CROMM CRUAC (Really Dark Flash Site.)

This site is different from most sites. It mixes flash, 3d images, and video. To make one dark and crazy site. Go to the gifts area and find out about collecting all the keys to unlock extra content.

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Massive In Feature Films (Program used for King Kong 2005)

Massive is a powerful tool for making creative visions come to life on the big screen. Feature filmmakers have used Massive to create scenes once possible only in the imagination, but now affordable and within reach. (It say's it affordable but it's $18,000 USD per permanent interactive license.)

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Blender Animation Festival 2005 (Open Source 3d modeling)

These are the nominations and winners of the third annual Suzanne awards, this year entirely devoted to animations created in Blender. I like the one with snoopy.

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Multibooting with Windows XP : From Microsoft

Mulitibooting with windows. That's funny. They have ad campaigns that say Windows Server it better than Linux and this is on there website. It's old but still funny that why have this. It say's Windows 98 but you know you wouldn’t need do it for that.

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The New Format

Just after posting my new episode. I'm happy to say "This Rocks". I know that sounds corny but I'm glad the 4 emails. I've received were positive. Thanks for listening. I'm going to have a special guess for the show next time. If things work out. And I know my audio is popping in a bad way.

THE STATION EP. 004 (New Format)

This show is about with my new format with songs for my friends and everyone. I want to talk about Podshow.com and Music Industry. I love Podshow for helping change the way we get music. Podshow.com is a place where you can get your music heard though podcasts.

Songs
L.A. Nightmare .22
Blowing Snow Marco Raaphorst
Collapsulin Astonishing Sod Ape
Waste Another Night My Little Radio
Love Survives Lovespirals

All songs are at
Music.Podshow.com

Other Podcast I love:
ThisWeekInTech.com
DailySoucecode.com
DawnandDrew.podshow.com

Just right click and save the podcast icon to get the show. If you want a podcast receiver try Juice. On the right side of my site I have links to everything for Juice (podcast receiver) to Feedburner (The podcast feed to get the show on demand.)

System76 (Ubuntu Linux On the Desktop & Laptop)

This place is where you can get Ubuntu Linux on the desktop. Of course there is a problem. The laptops are not cheap. I think they over charge with there laptops. The desktops are ok. But way pay for a $1,299.99 laptop and that's the cheapest one.

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THE STATION EP. 003

Show Notes

• About the show and other comments.
• Movie- Serintty, Lord of War, 40 year old virgin, Reefer Madness
• TV- Weeds, Huff
• Anime- Naruto
• Linux

This is my 3rd show so I'm going to have better audio in the 4th. Sorry for the delay. And I know that you want to know about what's going on with my other host. I'm going to have them in the fourth episode. So stay tuned.

To get this show you can click the podcast icon below or use Juice (premier podcast receiver) and get my feed. There's links to Juice on the right side of the website. And links to other sites I go to.

Ubuntu Certified for IBM DB2 (This is a PDF Danger for 56K losers.)

London 9th November 2005 : Ubuntu is moving into Enterprise computing with IBM's certification of Ubuntu as “Ready for IBM DB2 Software for Linux”. Ubuntu has successfully gone through the stringent process whereby IBM ensures that DB2 Universal Database for Linux operates in the Ubuntu environment.

I think it's cool and I hope they sell a linux box.

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This Week in TWIT

Well today I sent an email to "This Week in Tech". There one of my favorite podcast. That and the Daily Source Code with Adam Curry. I'm really happy about TWIT. But I wish they would listen to there messages. At first they were about the fans now its about promotion. I know that want to talk about what's going on in the tech world but can that listen to there fans.

Maybe there will be a slow week and they can go to there email.

Eric Schwartz (This guy has funny songs)

The official site for Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E
Comedian::Actor::Rapper He is so funny. His songs and videos. If you want to hear something funny here it is.

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Show Update : Where are we?

Well things are looking up. I just finished doing the film on linux. Which is a "How to install Linux." I'm happy with the final shot. Now I have my friend editing it and later post it here. I'll have another video in the works. I find out what going on with that later.

