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Project Arcade 158

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @02:45PM from the if-you-build-it-they-will-play dept.

Craig Maloney writes "Growing up, I found myself more than once in an arcade, be it in the mall, Meijer, or a free-standing building. The atmosphere was unmistakable: loud, with lots of activity, and people getting fully immersed and "in the zone" between them and their pixellated avatar. While playing an arcade game at home has been possible for many years now, the true arcade experience has been a little more elusive. There's something about having an upright video game cabinet, and playing on arcade hardware that gives the game that extra sense of being right in the arcades of my youth. There are many sites out there that have different plans for building a MAME arcade cabinet from scratch, but most read like a post-mortem for how the author pieced together their particular setup. What if you just want to convert an old (non-working, I hope) cabinet into a MAME arcade cabinet? Lots of information is out there, but where do you start? Project Arcade is an excellent introduction for building your own MAME arcade cabinet from scratch, and compiles lots of material into one comprehensive book." Read below for the rest of Craig's review.

Submission + - Google Desktop for Linux (lunapark6.com)

Submitted by

Michael

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @02:43PM

Michael writes: "Article looks at the impressive Google Desktop For Linux application. Although the program is closed source, the program provides more features than Beagle and is not dependant on the Mono library like Beagle."

Submission + - Intel Researchers Demonstrate 40Gbps Optical Chips (gearlog.com)

Submitted by

scott3778

on Wednesday July 25, 2007 @02:43PM

scott3778 writes: "Intel Researchers announced they have successfully demonstrated a 40Gbps optical chip on Wednesday [http://www.gearlog.com/2007/07/intel_researchers_ demonstrate.php], an accomplishment the company says will yield cheaper photonic integrated circuits (PICs)."

James Gosling Appointed to the Order of Canada 191

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @05:18PM from the make-the-bad-man-stop dept.

Andrija Ifkovic writes "James Gosling, the creator of Java language and a VP of Sun has been appointed to the Order of Canada. 'The Order of Canada recognizes outstanding lifetime achievement and contributions to society and the country by Canadians from all walks of life.' This is the highest honor Canada can bestow upon its citizens."

Submission + - 77 Cisco Router Models Open To 'drive-by pharming'

Submitted by

dark_15

on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @05:13PM

dark_15 writes: "Cisco is warning users that nearly 80 of its routers are vulnerable to a hack tactic that got play last week. Dubbed "drive-by pharming" by Symantec and university researchers who first publicized the danger in a paper, the attack involves luring users to malicious sites where a device's default password is used to redirect them to bogus sites. Once they are at those sites, their identities could be stolen or malware could be force-fed to their computers."

Submission + - Skype asks FCC to open cellular networks

Submitted by Milwaukee's_Best on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:13PM

Milwaukee's_Best writes: Skype has just asked the FCC to force wireless phone companies to open their networks to all comers. "Skype essentially wants to turn the wireless phone companies into just another network of the kind currently operated on the ground. This would require carriers to allow any phone to be used on their networks, and for any application. Users would simply purchase a voice or data plan (though these could easily converge into a data plan if VoIP calling is used) and then use the device of their choice to access the network of their choice." Think of it as network neutrality—for cell networks. Given the competition that exists within the industry, is this needed?

Submission + - 50 Best Business Schools for Getting Hired

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on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @04:09PM

An anonymous reader writes: In which MBA programs do new grads receive lots of job offers, get hired quickly, and earn big paychecks in their first jobs? Fortune and its partner QS ranked top U.S. business schools based on their reputation with recruiters and strength of career placement.

I thought Anderson would have been higher on the list. Here are the CA schools.

4 Stanford University Graduate School of Business
12 Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
17 Anderson School of Management, UCLA
23 Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
25 The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine
39 University of California — Davis, Graduate School of Management
44 Masagung Graduate School of Management, University of San Francisco

NASA's New Mission to the Moon 283

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @03:55PM from the to-the-moon-alice dept.

mattnyc99 writes "Popular Mechanics has a new, in-depth preview of NASA's Orion spacecraft, tracking the complex challenges facing the engineers of the CEV (which NASA chief Michael Griffin called 'Apollo on steroids') as America shifts its focus away from the Space Shuttle and back toward returning to the moon by 2020. After yesterday's long op-ed in the New York Times concerning NASA's about-face, Popular Mechanic's interview with Buzz Aldrin and podcast with Transterrestrial.com's Rand Simberg raise perhaps the most pressing questions here: Is it worth going back to the lunar surface? And will we actually stay there?"

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