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GOG.com Not Really Gone 276

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @04:24PM from the stepped-out-for-a-minute dept.

gspr writes "On Sunday, Slashdot and many others reported that DRM-free games site GOG.com was shutting down. Now the site is back, revealing that it was all a hoax. According to the site: 'Now it's time we put an end to all the speculations once and for all. It's true that we decided that we couldn't keep GOG.com the way it was so we won't. As you probably know by now, GOG.com is entering its new era with an end of the two-years beta stage and we're launching a brand new GOG.com with new, huge releases.' So it was all an advertising stunt."

Comment Re:the problem are Xbox and Sony (Score 2, Insightful) 131

by pydev on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @07:57AM (#31595836) Attached to: DarkPlaces Dev Forest Hale Corrects <em>Nexuiz</em> GPL Stance

I've got some bad news for you...

General purpose, programmable machines without gatekeepers are still the primary way people compute at home and at work. We need to keep it that way.

Comment Re:Oh come on (Score 1) 162

by chrb on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @05:45AM (#31595126) Attached to: How To Evade URL Filters With (Not-So) Fancy Math

It doesn't matter which way you enter the address into your browser, it still resolves to the same IP. If that IP is blocked, you won't get through even if you use this method.

Some of the major internet filters only block by domain name matching. You can bypass them by just using the IP address (of course, this fails when the site html contains URLs that specify the domain name.

Review of Atom-Powered Toughbook Medical Tablet 54

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 29, 2009 @04:51PM from the on-my-shopping-list-for-the-apocalypse dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Intel has spent years talking up the digital health sector, and now Panasonic has come up with a product to make that category worthwhile. The Toughbook CF-H1 is a fully rugged mobile computer designed for the medical profession. Of course it can be dropped and doused in water, but it's got some other cool tricks too like a built in RFID scanner, wireless smartcard reader and a barcode scanner. It's also using the 1.86GHz Atom, which is rarely seen." I'd like this: a small, low-power tablet suitable for klutzes.

Comment Re:Fiber? What other cables. (Score 1) 730

by Colin on Monday December 10, 2001 @05:20AM (#2681095) Attached to: Wiring A New House?

If you're talking about NTSC over twisted-pair, I'd recommend against it. I notice significant rollof of high frequencies with high-quality baluns on Cat 6. Cat 5 is much worse. Coax is still the cable of choice for video.

Actually, I'm talking about PAL over Cat5, because I'm in Europe ;-). I agree baluns are not the way to do it - however, there exist active solutions which can be set up to compensate for the HF rolloff. Reviews that I've read on such units (eg, google for Kat5), suggest that over normal domestic distances, they're fine.

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