penguin_dance writes The Register reports that OpenOffice.org is throwing a launch party in Paris on 13 October to celebrate eight years, and hopefully announce the release of version 3.0. Some notes: will support the OpenDocument Format 1.2 standard, and be
Anthony_Cargile writes Microsoft announced Friday their new M language, designed especially for building textual domain-specific languages and software models with XAML. Microsoft will also announce Quadrant, for building and viewing models visually, and a repository for storing and combining models
Mighty Squirrel writes This is a fascinating interivew with Hugh Loebner, the academic who has arguably done more to promote the development of artifical intelligence than anyone else. He founded the Loebner prize in 1990 to promote the development of
marshotel excerpts from a story at the Wall Street Journal: European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according to U.S. intelligence officials and
Anonymous Coward writes Cruxlux has a perspective-based search engine up. It provides a map of results laid out by viewpoint. For example, querying Obama shows a map with liberal blog posts, articles, and video clumped together, conservative stuff nearby, and
DynaSoar writes Esther Dyson, known to many as a founding and consistently guiding member of ICANN, and for working with the startups of Flickr, de.icio.us, Medscape and others, is now expanding her interests upwards. She recently announced that she will
chromakey writes The Wall Street Journal is running an essay from Lawrence Lessig about the fair use of copyrighted material on the Internet. He makes the case that companies who go to extreme lengths to squash minor videos, such as
snydeq writes Fatal Exceptions Neil McAllister takes Microsofts recently released Touchless SDK for a test spin, controlling his Asus Eee PC 901 with a Roma tomato. The Touchless SDK is a set of .Net components that can be used to
riverman writes I have been provisioned at the school where I work to teach a new Computer Science/Programming course. Im supposed to be teaching everything from the very-very basics (i.e. where that myspace thing is in your computer monitor, and
Discover Magazine is running a story detailing the search for planets like Earth orbiting other stars. While weve been able to locate a few super earths so far, none of them really compare in size or the potential for habitability
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from MarketWatch: A one-megaton nuclear bomb detonated 250 miles over Kansas could cripple many modern electronic devices and systems in the continental US and take out the power grid for a long time.
r2k writes While the Apple rumours posted yesterday highlight some of the most commonly talked-about opinions, a writer for CNet UK sat down with Mahalos Jason Calacanis, who told CNet he knew for a fact that Apple is developing fully
Master of Transhuman writes Seems like nobody can keep their data under wraps these days. On the heels of the World Bank piece about massive penetrations of their servers, the British Ministry of Defense has lost a hard drive with
An anonymous reader writes Our wonderful government here in the UK has decided were not being surveilled enough, and agreed to spend £12 billion on a programme to monitor every Britons phone calls, e-mails, and internet usage. According to various
Mighty Squirrel writes This is a fascinating interivew with Hugh Loebner, the academic who has arguably done more to promote the development of artifical intelligence than anyone else. He founded the Loebner prize in 1990 to promote the development of
marshotel excerpts from a story at the Wall Street Journal: European law-enforcement officials uncovered a highly sophisticated credit-card fraud ring that funnels account data to Pakistan from hundreds of grocery-store card machines across Europe, according to U.S. intelligence officials and
Anonymous Coward writes Cruxlux has a perspective-based search engine up. It provides a map of results laid out by viewpoint. For example, querying Obama shows a map with liberal blog posts, articles, and video clumped together, conservative stuff nearby, and
DynaSoar writes Esther Dyson, known to many as a founding and consistently guiding member of ICANN, and for working with the startups of Flickr, de.icio.us, Medscape and others, is now expanding her interests upwards. She recently announced that she will
chromakey writes The Wall Street Journal is running an essay from Lawrence Lessig about the fair use of copyrighted material on the Internet. He makes the case that companies who go to extreme lengths to squash minor videos, such as
snydeq writes Fatal Exceptions Neil McAllister takes Microsofts recently released Touchless SDK for a test spin, controlling his Asus Eee PC 901 with a Roma tomato. The Touchless SDK is a set of .Net components that can be used to
I cant believe what Im reading. All across the Web, reporters are saying that at Apples press event next week, the company will unveil an $800 Mac to appeal to those looking to spend less on an Apple computer.Anyone who
Three days before the Canadian elections, the party leader of the New Democrats has spoken out in favor of BitTorrent sites, calling them “fundamental to democracy.” At the same time, isoHunt, the largest Canadian BitTorrent site advises its users not
The collection today showcases some truly awe-inspiring Widescreen Desktop Wallpaper designs created by an array of artists, most of which can be downloaded for free. Enjoy adding some new life to your desktop with one of these refreshing new Widescreen
In the first part of our interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose at the Future of Web Apps conference, CNET News asked the Web start-up poster boy about everything from the companys Series C funding round to whether hes concerned
‘Real-Time’ BitTorrent search engines are the trend of 2008, and new sites emerge every other week. It all started in January with the launch of YouTorrent, but soon after it went legal, other sites took over. We catch up with
As a web designer or developer building a site, it’s helpful to first scout similar websites (i.e. the competition) to help you make design and development decisions. Knowing what websites work and which ones tank can give you insights and
Tonight, some AT&T subscribers were texted with the news that AT&T will discontinue the $20/month Unlimited MEdia Net option as of November 12, 2008. Until now, off-service (no-plan, Pay as You Go) iPhone users could purchase Unlimited MEdia Net and
Virtualization software can help you run programs that your native Linux distro wouldnt. While Linux users have many virtualization options, none comes close to the all-encompassing VMware Workstation 6.5. Introduced last month, VMware Workstation 6.5 continues the tradition of outshining
CrackBerry addicts, are you ready to take your BlackBerry to the next level? In this list, youll find some of the most awesome tips, hacks, how-tos and guides for the BlackBerry, making it easy for just about anyone to become
One iPhone owner got his replacement AC adapter and was surprised at the unnecessary size of the packaging. The box the tiny charger came in appears to be about three times the size of his original iPhone box. That doesnt
Version 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel has officially been released. The new version includes the ath9k wireless driver, the UBIFS filesystem for flash-based devices, and improved webcam support.
