Free Linux Ubuntu CDs

They will send you a bunch of likely LiveCDs.
Cool stuff if you have never used it.
Boot to your CD drive and you have Linux running in your RAM.
You can save a Windows partition, access files or just play around.
Take the CD out and reboot and Window is just as you remembered it.

CLICK HERE. 

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How to get your missed TV shows with Azureus and Bittorrent

Cut from link below

Often times there are multiple shows on at the same time that I would like to watch and I wanted a way to be able to watch those other shows.

I have a 37 inch Dell LCD TV and enjoy watching as much HD content on it as I can. Hooked up to it via one of the HDMI ports I have a PC which I am using as a media center. It currently has two hard drives in it, a
120GB and a 250GB along with an ATI Theater 550 TV card. I use the TV card to record shows that are not generally in HD content or we don’t care that they are in SD, like soaps for my wife. The rest of the shows that we’d like to watch in HD or missed recording we download from the internet using a Bittorrent client as I’ll describe now.

http://ipbs.blogspot.com/2006/02/how-t

email etiquette

This was sent to me at work.  It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails.

Please read the short letter below …

Do you really know how to forward e-mails? 50% of us do; 50% DO NOT.

Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That’s right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel! How do you stop it? Well, there are two easy

steps:

(1) When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That’s right, DELETE them.

High light them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes a second.You MUST click the “Forward”

button first and then you will have full editing\ncapabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don\’t click on\n”Forward” first, you won\’t be able to edit the message at all.

\n\n

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one\nperson, do NOT use the

To: or Cc:columns for adding e-mail address. Always\nuse the BCC:(blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This\nis the way that people you send to only see their own e-mail address. If you\ndon\’t see your

BCC: option click on where it says To: and your\naddress list will appear.

Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that\’s it,\nit\’s that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say\n”Undisclosed Recipients in the “TO:” field of the people who\nreceive it.

(3) Remove any “FW:” in the subject line.\nYou can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual\ne-mail your reading.

Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages\nto read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual\npage you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails\njust to see what you sent.

button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don’t click on “Forward” first, you won’t be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the

To: or Cc:columns for adding e-mail address. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy) column for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way that people you send to only see their own e-mail address. If you don’t see your

BCC: option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear.

Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that’s it, it’s that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say “Undisclosed Recipients in the “TO:” field of the people who receive it.

(3) Remove any “FW:” in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail your reading.

Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By Forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent.

completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks\nto a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email\naddresses contained therein.

If you want to support the petition, send it as your\nown personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more\nweight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a\npetition.

So please, in the future, let\’s stop the junk mail and\nthe viruses.

Finally, here\’s an idea!!! Let\’s send this to everyone\nwe know (but strip my address off first). This is something that SHOULD be\nforwarded.

Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and email addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and email addresses contained therein.

If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and email address on a petition.

So please, in the future, let’s stop the junk mail and the viruses.

Finally, here’s an idea!!! Let’s send this to everyone we know (but strip my address off first). This is something that SHOULD be forwarded.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

What is Damn Small Linux, a.k.a. DSL?

DSL is a very versatile 50MB mini desktop oriented Linux distribution.

Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:

• Boot from a business card CD as a live linux distribution (LiveCD)
• Boot from a USB pen drive
• Boot from within a host operating system (that’s right, it can run *inside* Windows)
• Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call “frugal install”
• Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
• Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
• Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
• Modularly grow — DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize

DSL was originally developed as an experiment to see how many usable desktop

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two good shows… gone

West Wing and Arrested Developement.  (nods to Globe and Mail)

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

It’s the show everyone wants to save but nobody will put on television. Is this the final countdown?

ANDREW RYAN

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It’s
inevitable that most Arrested Development devotees are in denial over
the show’s imminent departure. The beloved comedy closes its third
season this week and in all likelihood it will be the last time we
spend any time with the dysfunctional Bluth family. It will be a sad
day for fans of quality television.

After months of speculation and much dithering by network execs, the
Emmy-winning comedy appears to be coming to the end of the road. As of
this writing, the show’s prognosis wasn’t good: Fox entertainment
president Peter Liquori said it was “highly unlikely” that Arrested
Development would ever reappear on Fox; in network jargon, that means
never. His ABC counterpart, Steve McPherson, expressed passing
interest, but later backed off, saying, “I think it’s a long shot.” No
one really believed ABC would schedule it alongside According to Jim or
Hope and Faith.

