Portal is free on Steam, get yours before September 20.

It's still the same game from '07, but with Achievements, and a new ending. Oh, and a Mac version too.

Touchpad at $99 / $149 for 16/32GB.

If someone ever ports Android to it, could be the best deal ever!

Heh, whaddya know. PCs can also fail from badly cooled chipsets. A quick google for Northbridge Fan Failure reveals 51,000 hits. Make that 51,001.

What happens when the fan fails on the northbridge chipset? Funny things. The sound and i/o goes bad, bus writes gets lost. etc... Why do they insist on putting the crappiest fans in hardware.

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This is a cautionary tale about the perils of commerce.

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I was hoping to create an epic blog about the challenges and hurdles of installing an external drive on the Scientific Atlanta 8300HD PVR in use by most Canadian cable providers. Read more

Got this Bédé from the library, here's a short animated version. Funny.

I've taken a quick n dirty handheld cam movie, here it is:
http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=b7f6f4e7...

Another adventure in homebrew - iPod Touch 2G now jailbroken

redsn0w 0.1beta review

Jailbreaking is not  for the faint of heart.You have to be prepared for the possibility of bricking your shiny toy. Performing the operation takes about half an hour, and involves lots of cold sweat and nervous waiting. Read more

Nintendo release System 4.0 for the Wii

The continuing story of Wii Homebrew

Finally, a significant improvement to the Wii OS: the ability to transfer all WiiWare DLC from the internal memory to a mounted SD card and support for SDHC up to 32GB. This had been the biggest weakness of the Wii - all the WiiWare had to be stored on the internal memory (512MB). Read more

The history of homebrew on the Wii

Chapter 0 - {root@wii}#

It all started back before the Wii was released with some people trying to get a Linux distro going on the GameCube.  Since the Wii is effectively a 2X speed Gamecube with USB, an SD card reader and Bluetooth connectivity, the groups redirected their efforts on the Wii.

THe first major breakthru came from Team Twiizers which discovered a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Zelda Twilight Princess game.  It involved setting the horse's name to an invalid value, Read more

From: Eggman
Date: March 15, 2009  21:52   

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Got to see the shuttle launch from the front door of our hotel in Orlando.
I took a few shots of the exhaust trails - but somehow I forgot to use the movie camera.  Grrrr.

Took this one with the phone and sent it with the phone (this is a computer - free vacation for me... Well, except for the phone.)
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Here's a flash from the past. Commander Rick interviews Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Lots of insight into the comic book and hints at what to watch in the movie.
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Funny thing happened this morning. Google broke the internets. EVERY Google search was tagging every hit as potentially harmful. I was thinking-- FINALLY, they tell it like it is.

Then it occurred to me they may not have meant it.

Of course, a few hours later, it was fixed, and of course Slashdot and every other aggregator out there was reporting on it. Read more

My favorite button-masher of all time . . .

I want to make a nice review like BlackWalt...

Tombstone data: Read more