November 2004 - Posts

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Xerox tracks your photocopies by matt

The Inquirer : “Giant photocopying firm Xerox has admitted designing its color photocopiers so that they put a hidden code on your copy that will help the US government identify you According to Peter Crean, a senior research fellow at Xerox, all his company's laser printers, copiers and multifunction workstations, put the serial number of each machine in yellow dots on the page. He told the Medill News Service that the dots only show up if you look at the document with a magnifying glass while...
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Half-Life 2 delayed... again by matt

This time by SA Customs :( “It just wouldn't be Half-Life 2 if it didn't slip one final time - luckily it's only one day this time (rather than a year). We know this sucks and we're really, really sorry! We could try and lay the blame (quite fairly) on a delay at customs and the fact that the shipment was only released to our supplier late this morning, but we know you're probably a little too annoyed to care. All we can do is apologise. All orders for Half-Life 2 (standard and collector's...
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Now you know... by matt

Results of the US election by state and sorted by IQ. What blows my mind is if so many yanks hate the schmuck; how'd he win? edit: Let me answer that! More than half of the states have an (average) IQ of less than 100!! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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A sad day... by matt

./ just reported that Nullsoft have closed their doors signalling the end of Winamp. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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WTF? by matt

Today the internet IS shit ! Telskum drops a trunk in Rosebank and IS goes down with it. Then this sort of stuff starts happening... (check the address bar) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Decisions, decisions by matt

I always envy people who post about having to make *difficult* decisions on which gadget to spend their cash on. Luckily this time it’s me; and boy it’s a tough decision... I have R3800. I need a new motherboard, new CPU and new RAM. Here are the options I’m considering: 1 X AMD Athlon64 3200+, 800Mhz FSB 754-Pin Processor (128 L1 + 512 L2 Cache) 1 X MSI VIA K8T800, VIA K8T800 Chipset 2 X 512MB PC400 DDR SDRam Memory Module (Dual Channel) 1 X Intel Pentium 4 - 540 ® 3.2GHz...
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Hack This Site by matt

I'm stuck on level 5... I dunno how to spoof a referrer; anyone care to help? Start here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Toys by matt

This has got to be one of the coolest toy shops around! Take a look at some of the awesome gadgets you can here ! What do I order first?! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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