How they world nearly ended 20 times

This is an interesting article listing twenty different times the world was nearly destroyed by nuclear war.

My Fall TV Picks

With everything on the air this fall the following are my picks of what to watch:
American Dad
Angriest Man in Suburbia*
Black Donnellys*
Bones
Boondocks
The Class^
Desperate Housewives
Dr. Who
Entourage
Eureka^
Faceless*
Family Guy
Friday Night Lights^
Happy Hour^
Heroes^
House M.D.
How I Met Your Mother
The IT Crowd
Jericho^
Justice^
Kidnapped^
Knights of Prosperity*
Las Vegas
Men in Trees^
Metalocalypse^
Method and Red*
Monk
My Name is Earl
NCIS
The New Adventures of Old Christine
The Nine^
Nip/Tuck
Notes From the Underbelly*
Our Thrities*
Psych
Raines*
Rescue Me
Robot Chicken
Runaway^
Scrubs
Secrets of a Small Town*
Shark^
The Simpsons
The Singles Table*
Six Degrees^
Smallville^
Smith^
South Park
Spooks
Standoff^
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip^
Til Death^
Traveler*
Tripping the Rift
Two and a Half Men
The Unit
Vanished
Venture Brothers
Weeds
What About Brian
The War at Home
*=New show not yet scheduled to air
^=New Show

UPDATED: Each show is now linked to a list of available torrents for that show.

ALTV - Black or White

Don't know why, but I've been on a Weird Al kick lately. It's most likely due to Straight Outta Lynwood, bonus track here, being released. Here is Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video with new vocals done by "Weird Al" Yankovic for his ALTV special in the mid-90's

White & Nerdy

Weird Al's new video show what is means ti be a geek.

Banned 300 trailer

We'll not realy banned, put WB is asking anyone who hosts this trailer to pull it from their website. Watch it while you can.

So much TV so little time

With the fall season beginning to get underway, a common problem arises. When two or more (often three in my case) of your favorite TV shows air at the same time, how do you pick what to watch. Now sure you could record all of them with your quad tuner custom built HTPC, but how many of us really have on of these? Or you could record as many of your shows as possible with your dual turner dvr and let ted "record" the rest for you. Now you may be saying, "What the !$%# is ted?" Ted stands for torrent episode downloader. What you do is add a list of your favorite shows to ted, along with their corresponding RSS feeds (go to tvRSS.net for those) and what the next episode to air is. After that ted will periodically check the RSS feeds for any new episodes and download them once they're found. What makes this different for your bittorrent client's built in RSS reader is you won't accidentally download the same episode twice, and it will work with any major bittorrent client (see full list here).

P.S. this is great for those BBC shows like Dr. Who, Spooks, Sorted, and The IT Crowd which air in the US one year later than they air in the UK. That is if they even get aired in the US.

UPDATE: It appears ted will only autostart torrents using Azureus if it is already running. This doesn't include running in the system tray. Azureus need to be completely open.

Winadmin tools

This is a great site contain a bunch of useful script geared toward sys-admins. My favorite is a script called waNOCAPS which permanently disables the CAPS LOCK key.

Another great source for sys-admin scripts is the The Script Center Script Repository on Technet.

WGA a pain to all

The following links will provide you with all you need to know about WGa and how to bypass it.

Find out if your windows uses a valid product key
RemoveWga 1.2 removes the Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications tool
Download everything from Microsoft without WGA Check

On a side note this article talks about running floppy boot disks off a USB drive.

Nintendo Revolution (Wii) Launch Details available

The launch details for the Revolution have been announced. They're scattered all over the web right now, but I've posted a consolidation of information on the launch at Fission Mailed. Linked to in the title of this post.

