More Problems at nVIDIA

Just when things start to look good at nVIDIA,
another blast of Bad News to the Video Card Maker.

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Source:
http://www.engadget.com/
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Figuring out which NVIDIA GPUs are defective...
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According to ENGADGET:

"..it looks like basically every Geforce 8600M and 8400M chip is affected..."

That's not good news for NVIDIA, which has been saying that only "previous-generation" chips were problematic --

This is Not Good for nVidia and maybe even Apple's switch to the nVidia Chipset for their "New" Macbooks.
(see my blog titled: Apple Switch Graphic Horses in Mid-Stream?)


Wingman

Casio's NEW SAT Tuned Wristwatch

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Insides of
Casio's Oceanus and G-Shock
series Timespieces
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Source:
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http://www.engadget.com/
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What you see above is Designed to slip inside Casio's Oceanus and G-Shock series of timepieces, the new movement "features a high shock resistance and a hand position correction function using LED."

During the 55th minute of each hour, the movement receives time calibration signals from six bases located throughout the world; if the hands are off at all, it automatically corrects things to ensure that you're never a moment off.

Available in Japan
in September for $390.

Wingman winging it.

Apple Switch Graphic Horses in Mid-Stream?

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Past, Present and Possible Future for MacBooks
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AppleInsider is following the story about possible changes to the MacBook Graphic boards from Intel to Nvidia.

And with the recent problems at Nvidia with AMD's ATI video cards dropping their high-end cards to bargain basement prices this is sorely welcome at Nvidia.

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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/28/apples_next_gen_macs_to_have_something_special_under_the_hood.html

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Like I say so frequently:

Competition IS Good !!!

Wingman out.

WAKE-UP CALL for California

Remember the Boy Scout Motto: BE PREPARED!!!

Earthquke related sites:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/US2/33.35.-119.-117.php

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Maps/special/California_Nevada_eqs.php

After yesterday's Wake Up Call for Southern California in Chino Hills, the Real Necessity to be Ready for the BIG ONE is a friendly reminder.

The Great Southern California ShakeOut

November 12–16, 2008

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http://www.shakeout.org/
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The Great Southern California ShakeOut is a week of special events featuring the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history, organized to inspire Southern Californians to get ready for big earthquakes, and to prevent disasters from becoming catastrophes. These activities are based on the ShakeOut Scenario, a realistic portrayal of what will happen in a southern San Andreas earthquake.

Breaking News: MW 5.4 Earthquake in Chino Hills, CA
http://quake.wr.usgs.gov/recenteqs/Quakes/ci14383980.htm


For the TECH centric:
During yesterdays quake
Cell Phone usage (according to one carrier)
SPIKED 700 percent

Wingman out.

Google has Competition? Maybe.

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Google has Competition?
Maybe NOT.
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It seems there's usually two sides to every story (on Network News-4-6).
Here's the CUIL (the new search engine invading Google's Domain) SIDES:

the INQUIRER's verdict of CUIL: Cuil is Not so Cool. http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/29/cuil-pants

...and REALTECHNEWS asks:
Is Cuil Cool Enough to Take on Google?
http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/5904

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And Speaking about Two Sides to Every Story:

HP says: XP is Still Killing Vista in Sales Volume:
http://apcmag.com/xp_still_killing_vista_in_sales_volume_hp.htm

Microsoft says: 180 million Vista licenses now sold. http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/07/18/three-months-later-180-million-vista-licenses-sold-in-total

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Where does the Truth LIE? (pun intended).
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And in honor (kinda), of Tarantino's
upcoming Movie introduction

"Hell Ride" (mid August 08),
here's a museum right up your Route 66:

New Harley-Davidson Museum:
http://www.wired.com/cars/coolwheels/multimedia/2008/07/pl_motor

The Story about the movie also came from WIRED (my Favorite mag).

Wingman: On the Road Again.

BATMAN Banks 300 MILL! Holy Box Office !!!

Batman break 300 million in 10 days,

X-files come in Fourth with barely 10+ million.
Scoop at the
Hollywood Reporter:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/index.jsp
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On the Heels of The Dark Knight's Box Office Dominance: Mplayer for Windows?

Elephants Dream playing on Mplayer


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Yes, The Award Winning
Open Source Movie Player
MPLAYER

is Now Available for Windows.
Get it while it's HOT
Here:

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http://www.freewarefiles.com/MPlayer-For-Windows---_program_21340.html
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I just recently switched over to Mplayer on Linux, being a long time supporter of Videolan (also known as VLC).

You know the one with the caution cones as an icons like the ones above.

Anyway, lately VLC has not been playing Nice with my recent upgrade to Fedora 8 and 9 (desktop, laptop) so I tried Mplayer and found out quite alot has changed since I first used it. many years ago.

And speaking of changes in programs, I also recently switched from Amarok music player to Banshee music player and I'm very happy with it as well.