PS. I'll have the video up soon. I just need more time on it.

What's Up?A Linux Tech show?

What would you say to a linux tech show. On the internet to download that would be starring Ubuntu in the first few episodes. I'm talking to some friends of mine and are thinking of starting things up. I just wanted to know what anyone else would like to say about doing this show about open source. I haven't seen any shows about open source and the ones that do just leave up for only 2 mins. My plan is to have a show that will show off open source and of course Ubuntu in a 20-30 min show.

Draft: 1. Installing Linux 2. Updating 3. Customize 4. Get other Software (Multimedia, programs and cool stuff).

I know it my sound corny but it will be for people who don't know about linux and open source. I want to show them an open source world.

Update: I have a donation button up if you want to support my work.

Edubuntu Release Announcement

(I'm using this for my nieces old PC.)The aim of Edubuntu is that an educator with limited technical knowledge and skill should be able to set up a computer lab, or establish an on-line learning environment, in an hour or less, and then administer that environment without having to become a fully-fledged Linux geek.

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Ubuntu wins Best Distribution Award

At the UK Linux & Open Source Awards dinner held on October 5th Ubuntu was awarded the Reader Award for best distribution. Debian and Red Hat were also on the short list. I'm torn between Ubuntu and SUSE.

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Weezy and The Swish - episode 17

(Laura Swisher from Unscrewed and Louise Palanker Comedian/Writer/Teacher new podcast episode.) Weezy posts her profile to the masses in hopes of attracting some of the weirdos that we might expect to respond to online personal ads. Be entertained as Laura reads her interpretation of this profile...oh yes, let the insanity ensue!

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HACKMyth (Uses KnoppMyth)

The place sells an all-in-one PVR box on linux for $999. I would buy one but, you could build a better unit. I don't want to spend that much. Next they will delete your shows after a week like TVIO.

HACKmyth as listed.

The HACKmyth system offers wireless Home Automation control combined with the MythTV software on one box that plugs into your television set. With a simple remote control, HACKmyth lets you can take advantage of MythTV functionality without wrestling with time-consuming issues like hardware compatibility and complex installation. Plus, your system will download updates automatically, saving you the time and trouble of frequently checking for new update availability.

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Sprint/Nextel 7100i Blackberry sneak peek

Check out a sneak peek of the yet unannounced RIM Blackberry 7100i that will be carried by Sprint/Nextel. From the looks of it, they have successfully integrated the walkie talkie feature into the 7100t Blackberry model. So far there is no set release date, although it is estimated that the 7100i will be available to everyone come this November.

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Shuttleworth invests in ImpiLinux

Mark Shuttleworth, together with ImpiLinux and various other investors have announced the successful conclusion of an agreement to combine forces in the South African and SADEC Linux market. The next version of Impi will be based on Ubuntu, and Shuttleworth will make a substantial investment in the new company.

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New Office Slang

This place is for new office slang. I found it on stumbleupon. My favorites are "Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM." and don't forget "Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible."

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THE STATION : EP. 2

Click the icon to listen to “THE STATION”

Special Thanks to Ourmedia.org and blogspot.com

Movies

Four Brothers – Just an old fashions story but deep.

Crash – The best cast I’ve seen in a while.

Anime

Gunslinger Girls – Great music with deep and sad story line.

Old School

Holy Smoke – Cool story but weird ending.

CD

Discover America – Call it in the Air, Green Eyes

Q&A

Movie I want to see, that they will screw up?

DOOM, Aeon Flux, Underworld 2, Max Payne, The Bourne Ultimatum

Movies that I hate?

Scream 3, Waterworld, Bones, and House of the Dead

Linux

Audacity, Ubuntu, Openoffice.org, Firefox, VideoLan, 7-zip, GIMP, GAIM

Music Provided by

SHANE HANDLEY
http://opsound.org/opsound/pool/handley.html

The musical works listed (and directly linked to) on this page are copyrighted by their authors and offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 License

Update: THE STATION

I'm going to post things soon. So I'll have things up and running. I just need to get to my friends computer to post in on his broadband.

