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March 2006 - Geeqs.Net // Keith's Blog

  • Universal Studios "gets it" in the UK

    Today Universal Studios UK announced that they'd soon allow consumers to download DVD movies over the internet . "It gives instant access, it gives portability and it gives much greater flexibility for the consumer to consume his product any way they want," said Universal Pictures UK Chairman Eddie Cunningham. Universal Pictures is part of General Electric's NBC Universal unit. Hollywood studios have been reluctant to sell digital versions of their blockbusters for fear they would be copied and pirated...
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  • Why do I think The Ultra-Mobile PC wont suck?

    A week or two ago, Microsoft attempted to start up a viral marketing effort on a new product they'd code-named ' Origami '. What this turned out to be was a new form-factor for PC hardware that they later officially named the " Ultra-Mobile PC ". This device is smaller than a ultra-portable laptop, but larger than a pocketable PDA. The big difference btween this and the PDAs availble today is that this is running a standard PC operating system - Windows XP Tablet PC 2005. The fact that these will...
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  • Impressions of the new PC

    So I've told you what I had before , and what I replaced it with . I haven't yet told you what I think of the new hardware I've put together for my new PC. Here's what it looks like all put together... I've now had some time to work with the new system and I can give you my impressions of the various components I chose to build my system from. The Case Normally, the case might not be an important part of your PC, but I had some specific expectations about my new PC. One expectation...
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  • Now running CommunityServer 2.0 release

    Updated to the release version. Looks clean so far. More bugs fixed and some still remaining. Anyone know of an easy way to set up a URL rewriter to redirect old blog requests to my new blog? I get a ton of bad urls coming in that the new CS3 doesn't support and I'd like to redirect these people to the right page.