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With Internet Explorer 7 Beta 1 set to debut next month, Microsoft has quietly closed the door on Windows 2000 users planning to adopt the new Web browser. IE7 will require Windows XP Service Pack 2 due to internal security changes that rely on Microsoft’s latest operating system release.
The decision to update Internet Explorer [...]

The Halo Combat Evolved for Windows Website now offers a new client and dedicated server patches updating the PC edition of Bungie’s first-person shooter to Hotfix 1.07.
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The latest post on IEBlog (Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog) regretfully informs Win2000 users that they’ll have to move on in order to get new Internet Explorer goodies.
Microsoft has arranged to cut the power on Windows 2000 support after 2010, but the development team behind Internet Explorer is preparing the grave already. The three-strike knockout came [...]

theodp writes “Newsweek reports the inventor of Pong and founder of Chuck E. Cheese is getting back into the restaurant game. Adults welcome. At age 62, perpetual kid Nolan Bushnell wants to get gamers out of the house. This week, he will announce a new venture, the uWink Media Bistro restaurantchain. With screens at every [...]

Variety reports that screenwriter Jeff Nathanson’s scripts for Indiana Jones 4 and Rush Hour 3 are moving in opposite directions.
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License! magazine has published an article on the merchandise for director Peter Jackson’s upcoming King Kong . The article, available at the link above, says that Playmates Toys worked with Weta Workshop (”The Lord of the Rings” trilogy) on action figures for the anticipated film.
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Tutorial on how to make a 5 in 1 network cable. 1 cable to do ethernet, crossover ethernet, modem, null modem, and Cisco console cable. It’s every network admins dream.
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How did the current home-console controllers come to be? How have they evolved? You may have noticed some similarities between the current generation controllers, or between them and the previous generations of controllers. So, how do they all tie together?
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I like the characters in Amazing Spider-Man #520 (J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Deodato, and Joe Pimentel), but they have the wrong names. The active, take-charge, considerate older woman who decides that she’s going to turn the tables on Jarvis and take care of him is great, but Aunt May was an old-fashioned, elderly lady whom [...]

Zombies, Gore and bad acting. The perfect low budget horror flic you may imagine. Well, if that’s the case, I suggest you click here and read all about Return of the Living Dead Part 2 which is our latest DVD review.
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