At the live Diggnation that was just held in London as part of the “Future of Web Apps” Expo, Kevin Rose dropped another juicy rumor. He claimed that the new and yet to be announced MacBooks will support Blu-Ray drives.
If you have a new 4th-gen nano and a decent ear, you may have noticed something funny: After putting it to sleep, if you wake it up by inserting headphones, the left and right channels switch. I tried this with
2.6.27 adds a new filesystem (UBIFS) optimized for pure flash-based storage devices, the page-cache is now lockless, much improved Direct I/O scalability and performance, delayed allocation for ext4, multiqueue networking, an alternative hibernation implementation based on kexec/kdump, data integrity support
With shares of Research In Motion among those that have seen a massive drop in recent months, Reuters on Friday made the case that the company could make a juicy acquisition target for Microsoft.
It is perhaps unsurprising that an ice cube tray entitled, “The Bullet Ice Cube Tray” makes ice cubes shaped like bullets. What is surprising is how damned realistic these things look. I am assuming that the molded the real deal
this recession will be great for free and open source because of the shortage of cash. Last recession saw the mainstream legitimisation of open source operating systems (youngsters, take note: there was a time when it wasnt automatically okay for
Fans of Twitter, Pandora, Skype, Zillow, and seven other Web companies had better hope these start-ups find creative business plans to weather the financial downturn. These 11 Web 2.0 favorites have landed on Webware.com editor Rafe Needlemans list of companies
Report from commission engineers boosts plan to open white space for free wireless Internet by dismissing concerns it would interfere with existing providers signals.
Got a printer, some paper, and some loose optical discs? Check out Liquid Mongoose, a simple tool that turns information from the Web into slick envelopes.
Internet-advocacy group says Hollywood is less concerned about stopping piracy than it is about preventing companies from building movie players without its permission.
Here are CNET Reviews 10 favorite items from the past week, including the Pantech flip phone, Sony Bravia LCD TV, Acer Aspire laptop, and Canon PowerShot ultracompact.
Computer maker says it has determined some MacBook Pros may be affected by Nvidia graphics chip glitch, and offers to repair those notebooks at no charge.
For some people, Web searches are second nature. If youd like a hand to speed up getting to exactly what you want, ChunkIt might have the search solution you need.
Apple and eBay swam against the tide, with shares rising in the positive territory for most of the day while the Dow Jones Industrial Average took investors for a wild, wild ride.
The last time Silicon Valley got hit by this kind of a financial storm, it remade itself and emerged stronger. Will Darwin apply this time around as well?
