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Comment Is it really that popular? (Score 2, Interesting) 275

by leetrout (#29579807) Attached to: Cracking Open the SharePoint Fortress
We have Share Point here at my office but my team doesn't use it because it is so hard to navigate. It is extremely difficult to figure out where you just posted something if you happen to stumble back to the main landing page. I'm shocked to hear that anyone considers that package a "success". I, for one, will not be giving up on any OS tools / apps for SP.
The Internet

Submission + - Opera Brings Tabs and More to Mobile Browsing (opera.com)

Submitted by leetrout
leetrout writes: Opera announced today that they are releasing a beta of their new mobile browser. Calling it "The next generation of mobile browsing", the new browser touts some great features including tabs, speed dial, touch screen and keypad optimization, and a password manager.

"In this fifth-generation version, Opera Mini is staying true to the company's promise of a superior Web experience on any device. Introducing a new, sleek look and feel, Speed Dial bookmarks and tabs — together with Opera's renowned speed — make this new version of Opera Mini the easiest-to-use Web browser on a phone. Simply direct your phone's existing Web browser to http://m.opera.com/next, and download the Opera Mini 5 beta free of charge."
Games

Submission + - 250GB drive coming to the Xbox? (gamesindustry.biz)

Submitted by NexusTw1n
NexusTw1n writes: Microsoft and Activision have revealed a new Xbox 360 console which ships with a 250GB hard-drive and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 branding. The unit will ship for $399. While game branding of consoles isn't new, what is interesting is the drive size. Are MS finally going to sell a decent drive for those of us stuck on 20GB? If so, what price will it be?

Submission + - Johns Hopkins student kills man with samurai sword (baltimoresun.com) 1

Submitted by hjames
hjames writes: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-md.samurai16sep16,0,114199.story

Hours earlier, someone had broken into John Pontolillo's house and taken two laptops and a video-game console. Now it was past midnight, and he heard noises coming from the garage out back.

The Johns Hopkins University undergraduate didn't run. He didn't call the police. He grabbed his samurai sword.

With the 3- to 5-foot-long, razor-sharp weapon in hand, police say, Pontolillo crept toward the noise. He noticed a side door in the garage had been pried open. When a man inside lunged at him, police say, the confrontation was fatal.

"He was backed up against a corner and either out of fear or out of panic, he just struck the sword with force," said Baltimore Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi. "It was probably with fear for his life."

Pontolillo, who rents the house in the 300 block of E. University Parkway in the Oakenshawe neighborhood, struck the intruder no more than twice, police say, nearly severing his left hand and inflicting what police termed a "spear laceration."

The intruder, Donald D. Rice of Baltimore, a 49-year-old repeat offender who had been released from jail only Saturday, died at the bloody scene.

Comment Re:Incredible (Score 1) 173

by leetrout (#28722371) Attached to: NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost
Dick Natger from Goddard representing NASA said that most of the previous video footage was stored on video tapes, not telemetry tapes, and that yes it was a shame no one made any effort to note which tapes had the footage, but it was only 1 track on a 14 track tape that no one would normally expect to have video on anyway.

Comment Re:An interesting PR problem (Score 1) 173

by leetrout (#28722275) Attached to: NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost
The AP reporter covering this also made that statement. The rep from Lowry Digital emphasized that they are merely a restoration house. Of course anyone who works with post production knows that all that software is like photoshop for video and they could do effects with it. But they assured us that they are working closely with NASA to 'not fix too much'.
Space

Submission + - NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video (wired.com)

Submitted by
leetrout
leetrout writes: "I attended a media briefing held by NASA at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. this morning where they released restored video of the Apollo 11 mission. The clips released are about 40% of the total footage to be restored by September by Lowry Digital in Burbank, CA. Wired has all the clips A couple remarkable comments made during the briefing included the opinion from the original footage search committee that the original slow scan footage (stored as a single track on telemtry tapes) has been lost forever as the tapes were likely recycled by the mid '80s (apparently common NASA practice). Also, that some one from the applied physics laboratory was in Australia converting the slow scan directly to video. This differs from NASA's goal of merely broadcasting the event, which it was successful at. Unfortunately, no one knows where those tapes of approximately 2 hours of footage are located."

Comment not a trojan, an expansion for the secret games (Score 1) 117

by leetrout (#26974567) Attached to: Zero-Day Excel Exploit In the Wild
1. Open up a new document.
2. Press F5.
3. Type in x97:L97 in the reference box and press enter.
4. Press tab.
5. Hold down ctrl+shift.
6. While holding these two buttons click on the chart wizard button on the icon bar (the button looks like a bar graph).
7. Play the game while it secretly crafts a worm to take the extra money when transactions are rounded (only a few hundredths of a cent) and deposits them in an offshore account.
8. ...?
9. PROFIT!

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