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And of Course, the Dark Knight is
STILL breaking every
Box Office record in History.
Approaching 300 million
in 10 Days???
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And the critics were right about
Heath Ledger as "The Joker".

He was mesmorizing.

Wingman Out.

X-Files: The Movie Part 2

It's been way too many X-Days since the last X-Files movie hit the big screen with a "Thud".


The hit TV show that easily produced a "Movie" quality story-line week after week, with their monster-of-the-week just hit the right spooky note.

But it appears that stretching that hour to two hours loses something. Maybe it's the tightness of the hour format. Or maybe it was the size of the screen.

Close and personal.

Let's hope this offering delivers part of that elusive magic.

I Want to Believe.

Apple iPhone: No turn-by-turn navigation? Wait a Minute..

iPhone 2.1 beta.

Baby J is barely a week-plus and out comes iPhone 2.1 beta. It seems the GPS that many called: Weak has been punched up. Along with the GPS enhancement comes a "taste" of background Push notification service.



AppleInsider has the Scoop:

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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/24/apple_seeds_iphone_2_1_with_directional_gps_push_notification.html
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Wingman tracking Apple's Apps...

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after thoughts:
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Yesterday's Mac Break Weekly 99: Free the Fruits

Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Arnold Kim, and Andy Ihnatko

http://thisweekintech.com/mbw

Arnold Kim is from MACRUMORS
http://www.macrumors.com/

Wingman: Now I'm Done..

MacBook Rumor Mill Cranking UP...

On Monday, Apple finance chief Peter Oppenheimer, turned the machine on with:

The rumour mill has further been fuelled by Apple finance chief Peter Oppenheimer in the company's recent quarterly conference call, on Monday.

"We are working to develop new products that contains technologies that our competition will not be able to match. I cannot discuss these new products, but we are very confident in our product pipeline," said trumpeted.

The source said the product should arrive before the end of October.

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Link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/24/macbook-touch-horizon

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That was followed by some pretty "Snappy Apple" Numbers on Wall Street:

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Good Apple Numbers
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During the third quarter, the company shipped 2,496,000 Macintosh computers,
11,011,000 iPods and sold 717,000 Iphone units.

According to Steve Jobs:

Apple "is busy finishing several more wonderful new products to launch in the coming months."

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Link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/22/record-results-apple
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Macbook Touch ???
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An informer for Macdailynews has come out with a variety of claims about a new device.

These include talk of a Macbook-sized screen in Iphone-like glass, with fully-featured multi-touch on Mac OS X.

Apparently, he believes this is why the company bought P.A. Semi - and the device may include Immersion's haptic technology which may allow tactile feedback, among other new touch-screen features.

Similarly to the Iphone, the device is purported to contain GPS, a DVD-RW drive and an accelerometer. It will be App-Store compatible, yet able to run standard Mac applications.

Apparently, the same informer has spoken to Macdailynews previously concerning over products tip-bits and has got the information right.

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Link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/24/macbook-touch-horizon
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And another "KICK" of The Rumor Mill Machine
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Apple plans mystery "product transition" before September's end

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link: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/07/21/apple_plans_mystery_product_transition_before_septembers_end.html
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Wingman, watching the Mill-Bits Fall...

Details of DNS Flaw Leaked

DNS HOLE

"Despite Dan Kaminsky's efforts to keep a lid on the details of the critical DNS vulnerability he found, someone at the security firm Matasano leaked the information on its blog yesterday..."

Wired story:
Link: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/details-of-dns.html

This is Serious.

Even Steve Gibson on Security Now! will devote a couple of episodes of his podcast to discuss the details of the flaw AFTER Kaminsky presents it at Blackhat.


I heard about this lAST WEEK and new that ISP providers, Microsoft, Apple, Google and Yahoo were working behind the scenes to quickly PATCH the Hole.

More Info will be coming following Kamingsky's presentation at Black Hat this week.

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CAT 1 Dolly
heading toward Texas Coast....(landfall around 8:00)

Reuters has the Full Scoop:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dolly22-2008jul22,0,2504307.story?track=rss

Wingman out.

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Disney's Wall-E for $249

Yep, You can have you very OWN Wall-E TOY

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Pre-order remote-controlled Disney's Wall-E for $249
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http://www.engadget.com/
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Fedora 8 INSTALLED !!!

Using the Swiss Army Knife BILLIX installer I network installed Fedora 8.

Sweet.

Now I just have to Tweak it to my Preferences.

Happy-Happy Wingman out.

Fedora's Loving Arms

After a rough weekend without my favorite Linux Distro Fedora, as in FC-6,
I'm back Baby...
I'm Back!

