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August 2nd, 2009, 22:50 Posted By: wraggster
A week after Microsoft agreed to include a browser ballot screen in Windows 7 systems sold in Europe, then announced that those systems would initially include no browser at all — specifically, no Internet Explorer — Microsoft has changed its mind again and dropped talk of a European Windows 7 E edition. Here is the official Microsoft blog announcement, which includes a screen shot of the proposed ballot screen. The browsers are listed left-to-right in order of market share, with IE therefore having pride of place. PC Pro notes that, since the ballot screen would not appear if IE were not pre-installed, Microsoft's proposal opens the door for Google to work with PC manufacturers to get Chrome on new machines. Note that the browser ballot screen has not yet been accepted by the EU, though the initial reaction to it was welcoming.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/...s-7-E-Editions
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August 1st, 2009, 10:44 Posted By: wraggster
The third annual Pwnie Awards took place last night at Black Hat in Las Vegas, and a full list of the winners has been posted. 'Most Epic Fail' honors went to the notorious Twitter/Google Apps hack from earlier this month that raised all sorts of questions about cloud computing security. Red Hat got skewered with the 'Mass 0wnage' award, also known as the 'Pwnie for Breaking the Internet,' for issuing a version of OpenSSH that left a backdoor open to hackers. The Linux development team earned 'Lamest Vendor Response' recognition for 'continually assuming that all kernel memory corruption bugs are only Denial-of-Service.' Naturally, Microsoft didn't slip past judges' eyes. Its vulnerability that enabled the Conficker worm to do its thing earned honors as the 'Most Overhyped Bug.' On the more positive side, the Pwnie Awards recognized security pros Wei Yongjun, sgrakkyu, Sebastian Kramer and Bernhard Mueller for accomplishments such as discovering bugs and demonstrating exploits. The Pwnie for Best Song went to Doctor Braid for his song Nice Report. Solar Designer snagged the Lifetime Achievement Award, for among other things, being the first to demonstrate heap buffer overflow exploitation, according to the Pwnie Awards Web site
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/3...t-Pwnie-Awards
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July 30th, 2009, 16:52 Posted By: wraggster
Analyst Michael Pachter expects Starcraft II to sell four million units in its opening quarter, a figure that would equate to USD 160 million in revenue for Activision Blizzard.
Operating profit could hit USD 80 million, he said, or four cent per share.
Reports yesterday suggested investors are anxious the title will slip into next year, since beta testing for the game, due to release in October, still hasn't begun. However, Pachter isn't convinced Blizzard will need as long in the beta test phase as others are predicting.
"They did a phenomenal job with the World of Warcraft beta - as I recall, it was around four months - and they will have no issues at all in attracting 30,000 supremely knowledgeable beta testers, so my bias is that the beta will take less time than most expect.
"Nobody knows how long the Starcraft II beta will take," the analyst told Gamasutra. "It's highly likely that the game is polished, with few or no bugs. The issue is balance, and until there is a large scale beta, Blizzard won’t be able to test every single weapon, defense, etc, in order to ensure that the three races are perfectly balanced."
But the Blizzard team are perfectionists, he pointed out, and nobody at Activision will want to challenge them on when the game is finished.
"The bottom line is that StarCraft II will launch when Blizzard says so,"
And even if the game is delayed into 2010, Modern Warfare 2 may be successful enough to offset the impact on profits this would have, Pachter predicted. "Modern Warfare 2 has the potential to sell an extra four million copies this year due to the big advertising push, so [a Starcraft II delay] could net out to zero financial impact."
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...uarter-pachter
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July 29th, 2009, 18:53 Posted By: bazziebizzle
via Bazzie Bizzle.com
ClrMamePro (an auditing tool) has been updated agian. Version 3.129 has more updates to the offline list datfile parser and a few other things.
Here's what's new in ClrMamePro 3.129: - misc: added some more support for offline dats. Parsing romTitle tags etc...