The software maker believes it has the tools and the right price point to beat VMware in the battle for the virtualisation market. Microsoft has a three-pronged strategy to beat VMware in the virtualization market, according to the companys senior
Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks dont necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isnt necessarily a bad
What ought to be Apples next leap of faith? Here are a few ideas for where Apple should go next. What are your ideas? Apple made its latest big move into new territories last year with the launch of the
The PowerVault DL2000 will simplify and accelerate data backup by offering disk storage and backup in one unit, Dell says. Dell has introduced the Dell PowerVault DL2000, a disk-to-disk system that places backup and recovery alongside the main data storage
Intel-backed ZPowers silver-zinc battery is set to make its debut with a large laptop manufacturer next year, promising batteries that are 95 percent recyclable and 40 percent longer life. Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative
U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an advance that could lead to a new class of fast, power-saving electronics. CHICAGO--U.S. researchers have developed ultrathin films that when sandwiched together form a superconductor, an
Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing
Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved relevance as it bids to win share from market leader Google. NEW YORK--IAC Corps Ask.com is overhauling its Web search engine to deliver faster results and improved
The indictments are part of the FBIs Operation Cyberslam, said to be the USs first successful investigation into a large-scale, commercially motivated denial-of-service attack Two Europeans, one of whom is English, have been indicted by a US federal grand jury
The Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, which can draw on the computing power of more than 100,000 processors, was officially launched on Friday. One of the worlds largest computing grids, capable of streaming the equivalent of three million DVDs
Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for school children that the government hopes will boost the countrys technological edge in education. LISBON--Microsoft launched on Friday a software package for a Portuguese ultra-cheap laptop for
Speaking to developers in London, Steve Ballmer says Microsoft will announce a cloud-based operating system within a month--with a catchy new name. Microsoft will launch an operating system for the cloud in four weeks, chief executive Steve Ballmer told delegates
Research from the Corporate IT Forum indicates more UK companies are using or investigating XP and Windows 7 than Vista Microsofts Windows Vista operating system is still playing second fiddle to XP among business users, with more enterprises investigating the
Adobes Creative Suite 4 has shown up on popular BitTorrent tracking sites in large numbers, little more than a week after its global launch Little more than a week after its global launch, Adobes Creative Suite 4 has shown up
Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google, by establishing a three-center research facility in Europe. LONDON--Microsoft is stepping up efforts to improve online search, where it considerably lags market leader Google,
Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable digital music player will have to answer when it hits U.S. stores this month. NEW YORK--Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned
As enterprise Web 2.0 makes its way into organizations, there is a misconception held among a pocket in the industry that the new technologies will replace the old says Nexawebs Jeremy Chone. Commentary--Was anybody else not surprised by the recent
The collapse of top US financial firms is causing a dramatic slowdown in lucrative contracts among outsourcing companies in India--turning cities like Bangladore inside out. Bangalore, India--Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake
Most members of a silicon.com CIO jury say theyre not even testing Googles Chrome--choosing to stay with Microsofts Internet Explorer. In silicon.coms latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10
Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by adopting Adobe Systems encryption on all television shows and movies found on its site, software maker Adobe said. SEATTLE--Amazon.com has fixed a glitch in its video streaming service by
The entire tech industry is preparing for tough times, but what does the current economic downturn mean for innovation on the web? Will the momentum that drove the defining advancements of the Web 2.0 era fizzle out? We say it
Wal-mart has pledged to continue supporting all the digital rights management-infected music it sold to unwitting consumers over the past five years. Unfortunately for the retail giant, it could be haunted by Microsofts failed DRM system for years to come.
What it is: Atlas Power AscenderWhat its used for: Rapidly pulling people and their gear up the side of a building or canyonThe prototype of the Power Ascender was not easy to use. The battery-powered, waist-mounted climbing assistant yanked people
Birth By Sleep, the upcoming PSP entry in the Kingdom Hearts series, reminded me of why I like this Square Enix/Disney crossover in the first place. Beating things up with a giant key is fun. Wired.com
At the Tokyo Game Show, its the year of the Nintendo DS. With more than 23 million units sold in Japan alone, and an updated version of the hardware called the DSi on the way next month, there isnt a
The devastating selling continues on Wall Street, with investors again dumping stocks in early trading. The Dow Jones industrials, already down 2,271 points in seven sessions, are down more than 300 after dropping nearly 700. Wired.com
Scientists have confirmed the second case of a virgin birth in a shark. In a study reported Friday in the Journal of Fish Biology, scientists said DNA testing proved that a pup carried by a female Atlantic blacktip shark in
Join Webmonkey as we offer a comprehensive introduction to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, the powerful photo editing application for professionals and serious amateurs. Lightroom helps you make the most of your DSLR camera, giving you a digital darkroom for organizing, tweaking
Click once in the wrong site and hackers will be able to both see and hear you through your own webcam and mic. The vulnerability is caused by clickjacking, a method of highjacking your mouse clicks. Creepy? Well show you
The CG-animated flick doesnt bring anything special to the popular horror videogame franchise. If anything, the latest game trailer looks better than this boring puppet show. Wired.com
As the U.S. government starts the process of closing a major net vulnerability, two longtime net infrastructure rivals -- the non-profit ICANN and for-profit VeriSign -- are battling over who will compile and verify the nets most important document. Internet
Cascading Style Sheets are a key component to presenting content on web pages. But the standard, now more than ten years old, has its limits. If you had your say in the discussion to improve CSS, what would you ask
An e-mail circulating online that looks like a revealing personal account of a vacation taken with John McCain could undermine his image of an upright character since a lot of people appear to believe unverified information forwarded to them by
While earth scientists and investment bankers both employ data-heavy computer models, climate models are on much firmer ground than their shaky financial counterparts. Wired.com
With all the gear you pack up for your camping trip, sometimes you forget what camping is all about. These hardcore tips from Les Stroud of TVs Survivorman should strip us back down to just the essentials and get us
Every week on AMC TVs Mad Men, the men and women at Sterling Cooper create and design retro 1960s ad campaigns, all while obsessively chain-smoking, drinking and womanizing. Wired.com asks a real-world ad man about the show’s realism and relevance
Actress Elisabeth Sladen has played The Doctors companion at various times since the 70s, becoming the lovable British equivalent of sci-fi legends like William Shatner or Leonard Nimoy. The star of hit Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures talks with
Microsoft says it is scaling back the frequency of User Account Control, or UAC, prompts in the next version of Windows. The prompt system, which continually asks users to allow or deny certain actions, is widely seen as an annoyance
After years of testing, the Active Denial System -- the pain ray which drives off rioters with a microwave-like beam -- could finally have its day. The Army is buying five of the truck-mounted systems for $25 million. But the
Wired Science visits the high-security National Ignition Facility, which Department of Energy scientists hope will help manage the American nuclear weapons stockpile and provide the key to harnessing fusion power. Wired.com
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Since its release, the Killer NIC has garnered a reputation for being an extravagant and largely unnecessary add-on for the do-it-yourselfer. Seeking additional insight, we
The 780G chipset/Radeon HD 3200 and the MCP78S chipset/GeForce 8200 provide the first integrated graphics solutions that can accelerate Blu-ray playback.
