Windows 8 rant- full review coming(I think)

Windows 8 it one of the most controversial OS releases since vista. "The interface formerly known as metro that I think is now called modern," or TIFKAMTITINCM has replaced the start menu and begun to invade the desktop.

Good-
Windows 8 is faster in almost every single way.
Metro looks cool(some disagree, I think that's a personal preference)
Works on tablets too
Cheap!- $15 for special upgrades and ~60 for a copy
old laptops without windows 8 touchpad drivers are screwed

Bad-
Metro is wonky(search mostly)
No start orb(start8 by rocketdock)
UEFI boot is another attempt to kill linux
it transmits data to M$ constantly

Ill give a full review sometime soon, I just wrote this while It's reinstalling (I hate old dell laptops)

District 13-Movie Review!

District 13 is an action movie set in(what was) the near future. It was released in 2004, and was set in 2010. The worst Ghettos in France are walled off with no food, water, schools, police, or public services of any kind. Damien, a budding super-spy/star policeman, is put in charge of disabling a neutron bomb that was stolen by a gang led by Taha. Taha importes much of the cocaine, heroin, and most of the other drugs that plauge the district. He is rivaled by Lieto. Lieto was born in district 13 just the same, but he fights to keep his people free of drugs. At one time he had opened a school, which was shut down long ago. The movie opens with Leito desytroying 1 million Euros of stolen Cocaine from Taha. This is inturrupted by K2, Taha's right hand man, invading Lieto's home and slaughtering his men. K2 tries to kill Lieto, but Lieto uses his highly advanced parkour skills to evade his men. After this, Lieto invades Taha's base and captures him, and his sister, whom K2 kidnapped. They flee to the police station to turn Taha in and flee the district, only to discover that it is being abandoned, and the warden must cooperate with Taha's men, putting Lieto in jail and allowing Taha to take Lieto's sister back into the district. Lieto goes insane from this, killing the Police cheif when he apologises to Lieto, effectivly landing himself in jail. A few months pass, and Taha steals a neutron bomb from it's convoy. He tries to tamper with it, activating the timer. Damian is sent to find and defuse the bomb, and is told to trick Lieto into helping him. Lieto sees through this, escaping. Damien meets up with him and explains, and they form an alliance. Lieto intentionally get them captured, and the two give Damian's superiors Taha's bank account number. They escape, and Damien's superiors drain all of Taha's Bank accounts, and he is then killed by his gang because he cannot pay them. K2 is then the head of the gang. He contracts Damien and Lieto to find and disarm the bomb. They find the bomb, and start to enter the disarm code when Lieto realises that they are actually arming it. He stops Damien, and they both know that the bomb was meant to obliterate district 13, and was never stolen. They return to the outside, and fight their way to Damien's superior. He is exposed to the media, and Leito and his sister return to district 13.
This was an excellent action movie and I give it 10/10. It has an equally magnificent sequel, District 13: Ultimatum. The sequel was english dubbed, but the first one can only be found subbed here:http://www.fullmegamovie.com/watch/district-b13-2004-english-online/ It is an excellent sub.

webcomic 2: ctrl+alt+del

control+alt+delete(CAD as I call it) is a very gaming centered comic.
the art is fantastic, and the cast is Ethan(the worlds single weirdest person), Lucas (a fanatical but logical gaming addict), and Lilah(a female Lucas that ultimately marries Ethan), and some supporting cast. The comic strikes a nice balance between long, drawn out stories and quick one liners. There are small amounts of sex(mostly references to porn, occasionally one hints to sex, and rarely some skimpy clothing).

Control+Alt+Delete's Homepage

Hello

my deepest apologies but work, school and other obligations have prevented posts since...i dont even know how long anymore. Deepest apologies and I will try to add content...including the fact taht I will now write about other geeky things(webcomics, movies, etc.) because I want more posts on this thing and uite frankly I think it would be fun :p.

Pageviews

Wow! we have our pageviews at 3040!
Thanks for your support, I will try to keep delivering great articles and maybe even a few extra posts.
On another note here are some things we recomend:
Google chrome
Libreoffice
Ubuntu/linux mint
gmail
google reader
VLC media player
Tremulous
PLants vs zombies
glass onion windows 7 theme
windows 7
just google for them.

A halo mod!

Hello we have made our first halo mod!

Basicly it

plasma rifle now fires tank shells

plasma pistol fires plasma grenades

assault rifle fires charged plasma pistol shots

pistol- skorpion shells as well(working to change to sniper rifle shots)

working on a download link!

Modding Halo PC

Hello all, I already showed you how to get Halo PC for free, and now you may have finished it, or so you thought.

I will be using a tool known as HHT or Halo Hacker Tools. Despite the complicated sounding name and UI it is very simple, and I even got my parents to use it!

