GTA4 Banned in Thailand

August 4th, 2008

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Copies of the popular Grand Theft Auto 4 game are being taken off the shelves after an 18 year old teenager kills a cab driver.

The student is being accused of stabbing the cab driver to death trying to recreate a scene from the video game.

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Its Coming Along Nicely..

August 4th, 2008

The site has been up for less than 3 days now and I’ve been spending most of my time installing add-ons to enable such features as the post ratings, the contact form and youtube video display (on the wii homebrew post). Now all I have to do is write the content and hopefully increase the number of visitors/comments.

Do you have any ideas for discussions?

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Essential Firefox Extensions

August 3rd, 2008

I’ve been using Firefox for quite a few years now (since version 1) and I’ve had a fair share of different themes and add-ons for it.

Adblock Plus
Sick of those adverts all over your favourite websites, its simple, install Adblock Plus. Just right click the image and select Adblock Image, it disappears! You can also block flash banners and use ready made filters with hundreds of blocked adverts.

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Block Sites with the Hosts file

August 3rd, 2008

Hidden in the depths of the operating systems there lies a Hosts file. This Hosts file maps hostnames to IP addresses so can be used to redirect a website url and even block it.

Location of the Hosts file:

  • Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista: %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\ is the default location, which may be changed. The actual directory is determined by the Registry key \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\DataBasePath.
  • Windows 95/98/Me: %WinDir%\
  • Linux and other Unix-like operating systems: /etc
  • Mac OS 9 and earlier: System Folder: Preferences or System folder (format of the file may vary from Windows and Linux counterparts)
  • Mac OS X: /private/etc (uses BSD-style Hosts file)
  • OS/2 and eComStation: "bootdrive":\mptn\etc\
  • Symbian 1st/2nd edition phones: C:\system\data\hosts
  • Symbian 3rd edition phones: C:\private\10000882\hosts, only accessible with file browsers with AllFiles capability, most are not.

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Jeremy Langmead: Count me out of these Facebook invitations

August 3rd, 2008

Do you remember when your mum used to warn you about talking to strangers? Well, nobody seems to care any more who they talk to and some of them are paying the price, particularly those who like to organise their social life online.

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