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August 21, 2004
Today's News
Microsoft issues patch for SP2. Your dog probably saw this coming
Boy suing mom for $3.5 million for crashing into tree when he was a fetus
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Today's Links
Flash - Tony Blair's Desktop
Flash about what Tony Blair's Desktop Looks like
Game - Sweet Revenge
Fun Game where you try to get as many keys as you can before the ghosts get you
Flash - Hit me
Click on diffrent body parts to watch this guy be in pain.
Game - Moon Lander
Fun Spaceship game
Game - Jump!
A really weird game!
Posted by Jon at 01:32 AM | Comments (0)
CloneSpy 2.11
CloneSpy can help you free up hard drive space by detecting and removing duplicate files. Duplicate files can have exactly the same contents regardless of their name, date, time and location. It is able to find files that are not exactly identical, but have the same filename. Perhaps you have different versions of a file and you want to find all of them and remove the older versions. It can also find zero length files, which are files that have no content.
Posted by Jon at 01:20 AM | Comments (0)
Gmail Notifier 1.0.21.0 Beta
Gmail Notifier is a downloadable Windows application that alerts you when you have new Gmail messages. It displays an icon in your system tray to let you know if you have unread Gmail messages, and shows you their subjects, senders and snippets, all without your having to open a web browser.
Posted by Jon at 01:16 AM | Comments (0)
Doom3 unlikely for XBOX
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Xbox (news - web sites) version of "Doom 3," the long-awaited PC video game recently released to wide acclaim, is not likely to be released in 2004 dealing a blow to enthusiastic game players who are anxiously awaiting it. id Software Chief Executive Todd Hollenshead told Reuters on Friday that his company is still working on the game and will continue to do so until it has the best game for fans.
"It's probably not going to come out this year," Hollenshead said. "Back in May, we were kind of hoping we'd have a holiday launch. I'm not sure we're going to get there.
Leading game retailers show the game scheduled for a late-October release, although some have said in recent days they were uncertain it would actually come out this year.
But the PC version has gotten off to a fast start, as Hollenshead said it sold about 300,000 units in its first week on store shelves, a strong number for a PC game.
Both the PC and Xbox version are published by Activision Inc. (Nasdaq:ATVI - news)
"Doom 3," which puts players in a research facility on Mars where experiments have opened the gates to the underworld, has been in development for years. Despite the pleas of fans, id Software has steadfastly offered only one answer when asked when the game would be out: "When it's done."
The original "Doom," released in 1993, revolutionized PC gaming and made a cult idol of id Software co-founder John Carmack, who is renowned for cutting edge computer graphics.
Hollenshead said id Software has begun preliminary work on a new game, but he declined to discuss its details.
"We don't even have a name for it yet, more of just a general direction," he said.
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ATITool
ATITool is an overclocking utility designed for ATI video cards.
ATITool will only work on Windows 2000/XP/2003 (64 bit versions are supported).
Posted by Jon at 01:10 AM | Comments (0)
AVI Splitter
AVI Splitter is an easy-to-use tool for splitting a large AVI file into smaller ones. Because the program does not recompress the avi files, the audio and video of the output avi file do not have any quality loss. And the conversion speed is extremely fast. The program does not support DML AVI files.
Posted by Jon at 01:08 AM | Comments (0)
Ahhh isn't Google just great
New google "hack" --
Type "bastards" into Google and hit I'm feeling lucky... see what comes up
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Olympians Banned From Blogging
"CNN reports that in a bid to protect its lucrative media contracts, the IOC is barring competitors, coaches, and support personnel from writing firsthand accounts of their Olympic experience, on the web or in print, for the duration of the Games. Nor are they allowed to ever post photographs or movies that they've taken, including media of themselves, even after the Games are finished. They've threatened to disqualify anyone that violates their restrictions and sue them for monetary damages. Looks like an effort to clamp down on grassroots, word-of-mouth publicity for the Olympics -- good thing they're not having any problems selling tickets anyways, eh?"
(via /.)
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Today's News
Today's highway spill: 15 tonnes of eggs on German autobahn. Driver treated for shell shock
Teen decides to stand up in bed of pickup while his drunk friend drives. Darwinism ensues
Spraying bear repellent in someone's face is no way to gracefully lose an argument
If at all possible, avoid swimming with rabid otters
Today's second traffic "jam" brought to you by a truckload of jelly on I-64
When mailing 86 pounds of marijuana, make sure you get the address right
Posted by Ryan at 12:41 AM | Comments (0)
August 19, 2004
Todays Link
Game - Pie Eating ContestTry to eat the entire pie in just 15 bites!
Flash - HomeStar Runner Strongbad
The end of Strongbad?
Game - Trash Can basketball
Really Hard game where you intercept the trash and then try to get it into a trashcan
Video - Whats wrong here?
Game - Bulltime Fighting
Really awesome game where you figt matrix style
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Mommy, make it go away
The world's worst website
'This web was designed to graphically demonstrate the most common mistakes made by new Web Page designers.'
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Wacky Computer Case o' the Week: The Ball PC
A company called Directron.com has a lot of balls, and they'd like to sell you one. Their Ball PC is a, well, a PC in a ball. The perfectly round PC case opens in the center to reveal drive bays, etc.
