Monthly Archives: July 2005

Windows Vista and IE7 Beta 1 on Bit Torrent

Following yesterdays release to MSDN Univeral subscribers, Bit Torrent trackers have started to list the new Microsoft products. File sizes are 2.4Gb and 10Mb respectively.

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Episode 15 of TWiT

This Week in Tech
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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Roger Chang, David Prager, John C. Dvorak, Steve Gibson.
Special Guest: Opera founder and CEO Jon van Tetzner
Special Drop-In Guest: Kevin Rose
Patrick and Robert are on vacation.
Running time: 01:25:03
Topics Covered

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DOOM Movie Trailer

New video game to movie adaptation starring The Rock, if its half as good as the video games it should rock!
DOOM Movie Trailer

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RPGfilms.net Shutdown

Those asshats fine folks at the RIAA started shutting down websites that feature user made video clips. A popular program FRAPS allows video games to be recorded to a video file. These files are then imported in Windows Movie Maker for editing and adding some background music. The folks at the RIAA, who seem to [...]

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Dane Cook – RETALIATION

From the fan club email:

TUESDAY JULY 26, 2005
-The wait is over. My RETALIATION CDx2/DVD hits store shelves nationwide! I wanted you all to have tons of new material to laugh at and quote, and I hope this seriously rocks your skull.
-The all new DANECOOK.com website makes its debut, with a much more streamlined look [...]

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Voltron gets Movie Treatment

Seems that timeless classic Voltron is getting its 15 minutes of movie fame. Did anyone else realize that most the cartoon was repeated every episode? I mean the did a recap, showed the bad guy, tried to fight him solo, then formed voltron and did the “special” attack. I mean most of the footage was [...]

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New iBooks Out Today

The 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 iBook, weighing just 4.9 pounds, has a suggested retail price of $999 (US) and includes:
# a 12.1-inch (diagonal) active-matrix TFT display;
# 512MB DDR SDRAM expandable to up to 1.5GB maximum memory;
# a 40GB Ultra ATA hard drive;
# AirPort Extreme 54 Mbps 802.11g WiFi wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
# two USB [...]

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World of Warcraft Extended Maintenance

“The following list of realms will be taken down tomorrow for a period of twenty-four hours starting at 5:00AM PDT. We realize that this is inconvenient; however, this downtime is necessary to address the recent issues adversely affecting performance for players on these realms. All World of Warcraft players on these realms will receive a [...]

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Wedding Crashers

Many of you might not know this, but I have a small part in the movie Wedding Crashers. My friend Matt J Cook, who also has a small part managed to secure this small clip of the scenes that we are in. You can see the trailer here.

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Center Me

I centered the site today, enjoy it! In fact relish in the subtleness of it all. I rather enjoyed the left-alignment, however on my work monitor (a 21″ LCD behemoth) I had to turn my head at an akward angle to see the content.

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