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Firefox 3.6.2 addresses critical vulnerability

Opera vunerability that the company denies is a vunerability

You're better off running Chrome.

While I've got someone who knows what they're talking about: do you know where I can get the raw data and/or the precise methods used in various astronomy articles? Most of these simplified articles never mention compensation for gravitomagnetic effects, and it was found a few years back, that gravitomagnetism is, at least in some cases, considerably stronger than expected.

Max?

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Man-Carries-The-Amputated-Arm-of-his-Twin-Transplanted-on-His-Chest-62115.shtml

XBMC has plugins available as well that let you play stuff from Youtube/Hulu/etc without leaving the interface, I'd suggest those, it's easier than loading up Firefox.

I didn't really like using the wireless keyboard, so I use an Xbox 360 controller to control mine, it works very well. I'm still running Windows 7 on my Revo, so I just use Xpadder to bind the controller's buttons/sticks to keys, that lets you set it up to work pretty much however you want. I'm sure a similar thing is easily possible through Linux as well.

Gartner says Windows 7 breaks the rule - they're obviously getting better after 35 years of developing the SAME FUCKING OPERATING SYSTEM. I'll give them a break and say it's been since July 1993 for the NT codebase, so that's 17 years of practice to get a first release right.

I'm sure there have been many P2P social networks. Usenet is one of them--spam, trolls and FAQ Nazis destroyed it. I was on another called "The Circle"--but it never took off.

The problem seems to be massing enough people together to make the system useful. Designing something which would mitigate the problems of bad acting users is the next problem. Coding is the easy part.

Though really in a way, the internet is a massive p2p social network, only everything being pushed onto the web and floating IP addresses/dialup (and ISP policies) so users can't run their own daemons has made it so you can't use it that way.

These were before my time (got on internet@1995), but... Unix talk was used for IM. You'd type 'talk user@computer' and talk to them. No server, they were just there. Email was the same way: user@computer, no servers. When the message was delivered, the recipient got it instantly. Polling wasn't done over the network, the biff program polled the filesystem, so it could ask once a second, no problem.

Look at the NNTP protocol for Usenet. It was designed so everyone was a peer. From what I've read, most computers would have an nntp daemon connected to other Usenet peers and the newsreaders would read from spool files on the hard drive. It you look at the old Unix cli/curses (terminal based) newsreaders, most of them work that way. Dialup appears to have changed that. The ISPs started running the daemons and most MSWin newsreaders would get news via NNTP from the isp's servers.

Maybe all which needs to be done is make it so anyone can easily find their friend's IP address. I suppose the dynamic DNS services (like dyndns) will do it. Then people need an easy way to be accessible. Probably a universal daemon which accepts email, nntp, and unix talk, does not require additional configuration (uses reasonable defaults and config info already on the machine), and is reasonably secure and has ways to block out spammers and the like.

Get real. There is no RIM tablet.

There's no Apple tablet either, yet.

There are over seventy five million Apple Touch OS devices already out there to slip a NetFlix app on.

Wake me up when you reach Symbian's 250 million. (I don't know how many are "touch", but that's artificially restricting it to bias it towards Apple - how about we compare how many multitasking devices each has?)

http://www.warsow.net/media/0.5/1280px/06.jpg

THIS Warsaw?

No, it looks like somebody tried to rip-off Team Fortress 2 in the Unreal 1 engine. If your engine can't do curved surfaces properly, they could at least not make map designs that rely on them. (Look at the curved pipes, and the undoubtedly-supposed-to-be-round badge on the back wall.)

http://www.warsow.net/media/0.5/1280px/wdm19a.jpg

Look at this one, it's like Tron 2.0. What's that blocky white thing hovering in the air? Is that supposed to be a projectile of some sort?

5 years ago, these graphics might have looked awesome. Now the characters are ok (only because they are highly sylized, and because that style has been popularized by games like Crackdown, Team Fortress 2, etc), but the maps are pretty bad.

Here's what you're comparing it to, Unreal 2004. (The Unreal 2.0 engine. I'd like to remind you that the Unreal 2.0 engine has been superseded by Unreal 3.0 for, what, 3 years now?)

http://linux.softpedia.com/screenshots/Unreal-Tournament-2004_1.jpg

Look, the pipes are actually round!

