Archive for February, 2008

Disabling Autoplay in Gnome

February 28, 2008
By SeanJA

Well, recently I bought a dvd drive for my computer which runs Ubuntu (and Windows XP).  It is kind of annoying that every time that I inserted a dvd or a cd it automagically ran the movie in Totem,which is not a program that I really like, I prefer SMplayer. Anyway, you can stop...
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Farewell HD-DVD

February 25, 2008
By SeanJA

It is not like this is the first thing that M$ has ever backed that failed (Microsoft Bob comes to mind). Oh well, hopefully Blu-Ray will not flop as well due to the higher price. That would be a shame. There is also the problem of the ever changing format of blu-ray, every time...
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Online Polls

February 1, 2008
By SeanJA

Online polls are never legitimate. Everyone knows it. So, when the Trent Arthur’s poll recently was ‘stuffed’ as they called it, the poll was taken down because it was being made more illegitimate. Can an online anonymous poll really be made more illegitimate? Apparently they thought so: It would appear that someone has indeed...
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