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Entries from January 2005

SciFi shows

January 24th, 2005 · Comments Off

If you love the new SciFi Friday night lineup you may want to take note.

World Premiere/Earliest TV Air Dates:
Stargate Atlantis:
1×17 “Letter from Pegasus” Airs January 10, 2005 On Movie Central/The Movie Network (Canada)
1×18 “The Gift” Airs January 17, 2005 On Movie Central/The Movie Network (Canada)
1×19 “The Siege (Part One)” Airs January 24, 2005 On Movie [...]

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And shortened the work week by several microseconds

January 21st, 2005 · Comments Off

Wow, the entire planet was moved by this quake…

Science@NASA: NASA scientists studying the Indonesian earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, have calculated that it slightly changed our planet’s shape, shaved almost 3 microseconds from the length of the day, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters.
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Vonage Pushing Viseon Videophone to Subscribers

January 19th, 2005 · Comments Off

Mega cool!  Im going to see if I can find one!  I still wish they had 850 numbers though.. :(

Vonage is pushing their videophone service to their customers this morning, showing off this new all-in-one unit from Viseon. The copy of the email I received doesn’t have pricing information, but I can only hope that [...]

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Brute-forcing unreleased GTA San Andreas cheat codes

January 18th, 2005 · Comments Off

Wow!  This looks cool!

So this dude edisoncarter cracked open what appears to be a cheesy 3rd party PS2 controller (save the good stuff for the gaming, we always say), hooked up the lines to a parallel port for signal injection, and then hash-cracker style used a custom app that ran brute force key combinations until [...]

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Time Warner Cable soon to launch multi-TV DVR

January 14th, 2005 · Comments Off

This is noteworthy!  I still like BeyondTV though…

Time Warner Cable will soon be launching a digital video recorder that can be shared by up to four TV sets, the first device of its kind from a cable company.  They’ve been testing the device for the past several weeks in Minneapolis and officially unveiled it at [...]

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Sharing Network Adapters and Virtual Networks

January 12th, 2005 · Comments Off

I blog this so I don’t forget it later….
Here is the link:
Sharing Network Adapters and Virtual Networks
And, in case they change the KB, here is the text:
Sharing Network Adapters and Virtual Networks
In many ESX Server configurations, there is a clear distinction between networking resources used by the virtual machines and those used by the [...]

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Big News for PocketPC Users

January 9th, 2005 · Comments Off

ActiveSync 3.8 is out!!!
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Happy New Year!!!

January 6th, 2005 · Comments Off

Just crawled out from under a rock after being sick for most of my vacation (Thanks Jonnathan) and spent the evening last night with Jim playing Texas Hold ‘Em. Jim ended up winning the evening but I came in a close third. I have done no blogging/reading/anything this week so I will have [...]

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