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Would she be able to use this? With the following she might be able to control a computer and do more stuff.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114843/game-on-with-the-braincontrolled-pc.html

Excerpt: "The device takes the form of a headband with three electrode plates pressed to your forehead. The quick calibration tool measures brain and facial muscle activity, with a certain amount of movement or calmness of thought required to move a box to the right degree."

While we died embarrassingly quickly in the first few rounds, after ten minutes we could walk in straight lines and fire only when we wanted, rather than all the time. Strafing proved harder, but we could still have a reasonable fight with the bots even if we were hardly going to challenge pro-gamer Fatal1ty."

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/113080/what-does-it-take-to-destroy-a-hard-disk/page1.html

i would never agree that "no amount of 'forensics' can recover broken silicon chips"

sure it might be hard.. but it is still more than possiable - the trick is how much is it worth to the person/people trying to get the data back.

i was trying to find a better artical where they went over how ontrack recovered 90+% (don't remember exactly) from the drives on the 2003 shuttle that turned into a fireball and shreaded..

i seriously doubt that your hammer would do much - and as for the other person that responded to you.. flushing it woln't do much good.. as well all they need to do is find it..

again.. it is all dependent on how much it is worth to the person trying to get the data back.

The question is whether either the disc or the drives carried the DVD Logo?

Link to PC Pro News

You're talking rubbish. ADSL+ was being sold to UK subscribers over two years ago. I don't see why anyone should be blamed for the fact that where you live isn't populated enough to be deemed profitable yet. ISPs are not charities.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/77057/uk-online-joins-24mbps-adsl-rollout.html

but that headline is for asus and their 100£ laptop.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/114773/asus-stuns-computex-with-100-laptop.html

After reading this, I am somewhat speechless. All I see is a twist of irony here; the gestapo tactics of this industry is alarming. I dont know where they will draw the line and when?

So, lyrics are out, Tablature is out... I wonder when they will shake down middle and high schools? They are onto a path where their greed is going to short-circuit the creative process.

Apperently, you cant teach people how to play either

This just demonstrates their short-sightedness.

"Ihnatko and Apple's insistence that the device is running OS X contradicts suggestions that, to be blunt, it is not, as a post on tech site Slashdot explains."

mad.frog,

Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware of that.
I had based my comment on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_xRes

"xRes can still be seen in an effective cut down version: Macromedia Fireworks, released later designed specifically for web graphics."

I really likes xRes and was terribly dismayed at it's demise, the large format [.LRG] was brilliant.

xRes 3.0

http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/15894/x res-30.html?searchString=

xRes 2.0

http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/15894/x res-30.html?searchString=

mad.frog,

Thanks for the clarification, I wasn't aware of that.
I had based my comment on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromedia_xRes

"xRes can still be seen in an effective cut down version: Macromedia Fireworks, released later designed specifically for web graphics."

I really likes xRes and was terribly dismayed at it's demise, the large format [.LRG] was brilliant.

xRes 3.0

http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/15894/x res-30.html?searchString=

xRes 2.0

http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/reviews/15894/x res-30.html?searchString=

There seems to be a fair amount of denial going on, not only at the geopolitical level, but here as well.

Cries of "It will hurt the economy!" ... "Those are our jobs you're talking about!" ... "It aids the terrorists!" ... "It's fuzzy math/science/reporting!" fly from both sides.

But the cold, hard fact remains, we *are* changing our environment, as a look at these articles, some of which are decades old, will attest. Taken as a whole many of those changes are not at all beneficial.

So rather than focusing on who-said-what games, maybe it's time to quit clicking the heels of our ruby slippers, and begin cleaning up the mess we've made.

Well perhaps the US government won't, but I believe the British Government is interested.

Perhaps you should take a look at this.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/hot-topics/112514/fata l-flaws-in-operation-ore-the-full-story.html

pedophiles are sick individuals, however from this article it appears you could do the adult verification check for an adult site and your name and credit card details would be stored in the same db as pedophiles wanting access to child porn sites.

It would seem that some people have been falsely accused and had their lives ruined, if not ended, operation ore has resulted in at least 36 suicides in the UK alone. Being accused of being a pedophile falsely has to rank as one of the worst things that could happen to someone, that stigma sticks even if the accusations are found to be baseless.
  Insufficient evidence to gain a conviction doesn't necessarily mean everyone believes your innocent.

