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Archive for April, 2007

VMWare Fusion Beta 3 Out

For those of you keeping score at home, VMWare Fusion Beta 3 just came out. Here’s a look at what’s new:

Improved performance: You now have the option of turning off debugging features in VMware Fusion to enjoy even better performance.
Support for Boot Camp: You no longer [...]

Costa Rica lost

I’ve heard many complaints regarding CAFTA, and most of them boil down to the same issue: foreign corporations are bigger, and they’ll swallow our poor competitors whole. People with this argument often use words indicating size, implying that by girth alone these behemoths will squash our tiny industry.
What most of these people actually [...]

Mac OS X File Shredder

It’s not paranoia if they’re after you, and with your privacy continually under attack, one can never be too careful. Did you know that when you delete a file, it doesn’t actually go anywhere? Deleting a file is merely a way of telling the operating system you can now use [...]

Move your dead bones

Music video from Beyond Re-Animator, hilarious in that unintentional you’re-taking-it-way-too-seriously fashion that the first movie had, performed by someone who makes George Michael look like Clint Eastwood.
Nothing says techno like dancing gay blood-gurgling zombie mimes. Re-Animate Your Feet!

Parallels’ absurd memory usage

I’ve reported on the past on some decent experiences with Parallels, as well as some negative ones. One of its main problems seems to be processor usage: like I had reported, Parallels uses 10% of a MacBook Pro’s Core 2 Duo processor even when it’s doing absolutely nothing - not even having a virtual [...]

British police investigate 10-year-old over word ‘gay’

British police launched an investigation of a 10-year-old boy because he used the word gay in an e-mail.

A father criticised a police force today for launching an investigation after his ten-year-old son allegedly called a schoolfriend “gay” in an email.
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Mr Rawlinson, 41, said: [...]

Pyramid construction

Guess what? It doesn’t involve aliens.