Gkaruk's Technological Blog

Sorry to all those who follow my blog and have noticed a lack of new posts cince August.  In simple its just down to time from work and faily as been very limited.

As a major update I will post nearly all the news relating to the X05 Event in amasterdam on Xbox 360 covering all the latest games for laucnh lineup, secrets coming free on the harddrive and many othe Xbox 360 tidbits.

As a start check the post relating the the hidden harddrive content above.

Google released their zeitgeist for 2004 yesterday and the surprise to me was in the Consumer Electronics Keyword searches top 10.

1. ipod
2. digital camera
3. mp3
4. xbox
5. playstation 2
6. ...etc...

Check the rest of the list and others over at Googles site and see Britney Spears on top of Paris Hilton in the Popular Queries of 2004 list.

A paper recently published by news site The Register which covers detailed analysis by Dr. Johan Pouwelse appears to have assisted in the widespread shutdown of the larger known BitTorrent sites, such as SuprNova.Org and PheonixTorrents.Com.

BitTorrent apparently (says the paper) is nearly 50% of the P2P (peer to peer) internet traffic around on the internet today and also one of the main sources of illegal films. It would be common sense to assume the closure of this sites has been caused by the recently announced new initiative by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) to start targetting the the BitTorrent and eDonkey file-swapping networks.

There are of course other purposes to BitTorrent such as file swapping legal files from site such as FileRush.com such as game demos and movie trailers. Both of which come is very large file sizes and thus spread the bandwidth across multiple sources which allows a further reach of the files.

Like all things today, not all reason are bad or illegal. Its another case of taking a sledgehammer to crack a walnut. Big power hungry company collaborations squashing the small people underfoot with no thought to the full impact of their footsteps. Think back to when Lik-Sang.com were closed down for selling modchips for consoles. They are still here because they argued they made a mistake, but to close them down for a mistake was unfair and extreme.

What are your thoughts on this current big boys rampage?

Recently found another cool game from the folks over at YetiSports.org.  Much like their famous other flash games, this new game pits you against thos pesky penguins for ranking up snowboarding moves and skills.

I thought my 4631 points was pretty good for a first attempt, but no the current leader has well over 11,000 point

Try it out for yourselfs here.

The Motion Picture Association of America launched a new legal campaign Tuesday targeting the BitTorrent and eDonkey file-swapping networks, two technologies widely used to trade movies online.

Head over to C|Net News.com for the full details on the latest clamp down by the film makers to stamp out P2P file sharing of films.