The Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Germany hosts a java applet that tests your ISP for bittorrent throttling.
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Umm, Robert Englund and Jenna Jameson…Zombie Strippers…nuff’ said
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The fine folks over at www.codesector.com have a really great app called TeraCopy. It uses an optimized buffer to instantly kick off file copies. Large multi-gig files start to copy instantly whether copying from the same drive, or to a separate drive. Upon install you can dig into the options and register [...]

Mixtape comprised solely of music from the films of Wes Anderson arranged in the proper order by me.
**Note** In order to attain the maximum level of spiritual enlightenment one must listen to the tracks in the order they have been prepared for you. Only then will the clarity of being wash over your [...]

I’ve been using the Gnome Partition Editor Live CD for a long time. It’s a great free utility for partition editing. Turns out, hdd’s aren’t the only thing this tool is good for. I recently pulled an 8gb Corsair Voyager USB drive out of the slot while it was being written to [...]

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hkbn-launches-1-gbps-broadband-for-us26month-2010-04-13?reflink=MW_news_stmp

Uverse didn’t show up for their install so I canceled with them. A few minutes later an AT&T rep called me, assured me someone would be at my house by 8am the next day and offered me a $100 gift cert for agreeing to keeping their service.
Once the service got turned up i [...]

In yet another shining display of 200’s gracefulness:
I lifted the front of my desk about 1″ to slide a rug under it, upon returning the desk to the ground the forward motion caused my 22″ Viewsonic Optiquest Q22WB to flip forward off the desk falling 2′ 4″ and landing firmly on it’s top, upside down, [...]

A set back for net neutrality:
http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2010/04/comcast-1-fcc-0-what-to-look-for-in-the-inevitable-rematch.ars

Fried Shrimp!!!

Quite possibly the 337th best move ever made. Terrorist zombies abound…No seriously..this is a good Zomedy with a funny script that mocks religion, prejudice and American foreign policy . Better than Zombieland; not as good as Shaun of the Dead.
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The fine folks over at k-swiss recognize talent when they see it. k-swiss is the proud new sponsor of nixlab.net…Scoop your pair of 200 branded kix at http://www.kswiss.com

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Ruse brings an interesting twist to the RTS genre. The ability to “fake-out” an opponent with a selection of “Ruses” ranging from fake air and armor attacks to propaganda campaigns and blitzkrieg. The ui gives you a very good command of the battlefield, reminiscent of Sup Comm. in that you can scroll out far [...]

Tired of plain ol’ external USB Hard Drives? Want to run 2 drives off one eSata or USB cable? Check this out…Thermaltake BlacX Duet, open air dual sata drive mount. Supports up to 2TB of storage and is hot-swappable. They retailed for $70+ at launch, I picked this one up for [...]

Valve announced earlier this week that they will be releasing multiple titles for MAC. Well….It’s about time. The “Games for Windows” monopoly is about to crumble. If they can release for MAC, whats stopping them from releasing on GNU/LINUX.
LINK to story on MACRUMORS

Having played every Battlefield release since Battlefield 1942 I am accustomed to the almost predictable bevy of errors, crashes, laggyness, and bugs found on launch week. Bad Company 2 however has set the precedent for quite possibly the worse launch of a BF game to date. The auth server is down about 1/3 [...]

A friend of mine is a die hard Thomas Pynchon fan and THE THOMAS PYNCHON FAKEBOOK is his labour or of love: A 14 track cd comprised of various amateur artists all singing tunes with lyrics yanked straight from the pages of Gravity’s Rainbow. All songs available for listening at the link below. [...]

Check this out…
http://hardocp.com/article/2010/03/05/newegg_selling_fake_intel_cpus

SC1 was a great RTS, but MP did suffer from massive outbreaks of turtle syndrome. SC2 addresses this issue by nixing defense walls, the large shield radius, and the larger defensive AA and AT turrets. Factory Upgrades have gone by the way side in favor of a classic RTS tech tree. All [...]

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Having been a loyal customer of Evga/Nvidia for such a long time I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel a bit of apprehension at the idea of purchasing an ATI card from a manufacturer that I didn’t have any personal experience with. [...]

He owns a PC computer OK? he makes next level beats….
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11-30-10 AM
Finally something worth writing about…EA dropped the one map beta for BF:BC2 yesterday…
Port Valdez is a “Rush” mode map, similar to Push in insurgency, where the offense parachutes in to attack 4 sets of 2 fixed positions along the frozen coast line of a large oil industrial port. DICE came through strong with [...]

There is a very special place in my heart for The ‘Fits. I have been listening to this band since I was 12 years old. A skater friend of mine loaned me “Energy” by Operation Ivy and “Legacy of Brutality” by the Misfits, both on vinyl… My days of listening to Huey [...]

The Big Brother U.K. cast find themselves trapped on the set of their T.V. show during the zombie apocalypse; an ingenious location to host a zombie outbreak due to it’s secluded nature. The amount of time given to the five part series allows it to explore every aspect of a good zombie film. [...]

First correct answer gets a check for 2 trillion dollars.

One site for searching @ Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and Twitter. Just click the Google logo to switch between sites.

http://go.infinise.com/

Alien apartheid own!! 7/10

I had a 1gb stick go out on me last month. I filled out the RMA form, mailed Corsair the broken stick along with the other stick from that matched pair, which was still working, and Corsair replaced both of them with a brand new matched pair for free. That positive RMA experience [...]

Section 8 is a very well thought out and executed Starsiege Tribes clone. Jet Packs, myriad deployable turrets, pre configured load outs…the whole 9. Now I am a Tribes fanatic so I really enjoyed playing this beta, but I’m not sure how well received it will be to the masses. I guess [...]

Ya’ know when you’re doing character creation at the beginning of an mmo and a you have such a hard time deciding between the elf archer, the warrior, and the wizard? Trine alleviates that problem by allowing you to be all three at the same time, but it’s not an mmo, it’s a [...]

Set in the not too distant future, Neotokyo is a squad based tactical shooter borrowing much of it’s texture and feel from the popular Sci-Fi anime movie and series Ghost in the Shell. For a 3rd party mod it feels pretty authentic all the way down to the thermoptics =) The NeoTokyo team [...]

I plugged in the same incorrectly spelled query into google and bing. Guess which one linked to what I was looking for. Hint: it rhymes w/ oogle. More fail from Redmond, Bing returned “We did not find any results for ….”

Apparently UT:3 is doing so poorly they had to give it away on Steam this weekend. I gave it a shot and after a few games it became apparent that UT as a franchise is on it’s death bed. Graphics are great, but the gameplay is reminiscent of the fps’ of yesteryear. [...]

I was never really big into the Trek franchise prior to the new movie. I have seen it twice, once on an Imax screen , and once on a regular screen. The CGI is 10/10 and the plot stays at a frantic pace delivering a total package that leaves the audience dumbstruck. [...]

For the longest time StarDock was known for their myriad Windows GUI tweak utilities, then in February of 2008 they dropped “Sins of a Solar Empire” which IMHO is one of the best RTS games ever made, and although Sins didn’t get the hype it deserved at launch it [...]

I thought this was kind of cool. Japan is giving away netbooks ultra cheap upon signing up for unlimited data plans. I wonder how long it will take before this trend hits the states?
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Decent, felt like they skimped on the cgi in places but overall it was o.k.