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Cell Phone Passwords

Whenever you’re in the game, pull out Niko’s phone and dial these numbers to do cool stuff.

(Warning! These cheats will affect missions and achievements.)

468-555-0100 Change weather
486-555-0150 Get a different selection of weapons
486-555-0100 Get a selection of weapons
267-555-0150 Raise wanted level
267-555-0100 Remove wanted level
362-555-0100 Restore armour
482-555-0100 Restore health
948-555-0100 Song information
227-555-0142 Spawn a Cognoscenti
227-555-0175 Spawn a Comet
938-555-0100 Spawn a Jetmax
625-555-0150 Spawn a Sanchez
227-555-0168 Spawn a SuperGT
227-555-0147 Spawn a Turismo
359-555-0100 Spawn an Annihiliator
227-555-0100 Spawn an FIB Buffalo
625-555-0100 Spawn an NRG-900

Map Locations

Enter this password into the in-game computers to find some cool pick-ups around the city.

www.whattheydonotwantyoutoknow.com = Weapon, health, armor, vehicle, pigeon, ramp/stunt, and entertainment locations

Unlockables

Achievements

Perform the required task to unlock the achievement.

Assassin’s Greed: Complete all 9 assassin missions / 20 points
auf Wiedersehen Petrovic: Win all ranked multiplayer variations, all races and Cops ‘n Crooks, as both sides / 30 points
Chain Reaction: Blow up 10 vehicles in 10 seconds / 20 points
Cleaned The Mean Streets: Capture 20 criminals through the police computer / 20 points
Courier Service: Complete all 10 package delivery jobs / 10 points
Cut Your Teeth: Earn a personal rank promotion in multiplayer / 5 points
Dare Devil: Complete 100% of the unique stunt jumps / 30 points
Dial B for Bomb: Unlock the special ability of phoning for a bomb to be placed / 10 points
Driving Mr. Bellic: Unlock the special ability of taxi / 10 points
Endangered Species: Collect every hidden package / 50 points
Fed The Fish: Complete the mission “Uncle Vlad” / 5 points
Finish Him: Complete 10 melee counters in 4 minutes / 15 points
Fly The Co-op: Beat Rockstars time in ranked versions of Deal Breaker, Hangman’s NOOSE, and Bomb da Base II / 15 points
Full Exploration: Unlock all the islands
Genetically Superior: Come first in 20 singleplayer street races / 25 points
Gobble Gobble: Score 3 strikes in a row, a turkey, in 10-pin bowling / 10 points
Gracefully Taken: Complete mission “I’ll Take Her” / 10 points
Half Million: Reach a balance of $500,000 / 55 points
Impossible Trinity: Complete mission “Museum Piece” / 10 points
It’ll Cost Ya: Complete a taxi ride without skipping from one island to another / 5 points
Join The Midnight Club: Win a ranked multiplayer race without damaging your vehicle too much and have damage enabled / 10 points
Key To The City: Achieve 100% in “Game progress” statistic / 100 points
King of QUB3D: Beat the High Score in QUB3D / 15 points
Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie: Kill a Rockstar developer in a ranked multiplayer match / 10 points
Liberty City (5): After you meet all friends, the ones left alive like you above 90% / 20 points
Liberty City Minute: Complete the story missions in less than 30 hours / 30 points
Lowest Point: Complete mission “Roman’s Sorrow” / 5 points
Manhunt: Complete the most wanted side missions from police computer / 15 points
No More Strangers: Meet all random characters / 5 points
Off The Boat: Complete the first mission / 5 points
One Hundred And Eighty: In a game of darts score 180 with only 3 darts / 10 points
One Man Army: Survive 5 minutes on 6 star wanted level / 40 points
Order Fulfilled: Complete all 10 Exotic Export orders / 10 points
Pool Shark: Beat a friend at pool / 10 points
Retail Therapy: Unlock the ability to buy guns from a friend / 10 points
Rolled Over: Do 5 car rolls in a row from one crash / 30 points
Sightseer: Fly on all helicopter tours of Liberty City / 5 points
Taking It For The Team: Be on the winning team in all ranked multiplayer games / 10 points
Teamplayer: Kill 5 players who are not in your team, in any ranked multiplayer team game / 10 points
That Special Someone: Complete the mission “That Special Someone” / 10 points
That’s How We Roll!: Unlock the special ability of helicopter / 10 points
Top Of The Food Chain: Kill 20 players with a pistol in a ranked multiplayer deathmatch / 10 points
Top The Midnight Club: Come first in 20 different ranked standard multiplayer races / 20 points
Under the Radar: Fly underneath the main bridgs in the game that cross water with a helicopter / 40 points
Walk Free: Lose a 4 star wanted level by outrunning the cops / 50 points
Wanted: Achieve the highest personal rank in multiplayer / 20 points
Warm Coffee: Successfully date a girl to be invited into her house / 5 points
Wheelie Rider: Do a wheelie lasting at least 500 feet on a motorbike / 30 points
You Got The Message: Deliver all 30 cars ordered through text messages / 20 points
You Won!: Complete the final mission / 60 points