This weeks top Apple news revolved, unsurprisingly, around Apples recently-announced Special Event. Also on top this week were leaked MacBook photos, iPhone security, comments from Woz about the iPod, and a new addition to our team.Read More...
The open-source software community released some exciting new software this week. Ars tested the latest beta releases of Ubuntu and Fedora, the new versions of Mono and Python, and an intriguing new location-aware extension for Firefox.Read More...
The big news of the week was the AMD spinoff and Intels reaction to it, but we did see some action in other areas as well. Info on Nehalem, ATI, and ten minute battery recharges inside.Read More...
In this weeks top Microsoft news, we cover a Windows XP reprieve, Internet Explorer market share loss, and the upcoming release of Silverlight 2.Read More...
Would a lumpy universe rid us of the need for dark energy? Is low efficiency worth it if our solar cells bend without breaking? Answers to these and many other questions appeared in this weeks science news.Read More...
Google wants to save you from the modern equivalent of the drunk dial, while a bank robber goes both high- and low-tech, recruiting a distraction through Craigslist and using an inner tube as a getaway vehicle. All that and more
This week in gaming and gadgets brought us a 1,600-piece functional calculator in LittleBigPlanet, the distribution of free night vision goggles, and the death of the used game market at the hands of Gears of War 2.Read More...
Both American Airlines and Delta announced this week that, contrary to their previous stance on the issue, they plan to start filtering inappropriate websites from being accessed with their in-flight WiFi services. Read More...
Researchers congregated in Vienna this week to see a fantastic demonstration of quantum encryption technology, but the demo also illustrated the advantages and disadvantages of the European scientific funding system.Read More...
Sony and Microsoft are both ready to fight for console supremacy this holiday season, but their weapons are very different. We take a look at the gaming giants as they gird up for war. Read More...
A new study examines individuals capable of exceptional achievements in math and reveals that gender and ethnic differences appear to be largely the result of cultural expectations and practices. In other words, stop making fun of nerds!Read More...
Wal-Mart is the latest company to change its mind about pulling its DRM key servers offline. After receiving feedback from customers who were about to be held hostage by their old music, the company has decided to leave the servers
Students are increasingly arriving at college with their own cell phones, causing some universities to shift budgets for dorm room land lines to other projects, like wireless Internet.Read More...
Seagate will be hopping on the bus with all the other hard drive manufacturers, with SSD enterprise drives coming in 2009. For the moment, thats all the worlds largest HDD company is talking about—below the highest end, its a disk-spinning
Youve probably heard about so-called terrorist propaganda games, either via the Internet or TV. Well, we at Ars found some and reviewed them (and in the process probably Googled our way onto the NSAs hitlist). Reviews inside, as we continue
Legal, school-sponsored music and movie services have exploded in popularity over the last few years—well, in popularity with administrators, at least. 15 percent of all US schools and 39 percent of the big ones offer such services. Its not clear
Yahoo quickly turned around the acquisition of a web analytics firm to take on Google with near real-time access to raw data. Along with an upcoming developer API and an already established hosting platform, Yahoo has a shot at snagging
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the hugely successful Wikipedia project, is migrating all of its server infrastructure to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. This move reflects the growing viability of Ubuntu for enterprise-scale server deployments.Read More...
