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Submission + - XBMC Dharma Released (xbmc.org)

Submitted by 0100010001010011 on Saturday December 18, 2010 @03:29PM

0100010001010011 writes: XBMC Dharma (10.0) has finally been released over a year since the last update, Camelot. Numerous change have taken place: Support for XBOX was officially dropped. Addon Manager added with official XBMC repository. Improved GUI engine & Skinning Framework. Improved hardware acceleration with VDPAU, VAAPI, Apple VDADecoder, Windows DXVA2, and Broadcom Crystal HD. Bit stream pass through support of MP1, MP2, MP3, and AAC audio tracks. A new webserver and JSON-RPC API. A full list of changes can be found on the trac roadmap.

Team XBMC also met for XBMC DevCon 2010 and discussed numerous things, including improving communication and usability, PVR support, the next release Eden, and an XBMC Appliance based on OpenELEC.tv.

Software for your platform can be downloaded at http://xbmc.org/download/

Comment Re:Programming lesson (Score 1) 194

by do0b on Saturday December 04, 2010 @01:34PM (#34444388) Attached to: <em>Pac-Man's</em> Ghost Behavior Algorithms

That would make an excellent movie!!

Comment Do as I say... (Score 1) 81

by do0b on Friday December 03, 2010 @10:29AM (#34430440) Attached to: EMI Using Rapidshare To Market Music

... not as I do.

Comment Re:Why are phones special? (Score 1) 262

by do0b on Tuesday November 09, 2010 @09:32PM (#34181928) Attached to: T-Mobile G2 'Permaroot' Achieved

Phones aren't special.
Cars ECU are also hacked on a regular basis.
Unitronic does it for VAG. Cobb tuning uses the OBD port to allow modification to the fuel maps.

Submission + - Jon Stewart Slaps the Internet in the Face (foxnews.com)

Submitted by Velcroman1 on Monday November 01, 2010 @04:35PM

Velcroman1 writes: Don't make Fark angry, Jon Stewart. You wouldn't like Fark when it's angry. But unfortunately, it may already be too late. Fark.com founder Drew Curtis is incensed that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert haven't given the online community due credit for the success of the Rally to Restore Sanity. The rally, co-hosted by the Comedy Central comedians, drew a crowd CBS News estimated at 215,000 this past Saturday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. — a crowd inspired and fueled by community activism on Fark.com and online bookmarking site Reddit. Yet when Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian asked Stewart what role the Internet played in convincing him to hold the rally, the response was clear: "it didn't hurt." Curtis says the snub was hard to understand. "It's not that credit is deserved, it just doesn't make any sense that it's not there," he said.

Comment Re:Lies. (Score 1) 353

by do0b on Sunday October 24, 2010 @12:41PM (#34004706) Attached to: Want Flash Player On a MacBook Air? Download It Yourself

No it doesn't auto-update.
Not on a mac. The adobe download offers an uninstaller, but does not offer an auto-updater.

Comment Re:The MacBook Air is a poor example to choose her (Score 1) 681

by do0b on Saturday October 23, 2010 @07:52PM (#34000212) Attached to: Are Consumer Hard Drives Headed Into History?

No the flash modules are not soldered to the logic board.
See this
The flash module uses a mini pci-e connector like the wireless module right above it. While it might require an Apple module at the moment, it is serviceable.

Submission + - Firefox 4's JavaScript Now Faster Than Chrome (conceivablytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 23, 2010 @03:41AM

An anonymous reader writes: Firefox 4's JavaScript engine is now faster than V8 (used in Chrome) and Nitro (used in Safari) in the SunSpider benchmark on x86. On Mozilla's test system Nitro completes the benchmark in 369.7 milliseconds, V8 in 356.5 milliseconds, and Firefox 4's TraceMonkey and JaegerMonkey combination in 350.3 milliseconds. Conceivably Tech has a brief rundown of some benchmark figures from their test system obtained with the latest JS preview build of Firefox 4: 'Our AMD Phenom X6-based Dell XPS 7100 PC completed the Sunspider test with the latest Firefox JS (4.0 b8-pre) build in 478.6 ms this morning, while Chrome 8.0.560.0 clocked in at 589.8 ms.' On x86-64 Nitro still has the lead over V8 and TraceMonkey+JaegerMonkey in the SunSpider benchmark.

Submission + - Oracle asks OpenOffice community members to leave (openoffice.org)

Submitted by Elektroschock on Saturday October 16, 2010 @05:37PM

Elektroschock writes: In an unprecedented move with respect to other forks Oracle asks the founders of the Document Foundation and LibreOffice to leave the OpenOffice.org Community Council. Apparently there is a conflict of interest which concerns the Oracle employees.

Comment Re:Sure. (Score 1) 520

by do0b on Thursday October 07, 2010 @06:48PM (#33830818) Attached to: Against Apple, Ballmer Floats Microsoft Merger With Adobe

The same thing that is happening now. Adobe products on the mac aren't all that great anymore.

Submission + - Facebook takes liberties with your iPhone contacts (techeye.net)

Submitted by bossanovalithium on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @09:50AM

bossanovalithium writes: People using the iPhone Facebook app could unknowingly be sharing their number, their friend's numbers and their friend's friend's numbers thanks to a syncing feature.

Facebook's "Contact Sync" feature synchronises your friends' Facebook profile pictures with the contacts in your phone, but instead of keeping them safely on your handset it imports all the names and phone numbers you have on your phone, uploads them to Facebook's Phonebook app and lets you and your mates view everyone's details. It's taking data from your handset.

Comment Re:On the desktop, perhaps (Score 1) 225

by do0b on Friday October 01, 2010 @04:15PM (#33764408) Attached to: Microsoft To Charge Phone Makers a Licensing Fee

Using Subsystems for Unix Applications gets you a nice csh and ksh combo with vi, grep and an outdated gcc.
It feels weird to edit files in /dev/fs/c/windows/ but it's doable.
You can compile the necessary stuff to do grep ERROR logfile | mail -s "to_address" in a few minutes.
SUA
(Why yes, I hate myself a little for this comment)

Comment Re:Well that's stupid. (Score 1) 495

by do0b on Friday October 01, 2010 @12:00PM (#33760112) Attached to: Amid Controversy, EA Pulls Taliban From <em>Medal of Honor</em> Multiplayer

They could always add the CSOR as a CT team in counterstrike.

Comment Re:Numbers need a reference scale (Score 1) 510

by do0b on Wednesday September 29, 2010 @03:36PM (#33738818) Attached to: Android Software Piracy Rampant

Pirates usually aren't technically minded individuals. It may be hard to break the copy protection. But once it is figured out, it's really too easy to duplicate. In this case, I'm really curious to see how they get their numbers. I mean from TFA and the company's website why would the app need network access? Aren't Android app updates managed by the Android store?

Submission + - Copyright License Fees drive Pandora out of Canada (theglobeandmail.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 23, 2010 @01:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: Online streaming music services such as Pandora are abandoning plans to launch in Canada, claiming licensing fees are too high: “These rates ... are astronomical,” Tim Westergren, founder of California-based Pandora wrote in an email to The Canadian Press.

The agency that collects music royalties in Canada on behalf of record companies and performing artists wants to charge web-based music sites that stream to mobile devices the greater of two figures: 45 per cent of the site's gross revenues in Canada or 7.5-tenths of a cent for every song streamed.

Meanwhile, record labels are blaming the lack of online music services in Canada on piracy: “Why would you spend a lot of money trying to build a service in Canada when Canadians take so much without paying for it?” said Graham Henderson, president of the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which represents major record labels.

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