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Windows 95 crashes a cash register

Looking back on the Windows95 launch 10 years ago…I remember all those people waiting in line to purchase it like it was a Star Wars movie or something….

The Old New Thing : Windows 95 crashes a cash register
Not everything related to the Windows 95 launch went well. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a local CompUSA store found that their cash registers crashed at midnight, forcing eager customers to wait ninety minutes before the problem could be resolved. The cause: A bug in the cash register software which had lain undiscovered because the store had never stayed open past midnight before!

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MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter

Looks impressive…

MediaPortal – The ultimate HTPC / mediacenter
MediaPortal turns your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC.
It allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video’s and DVD’s, view, schedule and record live TV and much more. You get Media Portal for free/nothing/nada/nopes and best of all it is opensource. This means anyone can help developing Media Portal or tweak it for their own needs!
Please read the requirements before installing MediaPortal!

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Sync your Pocket PC with Linux

I have done this once, and it worked….

Linux.com | Sync your Pocket PC with Linux
You can use a Pocket PC with Linux, but the integration of a device such as Hewlett-Packard’s iPaq with Linux software such as Evolution requires add-on software. If you wish to use a Windows CE device with Linux you will need to install SynCE, a set of open source tools. You can download the software from SourceForge.net.

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White House dismisses Chavez assassination call

What in the crap is Pat thinking? He must have finally lost it. His comments are not what I call Christian, or for that matter helping our cause in the US.

These kind of remarks remind me of Jerry Falwell worried about the Teletubbies being gay, and Oral Roberts wanting a ton of money in what was it, six months or God would take his life? These people _do not_ represent me, and do not represent responsible leadership.

CNN.com – White House dismisses Chavez assassination call – Aug 23, 2005
Bush administration officials Tuesday disavowed Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson’s call for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

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Adam Savage..From Mythbusters Interview

I second the first line quoted below. This is the first part of a good interview with Adam Savage.

I would love to get him on Technorama sometime.

The Sneeze – Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.
MythBusters is easily one of my favorite shows on TV. If you’ve never seen it, hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman use their years of special effects experience to scientifically put urban legends to the test– and blow up a lot of stuff in the process.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Maker of Things and Buster of Myths: Adam Savage. We covered lots of ground including the birth of the show, feeling famous, gay fan mail and lots more…

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When Robots Attack…In Japan!

I mean no disrespect to the Japanese Prime Minister…but this is funny. Apparently, he is ok, so we can all laugh about it now.

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Japan’s first mall-patrolling security robot, the T63 Artemis, took an instant dislike to Japan’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi yesterday. A simple meet-and-greet experience was obviously too much for the batty bot, which launched a smokescreen on contact.