People get googled by prospective employers all the time and its on record now that woman was kicked from my space as a suspected pedophile, How many will pass her over now just in case, playing it safe if there are 99 or 9 other equally qualified candidates as an employer why risk it.

Going to Post anonymously because i don't want to be seen as having any sympathy with pedophiles. Sorry I am not going to get dragged into this witch hunt.

With the release of Vista, Microsoft has reworded its End User Licence Agreement (EULA) to forbid the use of Vista Home Basic and Home Premium Editions with virtualisation products like Parallels and VMware. Macworld has confirmed the information with a Microsoft spokesperson. - Reseller News

the EULA restricts virtualisation deployments to the Business and Ultimate edition of Vista - PC Pro

Well according to PC Pro, printers are deliberately set up to fail after some time in a way which requites return to base.. and blame it on the ink and blame it on the ink .. I don't really see that we should particularly trust printer manufacturers more than "Mad Dave's really Good ink" down the street.

Well, Solaris would be my personal choice, but running the London stock exchange for 6 years without any outage is still quite impressive.

Well people are dumb enough to believe that piracy is damaging profits http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/106698/technology-boos ts-movie-industry-box-office-sales.html - and will soon destroy the industry, unless drastic measures are taken to prevent it.
In the UK decades ago they said that 'home taping of radio shows is killing music' and actually got the government to change the law to outlaw taping radio shows. It didn't stop the practice and music is not dead.

The music and film industry has always complained about piracy and yet they go from strength to strength.

Looks like he's spitting the dummy now that he is out of the loop. MS are not a search company

http://www.live.com/?searchonly=true&mkt=en-US

MS dont want to be a search company

• The Battle For Better Search (April 2005)
• New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles (May 1 2006)
• Microsoft Wants More Search Share (October 27 2006)
• Microsoft puts Live services into the Labs (January 26 2006)

but as is the way when you are a perceived are the dominant IT player you must be seen to 'compete' with all the 'upstarts' to keep the share holders happy

• Online Search Hits All-Time High; Google Dominant
• (March 3 2006)
• Yahoo! gives up quest for search dominance (January 24 2006)
• Does search engine's power threaten Web's independence? (October 31 2002)

so your business heads gob off about how stupid the opposition business heads are.

Right. That's why google has to be "fucking kill"ed instead of just being allowed to die on its own.

I think most people are going to be very surprised when they realise where MS see their future and while they are currently getting slaughtered in many sections of the press over Vista they are quietly laying the ground work for the next phase, which is largely why there has been so little reaction from Redmond to the adverse press.

Vista IS the groundwork for the next phase. Everything Microsoft does is intended to extend their control over the market. Not a surprise, but still true.

Don't agree with anything you just said there.

1. "The real reason for this problem is that there are too many computing graduates"

Source? Most companies are complaining that there is not enough graduates in computing. According to a report from Microsoft, the British Computer Society and Lancaster University Management School, more than 150,000 new graduates are needed every year and currently there is only 20,000 graduates.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/features/97391/why-it-educa tion-is-bottom-of-the-class.html?searchString=grad uates/

2. "In Britain, the government wants 50-60% of people to go to University. Only about 5% of available jobs need a degree level education."

Source? According to a government survey graduates have the lowest employment rates. Also on average graduates have a better rate of pay.

3. "This guy is right - we don`t need that many graduate developers and the ones we do need tend to need experience and training anyway."

Where did he say we don't need graduate developers? What we need is degree, experience and training. That makes people go further in life and not hit any roadblocks.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/24/HNappled elllead_1.html

http://www.becta.org.uk/satisfactionsurvey/2001/de sktop/summary.html

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122226-page,1/ar ticle.html

That was a grand total of 2 minute of reasearch and dragging and dropping the URL into here. If I could find this much in 2 minutes, it looks pretty good for Apple in more detailed research.

http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2005-08-10-a.html

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/76034

http://lwn.net/Articles/163038/

http://www.patent-commons.org/

http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/

You betting against him? He has crawled in the network, have you? Personally, I am not betting against him.

Has he? How do you know he's not a disgruntled ex-employee, who would have knowledge of their network legitimately? How do you know he's not in cahoots with an ex-employee? Why make persistent efforts to expose this unproven "flaw" in a public manner unless the intention were to harm eBay's image and/or their stock position?

