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Taken from the Press release found at Vivendi’s Site
December 2, 2007 (Santa Monica, Calif. and Paris, France) – Activision, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI) and Vivendi (Euronext Paris: VIV) today announced that they have signed a definitive agreement to combine Vivendi Games, Vivendi’s interactive entertainment business — which includes Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft®, the world’s #1 multi-player [...]

Ok people, WHAT THE FUCKING HELL.  Just read this story at BBC.co.uk and makes me feel glad to not use the bloat called Acrobat Reader, I have been using the FoxIt reader since v6 of Acrobat Reader came out because there was no way I could believe that they needed to make a reader of [...]

I had the following issues after using a 3G card yesterday

Could not access any file servers on the domain
Could ping the file servers
Could use RDP and VNC to any machine on the network
Could use IP based applications, i.e. POP3, IMAP and HTTP/S

I tried an utility called WinSockXPFix which does some registry hacks, which allowed me [...]

IF U CN RD THS, U CN NM SRVRS 2-Computerworld
Must be one of the funnies blunders I have ever seen.

I have been getting really annoyed with a sticky shift key. I has been happening on and off for quite a while, and I think I found the problem. Something goes nuts in Synergy and causes the sticky on the remote machines. What is interesting is that only the right shift key activates the stickyness [...]

This is just pissing me off. I have used up 500MB of precious South African bandwidth thanks to a stupid idea to patch Hellgate in-game. I did just come across this at Gamespot, which points to the Official Forums, which may help.
If you’re having problems getting the patch and an error message comes up [...]

Apparetnly Live.Com is LIVE, i.e. no longer in beta, but what will that mean for us? Probably not much, although it is a dig at Google who even though they have deployed v2 of GMail it is still in Beta, like pretty much everything of their’s.
I signed up for Hotmail fairly recently  and must say [...]

Damn this game
I am waiting (im)patiently for my copy to arrive to try the online, but the single player has me. I haven’t even loaded up another game in the last three days.
Now the wait for Crysis can begin

Flock
I have now been using Flock for three or so weeks now and must say it feels more stable than FF and most of the plugins I use work fine (Session Manager, PDF Download, StumbleUpon and others).
The people tool bar introduced in the v1 versions is useful, but I would [...]

I have so not wanted to do this, but comment spam is making me crazy. Akismet says it has blocked 116 messages in the last two days, and I do not have a “popular” blog, cripes I hardly even use it. From now on in only registered users will be able to comment…..
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