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Current Top Headlines
That I Find Interesting...
(DailyRotation.com)
http://www.dailyrotation.com/
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Sandisk:Windows Vista Not optimized for Solid State Drives (news.cnet)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-9996317-64.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

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Intel Slices Core 2 Duo Price (extremetech)
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2326213,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

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Watching Live-TV On Your Ubuntu Desktop with Zattoo (May 2008)(RootPrompt)
(only available in Certain Coutries...)
Didn't Sean Connery play Zatto in a Sci-Fi Movie???
Green because the X-Files Movie will be Out This WEEK...

http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=11614
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/watching-live-tv-on-your-ubuntu-desktop-with-zattoo.html

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Wingman retweaking Fedora Core 6...
Upgrading to Fedora 8, Real-Soon-Now...

A Dash Of ???? LIME?

Limestone

Scientists think they have found a workable way to cut CO2 levels back to pre-industrial levels.

How?

Simple, add Lime to Seawater.

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Story from physorg.com

http://www.physorg.com/news135820173.html

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Also, another excellent podcast over at Semi-Coherent Computing (deals with Big Boxes) which is at: www.theregister.com, with an interview with Standford Professor Kunie Olukolun on Muti-Threads and Multi-Cores.

The Professor was part of the team that worked on Sun Microsystems, SPARC ONE.


This was top-notched podcasting...

Wingman out.

It's Time to S###-Can Flash Player!!!

Google, Listen up! Flash Player is a Proprietary Landmine, and it's time to CAN this internet video player that thinks it's Microsoft, the early years.

Let's stop using video that is Only Flash Compatible. You Tube was important because you could play it with anything.

Limit the Playing Field and you Limit the Game.

When you consider that Linux is the OS that powers over 80 % of the High Performance Computers, it's time to strike back against proprietary backwater drones.

Computer Mouse: DEAD!

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Say Goodsbye to the Computer Mouse..

Goodbye!
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A recent article by a Gartner analyst, says the days of the computer mouse are numbered.

The inroads of the Touchscreen (ala iPhone and HP TouchSmart IQ 770 PC) and the growing popularity of the Air-Mouse device for Nintendo's Wii called the Wii-mote, is changing the playing field 3 Dimensionally.

iPhone HP ======================= TouchSmart IQ 770 PC

Hackinthebox Link:

http://www.hackinthebox.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=27496


Wingman grieving the demise of mickey

Another Linux Format Magazine, Another DISTRO

(Note: Not the current issue.)

The July Issue of Linux Format magazine, a British publication, came with a dual sided DVD which contained UBUNTU 8.04 : Hardy Heron LTS and on the flip-side: Mandriva One 2008:Spring.

Being a long time fan of LINUX FORMAT (I get a copy almost every month at BN booksellers),

I've gotten a ton of Linux Distributions this way. Why an American company can't seem to do the same is beyond me.

A full PC Operating System (again, this month: two) for the price of a very good magazine about Linux, the Open Source Oprerating System.

The DVD jacket cover says:

Includes Gnome, KDE and Xfce
Live distro: try without installing
64-bit and Server ISO images

And that's just on one side !!!

Okay, let's read between the lines and see what just the dvd cover is telling us.

LTS means Long Term Support. This Distro, which is Rock-Solid, will have Security Updates for Three Years!

The Triad: Gnome, KDE and Xfce means it comes with 3 choices for the Desktop.

Also include is the 64 bit version and The Server ISO.

As Patrick Norton of Tekzilla would say:

"So much Good Stuff!"

I agree Patrick, I Hardily (as in Heron), agree.

Wingman out

Nintendo: Wii Wii Wii at E3

Nintendo Wii Console
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/15/nintendo-announces-deluge
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As in WiiSPORTS, WiiSPEAK and WiiMUSIC, all our Bases belong to Wii.. Okay that's pushing it, but of the Big 3: Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo, Nintendo Showed them, they're not going to give up the number 1 Console Status they have achieved with their Wii console.

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In other News:

Apple iPhone sold 1 million iPhone G3's and 10,000,000 apps...
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Later Today: Three Important E3 Keynotes!

The Giants of the Video Games Industry
gather in Los Angeles this Week for the E3 conference,
and all sights are set on the mass market.

Nintendo's WII Factfile (BBC):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6155664.stm

http://wii.com/

Sony's Playstation 3 Factfile (BBC):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6132212.stm

http://www.playstation.com/

Microsoft's Xbox 360 Factfile (BBC):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7500387.stm

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/

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Live Coverage of Keynotes at:

http://www.engadget.com/
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Monday, July 14th
~10:00AM PT / 1:00PM ET - Live from Microsoft's E3 2008 keynote

Tuesday, July 15th
~8:30AM PT / 11:30AM ET - Live from Nintendo's E3 2008 keynote

~11:300AM PT / 2:00PM ET - Live from Sony's E3 2008 keynote

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Yes, there IS Life after the Apple iPhone G3 debacle of the last few days.

E3 Opens Today.

Let's give Thanks for a Deep breath of Fresh Gamey Air..

Wingman recuperating...slowly.