- misc: don't allow "." at the end of a rom name anymore
- misc: parser warning about double named rom entries but different hashes include nodumps (MESS .133)
- misc: fixing an unpacked wrong file name (where the new name already exists) backups and
replaces the existing file now instead of reporting not-fixed.
- fixed: batcher-rebuilder always scan/never scan subfolder options aren't saved correctly
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July 29th, 2009, 16:59 Posted By: wraggster
Sorry about that. Anyway. Yes, Aion is doing surprisingly well for itself, having not only moved enough pre-sales to top the Steam charts last week, but to make an appearance on the Direct2Drive ones as well.
Games that aren't called Aion that are also doing well include The Sims 3, which was #1 on Direct2Drive, ARMA II and Left 4 Dead, the Valve shooter that just will not go quietly into the night.
We'd also like to give a special shout-out to The Sims 3 on Mac, which came in at #5 on Direct2Drive. Well done, Mac game!
PC Digital Download Charts For The Week Ending July 25
Steam
1. Aion Collector's Edition (Pre-order)
2. Left 4 Dead
3. The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
4. Counter-Strike: Source
5. ARMA 2
6. Tales of Monkey Island Complete Pack
7. Dawn of Discovery (ANNO 1404)
8. Street Fighter IV
9. Team Fortress 2
10. Killing Floor
Direct2Drive
1. The Sims 3
2. ARMA 2
3. Dawn of Discovery (ANNO 1404)
4. Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War II
5. The Sims 3 (Mac)
6. Civilization IV: The Complete Edition
7. Supreme Commander Gold
8. Aion (Pre-order)
9. Fallout 3
10. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
http://kotaku.com/5325121/pc-sales-c...-aion-top-spot
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July 29th, 2009, 16:53 Posted By: wraggster
As it turns out, it won't just be Windows 7 that'll be giving Europeans a choice of what web browser to use. In fact, the lengths that Microsoft is going to appease the European Commission is quite extreme. Ars Technica did some digging and here's the fine print of the proposal. Within three to six months of the EC's approval, an update will be sent out to Europeans with Windows XP and Vista, labeled "high priority" or "important." User who install the update and have Internet Explorer as the default browser will see the ballot screen on next log in, which will show up to ten different browsers with at least a 0.5 percent share of the market in the European Economic Area (EEA). Users can then choose to download something new, ignore the screen, or defer until an indefinite time in the future. Windows 7 users will get the ballot update within two weeks of the Commission's decision or by its October 22nd launch, whichever comes second. Extreme? You betcha -- but we can't argue over having more choice.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/29/m...a-choice-of-b/
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July 29th, 2009, 16:35 Posted By: wraggster
t's difficult to think of a single category of application that's driven the pace of desktop hardware development further and faster than first-person shooters. Maximum PC examined the evolution of FPS engines, looking back at the key technologies that brought games from the early sprite-based days of Doom to the fully 3D-rendered African Savannah as rendered by Far Cry 2's Dunia engine. It's truly amazing how far the state of the art has moved in the last 16 years.
