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Bio: Kenny Johnson is The PC Report's resident Linux expert. He would prefer to use Ubuntu 100% of the time but due to lack of support for Adobe CS4 products and video games he is forced to use Windows. He is enrolled in college courses for his associates degree in CNS (computer repair and networking stuff). He's currently unemployed and looking for a job. You can donate money to help pay for college books, food, or gasoline if you'd like. Computer: Laptop: Toshiba Satellite L305-S5919. 2GB RAM, 160 GB hard drive, 2.16 GHz CPU. Windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit) and Ubuntu 9.10 (32 bit) dual boot. Online Alias: Kenny |
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HTML5 is currently being developed as the next major revision of HTML. The main feature? It will remove the need for using plug-ins such as flash in web browsers. HTML5 will use <audio> and <video> tags instead of relying on embedding flash into a web page. This will generally provide a boost in performance and will make older plug-ins such as Flash or Silverlight obsolete. It won’t happen over night but eventually it will happen.
Here’s a video of Quake II being played in a browser.
Lucid Lynx has been released. You can download it here. Torrents will be the fastest way to obtain it since all of the servers will probably be bogged down from massive numbers of downloads.
Anyone who has to change file extensions in Windows often for any reason will be very familiar with this warning. For me it was an annoyance. I will often change file extensions from .exe, .rar, or .vbs into a plain text (.txt) file so I can email them. Plain text is the only way I can send some kind of files because Gmail won’t let me send certain file types. I have discovered a way to make renaming the files less of a hassle.
I have seen some outrageous things these past few years regarding copyright laws but this one beats them all. The United States government is always trying to figure out how best to handle intellectual property rights, so it has asked the concerned parties to submit all sorts of information in order to better understand what’s going on.
What the RIAA and MPAA have submitted borders on the insane. One of the solutions they came up with involves making computer users install anti-infringement software on their computers. This software would then scan the hard drive looking for any evidence of any pirated or illegal content and then delete it.
There are several technologies and methods that can be used by network administrators and providers…these include [consumer] tools for managing copyright infringement from the home (based on tools used to protect consumers from viruses and malware).
This is a little program I discovered as I was switching my iTunes library from my desktop computer to my laptop. To get my music to my laptop I just copied it off of my iPod and stored the music on my laptop’s hard drive. Because I used this method my songs had strange names such as EB5A.mp3. Sometimes iTunes would rename the songs automatically when I imported them but several songs kept their messed up names.
iTunes and other programs rely on correct information in your songs to find album art. Not TidySongs. Even if your song names have misspellings or missing info, TidySongs’ intelligent database technology will find the matching artwork.
Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism will try to block certain online games from Korean gamers after midnight, reports the Korea Herald. This is an attempt to eradicate video game addictions in Korean youth. According to the Ministry, underage users will be forced to pick a time slot after midnight (either 12-6, 1-7, or 2-8 am) to use as their blackout period.
The policy also includes a “slowdown” system in which internet connection speeds will be stifled dramatically if underaged users are logged on for a lengthy period of time.
This slowdown scheme is currently being tested on four role playing games, including the hugely popular “Dungeon & Fighter,” and “Dragon Nest,” and will be extended to 19 role playing games. The Ministry also has plans to establish a countermeasure for those gamers who try to get around this policy by registering using their parents’ resident registration number to set-up online accounts.
Apparently the reason for a policy like this is because people have died after having spent days and even weeks at PC rooms without a break. There was even a death of a newborn because the parents neglected to take care of the child due to their video game addictions.
When I bought this keyboard for my media center I saw that wasn’t any power button, you just put batteries inside and you are ready to use the keyboard.
Unfortunately if you don’t use your keyboard for some time your battery discharge rapidly. So i decided to insert a power switch and a LED indicator to save battery life.
Firefox Lorentz beta is out now. The main goal of this project is to prevent plugin crashes from crashing your browser. This is a feature that is already being used in other browsers such as Chrome (the Sandbox feature) and will probably be built into the Firefox 3.7 release. This beta release will work on top of FireFox 3.6 without breaking backwards compatibility.
The final beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 has been released. While drastic changes are now a thing of the past, the beta release will bring updated packages and numerous bug fixes.
You can click here to download it. Use torrents if possible because, not only is it faster for you, but it also puts less strain on the servers.
A few days ago I wrote about a vulnerability in PDF files. Well now Foxit Software has released an updated version of their reader. Does this update prevent a compromised PDF file from executing it’s payload? No, instead it just gives you a warning like Adobe PDF reader does. This means the proof of concept PDF files that Didier Stevens created for Adobe now work on Foxit’s PDF reader. Previously he had to create a separate file to test on Foxit.
So you still need to be careful downloaded PDF files from untrustworthy sources. Now that the same file will work with both readers it can be even more dangerous.
Read more at Didier’s blog to learn how to prevent Adobe Reader from launching files (thus making it safer for you).