Verizon has announced an expansion of its tech support offerings to include home support for PC hardware and software issues, phone problems, and TV repairs. Pricing is on-par with Geek Squad and AT&Ts offering, ConnecTech, but is there room for
Game releases for 10/12-10/18 @ ShacknewsBlizzCon coverage @ Gamespy, GamespotTokyo Game Show coverage @ IGN, KotakuLittleBigPlanet early copies unboxed @ QJGears of War 2 leaked early; photos @ NeogafCommand & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Hell March exclusive trailer @ GameTrailers
Despite “spiraling costs” and looming deadlines, NASA decided to move forward with the planned 2009 launch of the next Mars rover. The next-gen rover is the size of an SUV and will sport a laser. Final price tag is expected
PC World has an article interviewing Michael Calce, AKA ‘Mafiaboy’. You might remember his hacking antics in 2000 when he took down Yahoo, Amazon, Dell, and CNN with a DDOS attack. He was 15 at the time and is now
TechNewsWorld has an interview article with Steve Ballmer about Microsoft’s consumer electronics efforts and challenges. As usual, he is exceeding optimistic about Vista (he calls it ‘an unqualified success’) and has other interesting opinions. Q: What else would you say
Verizon will be adding a transaction fee of 3 cents for every “MT” (mobile terminated) message sent via their network. MT messages are typically text or news alerts sent by information and news services. I guess the days of free
PCWorld has a great article that tracks down some of the people who enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame via the Internet over the past 10 years. If you’ve wondered what happened to the “Leave Britney Alone” kid or what
It’s going to be a Nehalem November. ZDNet reports that the first Bloomfield chips will go on sale on Nov. 17. They include the 3.2GHx Core i7-965XE at $999, 2.93GHz Core i7-940 at $562, and the 2.66GHz Core i7-920 for
A train carrying an DHL shipment of Xboxes through TX derailed and Microsoft is now suing for the loss. A total of 21,600 consoles were lost and were en route from TX to CA for eventual shipment to Hong Kong.
Buoyed by investor confidence in value and an upcoming laptop announcement, Apple shares rallied more than 9 percent on Friday. It doesn’t make up for the 40+ percent drop in value over the past month but any little bit helps.
At Blizzcon, Blizzard’s VP of game design Rob Pardo announced that Starcraft 2 will be released as a trilogy, with each game focusing on a single race. The first race will be Terran, followed by the Zerg, and finally Protoss.
Wow. No, not the game… well ok, the game and the sentiment. This guy has 36 World of Warcraft accounts that he plays on 11 computers simultaneously. While the loser alarm is going crazy, his setup is pretty ard-worthy. Thanks
If you’ve always wanted to see the Forbidden City in Beijing, China but circumstances have prevented the trip, your opportunity has arrived. IBM has recreated the Forbidden City as it was during height of the Ming and Qing dynasties using
Patch Tuesday for Microsoft is coming up and they’ve got a full plate to serve up. To fix bugs in Windows, Active Directory, IE, Office, and Host Integration Server, a total of 11 patches will be released. Four of the
Scythe Co., Ltd announces its first original VGA Cooler, “Musashi” to the worldwide market. After a several years of intensive and deep market research as well as our product development without compromise, the Musashi VGA Cooler is proudly ready with
Mythic Entertainment, an Electronic Arts Inc. studio, announced that 750,000 players have registered for the critically acclaimed fantasy MMORPG, Warhammer(R) Online: Age of Reckoning(TM) (WAR) in North America, Europe and the Oceanic territories. WAR topped the PC sales charts around
In order to cater to users who require excellent graphical performance boosts and exceptional cooling from their graphic cards, ASUS has introduced a range of self-designed version graphics cards comprising the latest EAH4870 DK and EN9800GTX+ DK Series. These ASUS
That headline gave me the worst mental image of some DJ with two live tuna on a turntable. Thankfully that isn’t what’s happening here. Submersed Songs | Canções Submersas from ∆LEX on Vimeo. Comments
A new report out today says that the World Bank Groups computer network has been repeatedly raided by hackers over the last year. Apparently the bank was unaware of the intrusions until the FBI, who were working on another case,
In the most dire of cash crunches, AMD has confirmed the rumors and parted ways with its fabrication arm. What does this mean for AMD and its new spin off?...
Want to get rid of Windows (Vista) and run DirectX games on Linux? Found the recent virtualization articles just a bit tad too much nuts and bolts? Or do you wonder how well Microsofts Hyper-V performs compared to VMwares ESX?
On the verge of buying a new Xbox 360? The first models to include a 65nm GPU and CPU are on their way. Their arrival is imminent, but read on to see what you can do to help identify ones
Hamburg, Germany, 01 October 2008 – dtp entertainment and the development studio RealU, based in Singapore, today announced the MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) Otherland. Otherland, based on the best-selling novels by fantasy author Tad Williams, will appear for the
Today we have the first part of a three part series on the current state of chipsets with integrated graphics. This first part looks closely at Intels G45, presently the only LGA-775 chipset with full Blu-ray decode acceleration, as well
Theres rarely ever a dull moment in computer graphics land, and 2008 has been no exception. The merged ATI/AMD seems in a constant state of flux, and NVIDIA hasnt had quite the best run of luck lately. Even so, weve
I ran some quick tests on the latest iPhone firmware which claims to improve battery life. While talk times didnt improve, battery life while using data did go up....
While these lower end cards arent all that great for gaming (in spite of major advantages over integrated graphics), they offer a great set of features for those who want a quiet HTPC card with 8-channel LPCM over HDMI....
