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  1. Re:No more Unity 2D? on Google Talks About Its Ubuntu Experience · · Score: 1

    Unity 3D will use LLVMpipe to dynamically translate OpenGL to CPU commands. Modern CPUs have enough horsepower to do desktop effects in software. I will miss Unity2d though. It was the only usable Unity type. Check out this Phoronix article for more info http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA5OTA

  2. 802.11b has WPA on What To Do With Old 802.11b Equipment? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually 802.11b has WPA support albeit only with TKIP ecncryption. It worked for me on linux prism hostap drivers after I updated card's firmware. So maybe you could use it, you don't need much bandwith if you just browse and SSH from your wireless devices. :)

  3. Re:Why the shot at Quake Live? on ioquake3 1.36 Goes Gold · · Score: 1

    Sadly, Quake Live has no Linux support.

  4. Re:Linksys + alternative firmware on D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    WRT54GL is very stable under OpenWRT. I have IPSEC tunneling routers with uptime just under a year. No disconnects or tunnel failures. These little devices are great! Also I recommend Buffalo high powered routers. They have almost the same hardware as WRT54GL + RF amplifier for times when you really need to crank up those decibels :)

  5. Re:What? on Where's the "IronPerl" Project? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, I remember reading somewhere that Microsoft uses build system written in Perl to compile Windows. Ironic, isn't it?

  6. Re:Im sure his Anti Virus will stop it :) on Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips · · Score: 1

    Kris has some nice books on disassembly and cracking, albeit in Russian. He explains ins and outs of X86 processors, comparing older and newer generations, and many debugging examples include GDB. All include SoftICE samples. So I think he's pretty competent in these things.

  7. Star Wars on Taking the Wii Controller to the Next Level · · Score: 1

    Finally, I can battle darth vader and show him who's teh master. ;)

  8. Re:Interesting idea for older notebooks on Thinkpad X300 With SSD Performance Evaluation · · Score: 1

    It's because your CF doesn't support DMA transfers. You need to look up in specs and buy ones that support DMA and 32bit IDE mode transfers. Cheaper flashes usually support only 1bit PIO transfers(ouch!) in IDE mode.

  9. Re:It Was Scraped? on Israelis Sue Government For Laser Cannons · · Score: 1

    They scrapped it because it was logistics nightmare to transport all those live sharks.

  10. Re:A 17 year old Sci Fi device from the book "Eart on Nerve-tapping Neckband Allows 'Telepathic' Chat · · Score: 2, Informative

    This weekend I saw a similar device at CeBit. It allowed to input text into computer using you eyes only. You would look at on-screen keyboard and the letters to witch your eyes are pointed would be typed in. I seemed very Sci-Fi like ;). After my colleague took a photo of the device, we looked at the photo, and saw two infrared windows. One scanned vertically, other horizontally. It seems that it simply triangulated your eye position. So simple, yet brilliant. It makes computer accessible to people with motor disability.

  11. Obligitory laser post on World's Smallest Projector · · Score: 3, Funny

    Frickin' lasers! Now all we need is some sharks.

  12. Nothing in the news on Russian Journalists Quit Over Censorship · · Score: 1

    I was watching evening news yesterday on Channel One and the didn't say anything about this. Maybe they forgot? :)

  13. A simple solution on A "Bill of Lights" to Restrict LEDs on Gadgets? · · Score: 1

    Well... you can always poke your eyes out if you don't like those lights and leave others alone.

  14. GITS interface on Brain Scanner Can Read People's Intentions · · Score: 1

    Wake me up when well have GITS-like cyberbrain interfaces. ^__^

  15. Will it be so universal? on VMware, XenSource Join Forces For Linux · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now this is great news! As VMware user on production systems, I am very pleased with such news. Now one of many thing that can go wrong in such "alliance" as that hypervisor interface will get bloated with vendor specific extensions. And we will end up with non-compatible interfaces as it was before.