Um, Amazon didn't announce they were going DRM free until one month After Apple, and it was later that year they finally did. Amazon also only had EMI's music DRM free at launch.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Amazon-Follows-Apple-Down-The-DRM-Free-Road-54959.shtml

With ebooks, Apple has left DRM "optional" and the content provider must explicitly tell apple to enable it for specific content. This was a NEGOTIATION and the result of numerous publishers refusing to allow their content online without DRM.

Video is not DRM Free from ANY legal provider for download. They're even fighting to get the FCC to let them turn on the DRM functions of your TV!

... That Berlusconi, beside being the president of that country, is too the manager of almost every TV stations in Italy (Mediaset).
I live in Switzerland, and I cannot find it again, but I read some weeks ago that a law was to be enforced to regulate the viewing of on demand video.

The article was relating the big amount of money that where being put into a on-demand video platform for mediaset at the same time, and how youtube was the first competitor to put aside.
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=450891
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Berlusconi-s-Government-Plans-to-Severely-Restrict-Online-Video-in-Italy-132350.shtml

Given the fact that Berlusconi says all the time that "The bad journalists are attacking me without reasons all the time" http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/15/f-berlusconi-saga.html, and how he consider that the fist in face he received some times ago was "organized and planed via facebook" http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=alDDK9lGqxtY I am not that surprised of that move.
After all, he passed a law giving him immunity in every lawsuit for corruption that where opened against him when he came back to the government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/18/silvio-berlusconi-immunity-prosecution

Can't type "windows vista virtualization eula" in the pretty box?

Here's one

"You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system," says a fragment taken from the Windows Vista EULA covering the integration of Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions with virtualization technologies.

Let me guess ... you're also the type who leaves one square of toilet paper on the roll rather than change it.

Where are the public statements about only pirates wanting LAN play, by the way?

Here's one:

"We don't currently plan to support LAN play with StarCraft II, as we are building Battle.net to be the ideal destination for multiplayer gaming with StarCraft II and future Blizzard Entertainment games. While this was a difficult decision for us, we felt that moving away from LAN play and directing players to our upgraded Battle.net service was the best option to ensure a quality multiplayer experience with StarCraft II and safeguard against piracy." (Emphasis mine.)

LAN play is no less of a "quality" multiplayer experience than... the exact same thing plus authentication over battle.net before the game begins, which is what they want us to do, so their first statement is marketing BS.

That leaves us with "we're leaving out LAN play to safeguard against piracy."

I wonder, what statistics do they have that show them LAN play increased piracy in the original?

Oh, right. Starcraft encouraged people to play together without everyone owning a copy, because Blizzard provided spawn copies.

Or how about this one:

"As mentioned by Rob Pardo in interviews, piracy is a serious problem and often times tie in closely with LAN."

"We would not take out LAN if we did not feel we could offer players something better. Don’t be a leech to society, innovation, and further awesome creations." (Emphasis mine.)

So... they're blaming piracy problems largely on LAN support. Oh, and if you want LAN support, you're a leech to society and innovation.

It's that sort of attitude that I find repugnant.

echo -e 'echo "#PPA openoffice-pkgs
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openoffice-pkgs/ppa/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ppa.list

gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 247d1cff
gpg --export --armor 247d1cff | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update

sudo aptitude -y safe-upgrade
' > ./oooupgrade.sh
sudo sh ./oooupgrade.sh && rm ./oooupgrade.sh

I have not tried it, but it might do the trick. Proceed at your own risk.
Note: the original source had an additional aptitude -y dist-upgrade command which I removed from the above code.

these shitheads also allow legitimate owners to run their games because securom or some other drm crap refuses to cooperate.

Read about UBISOFT using CRACK from RELOADED as their own patch to fix drm problems with RainbowSix: Vegas
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubisoft-Cracks-Own-Game-with-Reloaded-Fix-90318.shtml

or hear that rant of a devoted gamer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mt4BpnfAN-o

No, it's not. I'm not sure how much more clearly I can explain it. But a fast Google search on "ocean heating", which I cited as an example of incomplete understanding of the effects of the sun's radiative effects, yields:

http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008JC004825.shtml

And for recent Nature article references:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ocean-Heating-Causes-More-Severe-Storms-100912.shtml

And the list of articles citing new ideas and understanding of such a limited aspect of solar radiation as ocean heating go on an don. You just have to actually look at the literature to realize that the models are not _complete_. That was my point. It's a _big_ system, with a lot of complex details. ranging from incompletely understood solar flare and sunspot effects to incomplete models of oceanic weather and polar ice cap effects.

