Sunday, November 22, 2009

Brilliant Fletcher - MU 3 Everton 0


DARREN FLETCHER hit a volley of the highest quality as Man Utd registered an emphatic success over Everton.

The Scotland skipper's goal was only matched by the class of the overall performance of Alex Ferguson's side, as second-half strikes from Michael Carrick and Antonio Valencia gave the scoreline a fair reflection.

It lifts United above Arsenal in the table and five points behind Chelsea - who went one better than their Old Trafford rivals by hitting four past Wolves earlier in the day.

Friday, November 20, 2009

How to install and try our Google Chrome OS

First, you need to get an image of Chrome OS. You can do that using this torrent. You can also try out the build that GDGT has uploaded, which worked fine in our test as well.

Once that’s done, download a version of VirtualBox for whatever OS you’re running on hereand install it. After registering (or declining to) you’ll be met with a screen like this. Click the button that says “New” in the upper left hand corner. We’re going to be making a new virtual machine.:



You’ll enter a wizard like this. Hit next.



Go ahead and title the OS whatever you’d like. For the operating system, choose Linux, with Ubuntu as the version (other setups could potentially work, but this is the only one we’ve gotten working).



Choose how much memory to allocate to this virtual machine. This will be dependent on how much memory you have in your computer. The more, the better, but if you choose too much your real computer will become unstable/very slow.



Here’s the tricky part (fortunately it isn’t very tricky). You don’t want to create a new hard disk, instead, you want to use an existing hard disk. Don’t choose one from the drop down menu either — you’re going to want to hit the folder icon just to the right of that to enter the ‘virtual media manager’.



Hit the ‘Add’ button.



Now you have to find the Chrome OS image you downloaded earlier. This is probably on your desktop or in your downloads folder. Once you’ve found it, hit ‘Open’.



Hit ‘Select’ once you reach this window.



Almost there. Make sure ‘use existing hard disk’ is checked. Hit next.



Hit ‘Finish’



You’re done! Hit Start. Hopefully the screen will go black, but only for a little while (this could be anywhere from 10 seconds to a minute or so, depending on how fast your computer is).



Once you’re in, you’ll see a splash screen for ‘Chromium’ (which is what Google calls dev builds of Chrome). To login, you’ll need to enter a valid Google Account ID. Your standard Gmail account should work, but as we said before, this build of ChromeOS came from bittorrent, so you may want to use a throw away account like we did in the screenshots below (you can make one here).



You’re in. Now time to explore. To be honest, everything looks quite similar to Google’s Chrome browser, but there are a few key differences. Note the battery life indicator and options menu in the far upper right. Also try playing around with the ‘New Window’ functions — you’ll find that it’s difficult (if not impossible) to navigate between multiple windows. And be wary of the Bookmarks manager. As far as I can tell, there’s no easy way to get out of it — you’ll have to manually create a new bookmark, which will kick you back into the browser mode once you click it. Oh, and good luck finding the ’shut down’ button, because we sure can’t.





You probably won’t need it, but the shared user password for this install (which you’d need for functions like sudo) is ‘chromeos’ according to the torrent’s listing on ThePirateBay.

Thierry Henry's hand ball sent France to World Cup








"I will be honest it was a handball but I'm not the referee."
THIERRY HENRY,
the French soccer star admits that he used his hand to set up France's decisive goal against the Republic of Ireland in the World Cup qualification play-off

Thursday, November 19, 2009

2010 Ferrari 458 Italia

Fast cars keep getting faster, but after a few hours behind the wheel of Ferrari's F430 replacement we're left wondering how. The 458 Italia isn't just supercar quick, it's in the realm of hyper-cars. Sixty-two miles per hour arrives in less than 3.4 seconds and it'll cruise at over 200mph. To buy a quicker Ferrari you'd need to speak to the people in Formula One.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Monday, November 9, 2009

The truth of United's shortcomings at Stamford Bridge


United lack the attacking flair and creativity these days. Dominated much of the time in the middle of the field, but the shortcomings in attack are too much too obvious.

We're not going to win anything this season. We're still going to win games against the likes of Hull, Bolton and Blackburn, but nothing to shout about when we play a much more quality team. That is a sad truth.



Wednesday, November 4, 2009

United 3 CSKA 3






United 3 CSKA 3: Sir Alex Ferguson spared the red face as United's bumbling defence escapes in thriller.

Sunday, November 1, 2009

We're back! United 2 - 0 Blackburn


We're back! After defeat to Liverpool, United made some changes to the line-up. Out go Rio, Scholes and Giggs. Vidic is suspended. Brown and Evans partnered well in the center of defence.

Berba and Rooney scored the goals.

Liverpool is beaten by Fulham. Rafa must go, but they didn't have enough money to pay him off.