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It seems that Novell has been working on some “I’m a Linux” ads to go up against the whole “I’m a PC” and “I’m a mac” ads.
They don’t look too bad
The Linux foundation has announced a competition to do some as well, not sure what they have come up with yet.
There are loads of other bad ones floating around youtube too.
BBC recently announced that iplayer now supports downloads on windows an linux, in the form of iplayer desktop. You can get started on the iplayer labs page.
So I decided to try it out…
iplayer security dialog - extremely bad! Why can't they get a digital signature for the download?
First I had trouble upgrading flash - Installing it was easy, but I found I still had a flash 9 install listed in my about:plugins page. Following the Flash - MozillaZine Knowledge Base page helped me solved this (it turns out I had a flash 9 file in my ~/.mozilla/plugins folder)
Then it was time to install iplayer. First it installed Adobe AIR, which was simple enough. Then the iplayer desktop app installed inside AIR - the security dialog for this was particularly unappealing as it did not have any knowledge of the publisher, let alone a secure signature or certificate to assure me it was really BCC content I was installing
After that it was plain sailing - Top Gear started downloading straight away, and was done within minutes.
It plays great, works fullscreen (though my laptop can’t manage full screen well, I probably need to look at setting up 3d acceleration which I didnt do when I installed it ~2 years ago as the drivers were rubbish), and the volume still goes to 11 like the iplayer.
4 tablespoons flour
4 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons cocoa
1 egg
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons oil
3 tablespoons chocolate chips (optional)
A small splash of vanilla extract
1 large coffee mug
Add dry ingredients to mug, and mix well. Add the egg and mix thoroughly. Pour in the milk and oil and mix well. Add the chocolate chips (if using) and vanilla extract, and mix again. Put your mug in the microwave and cook for 3 minutes at 1000 watts (high). The cake will rise over the top of the mug, but don’t be alarmed! Allow to cool a little, and tip out onto a plate if desired.
EAT! (this can serve 2 if you want to feel slightly more virtuous). And why is this the most dangerous cake recipe in the world? Because now we are all only 5 minutes away from chocolate cake at any time of the day or night!
The following picture on icanhascheezburger and it really reminded my of my parents’ cat (both the picture, as they have a Siamese, as well as the caption)
Even with the terrible DRM shipped with Spore - 1.7 million pirated downloads in 3 months is one hell of a figure…
Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008 | TorrentFreak
As 2008 is slowly moving toward its end, we start taking a look at the most pirated titles in various categories. First up are games. As expected, Spore is by far the most downloaded game on BitTorrent, in part thanks to the DRM that came with the game.
I wonder when software publishers are going to try selling big title games without DRM to see how that compares?
Only 10 days after the game’s launch date, already half a million people had downloaded the game.
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