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The Death of Usenet, part 237
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/05/ms_kills_groups/> "Microsoft is killing off its newsgroups and encouraging users to move to forums instead. The software giant has over 2,000 public groups covering its various products, as well as 2,200 private groups for the likes of Microsoft resellers. But from June... 8 May 2010 06:51

Oracle VM 3.2.1Beta1 out now
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010 18:18:19 +0100, thewildrover(a)me.com (Andy Hewitt) wrote: I just got this off the MacUpdate site, although couldn't find it on the VirtualBox site. Nor can I. I can only find 3.2.0Beta? Whoops! http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbo... 5 May 2010 16:03

Indie games bundle at your own price
http://www.wolfire.com/humble The selection of games is excellent: World of Goo Aquaria Gish Lugaru Penumbra Recipients are pretty good too: The game developers Childs Play (charity of the Penny Arcade folks) The EFF Shame you can't split the payment for the devs, since I've already bought th... 5 May 2010 08:13

Oracle VM 3.2.1Beta1 out now (was VirtualBox).
I just got this off the MacUpdate site, although couldn't find it on the VirtualBox site. Being a very light, non-critical user, I decided to give it a punt. I've just opened up, updated Additions, and now allowing other updates to complete (Windows and Comodo mainly). Seems very responsive indeed, as far as I... 5 May 2010 09:20

Macbook Pro 2.2
Hi I have now got this fixed. Was just wondering how much this would be worth. Its 250gb hd, 2.2ghz processor 2gb ram 128mb Graphics. 15.2 inch just had a new lcd panel in it. Only issue is the left side apple key is dead, and is really picky on what dvd media it uses as in burning. any ideas as to price? ... 4 May 2010 09:00

Adobe CS 5
<http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1657> There's a comment at the bottom for all the Adobe fans. -- Peter ... 4 May 2010 03:33

Nokia n810 pics, Was: Real-time USB status information
T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: On Mon, 3 May 2010 20:28:48 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: I will take some pics though so you can see. Cheers. ok, here goes: The screen is physically the same size, although the nokia has a higher resolution. <http://skitch.com/woody/db2s6/si... 6 May 2010 19:52

Movado Classic Museum Black Mens Watch 0605649
Movado Classic Museum Black Mens Watch 0605649 http://www.watchestrade.net/Movado-Museum.html http://www.watchestrade.net/Movado-Watches.html http://www.watchestrade.net/Movado-Classic-Museum-Black-Mens-Watch-0605649.html http://www.watchestrade.net/ <br />Stainless steel case. Black lizard strap... 3 May 2010 07:39

Real-time USB status information
I have an Apple Pro Mouse that's playing up; every so often it appears to hang for a few seconds. I don't think the problem is the cable, because no amount of interfering with it seems to trigger the behaviour. Is there a utility that will report in real tim on the state of USB devices on the bus? Daniele ... 6 May 2010 11:56

iTunes - re-encode on sync?
Am I imagining this? I'm sure that I heard it was possible to get iTunes to re-encode music on the fly to a more compressed format when syncing with an iPod or iPhone, but now I've decided to use it I can't find any mention of it. -z- ... 4 May 2010 04:39