I wont go through them till I know what I'm putting my body through. I want clear and concise results, if they are on the off chances seeing huge genetic damage then f* that.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-Terahertz-Waves-Influence-DNA-125734.shtml
"“Some studies reported significant genetic damage while others, although similar, showed none,” Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Center for Nonlinear Studies expert Boian Alexandrov, the leader of a research team looking into the effects of terahertz radiation, says. The team adds that the energy in these photons is not nearly as high as the ones in X-rays and ultraviolet light, which are perfectly capable of damaging our bodies over prolonged exposures. UV rays are known to trigger skin cancer."

You've been watching too much CSI. I believe what they mean is that they can see if a large heat source exists behind a cement wall. Walls are very good insulators and *stop* heat. With an infrared camera, you can barely even see through a sheet of glass! It's a passive sensor, detecting the heat that the object gives off, and giving that temperature a color in the image. To get an idea of heat blocking capabilities, turn on your reflector space heater, which is a incredibly powerful IR source, shine it at a window, and go outside. Chances are, you wont be able to feel *anything*.

Currently, the only way to see through walls, which *is* possible, is to use THz (link 1, 2), Xray, and UWB. These are active devices that transmit and receive reflected signals, then construct and image.

And, before someone brings up that infrared is in the THz band, "Low frequency versions of terahertz waves are known as millimeter waves, and they behave much like radio waves. At higher frequencies, the terahertz waves straddle the border between radio and optical emissions." from space.com. From the IEEE paper, "(0.6 to 3 THz) offer a greater degree of penetration through architectural and textile materials", so they're using the looow range.

If you're worried about people seeing through your walls, maybe you should turn off your wifi! :-o

Are you stating I can't install my own memory, my own hard drive, my own optical disk, MP3's, MP4's, Blu-Ray rips (yes you can also rip those on a Mac), DVD's, Operating Systems, etc, etc. ad-nauseum? Need hardware? It's just a click away on Amazon, just as it is for every laptop and PC out there.

There is a plethora of Mac and Unix FOSS available, just as there is for Linux.

http://www.macupdate.com/
http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/
http://www.sourceforge.net/
http://mac.softpedia.com/
http://www.opensourcemac.org/

Your argument is patently ridiculous and reeks of trolling.

As of Dec 2009 the iPhone has had 78 million sales, and this number does not include millions of iPod Touch out there.

Er, yes it does. If you RTFA: Apple (AAPL) will have sold nearly 78 million iPhones and iPod touches worldwide.

On top of that, wow, you're comparing all of Apple's phones in total, to a single Motorola phone (their RAZR alone sold 110 million!) Motorola have far more of a market share than Apple. Or if you're looking at it from a platform point of view, you need to compare to all Android phones.

Anyhow, Nokia shipped 100 million Symbian phones by 2006, before the first Iphone was even released ( http://www.thesmartpda.com/50226711/six_years_of_symbian_produces_100_models_and_100_million_shipments.php ), and by early 2009, they had sold 250 million Symbian phones ( http://news.softpedia.com/news/Symbian-Foundation-Adds-New-Member-Nuance-117209.shtml ).

The Iphone is a niche player (as is Android too currently, in fact). That's a fact. Even if we did add in the Ipod Touch numbers, which doesn't really improve matters, by that argument we should now throw in netbooks, since the market is now "handheld devices" not "phones", and there's a big market of Windows netbooks (of the order of tens of millions).

Would you make a program for 1% of the platforms, or 99%?

Are you seriously suggesting that Droid and Iphones are the only two phones in existence, and that Apple have 99% of the market? You need to step out of your RDF and check out some actual market data.

but when you see everyone and their 1 yr old baby with an iPhone

I don't see everyone, or many at all, with an Iphone. So there's one person with an Iphone, according to your link - wow! Now show me some actual market figures.

... And with gmail now using https by default a huge swath of email is now encrypted on the wire.

I might believe you if gmail was using TLS for their SMTP trasnsport... but sadly not.

