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August 15th, 2009, 10:50 Posted By: wraggster
wirelessjb writes to share that after a resounding defeat at the hands of Microsoft in the first major browser war of the mid 1990s, Marc Andreessen is looking to have another go at the market by backing a new startup called "RockMelt."
"Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. 'There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch,' Mr. Andreessen said. RockMelt was co-founded by Eric Vishria and Tim Howes, both former executives at Opsware, a company that Mr. Andreessen co-founded and then sold to Hewlett-Packard in 2007 for about $1.6 billion. Mr. Howes also worked at Netscape with Mr. Andreessen
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08...ks-New-Browser
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August 15th, 2009, 10:42 Posted By: wraggster
In an effort to expand its Linux offerings, Dell is researching new netbook-type devices and will soon offer netbook Linux OS upgrades, a company official said on Wednesday. The company is researching the possibility of offering new Linux-based mobile devices called smartbooks, said Todd Finch, senior product marketing manager for Linux clients, at the OpenSourceWorld conference in San Francisco. The company will also upgrade its Ubuntu Linux OS for netbooks to the latest version in the next few weeks ... Smartbooks with Arm chips have inherent advantages over x86 chips like Atom, such as lower power consumption and longer battery life, according to Finch. The chips are also becoming more powerful, as indicated by the growing number of applications on smartphones, he said. 'I think it's natural and reasonable for us to begin looking at them as they begin scaling their processors up
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/0...sed-Smartbooks
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August 14th, 2009, 16:16 Posted By: wraggster
Web developers want IE6 to shut down; so does Microsoft, but it can’t force its customers
Microsoft has defended its continued support for IE6, the eight-year-old browser that a growing number of web developers insist should be mothballed.
The global software giant said it will, in fact, be supporting the browser until 2014 – some four years beyond initial projections – despite stating that it would prefer users to upgrade to the latest edition of its browser, IE8.
At the centre of the IE6 row is web developers’ growing frustration that they have to develop product – websites, flash games, portals, etc – with all browsers in mind.
Though the likes of IE8, Firefox and Safari tend to be suitable for modern web development, creating product with IE6 in mind means that extra work needs to be done, and even then, IE6 slows down many web applications despite being optimised.
Many web developers believe that this kind of extra work is becoming an unnecessary burden.
An online petition has been set up to lobby Microsoft into migrating its customers to newer IE browsers.
A statement on the petition group’s website reads:
"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in late 2001. For its time, it was a decent browser, but in 2009, it is still in use by a significant portion of the web population, and its time is now up."
Around 20 per cent of people still use IE6 to browse the net, according to monitoring groups. This fact has become the basis for Microsoft’s retort to the petition group.
"It's hard to be cavalier in this economy and say 'oh it's been around for so long they need to upgrade,'" said Amy Barzdukas, Microsoft's general manager for Internet Explorer.
Microsoft’s IE chief Dean Hachamovitch echoed Barzdukas’s sentiment:
“For technology enthusiasts, this topic seems simple. Enthusiasts install new (often unfinished or beta) software all the time. Scores of posts on this site and others describe specific benefits of upgrading.
“As a browser supplier, we want people to switch to the latest version of IE for security, performance, interoperability, and more.
"So, if all of the ‘individual enthusiasts’ want Windows XP machines upgraded from IE6, and the supplier of IE6 wants them upgraded, what’s the issue?
“The choice to upgrade software on a PC,” he said, “belongs to the person responsible for the PC.”
Hachamovitch added that, while it’s understandable that groups are calling for mass-migration to IE8, many PCs don’t belong to individual enthusiasts, but organisations.
“The people in these organisations responsible for these machines decide what to do with them. These people are professionally responsible for keeping tens or hundreds or thousands of PCs working on budget,” he said.
“The backdrop might be a factory floor or hospital ward or school lab or government organization, each with its own business applications. For these folks, the cost of the software isn’t just the purchase price, but the cost of deploying, maintaining, and making sure it works with their IT infrastructure.
