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Site being transferred

April 28th, 2008

We expect the site to be going down sometime this week while we move from GoDaddy(Which has done a great job hosting us) to 1&1 (trying something different). Once the site goes down, we expect it to be down for a couple of days until we get the site restored. Thanks!

Andy

Associated Press Typo? WTF!?

April 27th, 2008

AP Typo

I went onto Google News this morning to see a typo by the Associated Press. Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t it supposed to be 70,000 years ago? not 70,00? what also shocked me is the headline to the right about humans living with separate “bands” for 100,000 years is also a typo. “bands” is supposed to be hands. What is weird is this is by the Agence France-Presse (AFP). Since I was reading it on Google News, is it possible it was Google’s fault? either way, I’m laughing my ass of right now, you’d think they would be all correct and everything, well,  this has been up for two days now and they haven’t even changed the darn thing!

Over the past 24 hours we have installed Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” on all four of our computers. A warning to all you laptop users, The Restricted Drivers Manager (Now called “Hardware Drivers”) is really messed up. If your using a laptop and have wireless (Especially Broadcom) you may have some trouble successfully activating wireless and video card drivers. I have no clue why it got screwed up but I bet it will get ironed out within the next month or two (or perhaps weeks). Stay tuned and I’ll update you on how the new version is!

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Its out! Ubuntu 8.04 codenamed “Hardy Heron” has been released. If you can, use a torrent for a faster download. If not Click Here. This release will have LTS or Long Term Support meaning that support will be available for Three years for the desktop version and five years for the server version. Remember, Ubuntu Linux is completely free and comes with great support. We are currently downloading the ISO right now and we’ll update you on how it is ;)

Downtime

April 19th, 2008

We apologize for the downtime. Our hosting was switched from GoDaddy (Which has wicked good Hosting) to 1&1. We also are in the process of laying the foundation to a future project. Stay tuned for more details about the new project here at Techtwins.com

New Idea is a Brewin!

April 13th, 2008

Just want to let everyone know that we are brainstorming a new idea for TechTwins.com. I’m not going to say what it is right now, but just wanted to let you all know that we haven’t forgot about you. We should announce within the next two weeks or so, so, stay tuned!

University of Maine Law students are going after the RIAA because of their unlawful spying on people who steal music. The University of Maine’s law students are also in the process of defending the 27 University of Maine students that were caught by RIAA this past year. There is also another case besides this one in which a lady is taking the RIAA to court over the same thing. If one of these cases wins, the RIAA’s suing spree will come to a drastic halt. I’m sure that most college students and other music-loving people will be cheering the University of Maine’s School of Law in the fight against the RIAA.

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I went to mycokerewards.com to enter a code from a Powerade I bought last night (actually the the machine gave me two) and was shocked that it was actually down. I find this a rarity that a site from a large corporation such as Coca-Cola, so I took a screenshot to add to my archives.

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Firefox add-ons New UI

March 27th, 2008

Anyone notice the new UI for Mozilla’s Firefox Add-ons page? I am not sure if this has been around for a while or not, but I don’t remember it yesterday!!!!!

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Watch South Park Online

March 25th, 2008

I was looking around Digg and wached WebbAlert and found out that you can now watch South Park episodes online, for free. The best thing about this is that it’s 100% legal. Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creaters of South Park came up with a deal with Comedy Central to split the earnings in half. Now there is no need to go to youtube when you got southparkstudios.com. All the episodes are there so I highly reccomend that you check it out! The only problem is that it only works well if you have very good internet. I think that all the wrinkles will be flattened out as it gets out of it’s beta stage.

Clicky!

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