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|  | | news that bubbles |  | |  Unofficial SP3 patch highlights MS plans An unofficial preview pack containing what purports to be Windows XP Service Pack 3 has been uploaded to The Hotfix web site. The Hotfix is an independently-run site that specializes in downloads and discussions of Windows patches and bug fixes.
Although this patch is basicly a large amount of hotfixes loaded into one update, it reflects part of what the final SP3 will probably look like, which will update XP to make it function more like Vista. Not included in the patch, but most likely will be in the offical release, are the new Internet Explorer and Media Player.
Since hard drive formats are not bloated enough, Microsoft is spending extra time on the new WinFS which is to be released as another patch some time after Vista rears its ugly head.
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 Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by neuroelectronic in Software / Coding on Saturday October 08 2005 - 10:35:36  
Redneck Confused by the Term \"Lucky\" Darren Williams, 34, of Wrexham was on a fishing trip when he discovered his new "lucky" object.
"I was fishing when the line got snagged on something and as I pulled it, I just felt something hit me on the face and knock me to the floor," said Mr Williams. To be honest, I didn't know what had happened, but when I put my hands to my face they were covered in blood. But my mates ran over to me and they could see the tip of the weight sticking out of my eye socket".
The weight had shattered his cheakbone and slid into his eye socket. He is keeping the weight as a souvenir after doctors remove it from his thick skull.
"It's my lucky weight now. I will carry it around with me," said Mr Williams.
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Comments: 2 | Trackback: 0 | posted by neuroelectronic in Weird on Saturday October 08 2005 - 09:39:03
Sony Loses PlayStation Copyright Case in Australia "After a four-year court battle, the High Court of Australia on Thursday ruled unanimously against Sony in a PlayStation copyright case. The court decreed that modifying Sony PlayStation consoles so they can play overseas versions of the company's games did not violate Australian copyright laws. In 2001, Sony had brought an action for copyright infringement against Eddy Stevens, whose Australian business modifies and repairs PlayStation console equipment."
Mod Chips Not Illegal
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Comments: 2 | Trackback: 0 | posted by srafx in News on Friday October 07 2005 - 17:10:20
iPod Subway Maps You can now upload subway maps to your iPod Nano. This is very useful if you live in the city. As in right now there are maps for the following cities:
Berlin, Germany; Bilbao, Spain; Boston, MA; Hong Kong; London, UK; Los Angeles, CA; Lyon, France; Melbourne, Australia; Milan, Italy; Montreal, QC; New York, NY; Paris, France; Philadelphia, PA; Salt Lake City; San Diego, CA; San Francisco, CA; Seoul, Korea; Singapore; Tokyo, Japan; Toronto, ON; Vancouver, BC; Washington DC
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Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by srafx in Technology on Friday October 07 2005 - 05:45:00
The Ultimate Mouse Logitech recently announced the Logitech G7 Cordless Laser Mouse. It's main features are Laser Tracking, 2000 dpi and a USB connection that sends a blazing 500 reports/second* over 2.4 GHz wireless for a bulletproof connection. The G7 mouse cost $99.99 U.S and will be available in the U.S. and in Europe in September. It's perfect for Gamers!
Dead batteries won´t stop you mid-mission, thanks to a five-level power indicator and twin “hot-swappable” Li-ion battery packs that recharge while you´re racking up points. Use Logitech´s SetPoint software to customize your mouse with advanced features such as game detection and adjustable sensitivity (including independent x- and y-axis settings). The programmable tilt wheel adds an unprecedented level of control and gaming power.
 
Comments: 3 | Trackback: 0 | posted by Rowdy in Hardware on Wednesday October 05 2005 - 16:38:36
Musicians tell how to beat system NEW YORK (Billboard) -- Major labels Sony BMG and EMI are releasing more and more new CDs that block fans from dragging their tunes to iPods.
Now, in the most bizarre turn yet in the record industry's piracy struggles, stars Dave Matthews Band, Foo Fighters and Switchfoot -- and even Sony BMG, when the label gets complaints -- are telling fans how they can beat the system.
