Darth Vadar calls the emperor to tell him the death star is gone
Probably one of the funniest videos I've posted this year. Darth Vadar calls the Emperor to tell him that the death star has been blown up and the Emperor gets pissed.
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Hello, I love soccer, Tennis, ping pong, video games, and hangin out with friends. I'm a student from NY and I'm going to SUNY Fredonia in August for Computer Science and English.
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Weird Al's new video, parody of Ridin Dirty
I thought this was awesome, so I figured I would post it. That and I've been giving out the link to a lot of friends and I'm getting tired of copying and pastying all the time. Instead of Ridin Dirty by Chamillionaire, its White and Nerdy.
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2nd generation Ipod Shuffle
Wow this thing looks awesome. Look at how freakin small it is!
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RC car jumps a house
This is insane. Not too mention the car still worked aftewards! awesome!
RC Car Jumps House
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Most amazing table tennis ever. EVER
This rally is THE best rally I have ever seen in my life and I love ping pong. You have got to watch this video.
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Fake picture generator
Great for forum images and stuff.
http://www.says-it.com/
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Steve Irwin on Conan
You should know this by know if you've looked through other videos posted, but I'm a huge Conan fan, I think he's hilarious so it comes naturally that I would post this video in honor of the crocodile man himself, Mr. Irwin. So here ya go.
Steve Irwin on Conan O Brien
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Free TV shows on Youtube
This looks pretty awesome, especially if you're a Seinfeld fan. This guy put together a list of uploaded episodes of random shows and 44 of them are Seinfeld episodes. Definitely worth it if you are at work or school and have a pair of headphones.
List of shows
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Interview with Phil, creator of AIM Ad-Hack
AIM Ad-Hack is one of the most popular downloads for AIM. It gets rid of the buddy list and IM window ads along with all the extras to come packaged with AIM. It's a spectacular program and I download it everytime I have to install AIM on either my computer, or someone elses computer. So here are some questions I asked him about Ad-Hack.
1. What made you want to make AIM Ad-Hack?
One day after an upgrade. I ended up getting a streaming video ad, it ticked me off so I decided to put a stop to it. I originally only did it for me but a friend said "you should make a page for it!" So I did.
2. Is it just you that does all the work, or do you have people helping?
Nope, I have a partner; cub. He imed me one day asking if he could re-write my crappy installer. He did one hell of a job and has been my right hand [sometimes right and left] ever since. Hell, as of late, the updates on AIM have been so minor it only requres a tweak or 3 from him on the installer end. The last time I really really got my hands 'dirty' on the project was during one of AIM's "rewrites" where I had to do some comparing of code from old hack to new hack and the newest release uses one of my more 'brute', slash and burn techniques from the first trial tests of our Triton builds. So right now I handle the web stuff, the server load, and when something major happens with Triton I dig in.
3. What has been the most rewarding part of creating Ad-Hack?
Good question. I guess doing something that has such a large following.
4. Do you plan on making any other programs, or are you going to stick with just this one?
I tinkered with Yahoo for about 5 min. I'm thinking about picking on Windows Live Messenger if i can.
5. When you first started this project did you realize it was going to grow like it has?
Had no idea. Tossed it on the web almost on a dare.
6. What type of servers do you use?
Well the system actually changed last week. Used to be an old AMD 3000 XP Pro router into the adhack server. Switched that to a linksys router when the hard drive started to vomit. Adhack itself is served off a Pentium 66 Slackware box. Something like 94 megs of ram or something, can't remember. Had the server for eons. It just keeps running..
7. What type of traffic does your website receive? (hits, page loads, bandwidth, etc)
Oh goodness... oodles. In June of 06 we did 6110156 KB [yes, a big b]. In july we did 5882990 KB.
8. You've won four awards so far, which one has meant the most to you?
I was pretty proud of actually being featured on TechTV even though thats not an award. Other than that the 5 out of 5's are all from heavily respected sites so its hard to put any one before the other.
Thanks once again Phil for the time you took to answer the questions.
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Interview with Majorgeeks.com co-creator Tim Tibbetts
Last night I sent an email with a few questions in it for Tim Tibbetts, the co-creator of www.majorgeeks.com; a download site and support forum started in 2001. If you're reading this, I'm certain that you have probably stumbled upon the site sometime in your internet surfing career. It's a rapidly growing site with links from top software downloads like Lavasoft (creator of Ad-aware), Spybot, Spywareblaster, and more. The support forums are also magnificent, I have to admit that I've been quite a lurker on their forums and I have to say that I have learned a tremendous amount just from reading over solutions to posted problems, really. It is a very tightly knit community and everyone respects everyone and I enjoy communities like this. Well Tim happily responded to my email with the answers I had asked for not two hours before.