This sort of information would be worth a lot of money on the black market, if it were true. Why doesn't he sell it?

If his goal is to protect ebay users, why doesn't he work with ebay security, privately?

I don't understand why people insist on believing this kind of stuff right out of the gate without any critical thinking.

Why is no one mentioning that Apple owns the trademark or is the pending owner for "iPhone" in nearly every other country but the US? It makes perfect sense for Apple to challenge Cisco as they want to use one name globally. Cisco, on the other hand, doesn't yet own the iPhone trademark in the US - they are simply the pending owner of a trademark for which multiple companies have applied.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/101915/apple-could-see -green-light-for-european-iphone-trademark.html

Let the record show that I tried to take the (relatively) high road here.

A company wanting exposure in a new market? Wow, did you think that up all by yourself?

It's funny that you're taking this intellectually arrogant attitude, because you've really offered nothing to prove that you have even the slightest idea what you're talking about. Yes, companies look for new markets. Growth drives share price, and that's what they're about. It's not a difficult concept. But when it's done at the expense of existing product lines, it's a risk. The bottom line is that Apple chose to release a phone at the expense of releasing a new "dedicated" iPod.

Okay, seriously, just how stupid are you? The problem with the PS3 is not that it has a Blu-Ray drive, which has been known about for a very long time. The problem is that the "cheap" version is 500 frikkin dollars, and you can buy a Wii and a 360 for the price of the 60 gig PS3.

Sweet math, man. There might be a career for you in that.

The reason that the PS3 starts at $500 is that the blue laser diodes for the Blu-Ray drive are very difficult to manufacture in quantity, and that adds about $200 to the cost. Sony won't eat a $500 loss on each console. So let's apply some of those amazing arithmetic skills you demonstrated. A PS3 without Blu-Ray parts would conceivably cost $300-400, or the same price as an XBox 360. The Blu-Ray drive is there mainly to push the format into the market, with the expectation that Sony will make the money back in royalties when it becomes widespread.

Feel free to dazzle me with more of your astounding brilliance, and maybe call me a fag or something while you're at it.

Yeah, you can make fun of Sony for Memory Stick and Betamax

And memory stick pro.
And minidisc.
And netmd.
And their non-mp3 player ipod wannabe.
And the "walkman bean".
And UMD.
And suing Lik-sang out of business.
And possible RAM price fixing.
And who can forget their exploding batteries!
Oh yeah and what about the criminal investigations for installing rootkits on you PC?


Yet they shipped the PS2 with standard ports (USB, IEEE1394)

It doesn't matter because you could not use them with standard hardware.
Who cares is a game console has USB if you can't hook up anything but sony-approved USB devices? The interface is then proprietary, regardless of the connector used.

For those of you who claimed that the porn industry would decide this war (as was speculated in the beta max/VHS war), they've decided to choose both technologies. So that is no longer really the deciding factor. Are we going to see movies and studios side with the separate technology and the consumer simply use both?

However 'Beyond' is also butt ugly, the first week's worth of posts are a bit boring and the blogroll is narcissistic.

MusicForMe cracks Allofmp3's music streaming service

about 50% of Apple's hardware sales are laptops, and they are going to possibly break a company record this quarter by selling over 1 million laptops. the previous record was last quarter and that was a bit under 800,000. the iMacs are selling well, and the Mac Pro and Xserve finished off the last of the PPC Macs. that should resolve some holdouts. it sounds like the above post explains it that they are not combining PPC and Intel based Mac OS X hits.

just one source of this:
http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/macuser/news/93513/appl e-laptop-sales-to-push-past-the-million-mark.html

just to save you some time..... if you look for more info on google you may want to do a -recall if you put in: Apple million laptop

Try here

Most folks want a nice computer that lets them word process, surf the web and/or look at digital pictures. You may be a geek. Many folks here may be geeks. But most people don't care about the computer itself, only a few applications.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/87079/real-boss-calls- ipod-owners-thieves.html

As we all know, people are filling their iPods with their CDs imported into iTunes rather than downloading music. Of course, Apple is selling vast amounts of music but it's still a timy proportion of what's actually on people's iPods.

