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September 30, 2006

XboxMediaCenter 2.0.0 - Released!

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 12:00 am

Team-XBMC and The XBMC Project is proud to announce the release of XboxMediaCenter 2.0.0. XBox Media Center (XBMC) is an award winning, free, open source media player for the Xbox� game-console.

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September 26, 2006

Intel pledges 80 cores in five years.

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 5:01 pm

CEO Paul Otellini reveals plans at IDF to ship a “teraflop” processor around the end of decade with 80 cores.

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September 23, 2006

Digg Founders Plot Internet TV Takeover

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 10:39 pm

The Wired News office received an invitation to attend a special event next Tuesday, September 26 hosted by Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose of Digg.com and David Prager of Revision3. There’s going to be an announcement at the event about Digg and Rev3’s plans for a new internet TV venture.

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IEEE restarts Mobile Broadband Wireless Access working group

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 10:19 pm

The 802.20 standard has been under development since late 2002, but the going has been slow, to say the least. In June, things got so bad that the IEEE SASB brought work to a screeching halt due to concerns that development had stalled because of political infighting

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Navy retires F-14, the coolest of cold warriors

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 10:17 pm

Today the Navy holsters the F-14 Tomcat, the top gun in its Cold War arsenal and one of the most recognizable warplanes in history.

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Leo Laporte proposes using the term “netcast” instead of “podcast”

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 10:09 pm

Well-known podcaster Leo Laporte isn’t happy with the term “podcast,” particularly in light of Apple’s recent trademark claims. His suggestion? Call them “netcasts” instead. “It’s a little clearer that these are broadcasts over the Internet. It’s catchy and even kind of a pun.”

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Beta version of new NVIDIA Linux driver with AIGLX support available!

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 10:07 pm

The beta version of the 9xxx series of drivers for Linux is available from NVIDIA now. Time to start testing AIGLX on NVIDIA!

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September 18, 2006

See Images From Nearby Wifi Traffic!

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 12:36 am

Driftnet is a program which listens to network traffic and picks out images from TCP streams it observes. Fun to run on a host which sees lots of web traffic.

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September 11, 2006

Virtual Users/Domains With Postfix/Courier/MySQL + Antispam/virus [Fedora]

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 10:08 pm

This howto describes how to install a Postfix mail server with virtual users and domains in a MySQL database. I will also describe the configuration of Courier so that Courier can authenticate against the same MySQL DB. This howto also covers the installation of Amavisd, SpamAssassin and ClamAV so that emails will be scanned for spam and viruses.

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September 10, 2006

How to Configure OpenVPN

Filed under: tech — zeb @ 12:35 am

OpenVPN may seem a little daunting at first, but once you get your feet wet this can be an incredibly useful (and free!) tool. In this article, Michael Riley shows you how to use OpenVPN for secure internet surfing on your client PCs.

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