PC game charts: December 17-23
The Sims 2: Pets beats out World of Warcraft for pole position as older expansions to EA’s virtual life simulator return to the charts.
Archive for January 5, 2007
Analyst: Don’t expect Bully 2
Critically acclaimed game didn’t sell enough to warrant a sequel, says Wedbush Morgan Securities’ Michael Pachter.
Vista Home Basic’s half-baked bits
No-one expects Vista Home Basic to tick every box on the menu. That would defeat the purpose of having a relatively low-priced version of Vista to woo budget-minded upgraders and help PC makers deliver systems well under the $1000 mark. But there are some odd exclusions.
Live from Las Vegas: can CES deliver?
The organisers of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) must be kicking themselves.
Cars get connected
WiFi in the car is coming, with the early announcement of in-car 3G routers at CES. The best part? AVIS is going to offer it in hire-cars. Bye bye, pricey hotel broadband!
Sigmatel audio chip lacks Vista drivers
One of the most common audio chips found in garden variety PCs — Sigmatel — still doesn’t have a Vista driver. “Who me? What audio chip?” seems to be the response from Sigmatel.
What exactly is FLAC?
FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality. This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back these files in your mp3 player.
Microsoft to release 8 security patches for January
Although the information is subject to change until the day of, on 9 January 2007 Microsoft will Release 8 Security Patches
Ping Flooding Attacks By Cyberstalker
The most devastating IRC weapon is the flood ping, known as “ICBM flood or ICMPing.” The idea is that a bully will find out what Internet host you are using, and then give the command “ping-f” to your host computer. Or even to your home computer. Yes, on IRC it is possible to identify the dynamically assigned IP address of your home computer.
5 tips to get the best out of your broadband connection.
This story describes how you can schedule your downloads from Rapidshare, Youtube, bittorrent etc. in the night so that you can have a peaceful night of sleep.
Linux: Improving The Promise SX4 Driver
Jeff Garzik noted that the hardware documentation for the Promise SX4 chipset is being opened up and therefor the sata_sx4 driver is a good candidate for improvements, “I would like to take this opportunity to point hackers looking for a project at this hardware.
The Windows Alternative to Free PBX software (Not Trixbox on VMWare)!
I just ran across this free PBX software for Windows 2000/NT/XP. It is completely free and all features are enabled. I tried using TrixBox, but I am linux impaired. I have been wanting something like this for the home office and I imagine many others are looking for something like this.