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Submission + - RIP: Majel Barrett Roddenberry dies at age 76

Submitted by GeekFreak on Friday December 19, 2008 @10:29AM

GeekFreak writes: According to BBC News, "Actress Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, has died aged 76. She died of leukaemia on Thursday at her home in Los Angeles, her family said in a statement. The actress, who featured in nearly every Star Trek TV show and film, nurtured the legacy of the sci-fi series after her husband died in 1991. She recently finished her role as the voice of the USS Enterprise computer in the new Star Trek film, due out in May."

The IDA Pro Book 85

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 29, 2008 @12:49PM from the read-all-about-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After attending DEFCON in August and seeing the overwhelming interest in this book, I was eager to dive into The IDA Pro Book by Chris Eagle. Chris Eagle's team, School of Root, won the 'Capture the Flag' event at DEFCON this year and Chris gave a presentation on CollabREate, a tool that integrates with IDA Pro to allow collaboration in reverse engineering (RE). All of that — together with the fact that the book sold out — screamed that this book should quickly make it to the top of my list." This review originally appeared on The Ethical Hacker Network.

Bandwidth Use In MMOs 188

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday October 23, 2008 @12:59AM from the more-always-more dept.

Massively is running a story about bandwidth costs for MMOs and other virtual worlds. It's based on a post at the BBC on the same subject which references a traffic analysis (PDF) done for World of Warcraft. Quoting: "If you're an average user on capped access, the odds are you have roughly 20Gbytes per month to allocate among all of your Internet usage (it varies depending on just where you are). For you, sucking back (for example) a 2GB World of Warcraft patch isn't something you can just do. It's something you have to plan for — and quite often you have to plan for in the following month. Even a 500MB download has to be handled with caution. MMOGs as a rule don't use a whole lot of bandwidth in actual operation. However, the quantity definitely rises in busy areas with lots of players, where there are large numbers of mobs, or on raids, and takes quite a much larger jump if you're using voice as well."

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