Well I got a lot of money for x-mass and I thought it was time I got a Xbox 360. I really wanted it to be a Windows Media extender. But that hasn’t worked so well since every thing I have is on iTunes so pretty much nothing shows up or works. A few pod cast in H.264 show up but it says it can not read it. Net working the computer to the Xbox was really easy it took no time at all. I liked that it just used the internet on my PC to use internet TV. If you have allot of things that aren't copy weighted then this is perfect but if you use iTunes for everything like I do then its not as good. I hope too soon get some games.

-Mike

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Last Saturday I had a bit of a security breach. I came home from bowling and there were 10 firefox windows open and a help windows open. The firefox windows were all Live mesh help and firefox has been updated, and the help screen was about windows file and printer sharing.

I had no idea what was going on and I really didn’t know what to do other than Disable my wireless access card and run my Virus scan. Then I cracked open my laptop and went to leo’s chats and well no one was there and then I went to GRC but I really wanted an answer then. So I went to Chris Prillos chat and asked my question and they said to restore to back up and if it still seems weird to wipe it out. In the end that is what I ended up doing.

I had to wipe my computer clean mostly cause I wanted to be sure and I wanted what ever I had to be gone. I just could never trust that computer again. The longest thing about all this was reinstalling all of the updates after Vista SP1 because my router kept Disconnecting and I would have to run to the other end of the house every 5 minutes. Finding all my apps took awhile too and subscribing to all my pod casts took a wile.

At this point I got everything back the way it was. I Changed all my passwords words on all my computers so it seems secure again. After all this happened I thought about what was the last thing I downloaded and I think it was a torent file. Its the last thing I downloaded before I went the bed. There are 2 people I would like to thank and that is  Chris Prillo for his community he has and Leo Laporte for saying over and over to back up your data and if not for that this all would have been sooooooo much worst.

-Mike

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I had no idea that google was making a OS. It uses Ubuntu so if you are familiar with that you should be fine. Though the one thing I like about it is that it has a doc like OS X. But that is the mac fan with in me saying that. I think the G OS is quite good for net books witch is what they are being but in. Most of them made by Everex (not my favorite OEM). It installs just like any other linux distro so just burn the live CD and try it out and install. It really has everything you need for your basic user. It has Firefox, Open Office, google docs, Google Cal, Blogger, Youtube, gimp, most of the same things that are in Unbuntu.

Im sure you just read that last sentence and are thinking wait gmail, google docs, youtube and blooger are not apps. You get a cookie because they are not they are online apps and I like the way they prezent them in the OS. They open them in like a crome environment making them seem like local apps running on the hard drive. This is expected because this OS was made with net books in mind.

I have looked at this as good as I know how (Im no linux expert) and I think this is a grate linuxs distro for anyone who is fixing up a computer for someone that just wants to do e-mail and surf the web. It is a small kernal and it only needs a 1.25 ghz processor to run and vary little ram I was only using 512 MB in the VM I was using. You can get at thinkgos and there is also a myspace version with myspace apps on the doc.

-Mike

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Before I did the last blog update I saw my friend the vixy say somthing about R.I.P Pownce but I didn’t know what she ment by that. Then Just a second ago I saw a tweet from

kevinrose While I'm sad to shut down the service, I'm excited to join @sixapart as an advisor, cool stuff coming.

Witch kinda mad me said because I was just starting to use pownce again and I liked pownce. if you want to see everything you can go to the pownce blog or you can go to Six Apart.

-Mike

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I was just thinking today that Chrismass is coming soon and people keep asking me what do I want for Chrismass, There is alot I can think of none of it I will ever get unless my family winds the lotory but I thought I would make wish list as if money was no object. So here it is.

1. Mac mini
2. Xbox 360
3. The sims2 Pets
4. The sims2 Free time
5. A vizio HD TV
6. PS3 For the blue ray player
7. 32 GB Ipod Touch
8. Apple TV
9. HP Media Smart Server
10. Photo Shop CS4

Thats really all I can think of for now. That up there would make a grate Chrismas that HP Media Smart Server has been on my wish list for awile. Maybe some of this santa will put a Photo shop CS4 under my tree ^.^

-Mike

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