RSS Digest for Monday, Augest 3rd, 2009

Facebook app lets Intel PCs donate processor power
ARM-based netbooks set to arrive on US shores by year end
Dell adds high-powered ATI FirePro M7740 graphics to the Precision M6400
Accused domain thief faces jail time for “stealing” P2P.com
Microsoft apps–only suckers pay retail
OCZ’s 1TB SSD Colossus due out this month for ~$2500
Windows Mobile 7 to be a premium, multitouch beast of a platform
My Kindle ate my homework
PayPal suffers from e-commerce outage
AT&T and SlingPlayer
White House ‘Cyber Czar’ Resigns; Let’s Not Replace Her
From the NASA Archive: Astronaut-Butt Molds
Verizon drops smartphone prices across the board
Netbook Fight! Gateway LT3103 versus Acer Aspire One 751h
Mac 911 and the summer vacation
Pirate Bay founder Peter Sunde resigns
Hidden gay slur, search terms, get campaign site blacklisted
Radio Shack rebranding: Why? Why!?
PS3 sales hit 24 million globally
Backstage: Thermaltake’s Luxa2 M1-Pro, M2 + M3-Air Cooling Stands for Apple’s MacBooks
ATM scam at DEFCON clearly the work of ironic criminals
10.5: Be aware of a shrinking Terminal window bug
Breakin’ up is hard to do: Schmidt leaves Apple board
Top Facebook etiquette tips
Sony ‘to launch cheaper, slimmer PS3′
Sony’s VAIO W netbook reviewed: personable and pricey, and that’s pretty much it
“Life Comes Together”: the alternative Windows ad campaign Microsoft didn’t run
Reports: RIAA wins $675k in damages from file swapper
GM_Stargrass
The Making of a Prehistoric Brew

-Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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RSS Digest for Wednesday, July 29th, 2009:

Video: ‘V for Vendetta’ Director Goes Ninja
Kodak Zi8 Wallops Flip With 1080p, Image Stabilizer and SD Slot [Camcorders]
Xbox Live dashboard update preview invites begin rolling out
Palm Pre headed to Verizon next year
LG has first THX-Certified LCD HDTV
Agency Mulls Curbs on Cybersquatters
Pascal Finette: Mozilla Labs Design Challenges – What we’ve learned so far…
AOL revenue slides 24 percent in 2nd quarter
Intuit and open source: Tastes great, less filling?
T-Mobile to sell HTC Touch Pro2 in August
Oops, @MarissaMayer Deletes Sensitive Tweet That Can Still Be Found
AP’s rights management DRM explained
Psystar hires Jammie’s lawyers in fight with Apple
Windows 7 activation already cracked with Lenovo’s OEM license key
Pirate Bay acquisition is likely dead
Car? Kids? Get a two-pack of headrest LCDs for $130
Online video keeps growing with help of broadband, mobile
Barnes and Noble to offer complimentary WiFi
Windows 7 vs. Windows XP On a Netbook
Brilliant but Doomed Technology
Intel: Windows 7 will deploy faster than Vista
Unboxing the $1,195 URC MX-5000 remote
Steam Achievements
Motorola Morrisson with T-Mobile 3G and UMA hits the FCC
I’m 90% sure the “Apple iTablet rumor” is an elaborate hoax by Apple to get Dell to waste money building a competing device
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars

RSS Digest for Tuesday, July 28th, 2009:

The Matrix, but with money: the world of high-speed trading
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice iPhone App [Apple]
Labels hope Apple’s ‘Cocktail’ will boost album sales
MySpace Overtakes Evite On The Event Planning Totem Pole
LEGO Unboxing
Travel Back in Time
V-Screen turns PSP games 3D
ATI’s $1,800 2GB FirePro V8750 GPU introduced and reviewed
Microsoft sponsors Firefox!
Free Spirit: NASA Recreates Mars Surface to Liberate Rover
Movie studios sue The Pirate Bay
Unix Turns 40
Samsung’s debut e-book reader arrives
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too
AT&T dual USB and iPhone car charger – $15
Acer and ASUS reportedly freeze netbook releases until 2010
microsoft’s settlement proposal
Red Hat: ‘We spend over $100 million a year to advance Linux’
Like Chrome, Should Firefox Put Tabs on Top?
New Scientist: ‘Humans Prefer Cockiness to Expertise’
Electric-car maker Coda gains high-powered investors
Order Your DIY Flying Trike Today!
Robot gets an iPhone 3Gs for a brain
Landlord sues tenant after tweet about moldy apartment
Mozilla Security: URL bar spoofing vulnerability
Netgear and OpenDNS to block porn from the cloud
Viliv X70 preorders delayed, should ship out on August 11
New DoS Vulnerability In All Versions of BIND 9
Alternative to Bottled Water
Toshiba’s inaugural 3.5-inch external HDD is exactly what you think it is
EU Vista, XP users will also get to vote IE off the island
Yahoo and Microsoft to start ad partnership, says source

- Matt A. Tobin of Binary Outcast

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I recently upgraded to a Toshiba Satellite laptop and was surprised to find out that it’s Ati Radeon Mobilty HD 2400 did Bully: Scholarship Edition amazingly well. As a test  I copied the bulk of my games over to the laptops tiny 200gb hd (It will have 500gb later on) to do testing and found that most of my other games work good too.

