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Mac and Windows Dual Desktop

Posted on2008/10/09AuthorTruXter

First off, i have to say, the screen shots are remarkable.

Reader Dylan Boom shows how to mix operating systems environments with style in his Mac Meets Windows Dual-Desktop. Dylan is running OS X with XP in a virtual machine, and each system is completely customized to form a beautiful transition between Mac and Windows. Frankly, neither system puts the other to shame. Here’s a rundown of all the hardware, apps, and tweaks Dylan made to both operating systems to pull off this pleasant coexistence:

Check back with Life Hacker:

for full specs.

Sorry for the lack of creativity, i am currently at work right now and don’t have a bunch of time. But I do like the article. I don’t like mac, but i love seeing mac people want to use another operating system. Kinda proves how useless a mac is.

Scam sites close after owner name posted

Posted on2008/10/01AuthorTruXter

Info from ARS TECHNICA

Brothers Caught scamming people into buying stuff that was easily free and available on the internet. Some of the stuff they were caught selling was movies that you could get at any illegal download site, same quality, but not free. This leaves the purchaser comfortable in the assurance they are not breaking the law.

The brothers have been running site scams for a while according to fileclub.info .

From What is said at ARS Technica the websites they ran where taken down shortly after having thier information posted on the internet.

Here are people claiming to have been scammed by websites that are allegedly owned by the brothers.

Amas Veritas

GTa China Town Wars Screenshots

Posted on2008/09/26AuthorTruXter

Well the images look really good.

Very Nintendoish and very gta-gtaii looking but better.

Looks like rockstar games is really going back to their roots and fixing up the mess ups. Maybe we will see some use of GTAiii or Liberty City Stories or Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories Make a port to the wii.

Oh yeah here are the screen shots

And More Screen Shots

All the things that can come from this, if nintendo flips out.

China Town Wars – Iphone

Posted on2008/09/26AuthorTruXter

There is a good chance with the bad content in gta ctw, we might never see it hit the nintendo ds.

It might head straight to the iphone.

Here are others thinking the same as me

GTA Chinatown Wars

Posted on2008/09/26AuthorTruXter

Looks like rockstar and Nintendo are going to butt heads, pretty hard.

New screen shot of CTW shows 6 Different drugs to sell around town. Nintendo might not be super uber happy about this.

from here

Past editions have seen drug-running missions, but this is the most explicit reference yet. And considering it’s on Nintendo’s mostly kiddy-friendly DS handheld, it’s sure to cause a bit of a storm in the tabloids.

Not going to rseult good.

How land line could win against Cell.

Posted on2008/09/26AuthorTruXter

Pretty damn simple.

The one thing most people hate is leaving a message on a recording, or just a simple busy signal, or no answere. What is something that cell phones have that land lines do not have?

Fricken Text messages.

Most phones these days come with caller I.d. on them these days, so the displays are not the issues.

I’m pretty sure that if the text addition was free, it would get used on a really regular basis. Downside is that advertisers would hammer out millions of messages at one time. So there would have to be a fee for the text message add on so it would be illegal to use someone’s privately funded text messages up.

I can only imagen the tiny pc’s people would try and push to sell to accomidate the texting and people with large fingers, and extended message storage for the times when you are away for a while.

It would also have to allow the line to be able to text and call at the same time. This way so the kids don’t hold up the line, and so you can get messages while talking.

Comcast – Acceptable Use Policy

Posted on2008/09/26AuthorTruXter

Well I got some crap from Communism-Cast today.

Looks like they re-worded their plans that where “discontinued”

and are still going full force into Selling you 29 mbs but only letting you use

4mbs… and only for the websites they approve. I am guessing within five years

this place will go AOL and consume it’s self When everyone jumps ship for DSL

and the freedom to go to more websites than just Communism-cast approved sites.

Read this crap:

Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer, We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers’ use of our service. On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect at that time. In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online experience of other customers. 250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it’s very likely that your monthly data usage doesn’t even come close to that amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following: * Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email); * Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or * Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie). And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this threshold over the course of a month. In addition to modifying the excessive use policy, the updated AUP contains other clarifications of terms concerning reporting violations, newsgroups, and network management. To read some helpful FAQs, please visit http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-Excessive-Use. Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider.


This is a service-related email. Comcast will occasionally send you service-related emails to inform you of service upgrades or new benefits to your Comcast High-Speed Internet service. Copyright 2008. Comcast. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Comcast respects your privacy. For a complete description of our privacy policy, click here. Comcast One Comcast Center 10th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19103 Attn: CHSI Can we call the “Communism-Cast yet?

Truth About Revver Video

Posted on2008/09/23AuthorTruXter

Revver.com Claims to pay out money per view and per advertisement served.

Truth is, the ad at the end of the video is never seen. Or something.

I see like 400 total views of videos and like 10 ads served and 0 ads clicked. in the three years I have been with Revver.com I have made almost six dollars and fifty cents for my efforts. I have 26 videos there. Sure you can tell me that I need more videos, but come on, 26 videos and only 6 dollars.. that’s not even enough for the effort I spent into my first video, and upload and for all conversion.

Here is a depressing screen shot

That is the total after 3 years. look at the past few months of views.

The first month I made about 5 dollars, since then , it has been petty pennies from time to time. The only thing I have seen worse than revver is Helium.

I just uploaded my Videos from Ike. So far in 20 hours, one video of 10 has made it to “accepted”.

TruXter.Revver