Well, what are the supposed consequences? There is a rather glaring lack of horror stories about people with big problems that would have been prevented by using encryption. Partly because the stuff that most needs to be, already is (ssl/https). And with gmail now using https by default a huge swath of email is now encrypted on the wire.

how about provide a braille e-book reader? If somebody made one Amazon would probably support it.

like this? http://www.yankodesign.com/2009/04/17/braille-e-book/

or this? http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/Electronic-Braille-Reader-Helps-The-Blind-Surf-The-Internet-2492-01.html

or this? http://www.humanware.com/en-usa/products/blindness/deafblind_communicator/_details/id_118/deafblind_communicator.html

or this? http://www.gizmag.com/go/5876/

The tech is almost there, perhaps the DOJ would front some MONEY to Amazon to make a kindle compatible braille reader based on one of these technologies? Of course then the people that hand-type braille pages at $$ per page will resent being out of a job...

And more to that point, many companies now a days start to be multinationals and for tax or legal purposes registered offshore. It could still be an "US company" or do majority of its business in US. Even Google plays that tax game

At those levels, the taxes the company pays for its operations are also significant, so much that choosing the right country to pay those taxes for its international revenue can save it several hundred million pounds a year

Outside of its US operations, the UK market is the biggest revenue earner for Google, yet the company doesn't pay any taxes whatsoever in the country. Instead it reports all revenue from the UK, from all over Europe in fact, in Ireland where the company has its headquarters for the continent. Thanks to the much lower corporation tax levels, Google can avoid paying as much as £450 million in the UK alone. And the savings can be significant, taxes are as two to three times lower in Ireland.

The company is, by far, not the only one doing this, all large corporations, even smaller ones with an international presence, will try to find the market with the most flexible tax system to set up shop. The practice in itself isn't illegal, but it certainly isn't viewed very well, especially with the economy being what it is.

I'm actually surprised they haven't moved their US operations.

Missed one. I guess maybe Bing is useful after all. It's a humor engine.

Why am I so certain you've read Atlas Shrugged in the last three years.

Don't worry: when you regain the capability for independent thought, you'll realize the world is not black and white, and not everyone who doesn't want to give free reign to manipulative, anti-competitive, privacy-intruding, innovation-stifling, cartelizing corporations (Pt. 2, 3) wants to steal your soul. They may be looking to fix our problems, too, you know.

Example: OLE vs. OpenDoc

The Old Strategy

• Direct competition on tech details
• Press, pundits LOVE this!
  • Conflict!
  • Underdog!
• ISVs are confused, so they do nothing
  • "I'll wait to see who wins"
  • OpenDoc's FUD worked
• Complete disaster
  • Delayed the widespread adoption of OLE

The New Strategy

• Allies
  • Apple, Novell, IBM
• Strategy
  • Disrupt the alliance
• Tactics
  • Reposition OpenDoc as an OLE dev. tool
  • Put OLE in the enterprise
  • Pits Apple against IBM & Novell
• Help Claris & WP support OLE in Win95
  • pits part of an ally against itself

(From: How to Get Your Platform Accepted as a Standard - Microsoft Style)

(Don't despair if it's been longer than three years. You can always hope for a lightning strike to work its magic.)

But Microsoft is nowhere near any of those fields, are they?

They are very much in this game:

Microsoft Visual Simulation Platform Licensed by Flight1 Tech

Microsoft Simulation Platform to Be Used in Warfighter Training

Nothing but Love for the Microsoft Simulation Platform From aviation and defense industry leaders

But Microsoft is nowhere near any of those fields, are they?

They are very much in this game:

Microsoft Visual Simulation Platform Licensed by Flight1 Tech

Microsoft Simulation Platform to Be Used in Warfighter Training

Nothing but Love for the Microsoft Simulation Platform From aviation and defense industry leaders

But Microsoft is nowhere near any of those fields, are they?

They are very much in this game:

Microsoft Visual Simulation Platform Licensed by Flight1 Tech

Microsoft Simulation Platform to Be Used in Warfighter Training

Nothing but Love for the Microsoft Simulation Platform From aviation and defense industry leaders

Annual revenue of Microsoft = 40 billion per year, of which about 1/4 is profit

Fine = 900 million

A few days is about half an order of magnitude low but it's still the equivalent of a speeding ticket for the average person.

I have to admit that I'm not up to the minute on Smartphones. The N900 is brilliant, but at 600MHz its processor is somewhat limited. These days we like more than 3.5" display size and at least 720p resolution with our cell phones, and HD video that doesn't lag. That's not the N900, sorry.

