Forty years ago this summer, Ken Thompson sat down and wrote a small operating system that would eventually be called Unix. An article at ComputerWorld describes the history, present, and future of what could arguably be called the most important operating system of them all. ‘Thompson and a colleague, Dennis Ritchie, had been feeling adrift…
Daily Archives: June 7, 2009
Loading All Your Wii Games From A Hard Drive Just Got Easier [Wii]
Remember this cool Wii hard drive hack? Great. It just got a whole lot simpler thanks to Lifehacker and this handy (and updated) tutorial. [Lifehacker] Tweet Source
Star Wars: The Old Republic Updates
Subject: Happiness is a Warm Gun Principal Lead Combat Designer Damion Schubert talks about creating the Trooper class. “It was a tense day in the combat design pit. We had completed the first pass of our new character class, the Republic Trooper, and had made it available for the team to play. As part of…
Dunst Back for ‘Spidey 4,’ Big Hints on the Villain
All the talk of whether or not Kirsten Dunst will return to Spider Man 4 has more or less been settled, thanks to producer Todd Black, who commented on the next Spidey movie while being interviewed by The New York Post. The answer: Dunst will be back as Mary Jane, but there will be no…
Is the New Batman & Robin a Hit?
DC Comics may a full-on hit on their hands in their new Dynamic Duo, at least according to the over 6700 readers that responded to Newsarama’s latest reader poll this past week. The team of Dick Grayson as the new Batman and Damian Wayne as the new Robin who debuted in this past week’s Batman…