1. download HHT at http://halo2.filefront.com/file/Halo_Hacker_Tools;44736

2. extract the .zip to a folder like C:\ or desktop

3. open said folder. make a shortcut to the .exe that runs the program

4. use it

5. HHT will open. find your halo maps folder which is usually someplace\halo\MAPS

6. select a map. the ones with names like a10 are campaign levels. the farther up the letter/number it is is which level. In windows eplorer, Pillar of Autumn is at the top, and the maw is at the end.

7. find weapons in the middle window and expand it

8. choose the weapon you want to change

9. in the top right window, scroll down to proj (short for projectile)

10. highlight it

11. look in the bottom right window. change the projectile via dropdown.

12. change it! don’t use grenades though I haven't found a way to add velocity, so, you’ll just blow yourself up.

13. fire up halo PC and try it out

14. read other guides, like the one that came with it ;)

Un-soft-brick G1!

ok do this. http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/Unbrick
only though once rc29 is flashed, flash rc30, the rc33. RC30 is found herehttp://code.google.com/p/android-roms/downloads/list?q=label:OTA_ROM

SOPA and PIPA

Hello all I came to tel you about SOPA and PIPA. These are 2 bills theoretically to cut down on piracy, but they can block even sites that "condone or don't do enough against piracy." In other words, Facebook, twitter, blogs, even CNET and ourselves! Please do this immediately!

no tablet for us

hello all, Unfortunantly I could not grab a touchpad because of a glitch in ebay :( and I still have not gotten a new computer yet due to money issues :( and I have had to downgrade from android to a java phone :() so basically I will have to shut this down. Check back after christmas

Cheap tablets

Hello all,
I give you a wonderful christmas present(for yourself maybe ;).  anyways starting late today(like 11) and tomorrow there will be a firesale on hp touchpads. the 16GB model is $99 and the 32GB is $149. You may be suspicious of such cheap hardware, so I'll give an explanation.
Why so cheap?
HP's webos couldn't compete with android and IOS so HP is shutting it down.

So the tablet is good but the ****ty OS makes it a worthless peice of junk?!?
Yes, but you can install android or ubuntu on it, but ubuntu is not very ready yet.

WHERE!?!?!?!?!?!
hp's ebay store in the laptop section!

Anything else?
the accesory pack is $79 and employees get first dibs. You need to have an ebay and paypal account.

Free XBox Live on PS3's, PSP's XBox 360's and even the original XBox!

For those of us who either do not want to dish out some ludicrous amound of cash for XBox Live, Or a WBox Wifi Antena, or simply have an older model you are not alone. THere are 2 services out now known as Xlink Kai and XBConnect. They both work the same way, where you hook up a PC running thir software to the same LAN as your Xbox/360/GCN/PSP/PS3 that in turn tricks them into thinkin other consoles on the internet are other consoles attempting a system link.
First Choose your service. Xlink Kai supports the Gamecube, XBox, Xbox 360, PS3, and PSP. XBConnect Supports only the original XBOX.
Second, Set up your network. you need to get your console on your network. Since I have the original Xbox, I will use XBConnect, althought th two work exactly te same.
Method A
USing an ethernet cable, plug your console into your router. Do the same with your PC, or use Wifi.
Method B-If you have Dual band wifi and widows 7, you can connect to you network via Wifi, then use your Ethernet port to connect to the console, the use Win7 to "bridge the connections."
Method C
If you do not have dual band wifi, I recomend using an android phone as a USB wifi adapter by tethering via USB then disabling 3G/4G. THis will simulate dual band wifi. You can do the same with a real USB wifi adapter.
Third, create an account on your service's website, then install their client. Load up a game on your console, and go to the system link option. Wait here until your PC can populate a listy of "games" or servers. Enjoy!

Free halo: Combat Evolved for PC

This is a 10-y/o game made by Bungie. It is the original game in the Halo Franchise and still is awesome and lots of people play on the net and there are a lot of servers. The PC version has Banshees, rocket warthogs, flamethrowers, and a few extra bonuses over the console version. It requires no installation. It is a .zip. My close friend who I have known since the 2nd grade uploaded this.


Disclaimer:I am in no was responsible for the content of this post or websites referred to in it!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=279257FL

Apology

Sorry guys but I cannot finish my "complete Guide to Linux" series because My PC Crashed and am now using the library computer.

Linux part 2-installation process

Skip the intro. That was in part 1.
A. Wubi
Download the wubi .exe, run , reboot and select the linux option and finish the installation.
B. Normal
Download the appropriate ISO for your distro, burn it to a CD or USB drive, then boot from the USB/CD and install.

Beginning Linux part 1-Install

Linux is a fantastic OS and is far supirior to windows AND osX, otherwise known as mac. It also offers many installation options such as DWM(desktop window manager), Distro(everything EXCEPT the kernel), and installation type.
1. Choose your Distro
Section 1-netbook
A debian derivative is fine here, I use (L)(X)Ubuntu. Just no KDE, and GNOME is risky. I recomend LXDE or XFCE as your session manager.
Section 2-Old PC
Damn Small linux, then Xubuntu, then Lubuntu at the best
Section 3-Laptop
Debian/ubuntu derivative. Maybe you can get away with KDE....
Section 4-Desktop/Gaming laptop(e.x. Alienware M1x)
GO CRAZY!!!!