http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/0...-of-3D-Engines
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July 28th, 2009, 22:15 Posted By: wraggster
Those leaked Microsoft retail store plans certainly seemed like the real deal when Gizmodo got a hold of them last week, and Microsoft itself has now finally come out and confirmed that they are indeed legit. It's also quick to point out, however, that they're still far from finalized, noting that, "as a part of our process in briefing creative agencies, we shared some early prototypes and concepts of our retail store plans." Otherwise, company spokesman Frank Shaw would only go so far as to reiterate that "no final decisions have been made," and that Microsoft is still on track to open its first retail stores sometime this Fall.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/m...ans-are-legit/
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July 28th, 2009, 16:55 Posted By: wraggster
Need a quick way to blow 1,800 bones? Looking to single-handedly jump-start this so-called "economy" we keep hearing about? Look no further, friends, as ATI just did you a solid. Just four months after the outfit dished out its 1GB FirePro V7750, the company is now looking to strike it rich once more with the 2GB FirePro V8750. Obviously designed for the workstation crowd, this CAD destroying GPU is equipped with more GDDR5 memory than our own four-year old Quake III server, but as HotHardware points out, the clock speed remains exactly the same as the entirely more affordable V8700. When pushed, this newfangled card did manage to best every other rival on the test bench, but not by a wide margin. What you're left with is a cutting-edge device that's priced way out of consideration for most, and frankly, way outside the realm of sensibility. If you just can't shake the urge to hear more, give that read link a tap for the full review.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/a...-and-reviewed/
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July 28th, 2009, 16:53 Posted By: wraggster
Evidently hField Technologies has a good thing going with this inelegant Wi-Fire thingamajig, as it has just followed up versions one and two with the latest and greatest third iteration. The revamped Wi-Fire, which is more formally known as the HFWFG200, is said to be some 40 percent smaller and 30 percent lighter than the previous incarnation, yet it promises to maintain a solid WiFi signal while up to 1,000 feet away from the source. In one of those classic "two steps forward, three leaps back" moments, the company has added in support for Linux and OS X-based systems, though the device only works with 802.11b/g devices. In other words, you won't see 802.11n speeds out of this thing, and you'll still get looked at funny with it affixed atop your laptop's display. If you're willing to swap dignity for connectivity, you can get one headed your way today for $59.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/h...nge-wifi-adap/
http://hothardware.com/News/hField-T...ts-WiFi-Range/
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July 28th, 2009, 16:46 Posted By: wraggster
More than 9 out of every 10 Windows users are vulnerable to the Flash zero-day vulnerability that Adobe won't patch until Thursday, Danish security company Secunia says. According to Secunia, 92% of the 900,000 users who have recently run the company's Personal Software Inspector (PSI) utility have Flash Player 10 on their PCs, while 31% have Flash Player 9. (The total exceeds 100% because some users have installed both.) The most-current versions of Flash Player — 9.0.159.0 and 10.0.22.87) — are vulnerable to hackers conducting drive-by attacks hosted on malicious and legitimate-but-compromised sites. Antivirus vendors have reported hundreds, in some cases thousands, of sites launching drive-bys against Flash
http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/07/2...tacks-On-Flash
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July 28th, 2009, 00:04 Posted By: wraggster
News via http://www.aep-emu.de/
A new version of OpenTTD has been released. Quote: "OpenTTD is a clone of the Microprose game "Transport Tycoon Deluxe", a popular game originally written by Chris Sawyer. It attempts to mimic the original game as closely as possible while extending it with new features. OpenTTD is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2.0. For more information, see the file 'COPYING' included with every release and source download of the game."
http://www.openttd.org/
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July 27th, 2009, 16:35 Posted By: wraggster
After being snubbed by Hitachi in the race to push out the industry's first 1TB desktop hard drive, Western Digital made darn sure it was first to ship a 2TB version. Now, the company is raising its fists in celebration once more with the introduction of the sector's first 2.5-inch 1TB mobile hard drive. 'Course, this isn't the first 1TB drive of any kind in this size, as that honor goes to none other than pureSilicon and its ultra-spacious 1TB SSD. Still, we recall thinking that a drive of this capacity wouldn't hit until 2010 at best, so we're steadfastly elated to hear that the Scorpio Blue 1TB (and Scorpio Blue 750GB) are shipping now to retailers. Of course, we can't help but gripe that both of these boast unorthodox 12.5mm form factors, which dwarfs the standard 9.5mm-height slot found in most laptops, but hey, progress is progress -- right? With that in mind, it's easy to see why both of these are being marketed hard in the external HDD market, with each unit slated to ship within a My Passport SE for $189.99 (750GB) or $249.99 (1TB). The full release is after the break.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/27/w...tb-hard-drive/
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