Apple prepaid $ 1.25 billion to Hynix, Intel/ Micron, Samsung, and Toshiba for memory supplies till 2010. Samsung got about $ 500 million of this money. Samsung may compete with Apple for a few MP3 players that some one at Samsung slaped together and mostly sells in the Korean market. But all of that is quite literally chump change compared to their memory/chip business and Apple is their most valued customer (close to 40% of their flash business.)

Apple prepaid $ 1.25 billion to Hynix, Intel/ Micron, Samsung, and Toshiba for memory supplies till 2010. Samsung got about $ 500 million of this money. Samsung may compete with Apple for a few MP3 players that some one at Samsung slaped together and mostly sells in the Korean market. But all of that is quite literally chump change compared to their memory/chip business and Apple is their most valued customer (close to 40% of their flash business.)

I agree here. I've got a Freezer 4 (the older-ish version for s478 CPU's). It's sitting on my 3GHz P4 OC'ed to 3.4GHz. Idle is ~28c, load isn't any more than 48c.

I've got friends who have the 64 Pro, and they also agree, load/idle temps are *far* lower than anything they've tried. Only water cooling gets lower.

Better than that, Custom PC, a UK mag for 'peformance hardware & customisation' agrees, rating both the Arctic Cooling 64 Pro & the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro in their CPC Elite. Have a read of http://www.pcpro.co.uk/custompc/labs/84129/arctic- cooling-freezer-64-pro.html and http://www.pcpro.co.uk/custompc/labs/84132/arctic- cooling-freezer-7-pro.html to see a decent test.

NeoThermic

I agree here. I've got a Freezer 4 (the older-ish version for s478 CPU's). It's sitting on my 3GHz P4 OC'ed to 3.4GHz. Idle is ~28c, load isn't any more than 48c.

I've got friends who have the 64 Pro, and they also agree, load/idle temps are *far* lower than anything they've tried. Only water cooling gets lower.

Better than that, Custom PC, a UK mag for 'peformance hardware & customisation' agrees, rating both the Arctic Cooling 64 Pro & the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro in their CPC Elite. Have a read of http://www.pcpro.co.uk/custompc/labs/84129/arctic- cooling-freezer-64-pro.html and http://www.pcpro.co.uk/custompc/labs/84132/arctic- cooling-freezer-7-pro.html to see a decent test.

NeoThermic

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Well if you make ubuntu work on this setup i am of to by a mac. Anybody knows?

You've been able to boot linux on the intel macs for some time now.

And it looks like someone has ubuntu running on them allready

However, I think you're not going to have everything working perfectly, I think the video drivers will only be 2d, your remote won't work, nor will the CD eject button, etc etc etc.

If you've got a bit of money & just want ubuntu, buy hardware from a vendor who supports linux.

If you want OS X and Ubuntu, still buy hardware from a vendor who supports linux - but also wait until you can buy copies of OS X tiger that are not tied to the new macbook or iMacs & install that on your generic hardware.

SenderID is an attempt by Microsoft to hijack a working open standard called SPF. At this point it is effectively dead because of Microsoft's cynical manipulation of Meng Wong's altruistic attempt to help everyone.

You will note I'm not normally a MS-basher, but in this case it's well deserved. SPF was ramping up into a system that would make email forgery impractical for spammers and virii, but Microsoft (with help from Yahoo and AOL, I guess) muddied the waters to the point where the anti-forgery community couldn't get a clear message out. Now SPF is still going, but very slowly, which is a shame since it is a practical thing you can do today that makes a real difference. If comcast (for one example) took the five freakin' minutes that would be required to publish SPF in their DNS, the world would be a better place for it.

Implement SPF. Laugh at the rotting corpse of SenderID.

I agree. The second thing I noted is they failed to test the PSU. You might think that putting a PSU ina "high-end" system is testing it, but suffice to say, it isn't. You need to connect them up to a load generator, not a PC if you really want to test a PSU. 'Custom PC' (a UK mag for high-end computer customisation) did a review of 31 PSU's a few issues back, and they used a load generator to do it. They found that none of the silent PSU's could either output their correct voltage, and to top it off, some of the "silent" PSU's and the low-end PSU's actually exploded while being tested.

If you wish to get a proper review of PSU's, my suggestion would be to grab that issue, as it is quite intresting to read. Infact, I've just checked, and they have put the whole Labs online from that issue, so http://www.pcpro.co.uk/custompc/labs/26/psus/intro duction.html Take a peak :)

NeoThermic

Do I need a licence?

