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http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/jacket/jacketrequest.jsp

Those wiimotes can be slippery rascals, I guess. Nintendo is going to ship these rubber jackets with new systems, but fill out the form and they will ship you four or so free 'remote jackets' for those who have a system.

Bless their hearts - they are giving away this old game. I suspect I have each and every one of this (as well as the Red Alert fork) sitting on my shelf.

GDI ISO, NOD ISO

Be sure to see the readme for what you need to get it up and running on XP, as I know I let my Win95 box fade away.

WTF moderators... I hate the 'overrated' mod that will not be m2'ed.

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My bride wandered down to my home office asking if I 'did anything' to her MacBook since it halted unexpectedly. She closed the lid and was walking to another room when it made a shutdown sound. She had several applications open with stuff she was working on, so this was not a good time to just stop. When she restarted it, it prompted her to install the update, which she did. Did it did shutdown as part of an update? Untimely static electricity that would do a proper shutdown? (she did not believe she was responsible for the restart)

A bit of background from the Windows world. If you have your machine set to "automatic" updates, Windows will occasionally download, install, and then reboot your system. It will prompt you to 'restart now or later', but selecting later will cause the dialog to pop up again... only later. If you ignore the dialog (and possibly leave the machine idle) it will take it upon itself to reboot your system. Does OSX do this same sort of thing? We are fairly new to OSX in our home and to be honest I really don't know.

This thing just got stranger... The shutdown might not have anything to do with an update after all.

Battery recall - I win again! I'm really hard on my batteries - lots of time in the airplane running a full dev environment. I probably would qualify as a good caregiver to the battery pack - the current battery only gives me 2-3 hours now (running vmware and a bunch of other stuff). A fresh new FREE battery is fantastic news.

Description: Lenovo sold these extended-life batteries with new ThinkPad notebook PCs or as optional or replacement batteries for the following ThinkPad notebook models: R Series (R60 and R60e), T Series (T60 and T60p) and Z Series (Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and Z61p). The recalled 9-cell batteries have the following part number, which can be found on the battery label: FRU P/N 92P1131.

Hazard: If the battery in the laptop is struck forcefully on the corner, such as from a direct fall to the ground, the battery pack can overheat and pose a fire hazard to users. This is not an internal battery cell defect.

Well, for those with a Thinkpad - www.lenovo.com/batteryprogram - roll the dice and see if you get lucky. Saw the initial notice at the register.