Have you spent hours and countless Red Bulls trying to find the easter eggs in the latest DVD rental from Blockbuster or Netflix? Search no more. Here is a pretty comprehensive list of major titiles and there easter eggs.
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Originally posted by Doobie-Won from GEEK OUT
Blue screen, registry error, blank screen… ack! Somebody tell me: how I can retrieve my data? How do I get my system running again? tomshardware.com shows you which tools to use, and how to use them to get everything running again – without data loss or the dreaded reinstall.
Thanks OS news
From David Letterman last night, in case you missed it:
Top Ten Proposed Changes At CBS News
10. Stories must be corroborated by at least two really strong hunches.
9. “Evening News†pre-show staff cocktail hour is cancelled until further notice.
8. Reduce “60 Minutes†to more manageable 15-20 minutes.
7. Change division name from “CBS News†to “CBS News-ishâ€
6. If anchor says anything inaccurate, earpiece delivers an electric shock.
5. Conclude each story with comical “Boing†sound effect.
4. Instead of boring Middle East reports, more powerball drawings.
3. To play it safe, every “exclusive†story will be about how tasty pecan pie is.
2. Not sure how, but make CBS News more like “C.S.I.â€
1. Use beer, cash and hookers to lure Tom Brokaw out of retirement.
thanks Rathergate for the info
Over the years, one of the greatest complaints from the IT/PC geek crew when it comes to macintosh Computers is the fact that hey are too expensive. Granted there is a premium to be paid for such technology, but is the real excuse the fact of price, or is it other things? Ever sence the first Apple Macintosh was introduced, Apple has been the red headed step child of the computer industry. Filled with laughs and geers, Mac’s have never been taken seriously. This has begun to change withthe introduction of the iPod and the iTunes Music Store. Apple has always been a sweetheart in the publishing and film edinting communities, now it is seeing top notch recognition in arenas like server clusters with the Virginia Tech super computer project , Mac OS X system software as well as PC users alike. The new price point at $499 makes it hard to keep the price argument going for much longer. My bet is that price was just a scape goat and techies will find reason to poo poo the Apple way of life.
“Either you love it or you hate it…Not too much gray area here'”
The Secret Service has been investigating various computer crimes lately, and Security Focus has a fascinating article about how one of the people they were going after was simultaneously tracking them back by accessing an agent’s T-Mobile Sidekick account. The details are fairly complex, but basically, this hacker got his hands on the entire T-Mobile user database, including passwords and other private info, allowing him to access anyone’s web-based Sidekick account. It just so happens that one of the Secret Service agents working on the case uses a Sidekick, and the hacker got various Secret Service documents by logging into that agent’s account. If this brings up the question of: “what the hell is a Secret Service agent doing using a T-Mobile Sidekick and allowing it to receive sensitive documents?” you’re not alone. One of the Sidekick’s “nice” features from a user perspective is that it automatically syncs with T-Mobile’s web server in real time. So any info on the device is accessible via the web. That’s useful for a normal user, but also opens it up to hackers. You would think the Secret Service would be a bit more careful. This is an organization that has “secret” in their name, after all. Anyway, they eventually tracked down this guy, but have been very quiet about it. Also very quiet is T-Mobile — which may be against the law. California has this data privacy law that says a company needs to tell people if their personal info may have been compromised. Apparently, T-Mobile doesn’t think the law applies to them.
Originally from Techdirt