The academy award winning actor Nicolas Cage has threatened the worl about quitting the movie industry because he is tired of it. He admits that he has lost passion for acting and blame the career for his antisocial life.
“Some movie stars look like they are having a ball, but I’m tired of it. It has made me reclusive. That is an increasingly gnawing feeling in my body. When I first started I loved it. One of my frustrations is I have no control. I haven’t worked in a while, and it will be eight months before I start my next picture. I know for the first time which direction I’m going in and what changes I want to make.”
Nicolas also fears that his fans are tirid of watching him on-screen;
“For some reason, I piss off the audience. People who like one type of film don’t like to see me in another. Things I did and said early on still haunt me. I started acting at 17, but I’m 44 now and have grown up. I wonder if I am still interesting to watch if I didn’t drink or raise hell, but it’s obnoxious to keep drinking.”
Those words shouldn’t be taken too serious since he is currently producing five movies:
- Electric God (2009) announced
- The Dance (2008) announced ‘Billy ‘The Kid’ Roth’
- Amarillo Slim (2008) pre-production
- Knowing (2008) pre-production
- G-Force (2009) filming-voice
If he would leave, it would be a huge loss but he has left us lot’s of great movies such as The rock, Face off, National Treasure and Con Air.
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The site LinuxForums.org, probably one of the largest linux forums on the web is for sale at sitepoint.
According to the salesman the site has over 2 million unique visitors per month and almost 4 million Pageviews per month.
The site do also have a monthly revenue over $20 000, which would make it an estimated CPM of $5.5 (based on 3.6 million pageviews/month). This means that for each 1000 pageviews that they generate they will have an income of $5.5.
With 140,000 members and 250 new members per day + almost 110 000 threads along with 534 000 post, this is one of the largest sales at sitepoint.
So how much do you have to spend to get it? Currently, the highest bid is $360.000, but it will probably increase since the auction has just been around for 5 days.
If you want to bid, heres your chance: http://www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/auction/18394
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The largest newspaper in sweden, aftonbladet.se, got their servers totally hacked during the last weeks. The group called “Vuxna arga hackare” which in english would be “Adult angry hackers”. The reason of why Vuxna arga hackare (VAH) hacked aftonbladet is because of a couple of days earlier they hacked one of the biggest TV channels in Sweden, Tv3, and got no attention at all from media. They totally ignored the hacking and because of that, they attacked aftonbladet.
VAH hacked afonbladet and gained control of their whole mail-server and all passwords and usernames to the system, which they then released to public at the swedish forum flashback.se. Ironicly, the IT-security crews had passwords such as “anakin” and a dozen of the publishers had their firstname as password.
They did also hack this same newspaper two years ago and was called “script-kiddies” by the aftonbladet security team which then, of course, had this eaten up this time when they decided to publish the story.
What can we learn from this? Well.. It’s not possible to be totally safe on the net and even though you are dedicated to keep the security up, you are not guaranteed to complete the job.
ps. VAH got inspired of another big swedish hacking-group called AUH(Arga unga hackare), which means Angry youth hackers. I love their names!
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I’d like to wish you all a very happy christmas and a good new year!
And le’ts hope your websites will have a wealthy new year too! 
This blog has increased it’s traffic with about 200% in the last three months so I’m very happy how this have worked out!
Once again, happy christmas all blog-readers!
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Vivendi will pay 1,7 million dollars and will then join Activision to create a game-industry that can compete with Electronic Arts. Vivendi will because of this own 68% of the new company created.
Vivendis most known studio is the Blizzard studio which have created (among with some other smaller games) Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo. The latest release is the MMORPG World of warcraft which was a great success.
Activision has focused on the console-market and created successes such as Tony Hawk skateboarding, Call of Duty and Guitar Hero. If you count together the two companies that are now called Activision Blizzard would have a total turnover of 3,7 billion dollars which makes them bigger than Electronic Arts with about 3 billion dollars.
Electronic Arts biggest market is the third-party development which means that companies produces games and Electronic Arts then releases them. Fifa, Need for Speed and the Sims are all results of this.
Most games of EA are created so a new version of them can be released every year. Examples of this are NHL, Fifa, Madden and Need for speed, which creates a steady income for the company. Activision uses a similar technique but is seemed as a more open company. A result of this was the risky product “Guitar Hero” which then became very successful.
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Johns blog made about $350 dollars his first month. This month, November 2007, he managed to earn $23450. That’s insane!