If you use a TV or any other device to receive or record TV programmes (for example, a VCR, set-top box, DVD recorder or PC with a broadcast card) - you need a TV Licence. You are required by law to have one.

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I find it highly unlikely that this company, who tried to muscle Steve Jobs into doubling the per-download price of iTunes, would suggest such a pricing scheme with any intentions of following through.

No offense to anyone intended, but this entire article seems like some serious wishful thinking.

-Oser

I can't speak from personal experience, but Computer Shopper UK gives the 60GB fifth-generation iPod a so-so review. You'll have to search their site for it, as I can't give you a deep link. Their main beef: "we noticed distorted bass when using many of the presets. This was most noticeable on dance and hip-hop tracks with a prominent drumbeat and happened irrespective of listening volume. ... [W]e expect exceptional sound quality from a £300 MP3 player, and in this respect the iPod disappoints."

from pcpro.co.uk>

Sun Microsystems is urging the state of Massachusetts not to be swayed by Microsoft's submission of Office XML to the Ecma standards body.

In a letter sent to Secretary Trimarco, Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance, Sun's head of corporate standards, Carl Cargill, outlines his concerns over Microsoft's recent move. ....

While Microsoft has promised to submit its work to Ecma, Cargill emphasises that promises alone should not replace existing open standards.

'Just as an agency would not purchase a product before its actual availability,' writes Cargill, 'so too would it be a mistake to rely on a single vendor's promise to submit a new product to a standards body at some point in the future. The Commonwealth owes no less to its taxpaying citizens.'

For more, read:
Sun warns caution over Microsoft's 'standard' promise

I haven't posted on Slashdot in a while, but this is somewhat important. I couldn't agree more with the parent poster. I have therefore written the following email to all my immediate family and friends, declare my intent to boycott all Sony products.

My Email is as follow:
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Enough is enough.

Sony BMG (Music studio) just put a "Rootkit" into some of their music CD's

Here: (http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2005/ 11/sony_raids_hack.html)
Here: (http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/79450/sony-drm-burrow s-into-rootkit-code.html)

Of course none of the traditional news outlets are covering this story.

A rootkit, is a program which is very difficult to detect (most anti-virus software will miss it), because it essentially hides itself from the rest of your computer's systems. It is a program which is traditionally used by evil hackers to gain control of your computer and either prevents it from working properly or spies on you.

In Sony's asinine attempt to "prevent" music piracy, they have decided that they have the right to take over your computer in the process and monitor your every action.

Fortunately, they depend on consumers to fund their evil business model. So from this point on, I will not buy, purchase, or recommend another Sony product for as long as this continues. We as consumers do NOT owe Sony anything. They do not have the right to monitor our every electronic action.
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You'll find a better article of it right here...here

The Xara program has been around for a few years - every incarnation has had excellent magazine reviews. It has a loyal base of users and one of the primary reasons is it's powerful set of features and its easy-to-use interface. They are not starting from scratch on the usability front - they already have a head start. If you have a Windows PC, the best way to see for yourself is to simply download the trial version and give it a spin. Even better, compare it to Adobe Illustrator with its plethora of floating palettes and you'll see how tired and old-fashioned the Illustrator interface feels in comparison. Of course, these are all my subjective opinions; but then, what isn't on Slashdot? :-)

..... regardless of how many iPods are affected. The mere mention of this issue caused it's stock value to nosedive 4.4% yesterday. (Surf to HERE for more on this)

Part of the problem is that Apple has become a MP3 player company, and not a computer company. According to most people in the know, they don't turn a profit from their music store and the so-called halo effect of the iPod is of limited value to them. And then there's the Merrill Lynch downgrade to neutral from buy that they got this morning (Click HERE for more) because "although Apple's recent performance has been extraordinary, there are question marks over the effect of the imminent transition to Intel-based hardware."

Not good if you're an Apple investor.

KDE has a significant hold in Europe. Moreso than GNOME at this time. But that's not unusual, considering that KDE was initially developed in Germany.

See this article from May 2005 for more info:
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/73035/gnome-set-to-inv ade-europe.html

http://macuser.pcpro.co.uk/news/72440/tiger-widget -vulnerability-highlighted.html