For those of you waiting to buy an HDTV and are current looking at bigger screens like the 60 or 70″ XBR2 from Sony, 71″ from Samsung, or the 65″ from Mitsubishi there are two things you are aware of with RPTV’s that likely concern you: Rainbow Effect (RBE) Silk Screen Effect (SSE) With the [...]
Star Wars… in ASCII
I can’t believe someone created this, it is Star Wars in ASCII. You can watch it over telnet by using this command and hitting enter twice: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl I have to admit I didn’t watch the whole thing, but I’m baffeled that A) someone had the patience to create this and B) someone had the [...]
Windows Vista RC1 Downloads Available
Laurence Hartje gives us the heads up on the Windows Vista RC1 public downloads that have been posted, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. RC1 will expire June 1st 2007, so you can actually run Vista for free for a little shy of a year, that’s pretty cool. Also, be sure to grab a key if [...]
Sony PS3 Launch Pushed Back
Well no surprise here, just business as usual for Sony: “Home of the Bullshit Empire”. Looks like the PS3 is not getting 4 million units at launch, but more like 500k for North American and Japan, to boot, it’s likely going to be pushed back. Also the European launch is getting pushed back to March [...]
My Baby, the Samsung HL-S7178W
It’s true, I love it, the Samsung HL-S7178W. I was reading through the AVS owners thread last night and came across some new posts with pictures and some interesting comments from our local professional calibrator, Eliab. We covered Eliab a little bit before with his suggested settings for this TV that will give it the [...]
Linux Hardware on Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake)
A while ago I blogged about my experience installing Ubuntu and configuring/using it to replace my Windows desktop. Then using that information I put together a guide for new users on what to expect when setting up Ubuntu and how to create the best “first timer” experience I could think of. I also ran across [...]
Flash 9 for Linux Early 2007
Over on the Adobe Flash/Linux blog it looks like more definitive times have been given for the final stable release: Early 2007. The team mentioned they are planning a Beta before that for later 2006 I assume which will be welcome after they are done fixing all the known issues with the plugin (which was [...]
Team Fortress 2 Trailer
Team Fortress 2 was always the much-waited for sequel to the hit team-based combat HL1-modification Team Fortress. The whole idea of team-based online combat was reshaped with the release of Team Fortress (It started as a hit Quake modification) but a sequel was never released. Right around the time Team Fortress 2 was suppose to [...]
No 1080p on Low-End PS3, High-End PS3 Doesn't Include HDMI Cable
Since we are on a roll today covering PS3 news, Wired Blogs covered information confirmed from Sony that the low-end PS3 (the one that only has component-out) will not be able to display 1080p Movies/Games. In fact only the high-end PS3 will allow that over it’s HDMI connection, unfortunately the high-end bundle does not come [...]
New Tabs in Safari 3 (OS X 10.5)
Apple doing the good-design thing again, this is probably one of the smoothest interpretations of tabular behavior I’ve ever seen. Tabs aren’t the most intuitive thing, but this goes a long way to “show” you where/how your tabs are going and where to look for your pages.
Heavy Rain, PS3
Update #1: Quantic Dream, creators of Heavy Rain, have released quite a bit more information about the title, screenshots and in-game footage. Head on over here to check it out. This is a game that I would buy a PS3 just to have. For those of you that played this studios hit title Indigo Prophecy [...]
JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript
It looks like the Dojo developers have released a JavaCC Grammar for EcmaScript, more specifically ECMA-262 Standard 3rd edition. Junior developer does a fairly good writeup about it as he’s in the middle of writing a new JavaCC book (not a feat for the weak hearted). For the folks wondering what this is, JavaCC is [...]
PS3, Should We be Excited or Not?
Just saw an excellent summary from OUSanbornEE on why the PS3 is going to have problems, let’s have a look: 1) RSX is downgraded by 10% speed 2) Sony president admits that PS3 production hasn’t begun 3) IBM notes that the yields of the CELL are very very low 4) Recent blue laser shortages, even [...]
GNOME-Vista 2.16
FootNotes is asking for screenshots of your 2.15.x or 2.16 beta desktop to be included in the new GNOME 2.16 release notes showing off some of the new features. You can make your submissions here, but you can check out the submissions people have already posted here. One that really struck my fancy was the [...]
Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Knot2 Released
For those that are confused by this, the “Knot” releases are basically alphas that you can download and try out to see progress until the next release. A lot of the major eye-candy related items that are planned for Edgy Eft (full list) have been done for the Knot2 release, that includes the updates to [...]
Dancing with Treadmills
And for some chuckles, got this in my inbox today. Very clever:
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