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by cat5 on May.01, 2007, under Cat5

It’s the HD-DVD processing key you can use to decrypt and play most HD-DVD movies in Linux. Movie studios are going ballistic over this leak.

I wonder if they can do something with me being in Canada?

How about Binary?

1001 11111001 00010001 00000010 10011101 01110100 11100011 01011011 11011000 01000001 01010110 11000101 01100011 01010110 10001000 11000000

How about standard Base 10?

13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640

How about an image encoded?
HDDVD

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Having a little fun with www.blogthings.com

by cat5 on Apr.22, 2007, under Cat5

Your Star Wars Name And Title

Your Star Wars Name: Erima Thchi

Your Star Wars Title: Tnacho of Eonnob

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Canada is worse than a 3rd world country.. When it comes to Wireless Data Plans

by cat5 on Apr.09, 2007, under Cat5

From thomaspurves.com

This chart charts the best rates available from all carriers. And all levels of government say that “ICT” competitiveness is key factor in Canada’s future economic
prosperity. Ya. Right. I would like to say that Canada is a 3rd world country when it comes to Mobile ICT, except you can clearly see from this chart that even *Rwanda* has orders of magnitude better Mobile Data service than Canada.

3rd World

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Install Windows Vista in a dual-boot configuration along with Windows XP

by cat5 on Feb.09, 2007, under Cat5

Are you really excited about the prospect of experimenting with the new features in the Windows Vista operating system, but are not yet ready to give up your existing Windows XP installation? Greg Shultz walks you step by step through the entire dual boot configuration procedure.

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Windows XP apps on your Ubuntu desktop - now with Coherence !

by cat5 on Feb.07, 2007, under Cat5

Run Windows XP apps on Ubuntu without having and have them appear on your normal Gnome or KDE desktop. The tutorial starts with uses KQemu (now Open Source as of today) but the latter section on coherence can easily be adapted to VMWare Player or Xen.

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Convert *real* machines to VMWare images, for Free

by cat5 on Jan.30, 2007, under Cat5

This is so very cool. FTA: “Use the intuitive wizard-driven interface of VMware Converter to convert your physical machines to virtual machines. VMware Converter quickly converts Microsoft Windows based physical machines and third party image formats to VMware virtual machines. It also converts virtual machines between VMware platforms.”

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Why Gentoo is a Great Server Distribution

by cat5 on Jan.30, 2007, under Cat5

This is a rebuttal to “Why Gentoo Shouldn
’t be on Your Server”. I run Gentoo on 12 machines that experience heavy load. They’ve run Gentoo for over a year. When I saw how Gentoo was taking such a beating, I couldn’t let that go unanswered.

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Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names

by cat5 on Jan.30, 2007, under Cat5

After the recent issues with GoDaddy, everyone should read this site.

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Do we need an Ubuntu installer for Windows?

by cat5 on Jan.28, 2007, under Cat5

If you haven’t heard yet, there’s a new Ubuntu-oriented project that’s been making waves: install.exe. In short, it’s a way to install Ubuntu onto the same file system as MS Windows without repartitioning your drive. Justifications include minimizing the risk of data loss during repartitioning, a more user-friendly installation process, and elimina

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