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Stranglehold – Not Illegal in Switzerland

Today marks the day a Swiss judge (female) has ruled that Stranglehold is “not cruel nor had urged the atrocities depicted”. And the displayed cruelty is not against human dignity. The game itself is a so called “killer game”, but not forbidden by law. This decision marks a landmark for the Swiss gaming industry for […]

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Past Hypes: What Happened To … PHP-Nuke

Remember everybody favorite PHP CMS “PHP-Nuke” (Wikipedia)? Well, it looks like the maintainer has sold it last autumn/fall to an unknown seller for an unknown price. And today I got this email: I’m writting to you because you were or you are user of PHP-Nuke and for me is important to inform the community that […]

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Mozilla Firefox 3 On It’s Way

A couple of days ago I put some Mozilla Firefox banners on this blog (see above). This is because I want to support the launch of the new Mozilla Firefox browser 3, which is due in a couple of weeks. I’ve supported the launch of Firefox 1.0 by donating for the super-awesome-mega-great NY Times ad. […]

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Novell To Launch “SUSE Studio”

Novell has announced “SUSE studio“, an online editor for creating custom made installation discs of SUSE Linux. It is currenetly in an alpha stage and you can add your email address for an invite. Watch the screencast for a quick introduction. Sounds great, but is there an export to Amazons EC2 (Amazon Machine Images)? Wouldn’t […]

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