26 February 07 - 21:33That Amazing CPU of Yours

Put it to good use.

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SETI@home is a scientific experiment that uses Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). You can participate by running a free program that downloads and analyzes radio telescope data.

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13 February 07 - 07:12More Vista Woe

A small but significant number of games written for Windows XP either crash or creep along slowly on Vista, according to numerous complaints by game enthusiasts in online forums.

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12 February 07 - 12:11Vanguard Saga of Boredom Interview

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10 February 07 - 13:57Game Devs cheat only people surprised are other Game devs.

From UO employees selling items online, to the Bunnies of Chaos, to WoW Devs slipping info to select guilds, the all to common creation of items and characters for them selves and their friends to this just in... Eve Devs cheat too.

Probably the only surprise here is that they got caught.

"The second part of the accusations stem from a leak of information pertaining to an in-game event arc. Due to the amount of time that has passed since the planning and execution of the event arc, we have not been able to confirm nor deny the veracity of these allegations."

/yawn

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05 February 07 - 10:26Vista Hacked Already

Microsoft researchers are investigating the reports of a vulnerability that could allow an attacker to use the speech recognition feature to run malicious programs on Vista systems using prerecorded verbal commands, the company says.

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03 February 07 - 08:16Moreon Vista

Windows Vista requires more computing horsepower than any previous version of Windows. While that's not necessarily surprising, what may be is that Vista's visually impressive Aero interface won't even be available to you if your computer does not contain a dedicated graphics card. Roughly half of today's computers will need to be upgraded to run Vista adequately, according to U.S.-based Jon Peddie Research.

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02 February 07 - 13:11Read this before you "upgrade" to Vista

Vista's content protection mechanism only allows protected content to be sent over interfaces that also have content-protection facilities built in. Currently the most common high-end audio output interface is S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format). Most newer audio cards, for example, feature TOSlink digital optical output for high-quality sound reproduction, and even the latest crop of motherboards with integrated audio provide at least coax (and often optical) digital output. Since S/PDIF doesn't provide any content protection, Vista requires that it be disabled when playing protected content [Note E]. In other words if you've sunk a pile of money into a high-end audio setup fed from an S/PDIF digital output, you won't be able to use it with protected content.

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