Police Charge Man in Movie Camming Crackdown | TorrentFreak

Careful if you're sipping a Double Double (slang for 2 cream & 2 sugar in a Tim Horton's coffee) in a Canadian movie theater and recording the feature ;-) Eyes might be watching!

Police Charge Man in Movie Camming Crackdown | TorrentFreak

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Download details: Vista Shutdown GDR

I use Vista for work -- if you're like me, you ABHOR waiting for a system to shutdown. I'm OK with it being slightly slower than flipping a light switch but NOT 2 minutes! This fix might help out -- I'll be installing it later today.

Download details: Vista Shutdown

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Change the default Command Prompt directory

Great tip for all of us command line junkies -- set your default start path in CMD. Technically, you can run anything with this tip... maybe even launch a script or three ;-)

Change the default Command Prompt directory

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PC World - Vista's Biggest Problem Remains Windows XP, Survey Says

XP is known -- it's relatively solid and it doesn't require 2GB Ram, boat-loads of HDD and a really good video card to give you some eye-candy. Companies have also standardized on the OS over the years... Why mess with a good thing just to say you're running Vista? Linux and Mac OSX are not Vista's competitors in the business world... It's Windows XP!

PC World - Vista's Biggest Problem Remains Windows XP, Survey Says

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Valve hardware survey shows Vista slowly gaining ground with gamers

Profile of a Gamer's PC through Valve's stats. Valve is obviously famous for their Half Life franchise... they have TONS of devoted fans with bleeding edge gear... or do they? Check out this article that runs through some of the highlights and also links to the survey itself...

Valve hardware survey shows Vista slowly gaining ground with gamers

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The Vista Death Watch - Columns by PC Magazine

Excellent article from John C. Dvorak about what he feels went wrong with Vista and how Microsoft can repair the situation -- of course the article is branded with his cranky styled humor as always :-)

The Vista Death Watch - Columns by PC Magazine

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wireless.itworld.com - Apple's new phones lead to iTypos

Having recently purchased an iPod Touch -- I can say that I agree with this article. The iPod / iPhone keyboard is nice but I find it difficult to use -- I have small tree trunks for fingers.

wireless.itworld.com - Apple's new phones lead to iTypos

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Early Adopter Download Of The Day: VMWare Beta 2.0 Adds Vista, Gutsy Gibbon Support

VMWare rocks (the product and the stock ;)). Download, try and enjoy!

Early Adopter Download Of The Day: VMWare Beta 2.0 Adds Vista, Gutsy Gibbon Support

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How to: Configuring conditional window transparency in Compiz

How to setup transparent objects in Compiz -- You can get some pretty trippy effects with this type of configuration.

How to: Configuring conditional window transparency in Compiz

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Change the Source Viewer in IE, Firefox and Opera

Have your favorite text editor (post a comment if you have anything to recommend)? Want to use it to browse web page sources? Here's a good hack to mod your fav browser to use your fav editor :-)

Change the Source Viewer in IE, Firefox and Opera

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Boeing Laser Avenger - Humvee Hunts IEDs and Bombs in Tests - Popular Mechanics

Move over H2 -- here comes something MEANER!!! Pretty cool technology...

Boeing Laser Avenger - Humvee Hunts IEDs and Bombs in Tests - Popular Mechanics

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Slashdot | Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

Wal-Mart can't keep their $200 Linux machines on the shelf. Critics are giving the machine good reviews -- both from Linux noobs and l33ts alike. Ubuntu runs well on the boxes (of course) -- but don't try Vista on them...

Slashdot | Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

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Slashdot | MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX

Download a piece of computing history :-)

Slashdot | MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX

"Extraordinary news for computer scientists and the Open Source community was announced over the weekend, as the source code of the MULTICS operating system (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service), the father of UNIX and all modern OSes, has finally been opened."

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Windows 7 "top feature request list" leaked to the public

Interesting little article about some of the ideas being bounced around for the successor to Vista.

Windows 7 "top feature request list" leaked to the public

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Note to self: Always use the scientific calculator

It seems that the trusty Microsoft calculator (calc) does not respect operator precedence when in standard mode... what a pain -- do like I do -- always use the scientific mode :-). PLUS -- it's geekier!

Note to self: Always use the scientific calculator

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Today @ PC World Hacker Alleges Crack of Upcoming iPod Touch Firmware

I recently picked up an iPod Touch and I <3 it! It's an amazing product! I just wish it had more applications -- especially a Notepad-type of application. I would love to be able to make a few "Notes to self" while out and about... It looks like someone has already cracked the upcoming firmware update...

Today @ PC World Hacker Alleges Crack of Upcoming iPod Touch Firmware

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Les pirates peuvent dormir tranquilles

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is throwing up its hands at Joe User music pirates... They recognize the sheer magnitude of the issue and would rather focus their energies on the larger sites / abusers -- unlike the USA where you can get a 200K$ fine for having a few illegally obtained MP3's on your PC.

Les pirates peuvent dormir tranquilles

English Translation

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Windows Vista Team Blog : TechEd IT Forum Europe, Day 1: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

We can expect quite a few announcements this week from the TechEd IT Forum in Barcelona Spain. Looks like MDOP (Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack) has been updated + a re-branding of Softgrid to "Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5".

Windows Vista Team Blog : TechEd IT Forum Europe, Day 1: Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack

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Chocolate pudding is easy to make - Slashfood

The fall is a great time for comfort food... Pudding is up there with stew as comfort food :-) Here's a good recipe for Chocolate pudding *yummy*

Chocolate pudding is easy to make - Slashfood

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