Sort your Start Menu & Favorites Automatically

"Even if you never change the menu order manually, your menu can soon become jumbled because new programs you install ordinarily place their shortcuts at the bottom of the menu. If you prefer to have your menus always sorted alphabetically, you can use a registry trick to force alphabetical sorts: remove permissions to the registry key that controls menu order.
Open Registry Editor and select HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MenuOrder.
On the Edit menu, choose Permissions.
In the Permissions For MenuOrder dialog box, click Advanced.
In the Advanced Security Settings For MenuOrder dialog box, clear the "Inherit From Parent" check box.
In the Security dialog box that appears, click Copy.
Click OK to return to the Permissions For MenuOrder dialog box, and then clear the Full Control access control entry for your own account and for any security groups that you’re a member of, leaving the Read access control entry in place. "

I've never had problems with this trick, but others have reported problems with it

myFairTunes6 v.0.5b (With 6x Speed Conversion!) - iTunes 7 DRM Cracked

myFairTunes6 v.0.5b (With 6x Speed Conversion!) has been released. What's great is it supports cracking the DRM on iTunes 7. Below is the current changelog for this new release

New For 0.5b
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- iTunes 7.0 Support !!
- Adjusted some patch logic to minimize iTunes crashing..
- additional Stabilization
- Added more Windows 2000 fixes (thanks iTunesIsEvil)


KNOWN ISSUE:
it still sometimes fails removing the track from the library.. but it does convert it and backup 100%

Repair image file type associations in Windows XP

If you're like me you've installed some kind of image editing software on your pc only to find this disables XP's built in Windows Picture and Fax Viewer as the default option for opening images. This is a real pain to restore (I've been trying to fine a way for the last year). Then I stumbled across this little (~21kb) app which will not only restore the default file type associations for all images but also change the image editor which is launch from the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. Finally Gimp and Windows Picture and Fax Viewer can ive togethor in peace

DevHook Ultimate Installer Website

It appears Chaos Zero, the man behind the DevHook Ultimate Installer has started a website decided to this fantastic project. you can find it @ http://www.ultimateinstaller.co.nr/, http://www.devhookinstaller.co.nr/, or lastly http://www.devhookinstaller.2fear.com/.

Ubuntu Post Install Help

The following sites will help you get the most of of you new Ubuntu install.

Ubuntu Guide
How to: Broadcom Wireless cards without Ndiswrapper
Improve performance in Ubuntu
Automatix
Automatix Help/Howto
Easy Ubuntu

Cox Surveyors = Dee Dee Dee

So I received a e-mail from Cox the other day asking me to take a customer satisfaction survey. I thought why not. But when I got to the following question (see screenshot below) I couldn't help but break out laughing.
Last time I checked FTP only works to transfer files between multiple sites online, not to create websites. That's what Notepad is for.

My Favorite Online Comics

A list of my favorite web comics is availabe here.

What are your favorite web comics?

Will I'm on the subject of comics this program parses various comics into a single webpage for easy reading. And this program makes reading cbr's and cbz's a snap.

Autorun any app off your thumdrive

If your like me your thumbdrive contains a varitey of portable apps. Wouldn't it be nice to have them all available via Autorun? If you like this idea check out http://www.pegtop.de/start/

PStart works by allowing the following:

PStart uses relative paths, when installed as a portable application. If your USB key drive gets another drive letter when you insert it into another computer, your portable applications still can be started properly. This means you can also use PStart to start applications you burn to a CD (and don't know the drive letter either).

Online Entertainment

It's amazing what you can find online these days. Here a list of various site that make getting your entertainment fix easier

TV: http://www.eztvefnet.org/
TV: http://tvrss.net/
Movies: http://www.fanedited.com/
Comics: http://www.thewebcomiclist.com/
Comics: http://trackerb.zcultfm.com:6969/
Comics: http://trackerb.zcultfm.com:6969/
Comics: http://trackerb.zcultfm.com:6969/
Music: http://www.mininova.org/search/
Games: http://www.underground-gamer.com/
Games: http://bitgamer.com/

2.71 PSP's say "Goodbye" - Downgrader Released!

"As some 2.71 PSP’s say hello to the world, others will be saying goodbye at the same time as a downgrader has been released just a few moments ago!!

For this one occasion, I grant you permission to jump on your computer’s desk; jumping up and down until you have broken your desk. The reason for such a command is that after you have done it you probably won’t care about the desk, as you have just read that a 2.71 downdater (downgrader) has now been made available! Yes, that’s right – all you 2.71 owners (who do not have a TA-082 motherboard) will be able to downgrade your PSP to firmware 1.50."

Read the rest @ the source