Archive for October 28, 2007

When Pigs Fly: A Brief History of Record Industry Suicide

For the major labels, it’s over. It’s fucking over. You’re going to burn to the fucking ground, and we’re all going to dance around the fire. And it’s your own fault. Surely, somewhere deep inside, you had to know this day was coming, right?

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AMD Goes Linux

Video card giant AMD announced the release of new Linux drivers for it’s popular line of video cards yesterday. The new drivers, Linux Catalyst 7.10, provide updates and features for desktop effects and gaming.

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Wordpress 2.3.1

Just upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress. It doesn’t seem like anything has stopped working, and let’s hope it stays that way.

PlayStation 2 turned 7 years old, yay!

Light up a cigar because the PlayStation 2 turned 7 years old yesterday!

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Some Leopard upgraders see ‘blue screen of death’

A significant number of Mac owners upgrading to Leopard on Friday reported that after installing the new operating system, their machines locked up, showing only an interminable — and very Windows-like — “blue screen of death.”

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Will Wright, Creator of The Sims, Confirms Spore For The Nintendo Wii

In an interview with The Guardian, Will Wright confirms that Spore, the god game dealing with species evolution, is being made for the Nintendo Wii. In February, executives from EA confirmed that it was being made for the Nintendo DS too. He talks a little bit about the Wii and DS, and says that he loves Advance Wars. Nice.

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Leopard Hacked! Install Leopard on your PC

Well its been only a day since the Mac OSX Leopard was released officially by Apple and the hackers have managed to create a patched DVD that everyone like you and me can use to install Leopard on PC’s without having to buy a Mac.

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Adium 2.0 Coming - With video / audio support

Version 2.0 of Adium is in the works with added video and audio support… just what everyone’s been waiting for!

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Orange Box 360 update released! (Again!)

The second Orange Box 360 update released by Valve - this time the focus is primarily on Team Fortress 2. What, exactly, have they changed?
- Reduced network bandwidth usage in multiplayer.
- Improved overall game performance.
- Arranged search results to favor preferred host conditions.

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Engadget - Leopard vs. Vista: feature chart showdown

Vista and Leopard are both extremely advanced, feature rich consumer operating systems. But way back in January when Vista launched knew we had little choice but pit the two in a head to head chartngraph Thunderdome competition. We know we’re not even going to be able to stop the epic fanboy arguments about break out over this one…

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Microsoft’s Halo 3 Sparks 100% Jump In Xbox 360 Sales

What a difference a biologically enhanced super-soldier makes. Microsoft reported Thursday that sales of its Xbox 360 video game console jumped 100% in its fiscal first quarter, thanks to the debut of Halo 3.

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How Fast is Apple OS X Leopard On Old Macs?

The minimum requirements for Apple’s OS X Leopard are an 866Ghz G4 processor and 512MB of RAM. I happen to have an aging but still nice 1Ghz Powerbook with 768MB of RAM. Loading Leopard on it should tell us just how accurate those minimum specs are.

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