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Submission + - Nintendo Power--The End of an Era 1

Submitted by

Guppy06

on Sunday October 14, 2007 @02:32PM

Guppy06 writes: "Starting with volume 222 in December, Nintendo will no longer be in charge of its own dedicated magazine, Nintendo Power, instead handing the reins over to Future US, publisher of other gaming magazines such as PC Gamer, Official Xbox Magazine, and Playstation: The Official Magazine. Nintendo started Nintendo Power from its original "Nintendo Fun Club" back in 1988 and since then the magazine has been the official mouthpiece of the company to its fanbase, often being the medium used for new announcements, such as the development of the now-classic Game Boy and Super NES. Similarly, it seems Nintendo is no longer publishing its own video game guides, which were published under the Nintendo Power name; recent flagship titles such as Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass only have Nintendo-authorized guides published by Prima available."

Submission + - Learn F-Script in 20 Minutes (fscript.org)

Submitted by

Philippe Mougin

on Sunday October 14, 2007 @01:58PM

Philippe Mougin writes: "F-Script is an open-source scripting and interactive environment for Cocoa, the Mac OS X object system. It lets you easily play with the rich set of object-oriented frameworks provided by Apple and the Cocoa community. This new article, Learn F-Script in 20 Minutes, will teach you the basics of F-Script and show you how to use it to experiment with the advanced graphics capabilities of the Mac OS X Core Image framework. If you aren't using F-Script yet, this is your chance to learn how it can improve your productivity as well as those of the users of your own applications."

Submission + - WYSWIG Editor for LaTeX

Submitted by

bangalore_czar

on Sunday October 14, 2007 @01:42PM

bangalore_czar writes: "LaTex is a powerful typesetting system developed by DE Knuth. This is (err was) popular among engineers, scientist and mathematicians until late 90s. I was exploring a WYSWIG editor for LaTex to make my resume and I have found a GPL Editor TexMacs. http://www.texmacs.org/ This is extremely powerful editor and supports export to bunch of formats like pdf, ps etc, yet most ignored in open source and (closed source) community. Even latest Slashdot reference to TexMacs dates back 2002. IMHO this most powerful editor."

Submission + - Family beaten after home party advertised on YouTu

Submitted by Meshach on Sunday October 14, 2007 @12:31PM

Meshach writes: An unfortunate story from London where a family was beaten when a party in their home was crashed by over 100 uninvited guests. The party was advertised on YouTube.

Submission + - Is DMA Password Hacking on Windows Possible? (security-assessment.com)

Submitted by

Zwitta22

on Sunday October 14, 2007 @10:29AM

Zwitta22 writes: "So I was reading this presentation on a hack done via DMA and Firewire on a Linux box, and it got me thinking about DMA access in Windows. I was recently brought into a company where the Sys Admin had walked on them, and stupidly, nobody except the admin knew the admin password OR had admin access to the Windows 2k3 domain. I needed to get on the box as an admin, and the only method I could think of would be a LiveCD like Opf, but for that I needed to down the machine and spend X hours cracking the password, at that time NOT an option. Needless to say after many discussions with the appropriate non-technical people, i got them to agree to some out of hours downtime so I could run the recovery...

So lets say I'm presented with a server or workstation and I've got the password prompt up. Let's also say that I dont want to take the server down and run a LiveCD since it's critical to system operations 24/7. Would a hack through USB using DMA be possible? Let's say even just grabbing the hash of the password from memory when the software compares the typed in password to the actual password hash? This would have at least allowed me to crack the hash without downing the server...

Thoughts?"

Submission + - "Everything about Vista DRM is wrong" is w

Submitted by RandomNick7 on Sunday October 14, 2007 @08:57AM

RandomNick7 writes: A recent Slashdot story covered a ZDNet article "Everything you've read about Vista DRM is wrong". The author of the original Vista DRM writeup has now responded, documenting some of the highly irregular circumstances that lead to the articles at ZDNet. The comments from ZDNet's technical director, "I want the DRM on my system!", are particularly interesting.