Photokina brought announcements of the new midrange Olympus DSLR and Micro Four Thirds compact, Kodak 37.5MP sensor, Pentax entry K-m DSLR, and more. The biggest announcements were in the days leading up to Photokina....
Many have been waiting for the higher memory variant of AMDs 4870 since its launch. It is now available, and at very good prices. Our tests show performance improvement due to the additional memory increase as well as direct comparisons
Today we have the first part of a three part series on the current state of chipsets with integrated graphics. This first part looks closely at Intels G45, presently the only LGA-775 chipset with full Blu-ray decode acceleration, as well
Despite the huge die size and 1.9 billion (!) transistors, the six-core Xeon 74xx is a wallflower, for both the public as Intels marketing. If youve invested in a current Intel quad socket platform, the newly launched Intel 74xx series
Reader Christian Nielsen wrote from Sweden to tell us he and his girlfriend have named their baby Linux, after the operating system, and attached this darling photo.
Googles Picasa is all about photos -- it helps you instantly find, edit, and share all the pictures on your computer. Although it isnt released as open source it is free to download and use from Googles Web site. The
Virtualization software can help you run programs that your native Linux distro wouldnt. While Linux users have many virtualization options, none comes close to the all-encompassing VMware Workstation 6.5. Introduced last month, VMware Workstation 6.5 continues the tradition of outshining
Yesterday, I looked at the major applications in the first beta for KOffice 2.0. Now its the turn of the rest of the beta: The KPlato project manager, KChart, the vector graphics editor Karbon, and the raster graphics editor Krita.
Foresight Linux is best known by many as the distribution that features the Conary package management system. Perhaps soon it may become known as your childs favorite distro. The recent release of Foresight Kids Edition 1.0 introduces a new generation
Whether you believe that punctuality is "the politeness of kings" or "the art of guessing how late the other fellow is going to be," you can count on your Linux box for information about local times across the globe, so
KOffice has been trailing the office application leaders for a long time. Despite years of development, it has yet to match OpenOffice.org feature for feature, although its features are complete enough that they have attracted a loyal community. Judging from
As important as security is, remaining current with every development is hard, and evaluating possible vulnerabilities across a network can be quite a chore. You need a way to both automate tests and make sure youre running the most appropriate
Few free and open source software projects have attracted such a range of reactions as Mono. On one hand, as an implementation of Microsofts .Net thats sponsored by Novell, it has been vilified both for the company it keeps and
If I had had SpeedCrunch or Qalculate! during high school, finishing homework really wouldve been childs play. From breaking down complex algebraic equations, to solving your calculus problems, to performing geometric computations and providing statistical answers, SpeedCrunch and Qalculate! are
A reliable network monitoring and management solution must accurately detect network devices such as routers, servers, and client workstations. It must be able to display a map of the whole network, monitor the health and performance of each device, and
Sidux, a relatively new desktop Linux distribution, is based on Sid, the unstable developmental branch of Debian. The developers strive for an easy-to-install and easy-to-use modern Debian derivative, and pride themselves on remaining true to the principles and values of
Many audio, video, and graphics professionals would like to make the switch to Linux, but dont want to deal with the hassle of figuring out multimedia on Linux or are scared off by the purported lack of such tools. I
The first essays of the school year are coming due, and with the essays comes the need to outline and plan. GNU/Linux users are fortunate to have a number of outlining applications from which to choose. True, some outliners have
The wave of cheap netbooks, mini laptops, or ultra-mobile PCs has crested with the cheapest yet, the NPX-9000 from Carapelli. Though it was announced in July with great fanfare at a price of £65 (or $110), it has yet to
FreeBSD is a Unix-like open source operating system that can trace its ancestry back to the original Unix. Its well known and well respected in the server marketplace, but until recently FreeBSD lacked an easy-to-use desktop version. In 2005 the
FUEL (Frequently Used Entries for Localization) aims to solve the problem of inconsistency and lack of standardization in computer software translation in a new and unique way. Initiated by Red Hat, the project is trying to give a better experience
Most free software projects produce applications for users. A minority, however, produce specifications or libraries for developers and other contributors. An example of this second type is the recently announced Manju project, whose goal is to make themes easier to
Everyone needs to back up their computers, but when you have machines running on different platforms and different operating systems, it can be annoying to have to learn several interfaces. Areca and plan/b are two Java-based backup solutions that can
Maintaining filesystems can be a real administration burden. Over time you might start getting multiple copies of the same file, soft links that point to files that no longer exist, temporary files that have been hanging around longer than they
With todays release of iPod: The Missing Manual, Seventh Edition, by J.D. Biersdorfer and David Pogue, were beginning the release of nearly all new (frontlist) titles as ebook bundles. SharePoint for Project Management, by Dux Raymond Sy, will be available
Check out last years keynote address by John Hanke, Director of Google Earth & Maps and Jack Dangemond of ESRI as they demonstrate the latest in Google geo development. Compare to the geospace technology of today by attending this years
Have an iPhone-related app or company youre ready to unleash on the world? Do it at iPhoneLive Launch Pad, an opportunity for iPhone developers and entrepreneurs to unveil new applications and startups at a major new industry event. The October
The US Library of Congress Thomas project is making user-friendly, structured URLs available as permanent aliases for its legislation. I have been pushing a similar approach, but taking it further, in the PRESTO approach.
