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Funny Facebook Usernames

Facebook launched their new username service today–now your profile can be located at http://facebook.com/yourusername instead of http://facebook.com/profile.php?id=#######. Many people opt to use a variation on their real name, but some of the names are quite humorous. Here are a few funny ones I found–all of them are real accounts.

• http://www.facebook.com/bluescreenofdeath
• http://www.facebook.com/myspaceisbetter
• http://www.facebook.com/yourspace
• http://www.facebook.com/twitterisbetter
• http://www.facebook.com/31337
• http://www.facebook.com/httpd.conf
• http://www.facebook.com/htaccess
• http://www.facebook.com/index.aspx
• http://www.facebook.com/default.aspx
• http://www.facebook.com/index.py
• http://www.facebook.com/caralibro
• http://www.facebook.com/1234567890
• http://www.facebook.com/macosx
• http://www.facebook.com/insertusernamehere
• http://www.facebook.com/untitled
• http://www.facebook.com/undefined
• http://www.facebook.com/faacebook
• http://www.facebook.com/epicfail
• http://www.facebook.com/epicwin
• http://www.facebook.com/ctrlaltdelete
• http://www.facebook.com/ctrlaltdel
• http://www.facebook.com/altf4
• http://www.facebook.com/yousername
• http://www.facebook.com/clickhere
• http://www.facebook.com/bellagoth
• http://www.facebook.com/swineflu
• http://www.facebook.com/usernotfound
• http://www.facebook.com/404notfound
• http://www.facebook.com/404error
• http://www.facebook.com/200ok
• http://www.facebook.com/internalservererror
• http://www.facebook.com/profilenotfound

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Ever hear the end of a news broadcast on TV and wonder “what’s that all about?” Simply visit IceRocket for the latest in blogs, Twitter, images, videos, and news stories about any topic. It’s fast and simple!

Create a Free Web Host Easily

Free web hosting is a risky business to go into–if you don’t plan right, or have a dishonest server provider, things can go very wrong very fast. Although it’s not as good as running your own server, MyOwnFreeHost helps you start a free host without as many risks (assuming you trust their parent company, but I’ve had no problem with them).

After creating an account for free, you can add your own domain (I don’t suggest using the free domain they suggest, it makes you seem unprofessional) and start advertising your host. You are able to customize your host’s main page, and moderate accounts using the “Reseller Panel”. The support forum is very active and you can exchange tips with other users of the service.

The reseller account is free, but you can upgrade your users plans for a fee. Eventually, when you have experience and the money, you’ll probably want to move to an actual server, but MyOwnFreeHost is a good start!

How to Restart Windows Explorer

Yesterday, I was uploading a large number of files with FileZilla. While it was uploading, I tried to visit a website with Firefox. There was a very bizarre problem–when I typed the letter “e”, the My Computer window opened. However, there is a simple fix for this:

1. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
2. Go to the Processes tab, and find “explorer.exe”.
3. Click End Process
4. Now to restart it, click File>New Task, type “explorer”, and click OK.

Windows 7 Beta Released!

The beta of Windows 7, Microsoft’s next operating system, was officially released on Friday. Within a few hours, Microsoft realized that they had underestimated the load on their servers, and took it offline (some blogs like this one posted a direct download link, but it did not work for everyone).  On Saturday, Microsoft added some more servers, and it was released again.

I tried it out for myself. The installation time was comparable to Windows XP Pro on my computer, and went by without any problems. I can’t comment on the effects since I was using a virtual machine, but it seems fast and stable, much better than the hated Vista. It has some nifty new features, such as the Snipping Tool, which is a more versatile screen capture tool than the Print Screen key, the new WordPad, and the new Paint. If you want to try it out, you can get it here.

How to Download Windows 7 Beta

The beta (Build 7000) of Microsoft’s latest Windows version, Windows 7, was supposed to be released yesterday. They underestimated the massive amount of interest and their servers crashed, and according to the beta page, it is currently not available. However, the staff at Lifehacker.com found the direct download links:

• Download 32 Bit Version
• Download 64 Bit Version

There is no way to get product keys (possibly if you used the link on the MS website when it was available) but the trial will run for 30 days, and you can extend it to 120 using the command slmgr -rearm.

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Update 1/10: The official beta site is now back online, and product keys are being given out when you download. No need for this method anymore!

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Read Magazine Archives at Google Books

Google Books now offers complete archives of many magazines. You can read them online for free, so check them out right now! There is no way to list only magazines, so you must either reload the page and look at the randomly displayed titles, or type the name of a specific magazine in the search box.

Search Google’s Index from 2001

In honor of their 10th birthday, Google has added an archive of their index from 2001. You can check it out here.

Try searching for Windows Vista. I also noticed in 2001, this existed (look at the first result). And I thought my name was original.

Rescue Files from Dead Macs

Last month, my 3 year old Mac finally kicked the bucket. The Starting Mac OS X screen would appear and the progress bar would reach the end, but the computer would not go any further. 2 months before I had first become aware of the hard drive problem, and backed up all the important stuff onto CD-RWs, but of course after it died I thought of some more stuff I needed. So here’s a quick way of getting your files off.

Stuff You Need:

• Another computer (PC or Mac)
• A network that both computers can be connected to

Now, let’s get started!

1. First, make sure the computer is connected to your network.
2. Start it up, while holding Cmd+S.
3. You should reach a command line. Type the following (it will start an SSH server, which we will use to retrieve the files).

   /usr/sbin/sshd

4. One more step to get it ready: The computer is not fully started up yet, so the ethernet interface is not yet available (if you type ifconfig, the only interface listed is loopback). Type

   sh /etc/rc

5. It will now proceed with the startup process. Once you get an error line (mine was some disk read errors followed by “coreservicesd crashed”), you can now try to retrieve your files.
6. The SFTP  (SSH FTP) program used in this tutorial is FileZilla, although any such program will work. Download and launch it.
7. Choose Site Manager from the File menu.
8. Click New Site.
9. Settings:

   Host: your Mac’s IP address (check your router manual, for a Linksys router it is 192.168.1.1xx)

   Server type: SFTP

   Logon type: Normal

   User: your username

   Password: your password

10. Click Connect.
11. If all goes well, you can now access your files as on an FTP server.

Hope this helps!