Forbes: PirateBay Raid Won't Stop Piracy
Instead pirates will get more private and use new tools.
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Thursday, June 01, 2006
Ubuntu Dapper Review
"To sum up my experience with Ubuntu's Dapper I will say that it is easily the most impressive Linux distribution I have used to date. The combination of speed, stability, ease of use and the excellant apt-get package manager, makes it the Linux distro to beat."
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First Intel Conroe 2 Extreme Benchmark tests
These are some of the first Intel Conroe 2 Extreme Benchmark tests to hit the net, and they look beastly.
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Moore: Gamers Don't Care About Backward Compatibility
In an interview with Kikizo, Peter Moore got a little chest-thumpy and started talking about how gamers don't really care about backwards compatibility. Then he says that Msoft "under promised and over delivered" on the Xbox 360's Backwards Compatibility.
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Google Web Accelerator
I ran into this while searching on google, it seems they are now releasing a web accelerator that is supposed to speed up pages for Broadband Users. Its currently a Google Labs product, though many google products are in a sense in perpetual beta, so it could have bugs. I've not personally tried it, but it's worth a look. It even works with Firefox.
Google Web Accelerator is...
• Designed for Broadband – Web pages load even more quickly on DSL and cable connections
• Easy to use – Simply install and enjoy faster web browsing in seconds
Teenage boy blows up the house with deodorant
...And that caused a can of Sure deodorant to explode with such force that it not only blew out windows but cracked a wall and even, briefly, lifted the roof off the bungalow.OMG, I knew that deoderant was flammable if you put a flame near it, but that must of been an extreme ammount of deoderant to cause THAT!
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Apple Named Hardware Company of the Year by PC World Magazine
PC World magazine on Wednesday issued its 2006 Hardware Company of the Year award to Apple, which had five products land on its list of the 100 Best Products of 2006: the iPod nano (#4), Boot Camp (#10), the Mac mini (#35), the iPod (#36), and iTunes (#43).
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Half Life 2: Episode one Released
Valve have now released the first half life 2 expantion, HL2:EP1, Playable on steam NOW
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ThePirateBay closed on order from the White House
US Government ordered the close down of PirateBay according to Swedish television. The request came originally from US Government and ultimatley MPAA.
The Swedish police then acted on direct order from the Swedish government, even though the police knew that they didn't have the law on their side.
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How Sony Failed to Connect, Again
Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions gathered for an unusual meeting in the tiny Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters of digital media start-up Kinoma.
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ThePirateBay Strikes Back
MPA, IFPI and AntipiratbyrĂ¥n jubilation proves impotent, as ThePirateBay.org prepares its return.
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25+ tips to get started with Dapper
Ubuntu 6.06 is here! Get started with over 25 tips to tweak, personalize and otherwise polish the diamond that is Dapper Drake. Tips include installing multimedia codecs, adding extra repositories, adding a Windows-like "Start" button, and much more!
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Best Buy sells couples hard drive - turns up in Chicago flea market
Henry Gerbus said Best Buy assured him the computer's old hard drive -- loaded with personal information -- would be destroyed.
"They said rest assured. They drill holes in it so it's useless," said Gerbus. That wasn't the case.
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Wall Street says sell your Sony stock
Ok, it's an upgrade from their previous advice of 'Strong Sell,' but it's interesting to note the phrase "a lack of visibility in Sony's games division."
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Nice gallery of real castles for sale around the world
For the same price as a 2 bedroom apartment in San Francisco you can get something that would house an army and possibly did.
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How to: Make a Vacuum Cannon
Make a simple cannon out of some tube and a vacuum cleaner.
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Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes Electricity
University of Birmingham microbiologists have found a bacterium that excretes electricity-generating hydrogen when fed sugar, and have made electricity from waste chocolate headed for the landfill.
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Bacteria Eats Chocolate And Excretes Electricity
University of Birmingham microbiologists have found a bacterium that excretes electricity-generating hydrogen when fed sugar, and have made electricity from waste chocolate headed for the landfill.
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