When I started writing for Inside iPhone, I promised that Id talk about why iPhone web apps are still important. I decided to make good on that threat this week. One of the reasons that I think its necessary to...
Our current financial problems derive, at their foundation, from private transactions that werent nearly careful enough about the prices of the goods underneath them. Perhaps the answer is to require that financial practices be done in the open. Everyone can
Ive been meaning to write a post about open-source software in defense for a while and today my inbox achieved critical mass with the arrival of yesterdays GCN article on the subject. The article previews a memo being prepared by
It doesnt take a rocket scientist to realize that media is changing the way books are viewed. In fact, video - and YouTube in particular - has already changed how books are sold. Most big fiction releases are heralded by
Dr. Gary Rost Bradski and Adrian Kaehler, the creators of OpenCV, have put their knowledge into a new book for OReilly. With Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library developers and hobbyists can learn how to build simple or
I think Ken Krechmers Adaptive Standards pre-suppose the kind of frameworking and support for modularity and plurality that I have been banging on about for the last decade. An interesting recent quote from him.
Whether you opt for the nerdy designation of SPAM, prefer politically correct euphemisms such as unwanted messages, favor Apples designation of junk mails or even, as we crazy Frenchmen do, nickname them pourriels, you have most certainly had the joy
Armand Leroi is an Evolutionary Biologist with the Imperial College in London. Leroi is leveraging the ability of computers to analyze sound to create a Cantometric description of traditional music from various cultures. Leroi discusses his research and his new
As the financial markets battle the fallout of years of poorly regulated unwise greed, the language of analysis is revealing. Commentators talk of contagion spreading, financial gears jammed, and turbulent markets. This is the language of non-obvious connection, where its
By now, almost everyone who has an iPhone and who have downloaded apps from the App Store, will most likely know what 3rd-party software means, and by natural extension, who the 3rd-party software developers are. And everyone also most likely...
Photoshop Elements 7 includes lots of new tools for everything from sprucing up your photos to storing and sharing your pictures online. Theres so much to this new version, in fact, that knowing what to do -- and when to
Nothing Ive ever written has ever prompted a reaction like last weeks e-column. In six days, over 1,150 of you added comments to the online version at nytimes.com/pogue. So writes David Pogue, in his e-column today. The column was the...
One thing that most people dont realize with virtualization is that its not the actual virtualization layer that is important. It works, they all do. The important part is in the management tools and thats something thats been sorely missing
Test Driven Development works best when each test case targets one aspect of a classs interface. So this post will demonstrate a simple and direct way to test a partial without testing the Views, layouts, and Controller actions surrounding it.
The year is 2008 and Hank Warner can no longer wait to attend Maker Faire Austin. Desperate, he decides to have himself cryogenically frozen in order to be revived upon the day of the event. Get your tickets for Maker
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Saturday 11 October 2008 at 04:58:00 Prices for online apps could soon plummet Customers could soon see much lower prices for common web-based applications, according to one analyst. Forrester Research analyst Oliver Young said
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Saturday 11 October 2008 at 04:57:00 2.0 release likely announcement Microsoft is planning to make a major announcement surrounding its Silverlight web application tool. The company sent out
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Saturday 11 October 2008 at 04:56:00 Spam contains fake update A new malware attack is taking advantage of Microsofts upcoming monthly patch release. The spam messages attempt to
Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Saturday 11 October 2008 at 04:55:00 Network under constant attack, claims report The World Banks internal networks have been compromisd by outside attackers at least six times in
Daniel Griffin, Information World Review, Friday 10 October 2008 at 15:34:00 New islands in Second Life will expand publisher’s presence The Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has increased its presence in the virtual reality world of Second Life (SL) launching the
Andrew Donoghue, BusinessGreen, Friday 10 October 2008 at 15:29:00 The companys Tower Tube design has been updated with wind energy technology Swedish tech giant Ericsson has updated an environmentally friendly design for base stations
Andrew Donoghue, BusinessGreen, Friday 10 October 2008 at 14:55:00 Embracing sustainable technology could help pull the global economy out of a downturn Widespread investment in renewables and sustainable technology could help tackle the current
Ian Williams, vnunet.com, Friday 10 October 2008 at 14:50:00 Mobile penetration rates expected to reach 95 per cent by 2013 Worldwide mobile penetration rates are expected to reach as high as 95 per cent
Andrew Donoghue, BusinessGreen, Friday 10 October 2008 at 14:38:00 Environmental groups claim more must be done to regulate palm oil production in the region Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth (FOE) has hit
Phil Muncaster, vnunet.com, Friday 10 October 2008 at 14:36:00 Mithras Capital Partners steps into the fray As Yahoo shares fell to a new five-year low this week, a shareholder has proposed a new arrangement
