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Halo 3 Details Begin to Emerge 70

Posted by Zonk on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:26PM from the i-have-defied-gods-and-demons dept.

Eurogamer has a short rundown on some Halo 3 details which have emerged from the Swedish games mag LEVEL. There are a few details on weapons, levels, combat mechanics, and a super-special helmet edition for the game. From the article: "Finally, there's news on the contents of the Halo 3 'Legendary Edition', which will consist of four DVDs' worth of content and, amusingly, a replica Spartan helmet. So what's on those four discs? Well, the game, obviously, and then documentaries and developer commentaries, bonus material like Red vs. Blue episodes, and cut-scenes from Halo 1 to 3 in high-definition. There will also be some sort of Halo film trailer located in the package." 1up has announced they're going to have a bevy of features on the game tying in to the new issue of EGM, so more details should be available online soon.

How MythTV Detects and Flags Commercials 403

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 30, 2006 @01:19PM from the gotta-love-the-bugs dept.

peterdaly writes "Automatic commercial detection is the "killer app" feature that none of the commercial DVR's dare to include. MythTV's automatic commercial detection does a great job of properly separating commercials from content. Here's how the commercial flagging works."

Comment Look at the hardware (Score 1) 276

by Morgant on Friday May 19, 2006 @03:45PM (#15368158) Attached to: Advice for Linux on a Laptop?

I'd treat buying a laptop the same as buying a desktop: if the (important) components are known to work with Linux, then it will work. Here are the things that most commonly cause problems:

--Video Card - I strongly recommend Nvidia. I realize that's more challenging in a laptop, but their drivers and support are much better.
--Wireless Capability - Personally, I PCMCIA wireless over built-in, but in any case make sure the wireless chipset is well supported. I use a proxim card which worked with next to no effort.
--Sound Card - While I seriously doubt you could find a laptop sound card that isn't supported, it's still worth a look. Nothing makes me frown faster than a lack of tunes. --Network Card - Well, maybe no network access could make me frown faster. Linux supports a large variety of NICs, but be on the lookout for Broadcom based cards. If it's a 3com, Intel, or Realtek chipset, you're almost certainly a winner.

If you make good decisions on those, your shiny new laptop should work very well. As far as dual-booting goes, I just have one major caution: install Windows first. Why? Because many Linux partitioning programs pay no attention to cylinder boundaries. Windows will then freak out and "fix" the error by moving your partitions to the nearest boundary. Fixing this is not fun.

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