSUSE 10.2

Since it’s launch, 2 days ago, it’s known that the new openSUSE 10.2 has problems with the ATI drivers because it includes X.org 7.2, but ATI drivers are built for X.org 7.1. This is a workaround to get 3D acceleration activated.

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