Archive for August 15, 2007

Australia to Censor the Internet

I know there are a lot of Aussies on digg. What is your take on this? I hope the US never tries to do this.

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OSX 10.5 Leopard hacked to run on your Intel/AMD hackintosh!

Do not confuse this with tiger!!! This is a guide to install Leopard build 9A466 on your Windows computer!

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iTunes Killer!! GBox to sell DRM-free music

The way gBox is expected to work — it debuts August 21 and ends January 31, 2008 — is that the service will get referrals through ads that UMG purchases from Google at standard advertising rates.

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Leopard successfully run on non-Apple hardware [arstechnica]

Enterprising hackers have succeeded in dual booting Leopard and Vista on ordinary PC hardware. But the hack is (obviously) illegal, and not for the faint of heart.

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Microsoft exec dumped $9 million in stock prior to Red Ring announcement

Xbox President of Entertainment and Devices Robbie Bach apparently unloaded $9.2 million worth of shares right before Microsoft officially announced the Red Ring of Death issue with the Xbox 360.

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DrunkenBatman goes on racist tirade at C4 Mac dev conference

At the C4 Mac developer conference this weekend, Drunken Batman got on stage to discuss why black people don’t use Macs. To quote some of the conference attendees, ‘SOMEONE NEEDS TO STOP THIS ASS!’ and ‘this warrants a walkout’.

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The 10 Commandments for New Linux Users

Title pretty much says it all.

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Possible PS3 exploit in the works

Veterans of the PSP homebrew scene will no doubt cheer when they hear this piece of news. Recalling a bit of PSP history, a group called Team PS3HAX has discovered a potential TIF exploit on the Playstation 3 that may allow for the execution of unsigned code and game backups.

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“You Dumb F*ck”: Uwe Boll responds to Wired’s review of Postal movie

Uwe Boll, director of the upcoming movie based on the Postal game series, has some less-than-kind words for a Wired blogger who didn’t enjoy his latest film.

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Linux Command-Line Cheat Sheet

This article is reprinted from The Official Ubuntu Book by Benjamin Mako Hill and Jono Bacon, with permission of publisher Prentice Hall Professional, copyright 2007, all rights reserved. While instructions are specific for Ubuntu Linux, most commands will work with other Linux distros.

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TUAW Tip: Crack open the monolithic iPhoto ‘08 Library

hopefully a kickstart to getting Apple to recognize how hard this makes keeping two concurrent libraries mirrored.

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Over 1,700 Arcade Manuals in PDF Format!

This is over three gigabytes of manuals, schematics, and general information about arcade machines, scanned in by an anonymous army of dedicated people, and going back up to 30 years.

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