For a few days there was hope Arrested Development might resurface
on the U.S. cable channel Showtime which really excited some fans,
since the U.S. cable channel is not bound by network censors and
competitive scheduling. And then that deal fell apart. There was even
one bizarre rumour that posited a secret deal had been struck in which
a cloister of Hollywood big shots had bought the show and would produce
it with the original cast, in an undisclosed location. And then this
supposed dark consortium would sell the show exclusively to video iPod
users. You read all kinds of things on the Internet these days.

It’s not that unreasonable for Arrested fans to hold out hope. Fox
brought back the previously cancelled Family Guy after the show
garnered phenomenal DVD sales. Likewise, the short-lived series Firefly
returned last year as the feature film Serenity. But Arrested
Development is a different sort of TV creature.

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The lingering threat of cancellation has always hung over Arrested
Development, right from the show’s debut in November 2003. The show was
just too weird the furthest extension imaginable from the regular
network sitcom format. There was no canned laughter and none of the
principal characters were very likeable, at least at first, with the
exception of the beleaguered protagonist, Michael Bluth, played by
Jason Bateman. The rest of the Bluths were a wonderfully wretched lot.

Patriarch George Sr. (Jeffrey Tambor) had been indicted on damning
criminal charges (something about a deal with the Iraq government to
construct low-cost housing), leaving Michael to run the family business
and provide caregiver duties to his odd immediate family, specifically,
his besotted mother Lucille (Jessica Walter), idiot brothers Gob (Will
Arnett) and Buster (Tony Hale) and sister Lindsay (Portia de Rossi). A
widower, Michael’s only hope of sustaining the Bluth family line was
through his son, George Michael (Michael Cera), a nice kid, though he
seemed to have an unusual attraction to his own cousin, Maeby (Alia
Shawkat).

Arrested Development was quirky, if low-rated, and won five Emmys in
its first season. Fox bounced it around for three years, before finally
settling in on Friday night last year. As in previous attempts, the
ratings were good, not great, and the inevitable cancellation rumours
returned.

To the credit of creator and executive producer Mitchell Hurwitz,
the show will go out with a bang, not a whimper. The regular lunacy
seems to have been ramped up for Arrested Development’s final chapters.
For the fans: Scheming George Sr. hires a new attorney who arranges a
mock trial in preparation for the real thing. All the Bluths are
required to testify at the mock trial (except Buster, who is faking a
coma), which is presided by the right honourable Judge Reinhold, as
himself.

In other activities: Michael is stunned to learn he has a sister he
never knew about, named Nellie (played by Bateman’s real sister,
Justine). And Gob obeys a directive from George Sr. to embark on a
clandestine evidence-removal mission, which naturally ends up in a dank
Iraqi jail.

A shroud of secrecy was veiled over the shooting of the very last
episode in the Arrested Development timeline. The only program details
from Fox reveal that the trial is finally over, after which the entire
Bluth family gather together for party, held aboard the Queen Mary, no
less.

There are no encouraging clues to be gleaned from that scant
storyline, but Arrested Development devotees are hopeful. No doubt the
true fan base will hold out for a series reprieve, right up until this
week’s last few episodes and likely long thereafter.

THE ARRESTED TIP SHEET

-Arrested Development was created by Mitch Hurwitz and is executive
produced by movie majordomos Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and David
Nevins. Howard also provides the narration.

- In its first season, Arrested Development collected five Emmys,
including Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Writing. The show
has also earned honours from the Television Critics Association, six
Golden Globes and the TV Land award of “Future TV Classic.”

-Two of the most popular players weren’t intended as part of the
show’s regular mix: The characters of George Sr. (Tambor) and Lindsay’s
husband, the addled Tobias (David Cross), were originally minor
characters who became more pivotal to the story after producers saw
their audition tapes.

- The show has always included an eclectic mix of music particularly
the 1986 single The Final Countdown, by the one-hit group Europe, which
is the musical backdrop for Gob’s magic act. n A myriad of Hollywood
stars have guest-starred on the show, including Charlize Theron, Julia
Louis-Dreyfus, Liza Minnelli, Henry Winkler, Martin Short, Scott Baio
and Carl Weathers.

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Check out the future

http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927

This is awesome.. .thanks Kacee

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