In the other hand, your "privacy" could be the line that separates a world of noise and spam to the real info you need. And Google services, specially when used in integrated form, could be pretty practical

I do, it is this:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/12/saturn-hexagon/

and this:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Rotating-Water-Gives-Rise-to-Geometric-Figures-23640.shtml

It doesn't help the debate when people like you give arguments like this, which is obviously ridiculous.

I think, you missed a good opportunity to show, what's so "ridiculous" about my argument. There really are lost cities there.

Also Sahara became a desert in only a few millenia (if not centuries) — also a drastic climate change, that can not be pinned on the evil industrialization.

If you think this comparison is valid you must also disagree with the fact the carbon emissions are correlated to the amount of fossil fuel being burned

And I must also disagree with the Earth being round...

You should have stayed in school.

Is that what you did, professor?

According to the original documentation, 'In early 2008, a security company identified one botnet -- which it dubbed "Mega-D" -- that sent sparn promoting Affking's VPXL and King Replica products as the worst botnet in the world, accounting for 32% of all spam.'

The Mega-D botnet consisted at least 264,784 computers.

That's 264,784 UNAUTHORIZED COMPUTER ACCESS FELONIES.

Why the FUCK are we 'fining' someone who committed at least 264,784 felonies? We invade goddamn countries and charge people with war crimes for that level of criminality!

Anti-spam laws are nonsense. Forget the damn anti-spam laws. Lock them up for the felonies they're committing. Extradition would be a lot easier, too. (Of course, we could just find a few hundred IPs this guy hijacked in Australia, turn them over, and have him locked up there his entire life, instead.)

The laws are completely useless and always have been. They were passed to make consumers think that government is doing something. But the extradition and prosecution is a lot harder than it sounds, even when the criminal is in a friendly country like Australia. It takes forever and costs a lot of money, so the law enforcement agencies pass.

According to the original documentation, 'In early 2008, a security company identified one botnet -- which it dubbed "Mega-D" -- that sent sparn promoting Affking's VPXL and King Replica products as the worst botnet in the world, accounting for 32% of all spam.'

The Mega-D botnet consisted at least 264,784 computers.

That's 264,784 UNAUTHORIZED COMPUTER ACCESS FELONIES.

Why the FUCK are we 'fining' someone who committed at least 264,784 felonies? We invade goddamn countries and charge people with war crimes for that level of criminality!

Anti-spam laws are nonsense. Forget the damn anti-spam laws. Lock them up for the felonies they're committing. Extradition would be a lot easier, too. (Of course, we could just find a few hundred IPs this guy hijacked in Australia, turn them over, and have him locked up there his entire life, instead.)

where all students who bought a computer received accidental damage coverage

So let smokers pay extra for coverage of smoke damage, same as any insurance policy. Why should non-smokers subsidize smokers? Or smokers can simply quit smoking - there's an app for that.

Have you ever opened up a computer that a really heavy smoker has been sitting in front of for years? It's disgusting. Everything has a coating of tar on it, it stinks even before you power it up, and when you try to work on it, it's all gummy.

I'm just amazed that more hard drives and more fans don't fail because of smokers.

It's pretty bad when you wipe the screen and the paper towel turns ORANGE!

Is Apple being dumb? Now that smokers are the minority, I don't think so. Let them pay for supplemental coverage, same as health insurance. Besides, if you want to quit smoking, there's an app for that

HD5750 silent launches next week

There's a silent 5750 coming out next week. Low power, silent, but able to play anything out there.

Second result from googling "aggressive drunk".

Every now and then, there's a news flash about a dad hitting his wives and children after getting drunk.

Personally, I believe that alcohol just kills inhibition. If you already had aggressive ideas before getting drunk, you're likely to put them to action when drunk. If, in the other hand, you had happy thoughts, you're likely to make a fool of yourself.

OK, I've reviewed my posts from your reply to the top of the thread and nowhere did I say it was Microsoft's fault. It is an observed fact. It is, and to Russians to whom the blame belongs is irrelevant. They can choose to use free software or they can choose the risk. Microsoft has backed off some for now and so the risk is less, but eventually the risk will return because the software is not free and their Russian channel can never be reliably honest. In the Russian language corrupt government provisioning is so assumed that the reverse must be made explicit. I believe Chinese languages are similarly cynical. The safe choice is to be free forever. Free contains no risk.

