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The Chaser's War on Everything is taking their marketing to the extreme with a live webcast. Direct link here. You can call the guy on the webcast and some OCAU members were calling him to plug OCAU. If you saw my last thread about The Chaser, you'll know that they recently bought the world's cheapest billboards in Iraq, Estonia, India and Iceland to promote their new season. On these billboards was a web address, and when you visited it you were told that the countdown to The Chaser starts soon. A little cryptic and strange. Well, yesterday the countdown to The Chaser launched, and this poo poo has to be seen to be believed. This is a real live countdown - not just some numbers ticking away, but for the next two weeks people will be sitting in front of a camera in two hour shifts, reading an auto-cue over and over that says how long there is to go until The Chaser returns.
Phoronix has posted a visual history of Ubuntu. While Debian has been around for over a decade, Gentoo for five years, and Mandriva/Mandrake for nearly nine years, in less than three years of existence Ubuntu has received the most attention and generated the greatest amount of publicity in the Linux limelight. Why is that? In this article we will be taking a look back at all of the Ubuntu releases to date and exploring how this Linux distribution has evolved so quickly over its short lifespan.
According to several Nvidia partners the Geforce 8800 Ultra is set to be released with the 8600. According to several of NVIDIA’s partners, NVIDIA is planning to release their GeForce 8800 Ultra together with the soon to be released GeForce 8600 series. The word in the halls is saying that NVIDIA is planning to release several GPU’s on the same day. The 8300 GS, 8400 GS, 8500 GT, 8600 GT, 8600 GTS and the new ‘monster’, the 8800 Ultra. According to the same sources, the GeForce 8800 Ultra will be an overclocked version of the 8800 GTX aimed to deal with the upcoming threat from ATI’s R600.
PCMech have posted an article about working more efficiently in Microsoft Outlook. Although small businesses seem to be gravitating towards web based e-mail, such as Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo! Mail, good old Microsoft Outlook still has a faithful following among those who want offline access to their e-mail. This week I have a few tips for exploiting Outlook’s features for working more efficiently.
Stickykeys in Windows and Vista could lead to a backdoor venerability says a researcher from McAfee. Vinoo Thomas, who works as a researcher at anti-virus company McAfee said that the StickyKeys function in Windows XP and Vista that allows users to type key combinations without having to hold keys down simultaneously could let hackers bypass the Windows login system. "Windows Vista does not check the integrity of the file that launches StickyKeys 'c:/windows/system32/sethc.exe' before executing it," said Thomas. "Which means you could replace it with another executable and run it by depressing the shift key five times."
Futurelooks has posted an article about 15 Firefox extensions useful to bloggers. So you’ve decided to start a blog. You’ve got something to say, people who will listen and the web as your slate. All of the initial work is out the way: you’ve chosen and registered a domain name, you’ve found a hosting company with a reasonably priced plan and, ideally, secure shell access. The research on AdSense is complete; you’ve eagerly signed up so you can not only say what you want to say but make some extra cash while saying it. The chair is comfortable, the coffee is hot and you are ready to go!
Irvo sent in this article about MSI who have revealed some secrets about DX 10. AMD PR FOLK were yesterday caught asking hacks whether it was true that MSI has revealed RV610 and RV630 chips, and we can now say that the answer is yes. But, MSI didn't stop there. The company is openly showing Nvidia GeForce 8600GT and 8500GT, so MSI is the only one on the block that is showing every board that will hit the streets in April and May.
Todays timewaster is from Matt who sent in Pandemic EOM where you play as a virus trying to wipe out the population.
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