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EVE Online channels in-game donations to Haiti-> 1

Submitted by PurpleCarrot on Friday January 29 2010, @07:01PM

PurpleCarrot writes "Players in the MMORPG EVE Online have been encouraged to convert their virtual income into real monetary help for the Red Cross efforts in Haiti through donations of PLEXes, or game-time extensions. CCP, the developer of EVE Online, will forward 100% of the proceeds generated from donations to support Haiti. PLEXes (which extend a player's subscription for 30 days) are sold in batches of two for $34.99 in the United States, and are freely traded in the game's marketplace for ISK, the in-game currency."
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Comment: chipset inside and utilization? (Score 4, Interesting) 467

by A little Frenchie on Tuesday October 27 2009, @12:20PM (#29885039) Attached to: Reliability of PC Flash SSDs?

your not saying what chipset and what kind of usage you did.

if you are going to put a MLC drive for a gentoo distribution which is compiling 24/7, you will kill it in no time

if you got first gen micron chipset... you will have bad experience too

try again with indilinx or intel drive with SLC and come again

Comment: and some people got a bricked ssd... (Score 1) 112

by A little Frenchie on Tuesday October 27 2009, @12:15PM (#29884993) Attached to: Intel Updates SSDs, Supports TRIM, Faster Writes

more at http://communities.intel.com/community/tech/solidstate

Comment: Exchange? (Score 1) 324

by A little Frenchie on Tuesday July 28 2009, @02:36PM (#28856355) Attached to: Dye Used In Blue M&Ms Can Lessen Spinal Injury

I give you my red one, you give me your blue one?

Comment: print page for less ads (Score 2, Informative) 626

by A little Frenchie on Sunday March 22 2009, @03:35PM (#27290097) Attached to: Windows and Linux Not Well Prepared For Multicore Chips

http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&A=/article/09/03/20/Multicore_chips_pose_next_big_challenge_for_industry_1.html

Comment: I just made one for less than 400$ canadian! (Score 1) 101

by A little Frenchie on Friday March 20 2009, @05:31PM (#27274267) Attached to: A Look at Excessive Portable Storage

how funny, I just bought http://www.addonics.com/products/enclosures/AE25RDESU.asp (build-in raid hardware support) and 2x 500gb seagate 5400.6 disk to make my own portable device for less than 400$ canadian, tax and shipping included, lot cheaper than the Lacie one! I will receive everything next Monday so I could do my own test and I will compare them. I never looked for pre-build one before doing my search.

Comment: print this page (Score 2, Informative) 116

by A little Frenchie on Friday September 05 2008, @06:20PM (#24895223) Attached to: Researchers Build Malicious Facebook App

http://www.itworld.com/print/54718

iPhone hacked to run Java 2

Submitted by LarsWestergren on Thursday November 22 2007, @12:50PM

LarsWestergren writes "The project to get Java to run on the iPhone has had a breakthrough — Mark Wielaard has posted the first screenshots of the open source JamVM running on a jail-broken iPhone."

Banned colors on the screen-> 0

Submitted by A little Frenchie on Friday November 16 2007, @01:57PM

A little Frenchie writes "Deutsche Telekom and Red Bull have deposited the color magenta, and the combination blue-argent as trademarks, banning their unauthorized use in the United States and Europe. The German company Deutsche Telekom declared that the color magenta is an integral part of its logo, prohibiting anyone from using it without his permission, even on a computer screen. Meanwhile, the makers of Red Bull drinks filed as a trademark combination of blue and silver that appears on its cans."
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Microsoft apologizes for Windows Update snafus-> 0

Submitted by A little Frenchie on Tuesday October 30 2007, @08:33AM

A little Frenchie writes "Microsoft has been having all sorts of problems with automatic Windows updates lately. First, it was reports of users who had turned off automatic update installations finding that their computers had installed and rebooted anyway without their consent, then some enterprise Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) users found out that Windows Desktop Search (WDS) had been installed without administrator approval. Microsoft acknowledged the first problem but denied the second, then relented and issued an apology via WSUS product manager Bobbie Harder's blog."
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