2. Choose your install method
Section 1-Wubi/Lubi
Only availible for ubuntu derivatives and linux mint, this installs linux as a dual boot. The unique thing is that linux is simply a program in windows, however for all instents and purposes is a conventional linux dual boot. Windows recomended, linux possible
Section 2-Dualboot
down and dirty dualboot on a seperate partition
Section 3-Conventional
Clrean install. No other os's, and only one partition.
Section 4-live CD/USB
Installation onto a USB drive. everytime you boot up, your previous programs and settings are gone.

I recomend Wubi for windows dualbooting or if you have enough disk space to afford keeping Windows. A couple of tweaks are needed to get it working with Windows 8(see previous post) but they are easy, quick, and simple. See part 2 for installation instructions.

Windows 8 -Linux dual boot(Wubi)

Windows 8 has a new feature that prevents new entries to the boot image, etc. Fortunatly there is a way around this.
1. download and install win8
2. downlaod and install easyBCD INSIDE win8
4. Downlaod the Wubi.exe file inside win8, run
5. Open EasyBCD and make your newfound (x)ubuntu the "default OS"
6. Reboot, select (x)ubuntu
7. this will complete your linux install
8. reboot and choose win8
9. enjoy!

Windows 8 is finally here!!!!

GET IT NOW!!!!!

I apologize for not making this longer and including a guide. I will make a new post as soon as I finish my homework.

Tweaking the hell outta Windows 7 to make it more like windows 8

ah windows 8 the fabled arm-x86-x64 compatible windows OS. But we're still stuck with Lousy old Windows 7! The solution is of course to hack it.
Disclimer- I am not responsible if you screw up your computer
Note- this works on netbooks too!
1. download everything here
http://pisadeviant.deviantart.com/art/Zetro-VS-1-3-214393983
http://rainmeter.net/RainCMS/
http://omnimo.info/

2. un zip/unrar everything into different folders onto your desktop
3. open up the Zetro folder-->extras-->unextheme patch--> universal theme patcher x86.exe and patch EVERYTHING
4. open up the Zetro folder-->theme and copy everything there to C;/windows/resources/themes
5. go back up to the rott of the zetro folderand do everything in the Readme(you did the first part already) including the system files.
6. open the extras folder-->tools
7. run all the tools the files for each is usually in the same folder as the .exe
8. reboot
9. right click on the desktop, choose personalize, choose the appropriate zetro theme
run and install rainmeter.
10. try to open the omnimo file accoring to the readme
if rainmeter is in portable mode--when winddows rebels hit select program, browse-->%rainmeter\addons\rainstaller\rainstaller.exe
11. install omnimo
12. customise omnimo
save the customized omnimo as a theme.
13. DONE!!!!!!

THIS GUIDE ASSUMES YOU HAVE A x86 MACHINE RUNNING WIN7 PRO+!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Newbie's guide to TOR

TOR is an Onion router based system that will hide your ip, location, and other internet credentials from other parties. Due to the recent bills passed by congress, or if your government censores you you should get TOR. This guide starts as one splits in 2 peices for a short duration that rejoin at a later point that has another optional fork at the end.
***************************GETTING TOR***************************
Method 1:go to https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html.en and get the Vidalia Bundle and install it. Configure to run at startup, and install all extras(no crapware here, only what is completely nesessary)
Method 2:go to http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1088 and hit the download link at the top, then follow the "How to extract" instructions
***************************CONFIGURING TOR***************************
1. open either PortableTOR.exe(method 2) or open TOR from the start menu(Method 1)
2. open the Vadilia control panel
3. under the general tab check all the boxes EXCEPT "start Proxy application when Vadilia starts"
4. make sure that the path to TOR.exe is in \App\PortableTor\Tor.exe
5. close the control panel, click "start TOR"
6. THIS STEP HAS A PROCEDURE FOR CHROME AND FIREFOX
CHROME
a. install Proxy Switchy! from the chrome web store
b. go to the proxy switchy! options menu
c. rename the profile to "TOR"
d. make sure to have the following listed under manual configuration:all of the boxes to the left say "localhost", and then make sure all the boxes to the right say "8118" EXCEPT the bottom one which is "9050"
e. hit save
f. go to the "General" tab
g. check "quick switch"
h. check "binary switch" then make "profile 1" direct connection and make profile 2 "TOR"
i. DONE!

FIREFOX
a. go to https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/index.html.en in firefox
b. hit the link to "install stable"
c. let it install like any other firefox addon
d. tada!
STEP 8
go to https://check.torproject.org/ to verify that everything works correctly
NOTE: in chrome, you can also go to the proxy settings, LAN settings, and the advanced proxy setting and input the info from step "D" from the CHROME guide to make chrome use TOR all the time also i recomend pinning the https://check.torproject.org/ site to verify tor is on(don't forget to reload if you hit proxy switchy! though)