1. When you first started Majorgeeks, did you have any goals for the website? (growth, number of members, that type of thing)
To make a living in the web publishing business, though I had considered a job as Wal-Mart greeters, I doubt us geeks have the personality for it :) I used to be a driver for Airborne Express (now DHL) and injured my back, my hobby of computers has become my living. My partner Jim also wanted to continue in this business because Wal-Mart already turned him down. So, we want what everyone wants, as many members or visitors as possible. We honestly had no set number, we were scared about money because just as we started to take off, we were both broke and getting resumes ready. It was really that close!
2. What was your reason for starting Majorgeeks? (If I remember correctly, the forums came first back in 2001 I think).
MajorGeeks was an idea started with TweakFiles.com years ago, which we still had a lot of work to do to get it to where we wanted. It never was finished, or even close, when we were forced to sell that website along with a deal for selling 3dfiles.com. The forums did come first, a lot of old TweakFiles visitors managed to find us, which was VERY cool!
3. What is the most rewarding thing about running the site?
The emails (or forum posts) from people so happy they found us and were able to solve a problem or just learn.
4. Would you say you're pretty active in the forums?
Not as much as I used to be. With so much spam out there, I spend more time moderating (deleting) threads. We heavily moderate our forums for content and our readers appreciate that. Luckily we have great people there (too many to mention) who work tirelessly for no compensation whatsoever except the good feeling of helping and being a part of it. On average I check in on the forums about 15-20 times a day.
5. Over the years your site and forums have continued to deal with spyware more than anything else. Did it just occur this way on it's own or did you guys sort of aim the site towards fixing spyware?
We had no intention of it whatsoever. Our goal was to help people get the most from their computers, whether it was tweaking, repairing, changing the appearance or whatever, we wanted people to know their are tools for the job that can simplify it. Over the years we have watched basic security concerns like hacking and viruses turn to a financially motivated twist on those including spyware and phishing. Spyware just happens to be the big issue on hand right now, I think we got some help in that area by Lavasoft, the makers of Ad-Aware, linking to us as a download site when we were still a new website. This helped us start building a reputation as a trustworthy website. We also have many others such as Spybot, SpywareBlaster, Ewido and more who link to us that continue to help us help others. At one point, our website was being blocked by various malware creators so people could not download tools from us. You know you made it then ;)
6. What do you think is the key to the success of majorgeeks.com
Timing, like anything else. We had a good idea and happened to have spyware running rampant. It sucks and I wish it would go away because often I feel guilty that something so annoying helped us gain in popularity. Of course, helping people makes it all better. Jim and I are tireless and always on the same page, so that teamwork is vital to our success. That said, I am better looking and at last check, weighed less as well :) Our visitors are also passionate, always referring people to us. We have had people tell us that they were sent to us from from large computer manufacturers, internet providers and more as well.
7. What kind of servers are you using to run the site?
Wow, a lot? :) We have a dedicated server for the website and one for the forums. For files, we run 5 servers in various locations and 2 in Australia that were offered for free. We have a lot of Australian visitors, mate.
8. Just to give everyone an idea of how big the site really is, what would you say to describe the size of traffic you receive (hits, page loads, bandwidth, etc.)
I do not have the bandwidth numbers on hand, and traffic varies, but on average we have 2,000 people online at the main website at anytime and 3-400 on the forums. Part of the reason is I am not "allowed" access to certain features of the website where I can break stuff. LOL. I am known as a suicide tweaker, I love to tinker without a backup, which is fine until I destroy the whole website, which I used to be known to do.
9. Are there any new site features or updates to expect in the future?
Wow, are their EVER. MajorGeeks has so many areas where we can expand, but we like the "keep it simple stupid" theory, so we tread carefully. We are considering a few more categories and having the left menu expand for a few areas, so that internet tools, for example, can have a few categories such as FTP clients, tweaks, RSS readers, etc. As you know, we have mac.majorgeeks.com and our biggest project is a drivers section. We are sick of trying to find drivers and having to create an account or pay for what should be free. This is a big undertaking as we are only 2 guys and the drivers section, as far as file listings go, should be larger then MajorGeeks itself. I also started a gaming website called DemoNews.com, but it was never quite done as I wanted, so it will be relaunching soon as GoneGaming.com. We have a design in the works now. We also have an idea in mind for reviews that I think our readers will dig. We tried doing full bore reviews, but could not do them all with our limited time. We hope to launch both of these websites by years end.
Thanks Tim! For the in-depth answers, and the very quick response. And if you still haven't checked out www.majorgeeks.com go do so because it's a great resource for almost any download you could ever need.
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Success!
Well I've got the second computer up and running and I've got my music on my main computer transfered over to it, so now I've got the shoutcast server running full force. I've also got VNC running on it so I can control it four feet away on my main computer.
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