If you want to fix the blame on Microsoft for not dropping the suit after finding out that the affected individual was in no way to blame for the piracy, that's on you. I didn't say that.

As to Microsoft's ROI, well, I don't know what to say here. Given the current state of free I can see how they must struggle to prove where they add value - especially when dealing with the malware ecosystem mounted against them which at some accounts is larger than the Windows market itself. I'm sure it's hard to deliver on this nine year old commitment when you can't even get your network software geeks to check their inputs on the most basic service they provide or even read the licenses of the software they publish.

You should probably check the corkboard on the way out of the blog center. I think there's a note there about me. Take your stuff with you when you go or you might not see it again.

I think it reminds me of NEC N940 from 2004 in size: http://mobile.softpedia.com/phones/NEC/NEC-N940.shtml

Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 709 F.Supp. 925 (N.D.Cal.1989) (Apple I); Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 717 F.Supp. 1428 (N.D.Cal.1989) (Apple II); Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 759 F.Supp. 1444 (N.D.Cal.1991) (Apple III); Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 779 F.Supp. 133 (N.D.Cal.1991) (Apple IV); Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 799 F.Supp. 1006 (N.D.Cal.1992) (Apple V); Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corp., 821 F.Supp. 616 (N.D.Cal.1993) (Apple VI).

And in 2003:

8. In 1995, Microsoft introduced a software package called Windows 95, which announced itself as the first operating system for Intel-compatible PCs that exhibited the same sort of integrated features as the Mac OS running PCs manufactured by Apple Computer, Inc. ("Apple"). Windows 95 enjoyed unprecedented popularity with consumers, and in June 1998, Microsoft released its successor, Windows 98.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, vs. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Defendant. COURT'S FINDINGS OF FACT

And in 2005:

"They can't even copy fast,"

It is truly bizarre that average people allow the shills to make noise promoting such incompetence. Look at their search engine payment bug and you are reminded yet again what kind of people they must scrape the bottom of the barrel to get. Not just known-nothings, but fresh-out-of-school ones at that. Sadly that scam has gone on for a generation. What happens if they get into schools or colleges and start posing as staff or faculty??

I find this project very cool, are there any apps available that allow one to enter a speed limit as they see signs, and couple this with your GPS coordinates? I saw an android app here:

http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/Travel/Wikispeedia-82116.shtml

But I haven't rooted my G1 yet, so I can't install apps not on the market (which it isnt). If this isn't what that particular app does, it would be nice to write one.

Uhh... just so you know: Dragon Age's lead SKU was the PC version.

The graphics are better on PC, the controls are better on PC, and the online elements integrate nicely on the PC.

"With the lead SKU (the PC version) of Dragon Age: Origins in its polish stage"

Source: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Dragon-Age-Man-Explains-Disney-Move-110223.shtml

Actually a big part of the RAM usage *is* Xubuntu - see the 'simple comparisons' section of http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7520/1.html where it talks about RAM usage immediately after boot including Lubuntu, which is a much lighter LXDE-based variant of Ubuntu. Lubuntu should become an official Ubuntu derivative using LXDE. The RAM usage stats from that page are:

* Lubuntu 58 MB
* Xubuntu 157 MB
* Ubuntu 154 MB

Yes, Ubuntu used slightly less than Xubuntu, which is a surprise - presumably this was a recent Xubuntu version which is more bloated.

When you have various apps running including Firefox, Lubuntu apparently used about 150 MB vs over 300 MB for Xubuntu / Ubuntu.

Since Lubuntu is quite hard to track down, here are some links:

* http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Linux-Distributions/Lubuntu-50492.shtml - Lubuntu 9.10 Beta 14 - final release was due Oct 29th but isn't yet available.
* http://download.lxde.org/lubuntu-9.10/ - betas 14 and 23.

Or you could try the LXDE project's distro, or Debian with LXDE: http://lxde.org/download

For those who missed point 9:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Vista-039-s-Speech-Recognition-Engine-is-Laughable-31413.shtml

gewg_

Hushmail? Think again

Excellent. Now we can go into the future and kick Higgs Boson's ass for going back in time and sabotaging the LHC.

Probably just get you arrested as a terrorist.

I too was rather irked at that. But there are lots of gamepad to keyboard emulators out there.

For instance, Xpadder. That one doesn't even require any kind of install. Just run it, configure it the way you like, and play.