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Archive for October 13th, 2007

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

The recent Blackwater shootings in Iraq just hang around in the news, don’t they?
Crazy business move, maybe? Retailers are cutting prices in hopes of stimulating sales to stave off a retail slump. Whoever heard of such supply and demand manipulations?
HD-DVD maker claims their tech leads next-gen video disc war. Look for similar claim in the near future from BluRay camp. Consumer is the only clear loser in the war
Steve Ballmer in support of the less usable than XP end-product of Vista, touts improved security and functionality for IT
For less than $2000, you can get a Dream Arcade 4-player cocktail home arcade with 145 classic games (via Engadget)
Gizmodo has a hall-of-shame gallery of gadgets with preposterous claims for audio improvements

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

One of my favorite games ever is TrackMania, but due to oppressive copy-protection, I don’t play it any more. Thankfully, the open source world has come up with a free alternative in ManiaDrive
A collection of books to help you make the move to Linux on the desktop
And for those of you already using Linux, have a look at Quanta for a web development platform that is heavily invested in the FOSS community
New Scientist - What it feels like to die (via boingboing)
Internet2 looks to be moving on up to the big time in the near future - infrastructure improvements are completed for supporting 100 Gbps capacity
~~Another spammer found dead. Believed by many to be a Russian mob hit~~ - This story is now considered to be a hoax