Posted by Ryan at 12:39 PM | Comments (0)
Google goes public at $85/share
adpowers writes "It is official. Google will have its IPO debut at $85 per share. To quote the article, 'At that price, the low end of its recently revised range, Google raised $1.67 billion, with $1.2 billion to go to the No. 1 Internet search engine and $473 million to Google executives and investors selling their shares.' Trading begins Thursday, August 19th." Got Google?
I just checked on it too... It's gone up $15 since this morning...
(via /.)
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Presidential body language?
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Today's Iron Photoshop ingredient: Chopsticks
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Mozilla Releases Mozilla Sunbird 0.2
Gentu writes "Along with the new Mozilla-Japan initiative and the release of Mozilla 1.8a3 today, the Mozilla team released the first 'official' beta release of Mozilla Sunbird, version 0.2, a stand-alone calendaring application (similar to Apple's iCal). There are two flavors of this project, one that works as a ~700 KB plugin to Firefox/Thunderbird/Mozilla (titled Mozilla Calendar) and the ~8 MB stand-alone calendaring application, Mozilla Sunbird (rate the apps over at GnomeFiles.org). These builds are the first to feature a new default theme, a new logo and the customizable toolbar functionality. Note that Sunbird is still an experimental technology preview that contain bugs, but it is pretty stable."
(via /.)
Posted by Ryan at 12:33 AM | Comments (0)
Yahoo launches a blog
Yahoo has just launched a blog to tell all about their search engine technologies daily
Posted by Ryan at 12:26 AM | Comments (0)
Today's News
Dungeons and Dragons turns 30. Still living in parent's basement
Nine out of ten office workers will reveal their passwords in exchange for a cheap pen
Posted by Ryan at 12:23 AM | Comments (0)
August 18, 2004
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 1.2.1
Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) analyzes Windows systems for common security misconfigurations. MBSA includes a graphical and command line interface that can perform local or remote scans of Windows systems. MBSA runs on Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems and will scan for missing hotfixes and vulnerabilities in the following products: Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and 5.0, SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 and later, and Office 2000 and XP.
MBSA uses a version of HFNetChk to scan for missing hotfixes and service packs for Windows, IIS, and SQL Server. MBSA will create and store individual XML security reports for each computer scanned and will display the reports in the graphical user interface in HTML.
Latest Changes:
Support for Windows XP Service Pack 2 security enhancements
Clear guidance for locating updates and necessary actions
Prioritize results more easily by showing summary counts for each score
MBSA releases are available for German, Japanese, and French
The mssecure.xml file will be localized to these four languages and will be automatically downloaded and used by the tool when a German, Japanese, or French machine is scanned once they are available in the Microsoft Download Center
Alternate File Version Support
Additional Configuration Checks
Additional MBSA CLI Switches (-unicode, -nvc)
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Theme: If corporations could run for political office...
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Today's news
Woman charged with assault and battery with intent to kill. Weapon of choice -- boiling water
Men engage in "sword fight" using 2x4s inside Home Depot
Man who survived drive-by shooting unscathed just months ago not as lucky the second time
Anti-tank missile found at Georgia home
Burglary suspect evades police by drowning himself in lake
Victim made seven 911 calls before "Xbox killings" occurred
Leader of Turkmenistan, one of the hottest places on earth, decides to build an ice palace on a whim
Hollywood is out of ideas: "American Pie 4," featuring Stiffler's brother going to band camp
Former sheriff arrested twice in 24 hours. Can't get enough of jailhouse food
When the judge starts crying, you know you're going to jail for a really really long time
Woman -- all 600 pounds of her -- surgically removed from her couch
Kids play soccer with a grenade
Teenager who caused the Blaster worm pleads guilty (with oh-so-sexy pic)
Bored with screwing in light bulbs, Polish robbers steal a bridge
Dipstick carjacker can't drive stick shift. Jailarity ensues
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen somehow manages to crush a van with his private plane. With pic
Google forgets to trademark Gmail. Hilarity ensues
Man with knife threatens to attack woman who has extensive self-defense training. Hilarity ensues
Five-year-old gets on wrong schoolbus, driver doesn't care. Orders her off five miles from home
Man being chased by cops drives into lake, manages to fire up his crack pipe before nearly drowning
The other Hilton, in desperate plea for attention, pulls a Britney
NYC skateboarder falls onto red-hot manhole cover -- now she has "CON ED" branded on her bottom
In addition to being crappy, AM radio may cause leukemia
On second thought, lighting your passed-out buddy's crotch on fire may not be a funny prank
Posted by Ryan at 12:08 AM | Comments (0)
August 17, 2004
Today's News
The latest no-lifer craze is "cuddle parties:" strangers wearing pajamas pay $30 to hug each other
IBM advises employees not to install Windows update
Man claims single atom of plutonium at center of brain automatically makes him "super genius"
The good news: It wasn't a bomb. The bad news: It's not a typewriter anymore either
NASA's new 500-terabyte super computer to be ready in time for Half-Life 2
Fed raises interest rate by a quarter of a point. Pretend you understand the previous sentence
Radio station's prank on I-Hop will cost Clear Channel $24,009.18, before tip
Your desk is 400 times dirtier than your toilet
Two teens blowing up mailboxes with commercial-grade fireworks experience karma
Posted by Ryan at 07:06 AM | Comments (0)