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The Dark Side of HDCP - Why is My PS3 Blinking?:

FloatsomNJetsom writes ‘High Definition Content Protection is supposed to make sure you’re not playing pirated content, but sometimes your devices screw up the HDCP ‘handshake’ (over an HDMI cable) and nothing works. This happens with some regularity with the PS3, and Popular Mechanics investigated [...]

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The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century :: Joey deVilla’s Personal Weblog :: The Cthulhu Circus [Updated]
The mash-up the world’s been waiting for — Family Circus comics with captions from H.P. Lovecraft!
(tags: humor funny comics cthulhu mashup)

There Are No Design Leaders in the PC World
Jobs is dead on with his criticism. But the [...]

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Via Minipundit:
The only realistic solution to the problem of illegal immigration is a strategy of attrition, which seeks to reduce the flow of the illegal alien population over time by cutting off the incentives for coming to and staying in America - most importantly by eliminating the jobs magnet.
In other words, make America just horrible [...]

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FLV Online Converter - vixy.net
Convert FLV videos such as from YouTube to iPod, PSP, MOV, AVI, etc. online.
(tags: utility free Video ipod psp)

Debian on your PS3 - Download Squad
A Debian live CD distro that will run on a PS3
(tags: debian linux)

Flash Player 9 for Linux final released - Download Squad
Adobe has released the final version [...]

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macfuse - Google Code
MacFUSE implements a mechanism that makes it possible to implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program on Mac OS X (10.4 and above). It aims to be API-compliant with the FUSE (File-system in USErspace) mechanism that originated on Linux
(tags: mac macosx opensource filesystem software)

VirtualBox is Pretty Darn Spiffy
GPL’d virtualization [...]

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Drupal 5.0 has finally been released. I plan to upgrade all of my sites. MacMegasite should be pretty straightforward, since it’s already running 4.7. WorldBeatPlanet will be more difficult since it’s still running 4.6 and uses several extra modules, including e-commerce.

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I survived Macworld Expo, although I came home with a cold like I do every time I go there.
I spent most of the day yesterday traveling. I left San Francisco at 11AM and was stuck several hours in Dallas/Ft Worth. My connecting flight was at the other end of the airport, although I had [...]

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The floor is very crowded and the lines were long. Yesterday I got here at 8:45 AM for a 9:00 session, Macworld Live with David Pogue. The line already stretched from the entrance to room 134 to the other end of the underground hallway between the north & south halls. Fortunately everyone was able to [...]

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I got up at 4AM this morning and got to Moscone West around 5AM. The line was already all the way around the block. At about 7AM they finally let us in, only to stand in line inside a big room. They finally let us go upstairs a little after 9AM, just minutes before Steve [...]

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I spent the day traveling to San Francisco. After a 5 hour flight from Fort Lauderdale, I had 3 hours in Los Angeles before my connecting flight to San Francisco. It was a very long day.
In the morning I got to the airport 2 hours early and breezed through the security checkpoint. I learned that [...]

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10 Must Have Ubuntu Resources
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Linux.com | How to get a Windows tax refund
If you buy a computer, you often pay for Microsoft Windows even if you didn’t ask for it and aren’t going to use it. This article shows you how to return your unused Windows license and get your money back, freeing yourself from the Windows tax.
(tags: linux [...]

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All about Linux: A sneek preview of the expected features in KDE 4.0
Ever wonder what KDE 4.0 is going to look like when it is finally released some time this year ? As far as end users should be concerned, it is going to be much more beautiful, responsive and usable than KDE 3.5.
(tags: linux [...]

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At first glance, the window on 1st Street seems normal enough: “Virgil H. Goode, Jr., Fifth District, Virginia.” Underneath, carefully stenciled in gold paint, as if to meet the approval of the Board of Architectural Review: “BIGOT.”
Goode garnered national attention before Christmas with his comments on freshman Minnesota congressman-elect Keith Ellison’s plan to be sworn [...]

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I’m leaving for MacWorld Expo Sunday morning. Here’s my tentative schedule so far:
Mon. 1/8/2007

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Events at Apple Store

Tue. 1/9/2007
9:00AM - 11:00AM - Keynote2:00PM - 3:30PM - Q&A with Kevin Smith
Wed. 1/10/2007
9:00AM - 10:00AM - Macworld Live with David Pogue1:15PM - 2:30PM - Windows on a Mac2:45PM - 3:45PM - Macworld Best of Show 20074:15PM [...]

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Slashdot | What Bizarre IT Setups Have You Seen?
“Go down to the older server room, and find an unlabeled shelf next to the first door near the panic switch. On the bottom of that shelf is a box which is behind a stack of old 10base hubs. Hold down the power button until the green [...]

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Someone was having trouble installing some software where they had to specify a password on the command line. The password happened to be something like big$$dog[1] and they were doing something like:
install -password big$$dog
It seemed OK, but when they went into the admin utility the password didn’t work. Anyone familiar with Unix shells should see [...]

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Virtual Linux
Virtualization is the new big thing, if “new” can include something over four decades old. It has been used historically in a number of contexts, but a primary focus now is in the virtualization of servers and operating systems. Much like Linux, virtualiz
(tags: Virtualization Linux technology)

352 Linux Distributions
A collection of Linux distributions
(tags: Linux distros [...]

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Sun-Sentinel: Florida was 31st out of the 50 states in a ranking of how well they are preparing young people to achieve success in their academics and careers, according to a new assessment released Wednesday by Education Week magazine.
We can thank the FCATs for this. The only thing our schools teach the kids is how [...]

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