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...Luckily for me, there is a whole subculture of TiVo users who squeeze better performance out of their boxes by hacking into them. Two how-to books on the topic will be published in August (TiVo Hacks, O'Reilly; Hacking the TiVo, Premier Press). There's also a step-by-step guide at tivofaq.com/hack. Or you can do what I did: install a ready-made upgrade from WeaKnees.com. All hacking will, of course, void your warranty. But what you get in return is a supercharged TiVo with three or more times the recording capacity. The larger the hard drive...
...documents posted on the website thesmokinggun.com Wachowski's estranged wife has had his business assets frozen until he accounts for $16 million the brothers were paid for the Matrix movies. "Larry has been extremely dishonest with me in our personal life," she writes. Whoa. And at the L.A. premier of The Matrix: Reloaded, Wachowski showed up with an unusual hat, below, and a woman who was identified by London tabloids as somebody else's estranged wife, and a dominatrix to boot. No pun intended. Well, maybe we intended it a little...
...foreign aid. Unrest followed, and angry citizens took to the streets. This prompted suggestions that the communists were coming, even though Mossadegh was as anti-Soviet as he was anti-British. On Aug. 19, 1953, after the deaths of about 300 people in street riots, the 71-year-old Premier was overthrown. He was replaced by a retired army general, Fazollah Zahedi. The American-friendly Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had earlier fled the country, returned triumphantly, resumed the throne and reasserted his control...
...world have been affected, but our future will continue brightly." To show just how serious Shanghai is about keeping the virus at bay, the municipal government earlier this month mandated a limited quarantine on anyone coming from a SARS-infected area?a policy that runs counter to Premier Wen Jiabao's vow last month not to implement any extreme quarantine measures. But Shanghai's quarantine policy has not been rigorously enforced, as dozens of visitors from Beijing and Hong Kong continue to disperse into the city without a trace. Still, locals seem to think that Shanghai can beat...
...allow the WHO to send teams to help Taiwan cope with SARS?a move that arguably kept the island's medical workers dangerously in the dark on the best methods of disease containment. "China has told the world that they are taking care of us," says Taiwan's Premier Yu Shyi-kun. "It's a shameless...