25 Aug, 2007
Susan MacTavish Best, Craigslist spokeswoman and girlfriend of CEO Jim Buckmaster, claims that Craig Newmark “is no longer is involved in the company’s daily affairs,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. And indeed, Newmark, the company’s founder, though he was listed on the Craigslist management page a week ago, no longer appears there.
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25 Aug, 2007
The open-source “Nouveau” NVIDIA driver now contains X-Video support for most NVIDIA GPUs. The details are in the developer companion along with the status of video overlays and other features.
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25 Aug, 2007
What’s new in this release:
- Better heuristics for making windows managed.
- Automatic detection of timezone parameters.
- Improvements to the builtin WordPad.
- Better signatures support in crypt32.
- Still more gdiplus functions.
- Lots of bug fixes.
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25 Aug, 2007
Did you go broke buying that new Xbox 360? Fortunately, a side-effect from the release of next generation consoles is that last-gen title prices have fallen through the basement. It’s time to dig in those couch cushions because here are 5 tried-and-tested Xbox games you might have missed that cost under $50 total!
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25 Aug, 2007
Other news: GNOME 2.19.90, Apt-Enabled Plugin Finder Wizard and Extension Manager integration for Firefox, printers are now automatically, fully configured by merely plugging them in and turning them on, pdf printer.
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25 Aug, 2007
You might think the face of one of the hottest areas in gaming right now is a young male in his 20s who owns the latest supercharged gaming system from Microsoft or Sony - or both.
But you’d be wrong.
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25 Aug, 2007
The first time Scott Lunsford offered to hack into a nuclear power station, he was told it would be impossible. There was no way, the plant’s owners claimed, that their critical components could be accessed from the Internet. Lunsford, a researcher for IBM’s Internet Security Systems, found otherwise.
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25 Aug, 2007
The game will be released in North America on October 31 following the submission of a modified version of Manhunt 2.
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25 Aug, 2007
The Xbox360 version of Devil May Cry 4 being demonstrated at the Leipzig Games Convention apparently has slightly better graphics than the PS3 version. According to Gamespy the visual difference is only marginal, but noteworthy considering the game originally started development on the PS3 and used to be a PS3 exclusive.
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25 Aug, 2007
July NPD console sales numbers show a strong console market with plenty of competition. Sony’s price cuts lifted the PS3, which is now breathing down the neck of the Xbox 360. Ain’t competition grand?
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