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I bought a Yeelong (as above) after a five year long search on ebay, using the saved search option. I would like to Upload the Hware details to www.h-node.org , as it is the last netbook left in that category that is undetailed. Is that desirable ? Please contact me at my hub. happy hacking..

Strange, works for me on Mac OS X 10.6.8: http://imagebin.org/206224
What platform are you on? Sounds like perhaps bad driver support for your video card. :/

And I agree their demo needs some work. They need to implement texture/model streaming instead of forcing you to download the whole level up-front.

Looks broken. Takes very long to load, then takes 600MB and something seems to happen, but no polygons are rendered. Looks like just one ugly repeating texture for the ground, and a few bushes. I can pan around though but there is nothing to actually see no matter how long I wait. http://imagebin.org/206217 This port doesn't look very successful.

It is currently not available on their website, I got it from Google-cache: Screenshot on ImageBin http://imagebin.org/165710

The "hole" here is the user.

It's a trojan that you need to download, unpack and then manually install, giving your admin password along the way.

Other than taking away the user's ability to install software (hey, isn;t everyone yelling about how evil Apple is for going for a walled harden approach on iOS?), I fail to see what they can do here, other than educating users on the dangers of installing untrusted software.

I am all for railing hard on security - if there are security issues they need to be dealt with (like the change in behaviour of Safari if 'open safe files' is checked - I do not believe any file from the internet can be classified as 'safe'), but this is such a very big storm in a socially engineered teacup.

Another user posted a screenshot of what you see if you click on a link that takes you to the malicious server (I got sent to one via clicking an image in Google Image Search, for example): http://imagebin.org/153902
It clearly uses your UA string to detect what OS you have and displays an appropriate con. The one I was shown actually animated, with a progress bar moving along as it "found" the malware you can see in the image and then "completed" to show that dialog box.

The security culture is going to have to change, but since when is that new? Social engineering is an enormous hurdle to computer security.

So, let me be clear - there is no "security update to combat that problem" that Apple will "eventually" release. Did you even read anything about it at all before posting? Oh wait, this is /. - I'm amazed you even read the summary.

I have seen this "malware" in the wild. My elderly mother called me, last week, about this. She reported "something came up on my screen, telling me that my computer is infected and that I should click to remove them". I had her take a screenshot and send it to me:

http://imagebin.org/153902

She is almost as computer illiterate as one could be, but even she had a suspicion that this wasn't legitimate.

Out of curiosity, I went to the URL (which inspects the user-agent, to avoid showing this scareware screen to non-Mac users), clicked "remove all", downloaded/unzipped the file, _manually ran the installer_, and clicked through several install steps.

This is not drive-by malware, it doesn't use an exploit in a vulnerable browser plugin, etc. It's a fairly-hardmless trojan that is easily removed. A google search for "remove mac protector" will yield detailed instructions, e.g.:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-mac-protector

I have saved the installer, if anyone would like a copy of it for analysis. It contains some remnants of Russian language settings from Xcode, among other interesting tidbits.

GPL causing problems you didn't anticipate?

I think it does make a difference. I have lots of photographs of plants (landscapes, up close, etc). I've often been annoyed that they seemed dull when scaled down, e.g. in the gallery on my website, and this would appear to be the cause.

Try it for yourself. Find a photograph (I used this one -- had to crop it a bit to fit it on ImageBin), and do these:
convert image.jpg -scale 25% out1.png
convert image.jpg -depth 16 -gamma 0.454545 -scale 25% -gamma 2.2 -depth 8 out2.png
compare out1.png out2.png outD.png

out1.png is scaled the existing way. out2.png is scaled taking into account the gamma. Flip between them. I especially see differences around the stems of plants.
outD.png is the differences.

Netradio is ok, personally i prefer to use an AM/FM Stereo Receiver for music. (PC plugged in to the aux in)
http://imagebin.org/27185

What the RIAA is doing amounts to extortion, the sooner the MPAA/RIAA dies and the copywrite gets reigned in to sane levels the better this will all be...