Tom’s at work blog

April 29, 2005

MPAA Paid Off NYPD To Stop Bootleggers?

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Two NYPD veterans are being investigated by Internal Affairs for allegedly accepting payoffs from the motion-picture industry to arrest vendors of pirated DVDs, law-enforcement sources told The Post.

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Sin City 2 And 3 Get The Green Light

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Robert Rodriguez will be shooting back to back sequels for SIN CITY 2 and 3 starting February of next year for a release presumably summer of 2007.

I liked the first movie a lot, so this is good news for me.

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Build your own high capacity Mp3 player

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An extremely cool open source custom Mp3 player project. Solder the parts together and add you own IDE hard drive and enjoy a great player for about $200.

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Windows Port Reporter

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Port Reporter logs TCP and UDP port activity on a local Windows system. Port Reporter is a small application that runs as a service on Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.

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Hacking Google Desktop Search

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This hack of Google’s Desktop Search allows you to remotely moniter computers on a LAN. You will need to download Google Desktop and TCP/IP port redirection utility here.

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Bernhard Goetz

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Just saving this one for when I get home to send to a friend whos email I don’t remember right now…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Goetz

Xen: a greater threat to Microsoft than Linux?

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I bet you recently have heard of Xen Source, a company that for the last month or so has been generating a lot of buzz for its open source-based virtual machine technology known as Xen.

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SafeDisc Windows XP Fix for Microsoft Games - English

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When running a restricted user account with fast user switching under Windows XP, some games will not start correctly. The game requests that the original disk be placed in the drive, even if it is already present. To remedy this issue, download and run this fix.

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Googlebot looks like this…

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From Google’s data center; trying to give us an idea of what googlebot might looks like. We all had personal visits by the bot, it is nice to put a face on it.

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F-Secure: XP SP3?

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Mr. Ballmer made some interesting remarks: Microsoft might indeed ship SP3 for Windows XP before longhorn comes out. Also, upcoming version 7 of Internet Explorer should have anti-phishing technology built-in.

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