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Strat gamers lookout:

A new game Battle for Middle Earth has really upped the ante with stunning graphics that go alone with the great gameplay we have come to know and love with current high end strat games like Age of Empires. For my internal friends it will be our latest \'nerdgame\' to play.

http://www.eagames.com/official/lordoftherings/thebattleformiddleearth/us/home.jsp

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Secure free disk wiping util:

Ok you need to dump your computer. It has as junker 10GB or 400MB hard drive on it. But you still have personal information on it that need to go. Programs can easily recover a harddrive with ALL its information on it AFTER you have done a full format (not the quick format). Grab this free app to format your drive and your set:

http://staff.washington.edu/jdlarios/autoclave
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Verizon High speed Internet Mobile Access:

Overseas have this and it is starting to come to the US. Verizon has started rolling out a semi-high speed wireless service. You can get 300-500kbps of speed and busting up to 2Mbps downstream and 40-60kbps upstream over a pcmcia card that looks like just a regular wifi card. Currently the service is only in Washington, DC and San Diego,CA at the moment but outside these areas they still offer service but the speed drops to 40-60kbps busting up to 144kbps.

Check it out here:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/mobileoptions/broadband/index.jsp?action=broadbandAccess
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XBox Chipless Mod:

Ok so you never had the chance to go and jam in an Xecuter3 into your Xbox to do your moding becuase you were not skilled enough? Well here is a method that allows you to jam in a usb pen drive into the crontroller and a modified version of a game to run and install software.

It is very cool and lets you hack the xbox without having a mod chip installed.

The faq on this went off line but here is the way it works:

1) You need Mech Assault game, action replay, and a usb drive. Here are some links:

Mech Assault:
http://search.ebay.com/mech-assault_W0QQsokeywordredirectZ1QQfromZR8

USB Adapter:
http://www.xbox.com/en-us/pso2/keyboardadapter.htm

Action Replay:
http://www.lik-sang.com/list.php?nav=over&category=85&

2) Install the USB adapter into your xbox game controller
3) Load the Xbox without a CD and goto game saves and select memory card
4) Load the 007 (this works also) or Mech Assault and select copy and copy to hard drive
5) Load the game and goto load games and load the save game. It will run evox and you can setup the ftp server to be running at that point.

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