Actor, Charlton Heston, has passed away at the age of 84. There will be a private memorial service.

R.I.P.

Rockstar games has finally announced the release date for its upcoming Grand Theft Auto IV. The chosen date is April 29, 2008.

Next-generation Console Debut of the Grand Theft Auto Franchise Set for April 29, 2008

New York, NY – January 24, 2008 – Rockstar Games, a publishing label of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO), is proud to announce the release date for Grand Theft Auto IV, the new title in the genre-defining Grand Theft Auto franchise. Developed by Rockstar North, Grand Theft Auto IV will be simultaneously available for Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system and PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and will be in stores worldwide on April 29, 2008.

“We are so excited to be releasing Grand Theft Auto IV,” said Sam Houser, Founder and Executive Producer of Rockstar Games. “We’ve pushed ourselves very hard to make something incredible and hope the game sets a new benchmark for interactive entertainment.”

For more information, log onto http://www.rockstargames.com/IV

I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year.

And please stop shooting your guns now. It’s almost 12:30. Seriously.

The phpBB Group finally released phpBB3 Olympus to the masses. I installed it on our server at http://www.zombiefied.net/phpbb/. I also used a converter so that all of our posts and information will be there. Jump on over there and give it a spin, and let me know what you think. I was thinking maybe ditching SMF and going back to phpBB.

I decided to move the forum from zombiefied.net/SMF back to forums.zombiefied.net

I also added a 301 redirect to point all queries made to zombiefied.net/SMF to the new location. That means that you won’t need to update links. The only thing you will have to do is logout and clear your cookies, then log back in.

I decided about a week ago that when the latest release of Ubuntu came out that I would give it a whirl. I have had some experience with Linux in the past so I figured it would be a breeze. On Thursday I downloaded the latest release(7.10 Gutsy Gibbon) but I didn’t have any time to go about installing it. On Saturday I went to burn the image to a cd but it appears my cd burner doesn’t want to read or write anymore. I decided to give Wubi a go. I have heard so great things about it and some not so great things. Wubi creates a file on your Windows partition that will house your Ubuntu install. There are some downfalls such as slower disk speed access and it is very prone to hard reboots.

Overall the install with Wubi went well and soon I was cruising along. Personally I didn’t notice any slower disk speed on my 7200rpm hard drive but I wasn’t using it that long. I figured I might as well download the updates and then upgrade to 7.10(Wubi is still using 7.04 with 7.10 being alpha). This was a big mistake. If I had read the support forum beforehand I would’ve known not to upgrade my install like that. I was left with an unusable system. I decided that since I was going to use LVPM anyway, I might as well just use my disk with 7.04 on it.

To shorten this up a bit, I installed 7.04 and resized my hard drive. This drive was partitioned as NTFS and contained my media (videos, mp3s and all my backup data). The resize and install and upgrade went very smoothly and I was once again dual booting WinXP and Ubuntu.

In the next article I will address issues with Ubuntu, such as the monitor resolutions, package installations, compiz fusion, etc.

A major recall is underway involving possibly E. Coli tainted ground beef. Here is the list thus far:
• 10-pound boxes of “Butcher’s Best 100% all beef patties 75/25, 4 oz (4-1), 40 pieces”

• 10-pound boxes of “Butcher’s Best 100% all beef patties 75/25, 6 oz flat, 27 pieces”

• 10-pound boxes of “Kohler Foods 4 oz flat hamburger, code: 60100, 40 pcs”

• 10-pound boxes of “Kohler Foods 6 oz flat hamburger, code: 60200, 27 pcs”

• 10-pound boxes of “Kohler Foods 8 oz flat hamburger, code: 60300, 20 pcs”

• 3-pound boxes of “Mike’s 12 seasoned beef patties”

• 5-pound boxes of “Mike’s 20 seasoned beef patties”

• 3-pound boxes of “Pathmark 100% all beef burgers, 16 beef burgers”

• 5-pound boxes of “Pathmark 100% all beef burgers, 20 beef burgers”

• 10-pound boxes of “Pathmark 100% all beef burgers, 40 beef burgers”

More after the jump.

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“This is something that’s completely unprecedented”

A new and intense type of radio burst has been discovered. The single, short-lived blast of radio waves likely occurred some 3 billion light-year from Earth, but scientists aren’t sure what it means yet.

“We’re confused and excited, but it could open up a whole new research field,” Lorimer told SPACE.com of the 5-millisecond blip on the cosmic radar screen. “If we really go after these things, we expect to find out that a couple hundred of them occur each day.”

Source: msnbc.msn.com

Yeah, I got bored, so I started messing around and came up with this theme. Hope you like it.

The development team for Ubuntu have announced their next release dubbed “Hardy Heron”. It will succeed Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10, due for release soon). It will be released in April 2008 and will bear the badge of Long Them Support (LTS), meaning it will be supported with security updates for five years on the server and three years on the desktop.

Read the official announcement here.

I haven’t used Ubuntu since my other hard drive died, but I am seriously considering reinstalling once 7.10 comes out. It has come a very long way and I truly feel it is very strong competition for Microsoft and Apple.