This whole AT&T explained…

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The Kid Treadmill

Well I guess it was going to come any day now in order to slow down childhood obesity.

Here’s an idea a lot cheaper… send your kids outside instead of having them play their video games.

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Pirates more cunning then ever

On Monday, Office 2007 went Gold. On Wednesday, Windows Vista went RTM. On Saturday both are available via Usenet download for at least 24 hours.

Windows Vista available with an activation crack that uses a License file from the betas so it accepts keys used during the betas. This is fixable by Microsoft as they can disable all given keys during the beta period in one swoop in the coming months. Vista being more attached to its host (Microsoft) then ever, crackers/pirates are going to have a hard time with this one. Hell even Volume Keys require some sort of license server to be present. This is known as Volume Licensing 2.0.

However Office 2007, uses Volume Licensing 1.0, which means “one key to rule them all”. The release that hit the web includes such key. What amazes me is the speed it took to get these products out on the good ol’ net. Frankly I’m waiting for Office 2007 (probably be released as 2008 to create confusion) for Mac to be released. Emulated Office 2004 sucks and Rosetta Stone is not all that wonderful and nice that Apple makes it out to be. Word takes a good 90 seconds to load as opposed to the 50 seconds it takes (still too long) under PowerPC.

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The sound Vista users will hear

Well today Microsoft released the 4 second sound clip that Vista users will hear when their computer boots to their login prompt, note this is NOT the start up sound from when you login to your machine but this sound is played when your computer is deemed ready for use. Rumors are that you can’t turn this off. Microsoft continuously disabled and re-enabled the ability to turn on/off this sound throughout the beta testing period. One thing was constant though; it was always on by default. Final verdict remains to be seen in the RTM build that came out a few days ago.

Here is the clip….

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Donald Rumsfield resignation

Summarized in one pic.

Original source: Boing Boing

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Ken Schram: Ten reasons to enjoy the rain

From: Ken Schram: Ten reasons to enjoy the rain

Number 10: The storm has washed away the word “MetroNatural” that was painted on top of the Space Needle.

Number 9: It’s fun to splash pedestrians as you drive down the street.

Number 8: Can’t get enough of that video of salmon crossing the road.

Number 7: Fewer panhandlers because carboard signs just get soggy.

Number 6: No more doorbelling by political candidates ’cause they’re weather wimps.

Number 5: Not as many bicyclists to share the road with.

Number 4: Ducks swimming in Seattle’s pot holes look so darn cute.

Number 3: We need more mud right before the election.

Number 2: Traffic hardly sucks more than when the sun is in our eyes.

And the number 1 reasons to enjoy all this rain: All the crack-heads and hookers stay inside which means if you really want to, you can actually use that $700,000 toilet down in Pioneer Square!

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Tux takes it from the FreeBSD Daemon

I’m sure many have already seen this image. But I saw it for the first time today when I heard Jason Dixon’s presentation of “BSD is Dying” at Columbia University.

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Stay the Course?

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Number two… Ginger

Cam and I decided to go the “The Farm” today in Snohomish, WA for a pumpkin patch event. Well we came home with more then just pumpkins, yup a kitten. Named her Ginger (Wasabi and Ginger are common items you get with Sushi).

Pics:

More pics (of this and basically October 2006):
http://www.disgruntled-dutch.com/gallery/v/together/october2006/

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Futurama…. it’s back!

For those who don’t know. Comedy Central bought the rights to produce new episodes of Futurama in 2008. Finally another mistake by Fox undone by another network. They (Fox) undid their first mistake (Family Guy) but this made my day when I heard about it a few months ago. Now they have a promo out.

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