Author: Tommie

  • Windows Vista

    vistaThe official new name for the Longhorn operating system is Microsoft Windows Vista. Beta 1, targeted at developers and IT professionals, will be available by August 3, 2005.

    Source;
    http://www.microsoft.com/

  • Nextgen consoles!

    nextgenHere they are, the consoles that will be fighting for the spot in our living room later this year. Personally i think I’m gonna go with the ps3 because of MGS4, alto Nintendo is a strong candidate since you can download and play NES, GB and SNES games on it.

    Oh, and the Nintendo-revolution-post below turned out to be fake … πŸ™‚

  • Nintendo, about to revolutionize.

    When being a Nintento-freak since childhood, it is hard not to skip a beat when you see a “supposed to be” introduction-movie of the new console from Nintendo.

    Fake or not, check it – it’s pretty impressive:

    http://streamingmovies.ign.com/revolutionmockup.wmv

  • Tommie, scoring high!

    Ever wanted to know if you we’re known on the internet, well, try entering your name into any of the searchengines out there. The query “tommie” returns tommie.nu as the first result on MSN-search, pretty impressive when there is over 404,066 documents containing “tommie”.

    The same query on Google returns 960 000 documents and place me on 18th position. I’m not really sure what differers the two search-engines, but nevertheless it’s pretty interesting to score that high on both engines, considering that this is just a personal blog.

    Anyhow, i prefer google over msn, but this might change my mind … πŸ˜›

  • World of warcraft

    So, it was impossible not to play this game. I was included in the open US beta and tried to avoid the game as long as possible, but simply put; it’s a drug … πŸ™‚

    Here are some initial screenshots of my character, Teli a level 8 rogue. Story will come.

  • Apartment taking shape

    After a weekend for intense moving and hours of hand to hand combat at IKEA is finally the apartment taking shape. So far I’ve spent about 6500SEK on furniture and it’ll probably end on a lot more. I guess i have to see this as investments … πŸ™‚

    Picture 1:
    This is my “sleep-corner”, here is basically just my bed.

    Picture 2:
    This is the “tv-corner”, got a nice little sofa, glass-table and a [small] tv – I’ll probably get a larger one as soon as i get my economy back on it’s feet. I bought myself a home theater system, but it was DOA (dead on arrival), so I’ll be getting a new one by the end of this week.

    Picture 3:
    “Computer-corner”, my computer and other important stuff. That chair is most temporary.

    Picture 4:
    “Crap-corner”, I’ll get myself a shelf and an aquarium here later on but for now it’s my crap-corner … πŸ˜‰

  • Bill Gates Photospread, 1985

    Claim to be taken for the magazine “Teen Beat”, which was proved to be false. Bill Gates really make these Microsoft-computers look good, don’t he? Don’t miss the Macintosh in the background.

    Source:

    http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/bill_gates_teen_idol/

  • Tommie, the flat-owner!

    I still don’t think I’ve totally understand it yet, but I’m actually owner of my first 100% own flat. The deal was finished today and I’m now a happy owner of a 40 square-meter flat.

    It’s a one room-flat and it’s got a large kitchen with hundred million cabins (feels like it at least), a large room and a fairly large toilet. I’m so happy that i managed to out-conquer the guy who was bidding against me. And best of all, it didn’t go up that high up in price actually.

    I’ve lived separated from my parents for more than 5 years now, but this is my first *real* apartment, an apartment which is mine, and only mine.

    This feeling is amazing, i which i could feel like this forever … πŸ™‚

    Pictures from the apartment;

  • Paris Hilton “hacked”

    paris hiltonParis Hilton, heiress to the hilton-hotel owner, got her t-mobile account hacked recently witch exposed private numbers and emails to some of hollywoods finest, or whatever you’d like to call them.

    And, in true Paris Style, were some photos from the phone also published … that girl really got to consider using more clothes, oh well.

    Β“It became obvious to her what was going on,Β” says the source. Β“She was pretty upset about it. ItΒ’s one thing to have people looking at your sex tapes, but having people reading your personal e-mails is a real invasion of privacy.Β”

    Some of the numbers from the phonebook:

    Lavigne, Avril 1-613-532-XXXX
    Lohan, Lindsay +1-347-596-XXXX
    Green, Seth 1-323-573-XXXX
    Muska, Chad +1-323-547-XXXX
    Vin Diesel 1-310-279-XXXX

  • IDN spoofing in Firefox

    firefox burning?Sadly there seems to be quite a critical bug in the current version of Firefox which allow hackers/scammers to spoof the URL displayed in the address bar and the SSL certificate.

    The vulnerability impacts every browser that uses the open-source Gecko browser kernel, almost all except IE, because of a flaw in handling International Domain Names (IDN).

    This is very unfortunate for the Mozilla Foundation which recently released Firefox 1.0 alongside with all the browser which uses the Gecko kernel.

    The bug was reported Monday 10th of February 2005 and currently none of the vendors have provided fixes for the flaw.

    http://secunia.com/multiple_browsers_idn_spoofing_test/