Month: December 2007
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Improving PS3 visuals with a simple display setting in XMB?
The general response about 360/PS3 comparisons is that the PS3 versions always seemed washed out. The video claims that setting the RGB settings to “Full” instead of “Limited” fixes this problem. Apparently Super-white setting should be set to “On” as well. I would (Click on the link to read more)! read more | digg story
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Linux Is Not Y2K(38) Compliant!?
All 32 bit Unix and Linux systems will come to a halt on January 19, 2038 at 3:14:07. This is due to the fact that *nix systems keep track of time in a four byte integer corresponding to the number of seconds after January 1, 1970 12:00:00. The maximum value of a four byte integer…
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Kovalainen wants equal status
Heikki Kovalainen is confident that his new team McLaren will give him equal status to team-mate Lewis Hamilton and that he will be given a fair chance to fight for the drivers’ world championship. read more | digg story
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F1 racing star Lewis Hamilton caught speeding at 122mph
British Formula One star Lewis Hamilton has had his driving licence suspended for a month after being caught speeding on a French motorway. The 22-year-old was clocked travelling at 196km/h (122mph) in a Mercedes near the northern town of Laon on Sunday. read more | digg story
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Ubuntu vs Vista Vulnerability Counts: Ubuntu Wins Handsomely
In order to expose the Microsoft FUD that Linux is more insecure than Vista, I did a study that compared just the OSes of Vista and Ubuntu Dapper for 2007, leaving out the applications. In doing so, I found that Ubuntu had much lesser highly critical remotely exploitable vulnerabilities (3 vulnerabilities to Vista’s 10), thus…
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MotoGP: Provisional 2008 rider line-up
How next year’s MotoGP line-up is likely to look read more | digg story
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iPhone to be target of hackers in 2008
According to Arbor’s Security and Engineering Response Team (ASERT) the attacks will likely to be in the form of drive by attacks — malware embedded into seemingly harmless information, images or other media that actually perform dangerous actions when rendered on the iPhone’s Web browser. read more | digg story
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Nissan GT-R GT500 First Outing
The 2-day test, conducted under sunny skies, went smoothly with NISMO’s regular drivers, Satoshi Motoyama, Michael Krumm and Tsugio Matsuda, behind the wheel. read more | digg story
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2008 V8 Supercar Championship Series test days
V8 Supercars Australia will next year host two official team test days in February for the media and the public to see the new 2008 driver line-ups, car liveries and teams in action for the first time. read more | digg story
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Bathurst 1K.07
It has long been the battle of the Australian motorsport, and Ford versus Holden at Bathurst is one of the great sporting events in Australia. The TV ratings for much of the race place it among the elite sports in the country… read more | digg story