“As much as they (or site developers, or Microsoft or anyone else) want them to move to IE8 now, they see the PC software image as one part of a larger IT picture with its own cadence,” he concluded.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/32153...ack-in-IE6-row
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August 13th, 2009, 18:57 Posted By: wraggster
Step aside, World's Cheapest Laptop, Lanyu of China just undercut you -- and the magical $100 barrier -- with the 666 Yuan ($98) LY-EB01. This marketing marvel might have a processor slower than most netbooks' FSB at 266MHz, and its 128MB of RAM might spontaneously combust if you even type the word Vista into it, but it is, technically, a laptop. And you can totally store, like, a few hundred Word files on the 2GB flash drive. Having played around with the previous champ of the 'cheap 'n useless' weight class, we must at least congratulate Lanyu on a solid looking construction, and hey, apparently there's a chance for a release outside China. Aren't you excited?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/l...-in-obsolesce/
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August 13th, 2009, 18:53 Posted By: wraggster
While AMD does not have the muscle to push around the i7, they certainly have the ability to give the older and more common Core 2 Quads a run for their money. With the release of the Phenom II X4 965, AMD further attempts to dethrone the Core 2 Quad as the premier midrange CPU offering. While it may not be a world-beater by any stretch of the imagination, it certainly is catching Intel's attention in the breadbasket of the CPU market. The X4 965 is the fastest clocked processor that AMD has ever produced, much less shipped in mass quantities. While the speed bump is appreciated, the cost in terms of power and heat will make the introduction of the X4 965 problematic for some. Many of us thought that we would never see another 140 watt processor (as the Phenom 9950 was), but unfortunately those days are back. Still, AMD offers a compelling part at a reasonable price, and their motherboard support for this new 140 watt processor is robust
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/0...-140-Watts-245
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August 13th, 2009, 18:51 Posted By: wraggster
EA has released some new Command & Conquer 4 screens, which, while bearing a passing resemblance to previous titles in the venerable real-time strategy series, do offer a few glimpses at the gameplay changes EA has in store (like persistent player progression). Just try not to be bummed about the severe lack of Kane in today's Command & Conquer 4 post, okay?
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/08/12/co...tiny-units-xp/
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August 13th, 2009, 18:10 Posted By: bazziebizzle
via Bazzie Bizzle.com
ClrMamePro (a ROM auditing tool) has been updated once again.
Here's what's new in ClrMamePro 3.130a: - rename wizard: improved fuzzy name compare
- rename wizard: don't allow identical new names, the one with the best method wins
- misc: don't replace illegal chars in description tags until you use it for writing
- misc: reapplying setinformation options "incl.clones/parents" on profile load, this can be useful if you limit sets with "available sets" (and the parent/clone options) to auto-enable some renamed sets on dat update. However you still should recheck the limit sets after an update since limiting sets is not robust against massive renames.
- misc: improved chd decompress and check hash routines slighly[/li]
- fixed: checkbox init of scanner->Hash&CHD->CHD MD5/SHA1 is not always correct
- fixed: header support getRealSize was still broken
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August 13th, 2009, 17:25 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft is quite confident of its leadership status on the Netbook front, boasting earlier this year of 96 percent attach rate for Windows and making other, more recent claims of return rates on Linux netbooks that are "like four or five times higher" than their Windows equivalents. Dell's Senior Product Marketing Manager Todd Finch is refuting that last claim, saying "we don't see a significant difference between the return rate for Windows versus the rate for Linux." He does, however, continue to say that many people who return Linux netbooks simply bought the cheapest option they could find, expecting Windows and shipping the things back after being greeted by something other than a familiar UI upon startup. The panel at OpenSource World also tackled the topic of how to spur greater interest in Linux, and crushed the dreams of many attendees who believe in the Field of Dreams approach: get Linux machines into retailers and demand will come. The demand has to come first, says Finch, and given the general non-existence of open source marketing, that's going to take something of a Kevin Costner-scale miracle.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/13/d...ot-customer-i/
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August 10th, 2009, 19:22 Posted By: wraggster
Eurogamer will host a live Command & Conquer 4 interview this Wednesday, 12th August from 5pm BST (UK time).
In the hot-seat will be senior producer Mike Glosecki and lead designer Sam Bass.
As always you will be able to question them via a moderator, and their answers will appear magically on the same page.
The live interview follows a full-house of Command & Conquer 4 coverage on Eurogamer this week, including a hefty preview, a fresh batch of screenshots and a snazzy competition. Three of you could win a trip to gamescom in Germany later this month, where you'll attend a huge Command & Conquer fan event.
Command & Conquer brings the Tiberium series to a climax. But perhaps more importantly, the game introduces an experience point system and persistent player progression to the mix.
Find out more from our hot-out-of-the-oven Command & Conquer 4 preview. GDI up!
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/li...day-blog-entry
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August 9th, 2009, 12:25 Posted By: wraggster
Viruses and worms get all the headlines, but poor password management is a worse problem according to a new study by Channel Insider and CompTIA. As Larry Walsh writes in his Security Channel blog, VARs and security service providers say they find more problems with password management than antivirus applications when they do security assessments. While password problems are nothing new, Walsh and those posting on his blog correctly assert that users remain cavalier about passwords and businesses are doing too little to address this serious vulnerability
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/0...Poor-Antivirus
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August 8th, 2009, 10:12 Posted By: wraggster
Several sources are reporting that while native audio/video support has been dropped from the HTML 5 spec, the Khronos Group has released a few details about their up and coming WebGL 3D acceleration standard.
"The general principle behind WebGL is to offer a JavaScript binding to the group's OpenGL ES 2.0 system, allowing code run within the browser to access the graphics hardware directly in the same way as a standalone application can. As the technology would rely solely on JavaScript to do the heavy lifting, no browser plugin would be required — and it would be compatible with any browser which supports the scripting language alongside the HTML 5 'Canvas' element."
