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There's a game online by the name of Erepublik. Its one of those browser-based games. You know, the games in which you're some kind of warmonger building up an army and trying to "be the best". You build buildings and produce troops and eventually declare war to conquer other "nubs" from across the world. They're a bit fun, I have to admit, but most of them are either (A) lacking in gameplay, (B) lacking in community, or (C) seem like work after a bit of play. Seriously, if you're going to declare war on "ChuckGG908" wouldn't you like to know who the hell he is?

Do you really need a high definition format like Blue Ray to watch high def movies?
This is, of course, what Sony wants you to believe: that the only way to enjoy high definition video is to pay hundreds of dollars for a BD Drive. But I think that there isn’t really any technical reason to do so.

Ok, so the Javascript for Firefox on one of the computers wasn't working. I tried enabling and disabling it and reinstalling the whole thing a few times. Each time I noticed that all of my bookmarks and extensions were still there. This obviously meant that all of the data wasn't erased from my system. I did a quick search and found that the Firefox uninstaller doesn't remove a bunch of registry keys or a bunch of user data folders. There weren't even any options in the uninstaller to remove these things. You'd think that the registry keys and the data would be removed!

The first Beta of Fedora 9 has been released for download, via P2P, and direct download. New features include an updated Gnome package, use of KDE 4 (Kubuntu 8.04 has 2 versions, one with KDE4 and one with 3.5), use of Firefox 3 beta 5, and the ext 4 file system.

Read about it here:
http://fedoraproject.org/f9-beta-relnotes

After hearing how Apple would charge for the App store, I decided it was finally time to unlock my Ipod.

It couldn't have been easier. I plugged it in and ran the program. This was far less trouble than I expreienced installing the official Apple updates, and the selection of programs in phenomenal. The platform supports Perl, Python, Ruby and others, as well as a BSD subsystem.

So for those of you wondering: yes, it is totally worth it.

Hey all,
I'm a new member of RCS. My interests include programming, software, games, and many other things. I'll be on the podcast starting from next time. I'll mainly post about interesting/cool software and games. I won't talk much about hardware, but either way I still have strong opinions about pretty much everything. See you soon? Or rather, you'll hear me soon.

About a month back we talked about how S3 was releasing a new low end dedicated GPU. The launch is now official, with the company claiming performance well above the 8400GS and 3450. The card sells for $60.

http://www.s3graphics.com/en/pressroom/pressrelease/2008/S3Gpr080320GSto...

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Intel has announced its plans for it new multi core architecure. Highlights include the 6 core Dunnington, and the new Itanium (does anyone use these?) Tukwila.

Link:
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20080317fact.htm?iid=pr1...

Tweaktown has gotten a 9800GX2, and put it through some benchmarks. Basically, performance is only slightly better than the HD3870x2, which is pretty unimpressive.

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1331/1/page_1_introduction/index.html