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“ACME This Week” with Carlos Alazraqui August 23, 2008

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I am at ACME Comedy Theater waiting for “ACME This Week” to start. Apparently they are running late, but the show is starting.

Metallica: “The Day That Never Comes” August 21, 2008

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UPDATE: “The Day That Never Comes” is available at iTunes Store (USA iTunes Store). It is of coursed DRM’ed and etc. It is not available yet on Amazon MP3 store because of the Copy Protection issues. Bad DRM, bad! I could include the link to the MP3, but Lars would be mad at me because he needs the money for the gold-plated shark tank bar installed right next to the pool that he always wanted (see South Park: Christian Rock Hard).

“The Day That Never Comes” on iTunes:

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Metallica premieres “The Day That Never Comes” today. The second song off “Death Magnetic” following the live performance of “Cyanide” at OZZFEST 2008 (August 9th).

The song can be heard through Metallica Official Website, Mission: Metallica Site, Metallica’s MySpace Page, and select radio stations.

As always, unofficial downloadable audio of this song can be found on the internet.

The song is reminiscent of Metallica’s own past works. “Fade To Black”, “Orion” and “One” come to mind. One thing for sure that this is nowhere near “St. Anger” which can only mean good things.

“Death Magnetic” will be released on September 12th worldwide in digital download format. “Death Magnetics” comes in multiple formats and packaging.

From Metallica:

The Death Magnetic Coffin Box will NOT ship the week of the release and could be several weeks later, we are sorry for the delay.

If you’re looking for “The Day That Never Comes” mp3 (or anything like it), it is somewhere on the internet.

Be careful because some sites (including blogs) are posting fake links to malicious DNS Trojan Horse download.

Carlos Alazraqui To Host “ACME This Week” August 20, 2008

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Carlos Alazraqui, from Reno 911! and Taco Bell Chihuahua fame, will be guest-hosting “ACME This Week” for Saturday August 23rd, 2008.

Carlos Alazraqui

The show starts at 8:00PM
Tickets: $10 plus 1 drink minimum

ACME Comedy Theatre
135 N. La Brea Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036

HP MediaSmart: System Temperature and Warranty Policy August 19, 2008

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According to HP, a small percentage of HP MediaSmart EX470/EX475 comes with redundant sensors that is showing false temperature readings. HP is providing a software hot-fix for the unit equipped with the faulty sensors. HP will not make any hardware repair on the affected units.

Based HP Technical Support:

The attached software patch disables the notification of the redundant sensor and ensures that you will not receive false hardware alerts in the future. The key temperature reading for your Mediasmart Server is the CPU reading. This sensor is the focus of the temperature control design and is functioning properly, so you can be assured that your HP MediaSmart Server is operating as designed.

The software patch is available only through HP Technical Support, and is not available through HP Web-Site.

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According to HP Technical Support, RAM upgrade will void MediaSmart warranty. To be honest, this is not a good move by HP. The system comes with a mere 512MB RAM, which is not enough for any real server task. Try installing McAfee Total Protection Service add-in, and the Windows Home Server’s performance will turn into a crawl.

Crucial is selling compatible RAM upgrade for HP MediaSmart EX470/EX475, unfortunately HP Warranty Policy does not support such upgrade.

South Park: Uncensored Season 11 DVD August 18, 2008

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I’ve been busy with a lot of thing for the past three weeks, and forgot all about South Park Season 11 DVD set. It was released on August 12th, 2008 (a week prior to this post). Now I can re-rip the DVD in higher quality to replace the digital copy I purchased from iTunes Store.

Season 11 is filled with classics such as “With Apologies to Jesse Jackson” and “Guitar Queer-o” just to name a few.

South Park Season 12 is tentatively scheduled to resume sometimes in October 2008.