Monthly Archives: October 2007

Leopard Cracked to Work on PC’s

Tuesday, 30th October, 2007 – 23:16

Apple’s new OS, codenamed Leopard, has barely had time to cool down after coming off the presses, and already some enterprising individuals have managed to get it running on a PC. The method is a bit tortuous, but it can be done. The Register, and OSX86 Scene Forums have more.

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Could You Pick A Horses Name?

Tuesday, 30th October, 2007 – 22:33

For reasons that will become clear later on, I need to come up with a name for horse.

Any suggestions?

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New Life For The CD Single

Friday, 19th October, 2007 – 14:53

You may have heard that the recording companies have been complaining of late about a decline in music sales. In an attempt to turn the tide, Universal have turned to the USB flash drive. They’re planning to release songs from Keane and Pussycat Dolls on the format at the end of this month. The plan [...]

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Dozier Internet Law

Friday, 19th October, 2007 – 10:38

Dozier Internet Law are an American company specialising in Internet and (US) copyright law. Their tag line is “We Protect the Reputations and the Intellectual Property of Businesses on the Web.”

For a company specialising in Internet law, they have some strange ideas. According to their User Agreement, it’s illegal to link to their site without [...]

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Installing Windows XP on a Packard Bell SW51

Friday, 5th October, 2007 – 12:09

I was recently asked to downgrade a friends Packard Bell SW51 from Windows Vista to Windows XP. My friend is not what I would consider to be a geek, but even he could see that Vista was a steaming pile of horse manure, and he just wanted an OS that would work. So it was [...]

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Monster Apologises

Friday, 5th October, 2007 – 11:33

Looks like Michele got an apology from Monster regarding the spam he received. It wasn’t an apology from “Smithers” aka John Burns, but from James Mailley, the head of Monster.ie. As Michele makes clear on his post, he received a spam from an employee of Monster.ie and not from Monster themselves. Nice to see that’s [...]

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