Phil Muncaster, vnunet.com, Friday 10 October 2008 at 16:44:00 Companies often better off with mid-market content management vendors, says analyst Market leaders in the enterprise content management (ECM) space could represent a higher risk
Andrew Donoghue, BusinessGreen, Friday 10 October 2008 at 16:31:00 Orders for its wind turbines were up 50 per cent year on year, the company claims Despite tough economic conditions overall, engineering giant GE claims
Phil Muncaster, Computing, Friday 10 October 2008 at 16:09:00 Science and Technology Committee debates progress on Personal Internet Security report The House of Lords has renewed calls on the government to act on several
Rachael Singh, Accountancy Age, Friday 10 October 2008 at 16:03:00 KPMG has announced that it will have to make redundancies as well as close more outlets The Yorkshire textiles retailer which announced last month that it was going into administration
Ian Williams, vnunet.com, Friday 10 October 2008 at 15:37:00 Credit crunch sending shoppers online for cheaper presents UK businesses are being urged to ensure that their online stores are up-to-date and competitive as a
Daniel Griffin, Information World Review, Friday 10 October 2008 at 15:34:00 New islands in Second Life will expand publisher’s presence The Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has increased its presence in the virtual reality world of Second Life (SL) launching the
Kayleigh Bateman, CRN, Friday 10 October 2008 at 17:05:00 Microsoft LAR heads for UK market with boosted sales staff Swiss Microsoft large account reseller (LAR) SoftwareONE is poised to enter the UK market after
Dinah Greek, Computeract!ve, Friday 10 October 2008 at 17:04:00 ISP says current tests will give users of high-speed broadband inaccurate readings Broadband speed testers can’t give accurate results when used to test high-speed broadband services, said Virgin Media. The cable
Sara Yirrell , CRN, Friday 10 October 2008 at 17:01:00 Chief executive set to review entire organisation as it looks to raise its profile The new chief executive of trade body CompTIA has revealed
Angelica Mari and Bryan Glick, Computing, Friday 10 October 2008 at 17:59:00 Theft that affected BSkyB staff also contained data from Network Rail and British Transport Police Consultancy firm Deloitte has admitted that the
This is an explanation of economics. Theres no way to avoid some boring details and glazed eyes when talking about such things. However, I promise to avoid some of the jargon which will send you running to wikipedia, if you
Humans are omnivorous. Probably the reason we are is that we started out as scavengers before we were hunter/gatherers. Eating ancient and primeval road kill must have been nasty enough that some bright ancestor found a pointed stick and jabbed
So King George got on the TV tonight to let everyone know that yes, the sky will indeed fall if those pesky congress persons dont agree to effectively nationalize a handful of companies that may or may not have been
Those who spend their weekends doing things other than watching the news woke up Monday morning to a proposed 700 billion dollar bailout of the broader US financial system. The response to the most devastating financial crisis in modern history
One of our more prolific users, localroger, recently posted a diary about how this online community of ours has failed. In and of itself, this is not ironic or even remarkable; the perennial breast-beating that our community is dying is
According to History of ASCII Art, a Korean gentleman named Gwang Hyuk Lee (or Gwank Hyuk Lee?), around the time of the Korean war, drew a picture of Jesus Christ (entirely by hand) using the entire text of the Book
Im going to present to you tips, tricks, and techniques for e-mauling localroger. In theory many of these will work well against anyone, but I am writing this diary in the hopes that this will help give people that push
I didnt understand. Every time Ive ever been asked to contribute to society, I simply wrote some bullshit excuse to weasel out of it. Contributing is for other people, not a precious important snowflake such as myself. So Id pen
I didnt understand. Every time I got the subpoena before I submitted a written letter stating that I was paid by the hour and sole breadwinner of my household. Id get a message on my answering machine about a week
Ive been a chronic smoker for the last eight years, but had recently abstained for 111 days due to a job situation. I read this and many articles like it through this bleak dry period, coming up with all sorts
With the widespread success of Christian-themed videogames like Left Behind, apparently created for combinations of monetary and religious-proselytization-of-our-bizarre-take-on-apocalyptic-Christianity reasons, the subgenre of Christian videogames is now pretty well entrenched. Less well known is that the first Christian-themed videogame was created
Were coming up on the one year mark of the gated community line that we were fed a year ago so that rusty wouldnt have to find a clever solution to the catflood. Lets see how it worked.
At some point in the near future the Internet will run out of IPv4 address space. This problem has been recognized and addressed since 1992. IPv6 (IPng, IP next generation) was selected as the replacement. There is one big hurdle
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Announcing: WakeRiteTM Alarm Clock by MichaelCrawford in MichaelCrawfords Diary Sun 08, 2008 at 07:16 PM EST Tags: MichaelCrawford, WakeRiteTM, Sleep, Alarm Clocks, Geometric Visions, Ogg Frog, GoingWare, Schizoaffective Disorder (all tags) Good news everybody! In my ongoing quest to manage
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