Other Unlockables

Annihilator Helicopter / Kill all 200 Flying Rats
Rastah Color Huntley SUV / Complete 10 Package Delivery missions

Secrets

Easy money

Go to an ATM, then cause a traffic jam to the area. Wait for someone to take money from the ATM, then kill him or her. Make sure to block any nearby roads so the ambulance cannot get to the murdered victim. Take the money they dropped on the ground. Then, run a short distance away, and go back. The money should have respawned on the ground. You can repeat this as many times as desired. You can also kill more people taking their money from the ATM to increase the amount of money that respawns.

Repairing the engine

If the vehicle you are driving breaks down and the engine will not start, call 911, and your engine should start again.

Get a Statue of Liberty T-shirt

Go to the Statue of Liberty and walk up to the second level. Walk through the door (it doesn’t swing open, just go through it) and the game will load for a second and you will walk out with a new t-shit with the Statue of Liberty on it.

Easter Eggs

The Heart of Liberty City

First, you’ll have to have access to Happiness Island. Once you’re able to go there legally, find the Helicopter Tours (which is directly east of Happiness Island) and steal a helicopter. Fly to Happiness Island and over the Statue of Liberty, then jump out of the helicopter at the statue’s feet. You should land on the topmost tier of the statue, which is basically a square platform with a door in the center of each side. Run around the platform until you see a door with a plaque on either side of it that reads, “No Hidden Content Here.” It may seem like you cannot go through the door, but you can — it doesn’t open, you simply walk THROUGH the door. Inside, you’ll find an empty room with a tall ladder. Climb it, and when you reach the top, look up; there is a gigantic beating heart, held in place by chains.

Friendship Bonuses

Need a lift? How about some backup from the homies? Here’s what friendship can buy in GTA IV.

Boom? (Call Packie for him to make you a car bomb) = Gain 75% friendship with Packie
Chopper Ride (He will pick you up in his helicopter) = Gain 70% Friendship with Brucie
Discount Guns (Buy weapons at a cheaper price from Lil Jacob) = Gain 60% friendship with Little Jacob
Extra Help (A car of gang members will be sent to help you out) = Gain 60% friendship with Dwayne
Free Ride (Call for a taxi) = Gain 60% friendship with Roman

Ridgefield, Conneticuit boy David Witthoft, 12, wore his number four Brett Favre Green Bay Packers’ jersey for four years. He finally took it off on his 12 birthday, April 23, after wearing the jersey for 1581 days!

His mother, Carolyn, had washed the jersey every other day and mended it when needed.

 With the writer’s strike still ongoing, the major late night shows are back, but without writers. In order to draw some ratings and fill some time, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel decided to go on each other’s show. Here are the videos of the appearances. The videos are split into 4, with 2 from The Jimmy Kimmel Show and 2 from The Tonight Show.

Jimmy Kimmel on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

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Jay Leno on The Jimmy Kimmel Show

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As nearly all of you know the iPhone’s back has a black “band” at the bottom of the phone, near the microphone and external speaker. So obviously you would talk into this, thus having the black edge near you mouth apposed to your ear. There have been two recent mishaps in Hollywood.Bionic Women (video clip): Two and a Half Men: Come on Charlie Sheen, you should know better.  