Sony BMG Music Entertainment now regularly releases its new U.S. titles on CDs protected with digital rights management (DRM) that dictates which file formats consumers can use to digitally copy the music. MP3 is not one of those formats. The DRM also limits how many copies of the files consumers can make.
EMI Music is testing a similar initiative for wide-scale use by 2006.
Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by Rowdy in Music on Wednesday October 05 2005 - 16:01:07
RIAA Being Counter Sued RIAA is being sued by a 42 year old woman, Who RIAA claims was downloding gangsta rap at 4 in the am. The report states that RIAA is employing a Company called "Media Sentry" To Trace your IP and "Hack" your pc to find illegal files on your pc from downloading music.....
Full Article is here......
FIGHT THE RIAA. THEY ARE SNOOPING AND NEED TO LEAVE IT ALONE...
Multi Billionare record indursty sueing a lady on false Pretenses'
[Submitted by TeeDawg]
Comments: 1 | Trackback: 0 | posted by srafx in Music on Tuesday October 04 2005 - 11:43:20
Microsoft Office 12's Radical New Look "Down in Los Angeles, Microsoft is holding its annual PDC conference for software developers, led off by a keynote by Bill Gates. Among the things that he's slated to show off is the user interface of the next version of Microsoft Office. We got a sneak peek at it yesterday--and much to our surprise, it's a radical departure, not just from Office 2003 and all previous versions, but from the basic look and feel that most Windows applications have had for as long as there's been a Windows.
How much of a departure? Here are some of the new elements in the suite upgrade, due next year and codenamed Office 12 (actual product name TBD--wonder if it'll be "Office Vista?"). "
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Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by srafx in Software / Coding on Sunday October 02 2005 - 06:46:50
Google bids to provide WiFi in San Fran "Google Inc. wants to connect all of San Francisco to the Internet with a free wireless service, creating a springboard for the online search engine leader to leap into the telecommunications industry.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company filed an application late Friday to provide wireless, or "WiFi," service that would enable anyone in San Francisco to connect to the Internet."
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Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by srafx in Technology on Saturday October 01 2005 - 16:58:51
F.E.A.R. Multiplayer Demo If first person shooters were a stock market, I'd put all my money into F.E.A.R. The single player demo is very detailed and makes my 6800 crawl. Just imagine if you played any other FPS on shrooms and that is what F.E.A.R. is like sober. You can feel your player's every step, and when you click in bullet time, well.. that's what I'd imagine taking a hit of digital meth would be like.
I recomend trying the single player demo first, which is a bit larger, so you are properly introduced to the game. If i recall correctly it takes about 1.5Gb once installed for a single level demo. I'm sure the retail version will be massive. You can get both at this link.
Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by neuroelectronic in Video Games on Friday September 30 2005 - 05:55:31
Procrastination is Depressing This is a helpfull article about a easy way to overcome the anxiety of sitting on your ass when there is work to be done . The method is called the "dash" and basicly it just involves doing a little bit just to get the project off the ground.
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Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by neuroelectronic in FYI on Thursday September 29 2005 - 14:03:55
Korean Dies After Video Gaming session Quote "The 28-year-old man collapsed after playing the game Starcraft at an internet cafe in the city of Taegu, according to South Korean authorities.
The man had not slept properly, and had eaten very little during his marathon session, said police.
Multi-player gaming in South Korea is extremely popular thanks to its fast and widespread broadband network.
Games are televised and professional players are treated, as well as paid, like sports stars.
Professional gamers there attract huge sums in sponsorship and can make more than $100,000 a year. Read More
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Comments: 1 | Trackback: 1 | posted by srafx in Video Games on Wednesday September 28 2005 - 13:05:00
Hardcore smut going mobile? If you’re looking to spice up your morning commute, how about a little hardcore? Imagine: one mocha chai latte, one copy of the Times—and, provided you own a portable media player, one X-rated rendezvous with Jenna Jameson as “The Masseuse."
