Epic Teaser for Project Offset
Direct Link. This game is going to be amazing, just watch.
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Archive for July, 2007
CES 2008 going RFID
Betcha didn’t think our CES 2008 coverage would begin over five months prior to the magical event itself, but once we receive that email inviting us to register, it’s game on as far as we’re concerned.
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Torvalds rebukes desktop critics
“Linus Torvalds, creator and maintainer of the Linux operating system kernel, has reacted angrily to suggestions that the kernel’s development process is skewed in a way that prevents improvements on the desktop.”
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“Attempted infringment” appears in new House intellectual property bill
Even some kinds of “attempted” copyright infringement could be punishable by prison terms under new intellectual property legislation. Will it affect you? Probably not. One of their concerns is that a small change to the law could have big effects on casual file-sharers.
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TV-Out Support Headed To Open-Source ATI Radeon Driver
The GATOS code has been relicensed to MIT/X11, which now makes it possible for merging with the X.Org Radeon driver. There is still patches that need to be applied along with developers reviewing the code, but after that there will be open-source TV-Out support in the Radeon driver for ATI R200 hardware.
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Samba bug in OS X allows hackers root access
According to PC World, Symantec has upped the warning level to Mac users this week on a Samba exploit first discovered in May of this year after discovering the exploit has been uploaded to the Metasploit hacking framework. Despite Samba’s developers having released a fix a day after the discovery, Apple has yet to patch the hole.
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PS3 Fanboy interviews Everyday Shooter creator
On why he chose Sony: It seems that Sony, or at least the Santa Monica studio, understands that games are not mere products of commodity, but works of expression and personality. From my point of view, this understanding leads to the ideal relationship between game maker and publisher. The game maker is given space to be creative…
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Apt-get for windows for all your Free as in Beer apps
win-get is an automated install system and software repository for Microsoft Windows written in pascal (for the command line client) and php for the online repository. The ideas for its creation come from apt-get and other related tools for the *nix platforms.
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Apple iWork… ‘08?
“Apple’s Start Page briefly listed a headline with the title Keynote ‘08. The title was quickly changed, but the name suggests that Apple could even skip the iWork/Keynote ‘07 version that was originally expected at Macworld San Francisco in January. Alternatively, this could be a simple typo…”
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MEPIS to switch from Ubuntu to Debian
You may love Ubuntu, but the designer of the popular Linux desktop SimplyMEPIS is going back to Debian for the heart of his Linux distribution and here’s why.
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Best Buy Fires Geek Squad Supervisor Following Negative Newspaper Articles
About Porn Pilfering. Best Buy is on the offense, launching an internal witch hunt to unmask the “rogue employees” responsible for exposing Geek Squad’s pervasive culture of porn pilfering. Their first victim is the Geek Squad supervisor of the Santa Clarita store, one of the only Best Buy locations whose former employees were quoted in articles.
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Future iPhones could share data over non-GSM channels
A newly-published Apple patent describes a system that would allow two communication devices to share multimedia data over voice channels, thus bypassing the GSM network altogether and even enabling them to translate text and multimedia messages to audible messages.
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