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Hi everbody! This is a new post and also a new blog in here !
I am happy becasue I am here !

The COD5 BETA has been released for the PC.

In order to take part in the BETA you needed to signup at the CallofDuty website with a free account, or pre-order the game from GameStop.

If you haven’t already signed up for your fre account at CallofDuty forums, you can do it now but I don’t know if that will score you a BETA key or not. For everyone who had an account at the CallofDuty site before todays date, you can find the BETA key in your profile.

Here are the official directions and official BETA download links:

Call of Duty 5 will be out soon, November 11th to be exact. The beta has already started for the Xbox360, I think the PC beta will begin tomorrow. If you are on PC you can still get a beta spot by either going to callofduty.com and registering or by pre-ordering a copy of the game from gamestop.com. I went ahead and pre-ordered a copy from gamestop last week because I didn't know you could simply signup at the forums for a free key. I'm actually thinking about canceling my order now.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/398/

Finally another snapshot for Arch. Installed it yesterday, works great. You can also just run 'pacman -Syu' and you'll be completely up to date as well. The joy of a rolling release, no re installs, unless you want to.

A great review from Celettu on the Arch forums; http://celettu.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/arch-linux-200806-overlord/

Zack

So, as a favior to Rich, I'll be taking the drivers seat for a while here at OpenAddict.com. I'll start by giving you a bit of information about myself.

Wait a second, did I read that correctly? Those $199 Linux PC's that Wal-Mart could not keep on the shelves in 600 stores is now being discontinued?

Why would an immensely popular product be discontinued suddenly due to it's "lack of popularity"? Does that make sense to anyone? Mark my words - there's something fishy about this and I bet we're going to see some details emerge in the coming weeks regarding exactly why the computer was shelved (no pun intended) despite it selling out.

Now before you send off the flames, this isn't a touchy-feely, can't-we-all-just-get-along article. I'm simply exploring the idea that the Open Source Community in general has a tendency to be very abrasive at times. Much more so than some other communities in which I participate. Is it the mostly online, distributed nature of the OSS community where we don't have to look at someone in the eye before we flame them? Are the members of the community generally less professional or have worse communication skills than others? Maybe a combination of all of these factors?

I hope to be back on the site more often. I have been really busy. I am engaged now =D! The main network admin is on vacation, and just life general. Been working on my photography lately, got some new gear too. http://www.flickr.com/photos/zackxf

Well, a first test and I'm not going to spell the magick words (Hello world!). :-)

Thanks to the guys at Graphics Arts Pro (http://www.graphicartspro.net/) we've got a shiny new logo! Expect a full range of products. ;-)