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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Tops 10 Million Sales 164

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 26, 2010 @02:43AM from the it'sa-me-mario dept.

According to a report from Japanese publication Nikkei Net, Nintendo's New Super Mario Bros. Wii has now sold 10 million copies worldwide. The game needed only 45 days to pass the already impressive sales numbers of Super Mario Galaxy. Quoting Gamasutra: "NSMB Wii has sold 3 million units in Japan, where it launched on December 3; 3 million copies in Europe, where it launched November 20, and 4.5 million units in North America, where it launched November 15. Super Mario Galaxy has sold 4.1 million units in North America since 2007. The game's design hearkens back to the two-dimensional, side-scrolling style of earlier Mario titles ... The numbers would seem to suggest that these traits successfully generated more mass appeal for NSMB Wii than for the three-dimensional and far less familiar Super Mario Galaxy, which sent the plumber navigating more innovative spherical space environments."

Submission + - Nominum calls Open Source DNS 'a recipe for proble

Submitted by

Raindeer

on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @07:19AM

Raindeer writes: "In an effort to promote its new Cloud based DNS service SKYE, Nominum one of the commercial DNS-software, providers slaundered all open source/freeware DNS packages. It said: "Given all the nasty things that have happened this year, freeware is a recipe for problems, and it's just going to get worse.(....) So, whether it's Eircom in Ireland or a Brazilian ISP that was attacked earlier this year, all of them were using some variant of freeware. Freeware is not akin to malware, but is opening up those customers to problems. " This has the DNS community fuming. Especially when you know Nominum was one of the companies affected by the DNS Cache poisoning problem of last year. Something PowerDNS, MaraDNS and DJBDNS all open source weren't vulnerable too."

Comment If only.... (Score 1) 312

by Pip on Wednesday May 06, 2009 @03:43PM (#27850209) Attached to: Amazon Kindle DX Details Revealed

It was as easy to buy Kindle stuff in europe as it was to get the dead trees shipped....

Comment HPC and encryption (Score 2, Informative) 480

by Pip on Thursday October 30, 2008 @07:56AM (#25567309) Attached to: Resisting the PGP Whole Disk Encryption Craze

I've never heard of any HPC computer using disk encryption. Though compute intensive work need not be I/O intensive, it might very well be. If there is a real need to keep your data secure in your HPC environment, other measures that encryption are just as effective.

Frankly, encrypting everything is just not the best solution. Especially since encryption doesn't prevent legitimate users of making copies on non-encrypted media and loosing those. I guess your IT staff just found a cool new toy, but well, I don't see any traces of procedures to help safeguard the data.

My word of advice: get a security-officer to define proper procedures for data classification and data handling, really, all you need is procedure and well then maybe, pgp whole disk will play part in implementing a proper data handling procedure for data classified as C=extremely high.

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