He tells us that November is traditionally the best month of making money on the internet. He made about $13000 on private ad sales, $6600 on Affiliate commisions, $4400 on ReviewMe, which I posted earlier about, $2000 from Text-link-ads, which I also posted earlier about. He had about 185 000 unique visitors and his eCPM is crazy.. He makes $84.19 eCPM. $80 for each 1000 pages.. If I made 1/100 of that I would be glad!
He tells us that the key is not to stand still and always try to optimize to get the best revenue.. And I guess I should follow as well to get the same revenue.
Btw.. He don’t get any referers from google since he’s banned from the search engine.. Try achieving an income of $27000 per month without google-referers.. Good luck, have fun
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Google will invest hundreds of millions dollar in renewable energy-sources.
Since google had their new datacenters built they needed a large-scale energysource and since their prices of electricity are pretty high, their goal is to by renewable energysources get cheaper electricity than a coal-driven plant. During 2008 google will invest more then ten million dollars in own researching about solarpower.
Google is environmental friendly!
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Today is a quiz starting with questions about JK Rowling’s best-selling stories about the fictional character Harry Potter. The questions will be stated at the MSN Website and a new question will appear each week until December 20th.
The movie, called “The half-blood prince” is the sixth in the JK Rowling’s world-famous series. Daniel Radcliffe will as usual play the Hogwarts school hero.
The movie itself will hit the cinemas November next year.
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Call of duty 4: Modern warfare has been released!
The game has a variety of game play styles in the single player campaign. You will really feel the game inside when you play as Paul Jackson, a member of the United States Marine Corps 1st Force Recon or Soap MacTavish, member of the British SAS regiment. You can play styles such as a two-player sniper team which should infiltrate behind enemy lines.
These game modes are playable in multiplayer:
- Free-for-All - Every man for himself.
- Team Deathmatch - Use teamwork to kill opposing players and reach score limit.
- Team Objective - Domination and Search & Destroy. Capture flags in Domination, with respawning. Destroy and defend objectives in Search & Destroy, no respawning.
- Team Tactical - Small team Deathmatch and Search & Destroy.
- Search and Destroy - Much like Counter-Strike’s bomb planting mode, there are two teams: attackers and defenders. Attackers try to plant a bomb at one of two bomb sites, and defenders try to defend the bomb sites. If explosives are planted, defenders must defuse them. Players only have one respawn per round. A round is over when all players on one team are killed, or when the bomb explodes or is defused.
- Headquarters - A laptop spawns somewhere on the map. Your goal is to capture the laptop for your team. If Team A captures the laptop, they must defend it from being destroyed by Team B. Team A only has one respawn until the laptop is destroyed or the max time limit for the laptop is reached. Team B respawns at set intervals. Team A earns points for every second the laptop is held. To capture/destroy a laptop, you must stand in the area of the laptop. The more players, the faster you destroy it. A new laptop spawns when time limit is reached or the laptop is destroyed.
- Domination - There are flags at certain points around the map. All flags start neutral. Teams battle to hold the most flags. Game ends when the time limit is reached, or the score limit is reached.
- Sabotage - Similar to Search and Destroy, only the bomb is neutral and there are objectives located in both teams’ bases. Each team’s goal is to take the bomb and blow up the objective in the enemy’s base. The bomb carrier can fire his weapons, but his position will be announced periodically throughout the game. Also, unlike Search and Destroy, players have unlimited respawns as opposed to just one per round, although it is not instantaneous like Team Deathmatch or Free-for-All.
- Team Hardcore - Hardcore Team Deathmatch and Search and Destroy. Limited HUD, extra bullet damage, friendly fire on.
- Old School - Old School TDM and FFA. No classes. Weapons are pickups, health is increased, and jumps are higher.
- Oldcore - Old School pick-ups and jumping. Hardcore limited HUD and extra bullet damage. TDM.
- Ground War - Big team games-TDM and Domination.
Here’s a ingame video of the game: (The song in the video is Darupe - Sandstorm)
I recommend everyone to give the game a test and try it atleast, I believe its worth it! Great game. Buy it or download it and test the game. You should find it at your local torrent site 
A couple of reviews of the game are listed here as well:
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The Windows Server 2008 will be released in eight versions but there are three of them that will support virtualization. Everything should be virtualized: desktop, the server, presentations and the programs.
In almost each sentence Bob Kelly, head director for the Microsoft infrastructure, names the word virtual.
- - Virtualization is very hyped at the moment, but the truth is that it means high efficiency with low costs, and that is two facts that our clients is demanding.
In the heart of all virtualizations will Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager always be there, one of three parts in the new System Center-family for system administration. You can now jump between different service packs and installations in a real environment without rebooting the virtual machine.
One thing is for sure, virtual servers are here to stay!
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