http://www.furious-angels.com/ Furious Angels multigaming community play many different games ranging from FPS to MMO and everything in between. Join us or stop by to discuss games and gaming in general en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:50:30 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.furious-angels.com/images/portokalli/misc/rss.jpg http://www.furious-angels.com/ http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100199&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:59:23 GMT I'm Not There (1956) writes "Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open sources its Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they user Linux on their laptops. With these device drivers now open source, distributions can ship them out-of-the-box, and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100199 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100198&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:59:23 GMT An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla has published the first Firefox 4 build that integrates a new JavaScript engine that aims to match the performance in IE9 and reduces the gap to Safari, Opera and Chrome. This is really the big news we have been waiting for all along with Firefox 4 and it appears that the JavaScript performance is pretty dramatic and seems to beat IE9 at least as far as ConceivablyTech shows. Good to see Mozilla back in the game." The Mozilla blog gives a good overview of the improvements this brings; Tom's Hardware also covers the release.

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100198 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100197&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:07:10 GMT I need some software that can send keystrokes from my PC across LAN or WAN to another PC. Something like Teamview, but maybe less heavy and without the display, just something that runs in the background and can have specified hotkeys. Halp! I need some software that can send keystrokes from my PC across LAN or WAN to another PC. Something like Teamview, but maybe less heavy and without the display, just something that runs in the background and can have specified hotkeys.

Halp! ]]> Working Hours giga http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100197 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100196&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:59:58 GMT Stoobalou writes "The people behind VLC, quite probably the most useful media player available right now, have submitted an iPod version to the Apple software police. VLC — which is rightfully famous for having a go at playing just about any kind of audio or video file you care to throw at it — should appear some time next week, if it makes it through the often unfathomable approval process implemented by Apple. The Open Source Video Lan Client has been tweaked to run on the iPod by software developer Applidium."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100196 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100195&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:06:00 GMT cgriffin21 writes "T-Mobile Thursday finally confirmed what it's been hinting at for a while: The HTC G2, T-Mobile's HSPA+ successor to the HTC G1, is on the way. It'll be an Android 2.2 phone and run on T-Mobile's HSPA+ data network, which while not a 4G network offers what T-Mobile is calling 4G-like speeds up to 21 Mbps. T-Mobile hasn't confirmed pricing or exact availability but said it would open the G2 to presales for existing customers at the end of September."

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Slash Comments: 3 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100195 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100194&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:59:11 GMT coondoggie writes "Talk about finding a needle in a cosmic haystack. Scientists this week said they found microscopic shrapnel in a meteorite of a star they say exploded around the birth of our solar system 4.5 billion years ago."

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Slash Comments: 5 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100194 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100193&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:59:11 GMT Tootech writes "In a case of "physician, heal thyself," the agency — which forms the operational arm of DHS's National Cyber Security Division, or NCSD — failed to keep its own systems up to date with the latest software patches. Auditors working for the DHS inspector general ran a sweep of US-CERT using the vulnerability scanner Nessus and turned up 1,085 instances of 202 high-risk security holes. "The majority of the high-risk vulnerabilities involved application and operating system and security software patches that had not been deployed on computer systems located in Virginia," reads the report from assistant inspector general Frank Deffer."

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Slash Comments: 64 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100193 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100192&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:59:11 GMT An anonymous reader found a story that starts "We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered," said Ronald Arkin, a Regents professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing."

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Slash Comments: 6 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100192 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100191&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:59:11 GMT wiedzmin writes "This month, officials from the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), armed with fingerprinting machines, iris scanners and cameras hooked to laptops, will fan out across the towns and villages of southern Andhra Pradesh state in the first phase of the project whose aim is to give every Indian a lifelong Unique ID (UID) number for 'anytime, anywhere' biometric authentication. While enrolling with the UIDAI may be voluntary, other agencies and service providers might require a UID number in order to transact business. Usha Ramanathan, a prominent legal expert who is attached to the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in the national capital, said that, 'taken to its logical limit, the UID project will make it impossible, in a couple of years, for an ordinary citizen to undertake a simple task such as traveling within the country without a UID number.' Next step, tying that UID number and biometric information to to their RIM BlackBerry PIN number."

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Slash Comments: 138 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100191 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100190&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:59:54 GMT Rahmmp writes "Adobe has sounded an alarm for a new zero-day flaw in its PDF Reader/Acrobat software, warning that hackers are actively exploiting the vulnerability in-the-wild. An Adobe spokeswoman described the attacks as "limited" but warned that that could change with the availability of public samples and exploit code."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100190 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100189&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:00:51 GMT An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this year Apple caused major upset among developers by updating the iPhone developer program license with clause 3.3.1. It basically stopped the use of cross-platform compilers, meaning Adobe Flash could not be used to develop an app for the App Store. The move also put into doubt which other development platforms could be used and generally caused a lot of confusion. Apple has just significantly relaxed that policy and allowed for the use of development tools, as long as "the resulting apps do not download any code"."

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Slash Comments: ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100189 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100188&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:00:51 GMT wiredmikey writes "In a recent investigation, it was discovered that cybercriminals are creating 57,000 new 'fake' websites each week looking to imitate and exploit approximately 375 high-profile brands. eBay and Western Union were the most targeted brands, making up 44 percent of exploited brands discovered. Visa, Amazon, Bank of America and PayPal also heavily targeted by cybercriminals. Banks comprise the majority of fake websites by far with 65 percent of the total. Online stores and auction sites came in at 27 percent, with eBay taking the spot as the No. 1 most targeted brand on the Web today."

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Slash Comments: 5 ]]> RSS News Feeds FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100188 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100187&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:14:25 GMT Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of the PlayStation in North America, a milestone which sees over 377 million PlayStation consoles of various types sold worldwide. One of the first commercially available CD-based games systems, the... Today marks the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of the PlayStation in North America, a milestone which sees over 377 million PlayStation consoles of various types sold worldwide.

One of the first commercially available CD-based games systems, the original PlayStation was launched in Japan on December 3, 1994 - becoming the first console to ship over 100 million units worldwide after nine years and six months on the market. The origins of the system lie in a dispute between Sony and Nintendo, with Sony originally developing a disc-based prototype addition to Nintendo's SNES system.

When Nintendo decided to contract Phillips to produce the drives instead, Ken Kutaragi was promoted to the head of PlayStation development in order to produce a market rival for Nintendo's machine. Internal opposition to the project was so strong that it was shifted in its entirety to Sony Music so that development could continue unhindered.

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Read More... ]]> Game Industry Press releases FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100187 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100186&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:14:25 GMT Electronic Arts has announced that Need for Speed World, it's free-to-play (as of today) online racing title has now passed 1 million registered users.

Additionally the publisher has confirmed that it will continue to support the title in the upcoming months with new features and content, including cars, customisation options, a new region and co-op mode.

"Need for Speed fans have played a critical role in making Need for Speed World a success," said John Doyle, senior producer on the game. "Fan feedback has helped shape every aspect of the experience - whether it's the creation of a new feature or improving polish and progression.

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Read More... ]]> Game Industry Press releases FA-RSSBot http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100186 http://www.furious-angels.com/showthread.php?t=100185&goto=newpost Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:14:25 GMT Inensu, a new gaming start-up, was officially launched this morning - headed up by former SingStar producer and Atari development director Paulina Bozek.

The "micro-studio" will focus initially on games for web and iPhone, with its first project due "before the end of the year".

Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz in an exclusive interview, Bozek said: "We're working on the next generation of social games for web and mobile. We have two projects in progress; we're going back to our roots and working on a new music game/platform."

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