Not your bag? Well, like it or not, pornographic films are about to elbow their way out of the boudoir and onto the bus. In the next few weeks, Japanese adult-DVD makers H.M.P. and GLAY'z will release eight of their top-selling hardcore titles on Sony’s Universal Media Discs—the 2¼-inch, plastic-encased “DVDs” designed for exclusive use with their hot new PlayStation Portable device. Teen boys of the world, rejoice: blue movies are going mobile.
Sure, it’s long been easy to steam up a small screen with skin flicks—the latest DVD viewers are low-priced and only marginally larger than DVDs themselves. And others have already put porn on the PSP. In April, the Playboy Web site posted pics and video tailored to the device, and tech-savvy pornophiles have relied on other sites or programs like iPSP to transfer video clips from PCs to PSP-ready memory sticks ever since the player first hit U.S. stores in March. But this is a whole new ballgame: with next week’s Japanese launch, “portaporn” steps out of the on-deck circle and into the batter’s box. Sony is betting big bucks that the PSP will do for on-the-go movies what the iPod did for MP3s—and that consumers will choose to make their Universal Media Discs, well, universal. If tech history is any guide, porn could seal the deal. New formats almost always rely on adult entertainment to propel sales. Companies selling smut were the first to strike gold on the Web. CD-ROMs and satellite TV both received early boosts from erotic content, and, thanks to their scene-skipping abilities, DVDs got hot in sex shops before making the leap to Wal-Mart. "Portable porn is the Next Big Thing in adult entertainment," says Regina Lynn, Wired.com's "Sex Drive" columnist and author of "The Sexual Revolution 2.0," out in August. "I’m convinced that this will succeed."
[Submitted by Ozone]
Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by srafx in Technology on Wednesday September 28 2005 - 13:04:20
Absinthe.
In ancient times, Hippocrates recommended absinthe for jaundice and rheumatism. The first modern usage of Wormwood extract, according to lore, was as an elixir for flatulence in the Middle Ages. Later on (1792 to be precise), Dr. Pierre Ordinaire became the first to extoll the virtues of a commercial brand called Absinthe Suisse. It was in 1797 that Henri-Louis Pernod opened the first of his distilleries, happily enough, producing Absinthe in Switzerland and in France. The Czechs have been making high-quality Absinthe for centuries.
During the 1840's the French Foriegn Legion was spurred on to combat with liberal doses of Absinthe during the Algerian campaigns, perhaps using it to combat the malaria as well. Absinthe became hugely popular in France about this time. In 1859 Manet painted the "Absinthe Drinker," and he met Baudelaire, presumably over a glass of Absinthe. In 1876 Degas painted his famous "Absinthe." In 1878 over 7 million liters of the stuff were imported into the puritanical United States!!! Our friend Vincent Van Gogh became one of Absinthe's first casualties, when he cut off part of his ear, after drinking way too much of the stuff with his friend Paul Gaugin. You can not blame the Absinthe entirely, as Van Gogh was also known to eat his oil paints and drink turpentine, and was known to be psychotic and self-destructive.
Why did Absinthe become so hugely popular at that time? Well, it has been said that Absinthe rose to popularity after a decades long phylloxera blight in the French vineyards. This made wine not only expensive, but very scarce. In those days wine was drunk instead of or mixed with water, as water was loaded with enough bateria to make people sick. So wine was mixed with water, and Absinthe as well, to purify the water.
During the late 1800's the Green Fairy (absinthe) was being consumed with such glee by the Parisians that the cocktail hour we know as "Happy Hour" was called "L'Heure Verte" (The Green Hour). Among the-in crowd then were Oscar Wilde, Ernest Dowson, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Alistair Crowley, and Charles Baudelaire.
In the early 1900's the tide turned for the popularity of Absinthe, even though Picasso immortalized it with two pieces - The Absinthe Drinker, and Woman Drinking Absinthe. During the early 1900's several celebrity murders were attributed to the workings of the Green Fairy, perhaps becasue the thujon content was seven or eight times what is allowed in today's Absinthe drinks.
