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Metallica: “The Day That Never Comes”

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:

Australia | Belgium | Canada | Denmark | Finland | Ireland | Luxembourg | Netherlands | New Zealand | Portugal | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | United Kingdom |

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.

  • “Death Magnetic” CD
  • “Death Magnetic” Double LP Vinyl set, 33.3 RPM
  • “Death Magnetic” Deluxe Edition 5LP limited edition vinyl set! The deluxe edition comes as a 5LP gatefold, 180gram Audiophile Quality Vinyl, Half Speed Mastered at Mobile Fidelity 45 rpm. Comes with Death Magnetic lithograph!
  • “Death Magnetic” Coffin Box Set
    The Coffin shaped box contains the new CD along with a bonus CD with demos, DVD with more making of footage, a flag, guitar picks, fold out poster, a T-shirt, and a free download of a European Show happening in September. Free digital download of the album (320 KB/S) available at 12:01 am on September 12th!
  • “Death Magnetic” Digital Download

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.

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HP MediaSmart: System Temperature and Warranty Policy

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.

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South Park: Uncensored Season 11 DVD

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.

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iPhone Software 2.0.2 is Released

Apple releases iPhone Software 2.0.2 today. The update weighs in at 247.8MB for iPhone 3G and available through iTunes. The update for original iPhone weighs in at 241.9MB.

Apple describes the update contains “bug fixes” without any further explanations.

Be sure to back-up your iPhone before applying this update.

iPhone Software 2.0.2 – iPhone1,1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw  | 241.8MB

iPhone 3G Software 2.0.2 – iPhone1,2_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw  | 248.7MB

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HP MediaSmart EX470/EX475 Hardware Upgrade

Well, I should have looked for some informations before I started opening up the MediaSmart server. Apparently someone already went through with it, and put up a really nice instructions on how to do it.

It took me quite a chunk of my time figuring out the way to disassemble the unit. After the RAM upgrade is done, I found the instructions on the internet. I could’ve saved a lot of time opening the unit.

Anyway, what’s done is done. The next thing I want to do is upgrading the processor.

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Mac OS X: Invisible Home Folder

UPDATE:
I still don’t know how it happened, but I realized that I could toggle the invisibility bit.

One weird thing happened on my MacBook Pro, and I just recently noticed it. I am not really what really caused it, but there are some theories about it.

My Home folder seems to be “invisible” under the Finder. I can see it through the terminal, and through the side bar.

I’m combing through the usual places for clues and solutions.

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