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Apple shares were then selling at $5.43 a share. They closed Friday at $122.06. The potential gain on the shares: $18.1 billion.By comparison, if Microsoft spent the same money on its owns shares, then selling at $17.67 and closing at $28.25 Friday, the gain would have been (only) $89.8 million.-barnako.com

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The Movement of Data

Moving everything back to Media Temple was so easy. Last time I moved data to Media Temple was during the shared server (ss) days when they were using an extremely old version of MySQL, thus forcing me to convert all of my databases and downgrade to the older version. It just didn’t feel right. This move was super easy. For the data I simply compressed all of my domain directories on Dreamhost, threw it into a web accessable directory, downloaded it via SSH on Media Temple (using real 12MB/s download speeds!), and then distributed the data amongst the domains. As for databases I simply exported the databases as .sql and then imported it via SSH on (mt).

GPUs (Grid Performance Units)

Since right now my sites aren’t terribly large I knew that I would now go over the 1000 GPU limit. I was very curious as to how many GPUs my site would use. As I mentioned a few weeks ago I have optimized my site greatly. Some of these optimizations included removing plugins from Mint and Wordpress, making sure that lost files and pages were not being redirected to the 404 page, thus burning useless GPUs.

I usually get about 4000 to 8500 hits on Thursdays, which is by far my busiest day. Other than Thursday my traffic is generally a lot lower than that. These Thursdays use about 7 GPUs which is almost nothing. 1000/31 = ~32 allocated for a day. I still have a lot of room to spare. I began to do some tests so I added polls and a photo gallery. Surprisingly these did not add much to the GPU total. It really does take a lot to burn thru 1000 GPUs. Today, being Thursday I really wanted to use as many GPUs as possible to just see what would happen. In order to test I added an include to 10 javascript files that do not exist. Since I have wordpress, these would spawn the generation of a 404 page, which involved database queries. In the first full hour 20 GPUs were burned. In the main and busiest hour of the week, the GPUs still have not been calculated. My best guess would be that I used ~30 - 40 GPUs in that hour! We will have to see. So in all I probably used ~120 GPUs in the month. 12% of my GPUs is not a lot considering my major tests that made up about half of the usage.

So if you are wanting to start or move your blog to Media Temple’s grid server you should be fine. They offer a ton of resources for the low cost of $20 per month. There are tons of hosts that are cheaper except you just can’t beat the reliability of Media Temple along with their amazing customer support. What a great company.

Containers

Right now there are two grid containers available the Ruby on Rails container and the MySQL container. You get a free 64MB of RAM RoR container with every grid server account. If that isn’t enough then you can upgrade for a small monthly charge. If you outgrow the default MySQL SmartPool then you can purchase a container starting at $20 per month for $128 MB of RAM, but there are options up to 512MB of RAM. These are very powerful and not many blogs would ever need more than this.

Media Temple is also beta testing a Django container. Since I am getting into Django I am really hoping that I can get in on the beta testing. It would be very cool to get a Django site out the door and it would be even better to have it on the grid.

Bandwidth

I am really happy that they give you 1TB of bandwidth. It really goes a long way. For large images and standard assets on my sites I usually use Amazon’s S3. Aside from the fact that there is only one data center, the “bandwidth” is great. I didn’t even use 10GB this month.

When downloading files via SSH you are able to use the super fast connection available to the grid servers. I have only downloaded one file from SSH and it was downloading at 12 MB/s, thats 12 real MB per second. Thats a 100MB file in 8.33 seconds! My home connection is only a tiny fraction of that to say the least. I still want to test using the grid as a video server where there are tons of concurrent connections downloading large video files just to see how (gs) can handle it.

Disk Space

They give you 100GB of disk space on (gs). This isn’t your run of the mill, crappy disk space either. They use lightning fast SAS disks. With day to day usage you may not see a major difference but if you ever get Dugg then you will deeply appreciate it. I only used about 4GB since I host large files on Amazon S3.

Overall

I really love Media Temple now. Not only do they offer very high quality service but they are so reasonably priced. They have such innovative products and also seem to be updating the grid service product all of the time, thus taking advantage of the newest technologies.

If you have a large or small website or blog then I really suggest you look at Media Temple. They not only cater to the small guys but can also handle huge sites like Techcrunch. Why not try them out?