Comment Paradox (Score 3, Funny) 141
So what happens when you send a unit back in time to kill itself?
Comment Re:Welcome to Niggerbuntu (Score 3, Interesting) 150
Is the root troll an auto text generating bot?
Hmm... It might be an interesting project to write an auto troll feeding bot.
Microsoft Issues Workaround For Zune Freeze 277
UnknowingFool writes "As a followup to the Zune New Year's Eve meltdown, Microsoft has issued a workaround for what some users have correctly guessed was a bug caused by a leap year. To recover from the problem, let the Zune drain the batteries and restart it after noon on January 1, 2009. Many sites are reporting that Microsoft has 'fixed' the issue, but technically all Microsoft has done is to ask users to wait out the conditions that triggered the bug. Unless a software patch comes out, Zunes will suffer the same problem again in four years." Reader ndtechnologies adds, "According to posts in the Toshiba forum at anythingbutipod.com, the same bug that shut down millions of Zune 30's also affects the Toshiba Gigabeat S. The Zune 30 is based off of the Gigabeat S series and was co-developed by Microsoft with Toshiba."
Comment Re:Hardware support? (Score 1) 543
For all those issues, who do people call? Not Microsoft... Pfft, they call Dell, HP, or whomever they bought their box from.
Thats because they paid very little for that copy of the OS, if you buy a copy of windows off the shelf (instead of the OEM copies that come with PCs), you get Microsoft support.
Indian Moon Mission Launched 305
hackerdownunder writes "India's maiden lunar mission (Chandrayaan-1) got off to a flying start today. Describing the launch as 'perfect and precise,' the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), G Madhavan Nair, said that it would be 14 days before the satellite would enter into lunar orbit.
Chandrayaan carries eleven payloads: five designed and developed in India, three from the European Space Agency, one from Bulgaria and two from NASA."
ITunes 8 a Real Killer App; Taking Down Vista 735
CWmike writes "Apple 's latest version of iTunes crashes Windows Vista when an iPod or iPhone is connected to the PC, scores of users have reported on Apple's support forum. Plug in and Vista crashes and shows the 'blue screen of death.' The errors began showing up immediately after updating iTunes to Version 8.0, which Apple released Tuesday as part of its iPod refresh. 'I just installed iTunes 8 over my iTunes 7 on Vista [and] now whenever I plug in my iPod, I get a blue screen death. Three times so far. Even if it is plugged in on boot, I get a blue screen," said a user identified as 'sambeckett' on the support forum about 90 minutes after Apple CEO Steve Jobs wrapped up the iPod launch."
Feed Engadget: Sony chief see next-gen format war in a "stalemate," wishes he could go back and (engadget.com)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
We've resisted the temptation to map the next-gen format war to Greek tragedy this long, but if Sony CEO Howard Stringer keeps giving speeches calling the conflict a "stalemate" and "a matter of prestige," we're not going to be able to hold off much longer. Speaking in Manhattan, Stringer said while "it's a difficult fight," Blu-ray was winning "on the merits" for a time before Paramount went HD DVD exclusively and that now the issue would be decided on other factors, like prestige -- but that "it's not as important as all that." He further went on to say that there had been a chance for unity before he became CEO, and that he wished he could go back and try to make it happen. If we had to say, it seems as Stringer would certainly like to win, but he's resigned himself to whatever outcome may be in store. Of course, he didn't hesitate to mention that the Blu-ray-packing PS3 is now the best-selling console in Europe and sales in the US have doubled after the introduction of the 40GB model, but we'll see what the numbers look like after a holiday season chock-full of $200 Toshiba HD-A2s.[Via Boy Genius Report]
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Feed The Register: DoubleClick caught supplying malware-tainted ads (theregister.com)
'Your PC is hosed. Click here to fix'
DoubleClick, the massive internet advertising network that recently agreed to be bought by Google, has been caught serving rogue ads designed to trick users into buying unneeded software, according to an article on eWeek.
Feed Wired: First Look: Microsoft Delivers Zune 2 Music Player (wired.com)
Chinese Sub Pops Up Amid US Navy Exercise 916
One NATO figure said the effect was "as big a shock as the Russians launching Sputnik." American military chiefs have been left dumbstruck by an undetected Chinese submarine popping up at the heart of a recent Pacific exercise and close to the vast USS Kitty Hawk. By the time it surfaced, the 160ft Song Class diesel-electric attack submarine had sailed within viable range for launching torpedoes or missiles at the carrier. The incident caused consternation in the US Navy, which had no idea China's fast-growing submarine fleet had reached such a level of sophistication.
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