Comment Re:Whoops. (Score 1) 398
Dunno, the script is searching for html5+love once it's started. Unless Twitter's search api is a performance hog there shouldn't be much of a problem :)
Twitter Offline Due To DDoS 398
The elusive Precision dropped a submission in my lap about a DDoS taking down Twitter running on CNet. It's been down for several hours, no doubt wreaking havoc on the latest hawtness in social networking. Won't someone please think of the tweeters? Word is that both Facebook & LiveJournal have been having problems this AM as well.
Comment I want a Mac beta of that (Score 1) 207
Although I like them, I see no point in using alternative webkit-based browsers like Stainless or Shiira.
I'd definitely give Chrome a try, though - their extra efforts really make it worth!
Submission + - HTML5 Canvas Experiment (9elements.com)
An anonymous reader writes: These guys built an impressive demonstration of modern browsers' HTML5 capabilities — from the 9elements blog: "HTML5 is getting a lot of love lately. With the arrival of Firefox 3.5, Safari 4 and the new 3.0 beta of Google Chrome, browsers support some great new features including canvas and the new audio/video tags. [...] We've created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine." Who needs Flash anyway?
Comment Re:Strange, I've been gaming in Linux for years. (Score 4, Insightful) 315
Performance improvements could come from i.e. unsupported and thus unvirtualized eye-candy DirectX features which would have a negative impact on performance under normal circumstances. Anyway, afaik all the mentioned games have OpenGL renderers, but I assume that you use the stanard DirectX renderer in World of Warcraft.
On the other hand, performance drawbacks because of wine's virtualization are very small but naturally they do exist. Adding an extra layer of wrapping takes time. Of course, maybe wine's handling of win32-specific calls and systems is more efficient than Microsoft's implementation in their operating systems ;-)
On the other hand, performance drawbacks because of wine's virtualization are very small but naturally they do exist. Adding an extra layer of wrapping takes time. Of course, maybe wine's handling of win32-specific calls and systems is more efficient than Microsoft's implementation in their operating systems
Xbox Hypervisor Security Protection Hacked 232
ACTRAiSER writes "A recent Post on Bugtraq claims the hack of the Xbox 360 Security Protection Hypervisor. It includes sample code as well."
From Bugtraq
"We have discovered a vulnerability in the Xbox 360 hypervisor that allows
privilege escalation into hypervisor mode. Together with a method to
inject data into non-privileged memory areas, this vulnerability allows
an attacker with physical access to an Xbox 360 to run arbitrary code
such as alternative operating systems with full privileges and full
hardware access."