In 1901 the Absinthe plant owned and operated by Pernod in Belgium caught fire and blazed for four days before they could put it out. Four years later it was banned in Belgium, and in 1908 it was officially outlawed in Switzerland. The French however, continued their binge until 1915, three years after the United States made it illegal. In 1910 the French made 36 million liters of the stuff for domestic consumption. That is equal to the amount of French Champagne imported to the United States during the year 1986. It was never officially outlawed in Spain, Czech Republic and Britain, so it is now available from many small specialty distilleries.
Artemisia absinthium was used for centuries as a vermifuge and digestive aid. And the active ingredient or essential oil in A. Absinthium is alpha-thujone, which occurs in other things naturally besides wormwood. It is also found in the essential oils of the culinary herbs sage, tansy, and tarragon. In 1990 the scientific community finally recognized that Wormwood extract is as good as chloroqine for the treatment of Malaria.
Scientifically, "the active ingredient in wormwood's oils, alpha-thujone, has a similar molecular structure to menthol, a-pinene, eucalyptol, camphor and other monoterpenes. Formerly believed to have a THC (cannabinoid) structure-activity relationship and mechanism, a-thujone is now shown to modulate only an entirely different receptor site, the GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) system. GABA moderates the firing of neural synapses; a-thujone mildly antagonizes such inhibition. " (With thanks to Don Walsh, scientist)
Mr. Walsh also states that: "a-Thujone meanwhile is an important component in salves, perfumes, creams, etc. usually as a counter-irritant. The familiar Vicks Vap-O-Rub one's mother rubs on their chest for relief from a cold contains thujone and other terpenes. So does Absorbine Jr. The anti-insect and preservative properties of white cedar used for clothes chests is due to the thujone in the wood; the classical name for white cedar is Thuja, whence the terpene gets its name. Van Gogh's doctor sentimentally planted a thuja tree at Vincent's grave."
Also, vermouth, chartreuse, and benedictine all have small amounts of thujone in them. Vermouth, which is made using Wormwood flowers, takes its name from the german "wermuth" ("wormwood").
And there you have the facts, now the truth is out, and Absinthe is wonderful in moderate quanitites like any other drug. It was commonly served with a special spoon with perforations, that fits over a special glass. The glass would usually hold one fifth Absinthe liquid, with a sugar cube placed on the spoon above it. The French would dribble water (up to four parts water to one part Absinthe) over the sugar, which would melt slowly into the liquid below.
In Prague, center of European culture that it is, Absinthe has been consumed with glee by various thinkers, poets, writers, composers and more. Many places around Prague will serve you a taste of the "green Fairy" and of course it is readily available for sale just about everywhere.
A special thing to do is light the absinthe after pouring it straight over a sugar cube, and then adding a small portion of water to the glass before tossing it down.
Absinthe is readily available in the Czech Republic, with several brands worthy of merit. Hill's, Havel's, The Green Fairy, Absinthe Original, Absinthe King (with Vincent Van Gogh's portrait on the label - very pricey) and Absinthe Pilsner Lor are all available for a reasonable price in the Czech Republic. Some brands tout the highest level of thujone allowed. These are usually more expensive.
At this time U.S. Customs is making no efforts to stop the importation of small amounts of Absinthe into the country for personal use. The European Union has issued a standard of purity for the stuff, dictating acceptable levels of thujon and wormwood
Comments: 0 | Trackback: 0 | posted by KulleKulle in Drugs on Wednesday September 28 2005 - 08:04:46
Bus Caught Fire After it was First Taken out of Service On Sept. 24 in Houston Texas a Federal investigators on Saturday were poring over the skeletal frame of the charred bus in which 24 residents of a living center for the elderly had died while trying to escape from Hurricane Rita. As they looked into the fire, fresh details were emerging about the vehicle and the company that operated it. A simple memorial Saturday marked the place on Interstate 45 in Texas where 24 evacuees died when a bus caught fire. The bus, run by Global Limo of McAllen, Texas, burst into flames and exploded on the side of Interstate 45 early Friday morning. It was carrying 38 frail residents of the Brighton Gardens home in Bellaire, Texas, away from the expected path of Hurricane Rita to another facility in Dallas.
Read more Comments: 0 | Trackback: 1 | posted by srafx in News on Sunday September 25 2005 - 06:05:35
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