-Big Rob

THE STATION : Status

Well after my first podcast. I've been getting more emails than comments. I would like for everyone to add comments on the show. Thanks.

PS. I'll have the next one up this weekend.

-Big Rob

My first podcast: The Station

THE STATION

Welcome to "THE STATION". THE STATION is just another podcast by losers who love movie, tech, anime, and an occasional taco. Because were in Texas. This is Big Rob Ep. 1 summer 2005

Thanks Ourmedia.org for the space.

Damn Summer Movies

Batman Begin

Bale - Equlibum, Machinist, Shaft, American Psycho

War of the Worlds

Tom riding shotgun.

Another actor that doesn’t have history.

This is Dakota Fanning's part.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Story was Ok.

Get the old one - Mark Hamlin

1. Disney 2. War 3. Rap-up.

Star Wars TV show plus Indiana Jones.

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Released late.

Brad and Angelina are funny.

Sin City

Just awesome.

Anime - Please Twins, Miami Guns, Full Metal Panic

Great Sequels?

Coming Soon and Stuff to see

Domino, Oldboy, Night Watch, Immoral, Firefly, Final Fantasy 7: Advent Children,

X-men 3, Pirate of the Caribbean 2 and 3, DOOM, Max Payne, MI: 3 Upside of Anger

Closing Thanks for listening everyone. This Big Rob saying “Were out of tacos and vodka.” Goodnight.

Corny Plugs

Online rent services - RentAnime.com

Anime Company in America - ADVfilms.com

Internet Movie Database - IMBD.com

Click the Icon for the feed.

Please tell me if you Hate it.

Xfce - Desktop Environment

Xfce is a lightweight desktop environment for various *NIX systems. Designed for productivity, it loads and executes applications fast, while conserving system resources.
I know it's old but this is what I use with linux.

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SUSE becomes open source OpenSuse

Novell is renaming SUSE Professional and releasing it as 100% open source. SUSE Professional is to be rebranded as OpenSUSE. If only they did this a year ago. I wanted to get Suse but I had to register and no new updates after a month.



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"THE STATION"

"THE STATION" at Ourmedia.org

Hello everyone this is your host Big Rob. This is my new podcast about movies and entertainment. We will be covering anime, live action movies, CG, and indie films. And most important the actors, writers and directors.

Well let me introduce you to my crew.

X-ray - The movie snob. X-ray is the type of person to see a movie with the best content. He loves old movies and indie films. He will be talking about actors and old movies. That's why he's in the show I need some one who is a big indie movie buff.

Tank - The Zombie killer. Tank is a hardcore zombie movie loving machine. He loves movie that have zombies, anime, TNA, or movies that are just campy. Just for some campy film info.

Mr. Smile - The Tech Support. Mr. Smile will be supporting use and giving use updated info. He live any movies with fast and expensive cars.

Big Rob - The Host. I love everytype of movie from indie to foreign films. I will be talking mostly about anime, foreign films, and movie updates.

Now that you've met the crew. You will hear are podcast coming up soon.

Special thanks to Ourmedia.org

Edubuntu - Same Distro. Different Flavor.

Edubuntu aims to be an Ubuntu version suitable for classroom use. The aim is to deliver a turnkey solution that enables time-poor educators with mid-range technical skills to set up a computer lab and/or establish an online learning environment.

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Go_Open available for download (to hold me until systm is out)

The entire go_open series is now available to download via BitTorrent. The series has been broken into two BitTorrent files, containing mp4 encoded video, go-open-vol-1.torrent (ep. 1-6), and go-open-vol-2.torrent (ep.7-13) .

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Canonical appoints Obsidian

Canonical and Obsidian Systems have announced the conclusion of an agreement that sees Obsidian being appointed as the first local services and support partner for Ubuntu Linux worldwide.

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GunBound very addictive.

