Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Media Defender makes a boo boo, I hope that they have good lawyers


Last week, the great people over at Media Defender were accused of shut ting down the Revision 3 website with a denial of service attack. If you are not familiar with Media Defender, you should be. They are the ones that the record companies, movies companies and pretty much anyone who owns distributed and copyrighted material out there hires to take down peoples websites that share these files using bit torrent. I don't see how that is legal at all but then again, I'm not a lawyer. I think that this is a hilarious mistake made by Media Defender to shut down the website of the company that actually owns the material that they are distributing. Revision 3 produces many pod casts and other forms of media through various websites. The files that triggered this to happen was apparently pod casts being distributed using legal bit torrent sharing programs. The website was down for a full three days before it was made public that Media Defender was accused of being the source. I am a big fan of the Revision 3 pod casts and was a little surprised that during this period I was not able to get any new material from my sources that distribute Revision 3 pod casts. I hope that Revision 3 gets a HUGE settlement from these douche bags. These are the same guys that tried to shut down The Pirate Bay and did actually shut down Torrent Spy for a short time. I wouldn't be surprised if some grey hat hackers turned the tables on these sell outs and shut down their entire service. (Not that I condone that) Oh yeah, here is a picture of the president and CEO of this company. Like I said, bags of douche.

Friday, May 30, 2008

New blog layout

For those that actually do read my blog, let me know if you like the new layout. I am still working on the page but I like the progress so far.

Burn After Reading, Red Band Trailer

I saw this on Movieweb.com and thought that it looked promising. I just hope that all of the good parts aren't in the trailer, which is pretty funny.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Lost your Dell laptop recovery disk? Any Dell disk will do.


If you have ever experienced the panic that comes along with needing to reformat your laptop HD but you can't find the exact recovery disc that came with it, worry no more. While I was at work we had this issue present itself and I had to be creative to solve it. We have hundreds of different Dell laptop models running around the tech departments and no one person has ALL of the model specific recovery discs for each model. I did some research and through trying some different things I found that a Dell C840 recovery disc will work with a Dell D620 machine. The recovery discs aren't model specific at all, only the OS is the difference. So, if you lose your recovery disc for that old laptop, pop the newer laptop recovery disc into it and format away.

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Bill O'Reilly behind the scenes remixed



I have never been a fan of Bill O'Reilly but this makes me like him even less. If I wanted to see and hear en ego maniacal deuce bag, I would watch the State of the Union address. This is pretty funny though. The original video is below this, it's as equally disturbing.

Monday, April 21, 2008

I think that I could take more than this

30



I found this on my co-worker's blog. If you want to see how many children you could take in a fight, click the link to take the test.

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Madonna ruins another art, too bad it wasn't her own.


I contacted the Center for Movies and Other Stuff for some reference materials regarding Guy Ritchie last night after watching Revolver. As you can see, the graph starts strong with Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and peaks with Snatch. After this, you can see the sharp decline in creativity due to Madonna crushing Guy Ritchie's soul. I can't feel sorry for Guy Ritchie because he chose to be with her but his movies are really lackluster lately. After the Madonna entrance, the Swept Away premiere was met with "Gigli" type reviews. And then, Revolver. Geez, I really had high hopes for this movie. The beginning started strong and the setup was great but as the story went on, both my girlfriend and I started to look at each other in confusion. The action was there, the stars were present, the story had potential and then it took a sharp right turn and somehow it ended up in Ishtar. The last movie on the graph is Rock n Rolla. This movie hasn't been released yet but if the prior two movies are any indicator of how this movie will be, it will be a stinker. I don't usually write about movies on my blog but I couldn't let this one pass. Madonna, release your clutches on this poor soul who is now dead behind the eyes.