Despite the Ati Radeon Mobilty HD 2400 being a sub par series it works good enough for me. Due to the fact i don’t care about Anti-aliasing that wasn’t issue.

In the end if you do casual games and don’t care about high frame rate you can get away with a standard laptop as long as it has a semi modern graphics processor.

My test games were:

Half-Life 2
Half-Life 2: Episode One
Half-Life 2: Episode Two
Portal
Garry’s Mod
Bully: Scholarship Edition

Tags: ATI, Bully: Scholarship Edition, Episode One, Episode Two, Games, Garry's Mod, Half-Life: 2, Laptop, Portal, Toshiba

There are many people who claim apple hardware is propriatary and closed…. That is far from the truth. In fact even in the PPC days apple was open you could download darwin (Open Source Mac OS X) and install it on a a intel or ppc machine. With the switch to the intel platform many still believe that… If it was such a close proprietary system why would it use the same hardware as most generic pcs?

Lets first look at the apple branded driver sets:

Bluetooth Enabler Installer, Bluetooth Installer, Composite Uninstaller, iSight Installer, Keyboard Installer, Null Driver, Remote Installer, Trackpad Installer. Those are pretty self explanitary but here is where it gets interesting.

Generic Hardware Drivers:

Note: These are all relative path based on the drive letter that windows assigns to to the windows side of the Mac OS X  10.5 disc.

\Drivers\Atheros: Atheros Wifi Driver

\Drivers\Intel\Ethernet: Intel PRO100 / PRO1000 Lan Drivers

\Drivers\Marvell: Marvell Yukon Ethernet Controller

\Drivers\BroadcomInstaller.exe: Broadcom BCM43XX Wifi Driver

\Drivers\MotorolaSetup.exe: Motorola SM56 USB Data Fax Modem (Apple USB Modem)

\Drivers\ATI: Ati Display Driver

\Drivers\NVidia: NVidia Display Driver

\Drivers\Intel\Graphics: Intel GMA Driver

\Drivers\IDT SigmaTel: SigmaTel Intigrated HD Audio

\Drivers\RealTekSetup.exe: Realtek High Definition Audio Driver

\Drivers\Intel\Chipset: Intel Chipset Driver

As you can see a large chunk of the hardware in a intel mac is standard common parts… even the usb modem is generic.

Tags: Apple, Atheros, ATI, Broadcom, Drivers, Hardware, Intel, Marvell, Motorola, Nvidia, open, RealTek, SigmaTel

Here are the links for: Friday, January 16th 2009…

1 In 3 Windows PCs Still Vulnerable To Worm Attack
10 Gadgets That Help You Survive in Old, Beater Cars [Tgif]
App Store Hits 500 Million Downloads
Apple Tells Dual-Link DVI Display Adapter Customers That Their Monitors Are Incompatible [Apple]
Apple To Use Nvidia’s Atom-Powered Ion Platform For Something: Mac Mini or Apple TV? [Rumor
ATi Drivers for Win 7 Beta Pulled
Debian on Android installer released
EU Antitrust Troubles Continue For Microsoft
For the child who’s not spoiled enough, there’s the $480 Porsche sled
Hawaii makes an early switch to all-digital TV
HD movies available for purchase in the US iTunes Store? I say it's a mistake.
HP rolling out new Mini-Notes soon?
Hulu rival adds more premium content
Java-based Bolt Joining the Mobile Browser Wars, Doesn't Look Horrible [Mobile Browsers]
Kogan Agora, The Australian Android Phone, Delayed Indefinitely [Kogan Agora]
LCD vs Plasma in 2009
Lenovo trots out new trifecta of unexciting desktops
Nancy’s Macworld Expo Product Roundup
Netbooks ate 20% of regular notebook sales last year
Netflix HD streaming shootout
New report claims piracy makes up 95 percent of all music downloads
Palm Pre to use Centro-sized battery (Updated)
Sony Online Entertainment Arrives on Steam
Sony’s MDR-EX36SC earbuds with dual-purpose speaker / case
Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model
VisualHub rising from the dead
What fair use? Three strikes and you’re out… of YouTube
Why the DTV switchover might be pushed back to June
Win 7 Tip: Sleep/Hibernate Mode Is Buggy, May Incapacitate Your Machine [Windows 7]
Windows 7 Runs So Much Better Than Vista On a Netbook [Impressions]

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