Welcome to Gunbound. This game is so addicting. It's simple but gets crazy after 6 hours of it. You can use different types of units and each with different shooting style and strategy.

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Systm 2 Out!

Systm Episode 2!

I love Systm and if you don't know what that is then turn your computer off.

http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm--0002--mythtv--large.wmv.torrent
http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm--0002--mythtv--large.xvid.avi.torrent
http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm--0002--mythtv--large.h264.mov.torrent
http://www.prolexic.com/systm/vid2/systm--0002--mythtv--large.theora.ogg.torrent

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RENT ANIME DOT COM

I recently signed up for RentAnime.com. Which to my surprise is a really decent looking website and services? But you know how website sometimes screws you over in the end. It's not just another online movie ordering service. So I wanted to see if I was going to get screwed like a alter boy on his first day at Christian slumber party camp, when he for got to wear underwear and just dropped his penny collection.

So at first I went to the message boards where all anime nerds and other losers like me go. And I was really surprised to see that the reviews of the service. Almost all anime freaks said that they love the service and are getting the bigger plan for service. There are two plans of service you can have. You can have 3 movie delivered to you from your online list over movies you created for $19.99 or 1 movie for $9.99. The rental queue/ shopping cart are really good idea because you may want to just buy the movie. People who watch anime know what I'm talking about. With anime you may just want to see it again. Which it also gives you the option to buy the title on a discount and get the box with your next title on the rental queue?

AnimeNation is the company that created RentAnime.com and it a company that I've bought anime from for about 5 years. If you don't know by now but I fully support RentAnime.com. It's a great service and I hope I don't start buying everything I rent.

I know that there are other services but this is the one that had the best service but customers.

Cingular + T-Mobile = Bad Service

Ok you may be wanting to buy a new cell phone. You're thinking that "Hey I'll just buy a Cingular phone or T-Mobile phone. They're on TV all the time so I'll just be stupid and buy one." Ok I know that you're thinking that I'm just mad at a company because I didn't get a good signal.

Well your half right. I got two different Nokia phone from T-Mobile and I had ok service. But I couldn't get it at or around my house. I had to go down the street to get a descent signal. First what happens is that I get a signal and then I walk outside to talk. I have to walk until I get a signal. My zip code is 76018. I think that I'm not the only person with this problem. But can anyone tell me why GSM is the biggest network ever. I don't care that you can go over seas with it like I go to europe or asia every weekend. I just want to know if I have a signal in my area that I live in.

So when I canceled my phones with T-moblie and go screwed even more went I didn't have a contract. I went to AT&T now Cingular. So I had an ok signal around my area but still not in my house. If I got to work I can get signal where I can't talk on the phone.

So after being abused I'm now going to Sprint and the funny thing about it is that everytime I had bad signal my two friends had sprint phones that I would call my friends on. So I'm going with Sprint and maybe next month I'll go to Verizon. By the way Nextel is owned by Sprint. I really glad Nextel is bought by Sprint now Sprint will have the push to talk feature.

No fun before you leave.

I all was wonder way everyone acts crazy everytime someone has a drink. I'm saying this because when I was at a friends house I brought beer in. What happend was my friends mom is so conservative that she doesn't like it when someone brings beer in. She could have said something but she wanted to wine about "oh your going to drink a 12 pack with 4 people". WTF? First the reason I brough beer is because my friend was about to go back to Iraq. And he won't be able to chill and have a drinks. Tell me this if you going to war don't you want a drink. I not talking about getting drunk, I'm just saying have a drink.

Tell if you had one last day at home before you leave for a year what would you do?
What would you eat and what would you drink?

I would get drunk but not drive. Probly rent a timeshare and just get wasted at the bar down stairs. And finish the drinking in the timeshare and have some friends over to chill with. Maybe some dancing.

But I'm not just hanging around with friends of the famliy talking about stuff I don't care about.

Please Comment
Tell if you had one last day at home before you leave for a year what would you do?
What would you eat and what would you drink?