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/0...on-To-Browsers
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August 7th, 2009, 21:15 Posted By: wraggster
Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has taken the unusual step of responding in the comments of a blog posting that claimed Windows 7 was suffering from a potential 'showstopper bug'. Stories had been sweeping the Internet that using the chkdsk.exe utility on a second hard disk would lead to a massive memory leak bringing the operating system to its knees in seconds. Responding to a blog post titled 'Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM,' Sinofsky wrote: 'While we appreciate the drama of "critical bug" and then the pickup of "showstopper" that I've seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level.' He signs off with the words: 'deep breath.'
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08/0...howstopper-Bug
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August 7th, 2009, 17:56 Posted By: bazziebizzle
via Bazzie Bizzle.com
ClrMamePro (a ROM auditing tool) has been updated to version 3.130. This version has some small fixes and introduces the rename wizard for the first time.
Here's what's new in clrmamepro 3.130:
- added: 1st part of the upcoming new toy "Rename Wizard" (see whatsnew.txt for more information)
- added: warning when 'Sets' scan option is not enabled
- added: dir2dat option to create a 0 byte file for empty folders
- misc: show common rebuilder warnings only once and not per addpath
- misc: improved fuzzy set name check
- fixed: xml dats with UTF ByteOrderMark aren't listed in profiler
- fixed: when using header support, rom size values are wrong
- fixed: offline datfiles 0 crc/ 0 size issue
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August 6th, 2009, 19:59 Posted By: wraggster
icrosoft has released the newest edition of its online PC service, Games for Windows Live.
The most significant addition to Microsoft’s new platform is how users can access the Marketplace in the middle of a game.
The Xbox 360 manufacturer says that when players buy an item from the in-game Marketplace, Games for Windows Live will download and install the item in the background.
It would be a logistical triumph if such DLC could then be accessed in-game without restarting, though since the company has not mentioned such a feat in its press release, expect this to not feature.
Game publishers are also able to implement new anti-piracy measures. Server-side authentication, for example, will tie Gamertags to game licences.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/35306/Game...ive-30-arrives
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August 6th, 2009, 16:42 Posted By: wraggster
Western Digital may have been first to launch a two terabyte 3.5-inch desktop hard drive, but it's Hitachi snagging the first 7200RPM 2TB crown (WD's entry hummed along at 5400RPM). Launched today, the 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 also features 32MB of cache and a 3Gbps SATA interface, but unfortunately, few other details are being disclosed. As in, there's no pricing or release information whatsoever. In related news, the company is also refreshing its 7200RPM Deskstar 7K1000.C line, which is available in sizes ranging from 160GB to 1TB. The full, completely unprovocative press release is just after the break.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/06/h...3-5-inch-hard/
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August 6th, 2009, 01:56 Posted By: wraggster
Blizzard has just announced that StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty won't be released this year. From their announcement: "Over the past couple of weeks, it has become clear that it will take longer than expected to prepare the new Battle.net for the launch of the game. The upgraded Battle.net is an integral part of the StarCraft II experience and will be an essential part of all of our games moving forward. This extra development time will be critical to help us realize our vision for the service. ... As we work to make Battle.net the premier online gaming destination, we'll also continue to polish and refine StarCraft II, and we look forward to delivering a real-time strategy gaming experience worthy of the series' legacy in the first half of 2010."
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/0...yed-Until-2010
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August 5th, 2009, 17:03 Posted By: wraggster
The Sims 3 sold over 3.7 million units in its release month of June this year, making it one of the fastest-selling PC titles of all time.
The game, released during the first week of the month racked up those sales worldwide making it the best-selling title at retail in North America and Europe combined for the quarter.
Earlier this week its first expansion pack was announced - World Adventures - while the game's also been driving community and online item sales via its website.
Last August it was announced that the franchise to that point, including The Sims and The Sims 2 - plus expansions - totalled over 100 million unit sales.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...illion-in-june
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August 5th, 2009, 16:59 Posted By: wraggster
Microsoft for the first time has named Linux distributors Red Hat and Canonical as competitors to its Windows client business in its annual filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The move is an acknowledgment of the first viable competition from Linux to Microsoft's Windows client business, due mainly to the use of Linux on netbooks, which are rising in prominence as alternatives to full-sized notebooks. ... 'Client faces strong competition from well-established companies with differing approaches to the PC market,' Microsoft said in the filing. 'Competing commercial software products, including variants of Unix, are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/0...eat-To-Windows
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August 3rd, 2009, 16:21 Posted By: wraggster
Novell has just announced the release of SUSE Studio 1.0 — a user-friendly Web service that allows you to create your customized Linux distribution as a live CD, USB, Xen, or VMware image. Users have control over adding any repositories, packages, and files to the distribution. A new user can do the full creation and customization of the software appliance in roughly ten minutes. It also includes a Flash-based "test drive" service, which allows you to try out your appliance in a Web browser before downloading it
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/0...io-10-Released
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