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# Alien Trap - Nexuiz is a first-person shooter, on steroids. Incredibly fast action. Awesome weapons. Network play. Free & open source. It comes packaged in a single zip file containing the binaries for Windows, Linux, and OS X. Don't worry. Most of it is data, so you're only wasting a few of those 190 megabytes on code you won't run. [irc]

# mcgraths at Mac OS X Hints - Use Quicksilver for quick timed reminders - No need for an alarm clock app for one-time alarms or egg timers. Let Quicksilver do it for you. To enable the "Last Command" object, you need to check "Proxy Objects" in the "Quicksilver" page of Quicksilver's "Catalog" preference pane. [tuaw]

1. Bring up Quicksilver.
2. Enter text mode by pressing the period key.
3. Run the following .... Reminder Text (Large Type). This is what you reminder will be. I haven't found a way yet to bypass having to run the command once before setting it on a timer. Maybe there is a way to do this, maybe not. If anyone knows, please speak up.
4. Now set up the timer. Run the following: Last Command (Run after Delay...) 15s

# Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Music - why Apple enforces Digital Rights Management (DRM) in their iTunes software and iPod players. Basically, the music distributors made that a condition for electronic distribution of their content. Apple would be happy to remove the DRM if those distributors can be convinced. [rumors]

Why would the big four music companies agree to let Apple and others distribute their music without using DRM systems to protect it? The simplest answer is because DRMs haven't worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy. Though the big four music companies require that all their music sold online be protected with DRMs, these same music companies continue to sell billions of CDs a year which contain completely unprotected music. That's right! No DRM system was ever developed for the CD, so all the music distributed on CDs can be easily uploaded to the Internet, then (illegally) downloaded and played on any computer or player.

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