Download: Quintessential player

This download is a new music player for your computer. I really hate using Windows media player(WMP). Everytime I try to use it, it crashes. Why do you make a program that crashes. I'm tired of a program that crashes. So this program has alot of features that are what I'm looking for. There's a list below but what I really wanted to say is if you want to play MP3's use Quintessential player after using so many different player I'm happy with this one.

Features
*CD-ripping
*MP3-converting
*efficiency
*stability
*flexibility
*takes up less memory than WMP.

http://www.quinnware.com/

Wild Download: STATIONRIPPER

StationRipper, I know you're saying it's two words not one right. Well they like it to be one word. This program will help you lose itunes. I really hate itunes because of the format they use. M4P, what kind of format is that. They get you to use it because it say's "hey download music with itunes." But of course everyone thinks mp3's because everyone that music is only in mp3. So no one knows until they downloads. I didn't know until I downloaded a song. I didn't know you can only play it in itunes, so you using there product for all you music everything. Now I just use StationRipper, what it does is rip internet radio station into MP3’s. Also you can get links to broadcast and just copy and paste it into the program. I have all the music I need. My friend tried to give me one of those napster prepay cards for free and I said "StationRipper will give you music you didn't know existed." So if you're reading this StationRipper will give you all the music you need for free. And it's legal.

Zerocool's Final thought: if you don't get this, you have money so die. And I'm cheap.

http://www.stationripper.com/

DVD Review: I, ROBOT

I just got I, Robot on DVD and I wish I saw it in the theater. I didn't see the movie before I bought it because I was at Fry's Electronics and I had a buyers itch so I bought it. I really like it because I'm a fan of Will Smith Movies. Not in I think he's cute way, but he's a good actor. The Action of course was so fast pace. The Story is well written and now I want to read the book. From what the director said in the commentary said the books are short stories, later I'll just Google it. The action and the animation was so well produced that you can't tell what is real. You keep thinking how did they do that? But of course you always know that it's green screen. Anyway's from a guy's point of view I loved it. Great Action, corny one-lines from Will Smith and Robots destroying the world. The DVD has basic special features like making of, commentary, and photo gallery. There’s nothing special about that. But I'm just waiting see a Special edition DVD later on.

Cingular Wireless

I use Cingular Wireless as my cell phone service. And only reason I haven't gone to Sprint is because of great idea of contracts. I know that's how they make there money but do you have to have a $200 for canceling the contract. Now my cell phone, the Motorola v220 from cingular was $70 w/ contract is ok. A rebate for $20 that I still never got but oh well. The real problem is that I can't get range in my room. When I'm in my house I get one bar. But in my room my cell is dead. So what's the point of having a cell phone, a way for everyone to get in touch with you but when you sleep you miss calls and just get voicemail of people saying stuff like "Hey this is (some girl) I wanted to see you tonight, but I guess you are asleep. This is my last night in town so I guess I'll go to sleep alone. Bye." Now I know you don't care about that stuff. But to me that is important. It happens to me all the time. I hate that I have miss calls like that.


Overall Point:
So if your going to get a Cell phone just bye the cell and get insurance. And get Sprint out of all the companys Sprint is the best signal but bad service. Cingular has good service and a large network but doen't work at my house so if it works at your keep it. Verizon has ok signal on some phones and for some reason all there phones are not sexy there ugly. Verizon will have a larger network soon though because they work hard to be the biggest.

My Cell Phone

IPOD "The Master of Music"

The Ipod is the best thing since the cell phone. I know it's pricey, but you can get one if you have credit. Just go to RadioShack and get one of there cards. Charge it and cut it up. Now all you have to do is pay $25 a month for 16 months and you got youself an Ipod.

What I do with mine is transfer bittorrent files and pron. But of couse I have music on it. I'll tell you about bittorrent later or you can just google it.

College Online

Hello, this is my first post on my blog. This ones about my online college. It's AIU online (American Intercontanital University Online). It's really cool to have a online class. I'm happy to be able to go online and do my work without waking up at 8am and going to class. Later on I'll take about work but for now I have to sleep.