Archive for August 26, 2007

Does the glossy screen of the new iMac suck?

There’s a lot of buzz online about the glossy LCD screen on the new generation of iMacs, called the Aluminum iMac. Some people love it and some hate it. However, its new glossy screen may have a deeper meaning in Apple’s positioning for consumer, business and professional systems.

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Top 20 Things We Want in the Dead Rising Sequel

Dead Rising sold over a million copies worldwide and became one of the staple buys for adopters of the Xbox 360. Not if but when it gets announced, here are the top 20 features we would like to see in the sequel. :O

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Government’s new $84 million internet porn filter HACKED in minutes by kid

A MELBOURNE schoolboy has cracked the Federal Government’s new $84 million internet porn filter in minutes.

Tom Wood, 16, said it took him just over 30 minutes to bypass the Government’s filter, released on Tuesday.

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Ubuntu 30-Mount Check Annoyance

How to fix the annoying filesystem check every 30 mounts with Ubuntu.

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Truth Happens | Dance on the grave of DRM with this awesome cartoon requiem

Bird Song: A requiem for DRM. Brought to you by Red Hat.

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How Pirate Bay Became Hollywood’s No.1 Enemy

Operating under the sign of a Jolly Roger, The Pirate Bay website hopes to evoke a buccaneer spirit: swashbuckling swordsmen, or perhaps the pirate radio stations of the 1960s. But as the internet’s number one destination for illegal downloads, it has elevated its founders to the top of Hollywood’s most wanted list.

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The Chinese want to buy Seagate, and the U.S. Govt is worried for a reason

A Chinese technology company has expressed interest in buying a maker of computer disk drives in the United States, raising concerns among American government officials about the risks to national security in transferring high technology to China.

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First hands-on preview of Haze

Bit-Tech had the chance to go hands-on with Haze in a world-exclusive at Free Radical Design’s HQ. They spill the beans on what could be the first must-have title for PlayStation 3.

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Google’s Newest Data Center [Pics]

Massive air-cooling systems rise above two data center buildings, which are so close to The Dalles’ dam you can almost hear the water roar. An industrial-strength power grid connects the dam to Google’s energy-sucking, heat-spewing Linux servers.

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Apple Seeds Mac OS X Leopard (9A527/9A528a)

Apple appears to be accelerating seeds of Mac OS X Leopard to developers. After only 5 days since the last seed (9A500n), Apple has issued a new version of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard to developers.

The latest seed is listed at build 9A527 (client) and 9A528a (server), and reportedly list a number of …

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Anime Distributor Has No Legal Right to Threaten BitTorrent Users

A company that tracked thousands of users sharing anime via BitTorrent has lost its legal battle to force an ISP to reveal its customer’s details. The company would’ve used the information to demand $3,500 in compensation from each person they tracked - a plan which now lies in ruins.

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BioShock Installs Rootkit, Including Demo

BioShock installs a rootkit on your computer system, which is also included with the demo.

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