Submission + - Microsoft is financing Ubuntu-be.org (markvdb.be) 1

Submitted by swatje on Thursday October 11, 2007 @04:43AM

swatje writes: Ubuntu-be.org found a quite exceptional way to fund for their activities, they started to sell a copy of "Windonws vista Ultimate Edition". From the article: 'The story behind this original boxed MS Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is quite exceptional. With ubuntu-be.org, we had a booth at a conference on IT in education. One of us, François, started talking to the people at the Microsoft booth and received this box as a gift (carrot/bribe?) from a Microsoft employee.'

Submission + - ASUS EEE PC Shipping soon?

Submitted by

stoolpigeon

on Sunday October 07, 2007 @09:03AM

stoolpigeon writes: "Looking over the forums at eeeuser.com it looks like a few different companies have been taking preorders on the Asus eee PC

Based on responses to those who ordered in early September, shipment may be soon. For those who ordered more recently, they may already have been too late to get in on the first units that will ship. Looking at prices for one company taking preorders seems to verify that the high demand has led to higher prices than those originally predicted for the machine."

Journal SPAM: Asus eee pc Preorders

Journal by stoolpigeon on Sunday October 07, 2007 @09:01AM

Looking over the forums at eeeuser.com it looks like a few different companies have been taking preorders on the Asus eee PC

Submission + - Why the Unbundling Windows Sceptics are Wrong (cybersource.com.au)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 07, 2007 @07:00AM

An anonymous reader writes: Various pro-competition organisations have now called to have Windows unbundled from PCs. This posting reviews the key arguments against such a move, along with an explanation as to why these arguments are invalid.

Submission + - Locating Linux-loyal Laptops (itwire.com)

Submitted by

davidmwilliams

on Sunday October 07, 2007 @06:48AM

davidmwilliams writes: "Linux can bring new life to old laptops, and is a great choice for brand new systems in its own right. However, with few major vendors making laptops that ship with Linux out of the factory, how can you be sure the laptop you're eyeing off will run your favourite distro rather than the proprietary OS it comes with? Here's our guide to finding out! http://digg.com/linux_unix/Locating_Linux_loyal_Laptops"

Submission + - A new fun way of looking at server logfiles (fudgie.org) 1

Submitted by

Fudgie

on Sunday October 07, 2007 @05:37AM

Fudgie writes: "My boss claimed it was pretty much impossible to create an entertaining way to visualize server traffic and events in a short time frame, so of course I had to prove him wrong.

A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X).

It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at http://www.fudgie.org/ for an example movie, and more information."

Submission + - Designing software with Privacy in mind 6

Submitted by dalektcalum on Saturday October 06, 2007 @07:06PM

dalektcalum writes: Dr. Ann Cavoukian, Canada's Information and Privacy Commissioner, recently gave a talk entitled Privacy by Design. The talk starts of by covering the basics of privacy, and privacy law, and then moves onto the important component, how to design software that properly protects users privacy. The majourity of the time is spent on design principles, but also examines specific technologies (such as Elliptical Curve Cryptography).

Submission + - ASUS Motherboard Ships With Embedded Linux (phoronix.com)

Submitted by

Michael

on Saturday October 06, 2007 @06:12PM

Michael writes: "ASUSTek has introduced the P5E3 Deluxe motherboard, which in addition to using Intel's new X38 Chipset also features a soon-to-be-announced technology by DeviceVM. SplashTop is an instant-on Linux desktop environment that is embedded onto this motherboard. Within seconds of turning on the P5E3 Deluxe motherboard, you can boot into this Linux environment that currently features a Mozilla-based web browser and the Skype VoIP client. Browser and VoIP settings can be saved and this SplashTop Linux can be updated to provide new features and support. The motherboard's dual Gigabit network interfaces and its draft-N wireless also work from this lightweight Linux desktop. At Phoronix is a review of this $360 motherboard embedded with Linux and a web browser."

Submission + - Novell to SCO: Pay up (heraldextra.com)

Submitted by gosherm on Saturday October 06, 2007 @04:39PM

gosherm writes: "The Waltham, Mass., software developer is seeking to lift a bankruptcy stay on litigation against SCO so a federal court trial in Utah can proceed to determine the amount of licensing fees Novell is entitled to, and for a constructive trust to be put in place to protect those funds."

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