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Comment Re:As a Wii Owner (Score 1) 258

by munzli on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @12:16PM (#32666258) Attached to: New Wii Menu Update Targets Homebrew Again

hdmi and dvi is the same thing without the audio

Because HDMI is electrically compatible with the signals used by Digital Visual Interface (DVI), no signal conversion is necessary, nor is there a loss of video quality when a DVI-to-HDMI adapter is used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI

Windows 7 To Be Called ... Windows 7 772

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @09:31AM from the but-most-folks-call-me-jim dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft's Mike Nash came forward today in a blog post on the Windows Vista Blog and revealed the official name for Windows Code Name '7' as simply 'Windows 7.' The reasoning, by Mr. Nash, is that Windows 7 is 'the seventh release of Windows.' As much wonderful sense as this makes on first glance, it seems as if Microsoft's marketing teams pulled this number out of thin air: the Windows 7 kernel is version 6.1, and there's no way Windows 7 adds up as the seventh release of Windows anyway."

Submission + - Multiple FLAC Vulnerabilities affecting every OS (heise-security.co.uk)

Submitted by Enon on Monday November 19, 2007 @07:45PM

Enon writes: eEye Digital Security and US-CERT has discovered 14 vulnerabilities in the FLAC file format that affect a huge range of media players on every supported Operating System (yes Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Unix, BSD, Solaris, and even some hardware players are vulnerable). These vulnerabilities could allow a malicious hacker or even (DUN DUN DUN) the RIAA to trojanize FLAC files that could compromise your computer if they are played on a vulnerable media player.

Source: http://www.heise-security.co.uk/news/99108
Additional Link 1: http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20071115.html
Additional Link 2: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/544656

Comment Re:people don't wan't to hold on to a phone 5+ yea (Score 1) 554

by munzli on Tuesday November 28, 2006 @03:19PM (#17021650) Attached to: Why Do Gadgets Break?

well my comment was based on electronics in general, the phone was just an example (and of course you have exceptions, but i was thinking for the majority)

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