Topic: COMPUTER - on June 29, 2007 at 2:08:00 PM CEST
Intel Core 2 considered evil
Various developers are busy implementing workarounds for serious bugs in Intel's Core 2 cpu.
These processors are buggy as hell, and some of these bugs don't just cause development/debugging problems, but will ASSUREDLY be exploitable from userland code.
As is typical, BIOS vendors will be very late providing workarounds / fixes for these processors' bugs. Some bugs are unfixable and cannot be worked around. Intel only provides detailed fixes to BIOS vendors and large operating system groups. Open Source operating systems are largely left in the cold.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 28, 2007 at 11:07:00 AM CEST
Hans Reiser: Once a Linux Visionary, Now Accused of Murder [Interview]
Hans Reiser is waiting for me, standing on the other side of an imitation-wood table. The room is small, the concrete walls bare. A guard locks the steel door from the outside. There is no sound. Reiser is wearing the red jumpsuit of a prisoner in solitary confinement, though he has been allowed to meet with me in this chilly visiting room. There was a time when he was known as a cantankerous but visionary open source programmer. His work was funded by the government; he was widely credited (and sometimes reviled) for rethinking the structure of the Linux operating system. Now he is known as prisoner BFP563.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 27, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
Supercomputer steps up the pace
The world's fastest commercial supercomputer has been launched by computer giant IBM.
Blue Gene/P is three times more potent than the current fastest machine, BlueGene/L, also built by IBM.
The latest number cruncher is capable of operating at so called "petaflop" speeds - the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 26, 2007 at 1:41:00 PM CEST
Code your Own Console Games... Complete with Cartridge!
Remember the simpler computer days of yore when it was actually possible to hook your Commodore 64 to an old TV set and immerse yourself in coding? Now you can relive those memories by creating your own classic 8-Bit style games with the Hydra Console Game Development Kit. For beginner to intermediate coders, you need only a minimum of programming experience in any BASIC or C-like language. You get all of the hardware and software you need including the Hydra console, comprehensive programming guide, keyboard, mouse, gamepad and your own cartridge to store your games on.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 22, 2007 at 11:43:00 AM CEST
Banned video game is 'fine art'
he US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland have described it as a "fine piece of art".
Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said Manhunt 2 had his full support and that consumers should decide for themselves.
"The Rockstar team has come up with a game that fits squarely within the horror genre and was intended to do so," Mr Zelnick said in a statement.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 21, 2007 at 10:42:00 AM CEST
C64 USB keyboard
This page describes how to build a USB-keyboard in the form-factor of an old C64 breadbox. Actually, with little modification it can be used for any kind of keyboard, since the source code is available, and all that needs to be done is to modify the key-to-scancode mapping.
The c64key is based on Objective Development's AVR-USB firmware only USB stack for Atmel AVR microcontrollers, and the simple HIDkeys example they provide. The implementation presented here has a more elaborate keyboard scanning routine, and allows multiple keys to be pressed (and detected) simlutaneously.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 21, 2007 at 10:39:00 AM CEST
Woman cleans keyboard... in dishwasher
You've got a desktop keyboard. And it's stained, grimy and filled with crumbs - not to mention the odd short, curly hair that really can't have got there through natural means. What do you do? You put it in the Whirlpool, that's what.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 17, 2007 at 1:10:00 PM CEST
Introducing The Worlds Most Advanced Racing and Entertainment Simulator!
VRX Design and Development is in the final stages of developing the most advanced racing hardware on the planet! May,29 2007 we launch the first ever universal Triple Screen Racing and Entertainment Simulator for use with Xbox 360.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 16, 2007 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
Hackers meet for coding festival
Web developers are gathering in London for the first BBC/Yahoo hackday.
The free-form event aims to show web developers how to get more out of the data feeds and interfaces the two organisations make available.
Those attending will be encouraged to play around with the technology to see what kind of innovative applications they can produce over the weekend.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 14, 2007 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
Goodbye Botnet Hackers
More than 1 million computers - possibly yours, too - are used by hackers as remote-controlled robots to crash online systems, accept spam and steal users' personal information, the FBI said Wednesday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 5, 2007 at 11:34:00 AM CEST
Sony price cut for Blu-ray player
Sony has cut $100 (£50) off the price of its new next-generation DVD player as it tries to get ahead in the market.
The BDP-S300 now costs $499 - half what the firm's first Blu-ray player cost at its launch six months ago.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on June 2, 2007 at 12:06:00 PM CEST
Motion-sensitive PC put to the test
He tries out a motion-sensitive laptop which is controlled through movement - much like the Nintendo Wii's game controllers.
Spencer comes up with a novel solution to an infuriating design quirk in a PDA with a magnetic screen.
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