2005.09.02
why I don't use Yahoo's IM client
Yahoo IM Users get more than they bargained forjust like RealPlayer they try to load all kinds of crap..
Thank goodness I found K-Codec pack a while ago... it packages "all" of the codecs you need w/o loading all the other annoyances and crap you'd normally get (e.g., like also Quicktime: hey! you wanna upgrade to Pro??? no.. Did I want to the last 14 times you've asked? just play the damn movie..)
There are other codec packs so I don't know if it's the best and I'm not 100% sure if the above link is the "official" one (there are a few others: codecguide.com, k-litecodecpack.com), but it's nice not to have to worry about what junk Real has installed and reinstalls everytime it runs.
If you're just worried about RealPlayer, there is Real Alternative; similarly there is QuickTime Alternative..
Wherever you get these alternative codec packs from, I would definitely scan for spyware or virii.. just in case; and do some manual checking of your own of your startup settings (both the folder(s) and registry); and even under Services.
Posted by kn0w1 at 12:58
2005.06.03
a whole ton o' stuff
A ton of interesting links (if only at the time), I've accumulated and not had time to post..
and posting here.... umm.. just because? easier to search/find? i dunno ...
2005.03.07
- AMD jokeys with Intel in software stakes
- NVIDIA® Expands Comprehensive Toolkit for Game Developers
- World's Sleekest 3D-Gaming Phone Powered by ATI
- The Story Behind Cell Phone Radiation Research
- Privateer Remake Complete
- OSS Unix: Dividing & Conquering Itself
- WinFS to be available in WinXP
- Captive: The first free NTFS read/write filesystem for GNU/Linux
- access Reiser3 from Windows:
- World's First Physics Processing Unit
- Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD
- MiniMo(zilla) Running on Windows Mobile
- Plextor PVRs Now Support Linux
- Mount St. Helens Shoots Steam, Ash
- Long-awaited BitTorrent 4.0 Released
- The CELL revisited
- Ergodex DX1
- KY high school arrested, 2nd degree felony; zombies
- Sex I.D. test
- DriverHeaven.net
- ATI Catalyst 5.3 released
- DH Editorial: Petes Open Source: "Gaming on Linux"
- DH Review: Creative Zen Micro
- AMD Athlon 3800+ Socket 939 64-bit CPU Review
- Pentium-M to get 64-bit support, Extreme Edition
- AMD claims widespread support for dual cores
- Gnome 2.10 released
- Multi-meter vs. Motherboard: A Study of Voltage Readings
- Understanding Modern Flat-Panel Technologies
- Slashdot
- Would you pay 5 cents for a song?
- Israeli Army Frowns on D&D
- Mario and Link get their Stars on Walk of Game
- U.S. Approves IBM/Lenovo Sale
- Science: UK Doctors Cure Type 1 Diabetes
- Gnome 2.10 released
- Linux: Spain Prepares for 14,000-user Linux Installation - Health Service of Extremadura, Spain, IBM, $33.8M USD/4yr
- Science: Stars have a Weight Limit
- Terra Soft offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives - "Note that this is about booting a Macintosh into Linux, not running Linux on the iPod."
- Forbes Lists Top Corporate Hate Web Sites
- Consumer Data Stolent from LexisNexis
- GDC 2005: Black & White 2
- First look at ATI's dual graphics solution, RD-400
- Gainward CoolFX SLI Graphics
- The Quest for More Processing Power, Part Two: "Multi-core and multi-threaded gaming"
- Torvalds switches to Apple
- Clearing up the HDTV picture
- The chronicles of a futile battle: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD
- AT&T ready to trial wireless (WiMax) broadband
- CompUSA forced to pay overdue rebates
- Star Trek Online first details
- Dual Core CPUs and Unreal Engine 3.0
- Flash Kung Fu
- Why Britney Spears Hates HDTV
- (Macrovision) Study Shows Rampant Console Piracy - well, of course Macrovision's study shows rampant piracy.. what other kind of piracy is there for a company that sells "copy protection"..
- AOL to Modify AIM Terms of Service - kinda funny watching the damage control
- And "Video Game Makers Finally Have Chance to Raise Their Prices" is not what we need to "help" piracy ... What's everyone's #1 excuse for piracy (music/games/software), it costs too damn much ($18/$50/$100s)
- J2SE 5.0 Update 2.0
- Verizon Confirms FiOS Access
- Flat-Screen Makers Face Patent Lawsuits in U.S. - here we go again.. wait 'til something has taken off then claim to have patents on the idea...
- How to Install Linux v1.0 on PlayStation 2
- WinOS + QEMU + Knoppix 3.8 = WinKnoppix!
- Red Hat Fedora Core 4 Test 1 Now Available
- Apple Developing Two-Button Mouse
- So TV dinners are good for you??
- EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable
- Blizzard bans a gold rush
- System Shock Remake - PlanetDOOM
- Star Wars Revelations - May the Force Be With You!
- Sony revamping PSX with PSP connectivity
- The Long Tail
- ViewSonic announces 4ms LCD monitors
- Game Creators Going (for) Broke
- New consoles promise big problems
- Logitech MOMO Racing Wheel
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil Preview
- We Got Next - Part Three (Xbox)
- Chip industry straining at the limits of technology
- Hitachi Unveils Humanoid Robot (with wheeled feet)
- Google's X Files Vanish
- World of Warcraft: 1.5 million and counting
- Sega opens up Phantasy Star Universe (to PS2 and PC)
- Spell with flickr bluesnews
- Intel ready to ship dual-core processors
- Microsoft yielding to IE standards pressure?
- Internet security takes a hit (hashes not as secure as previously thought)
- Starcraft: Ghost going multiplayer?
- Lucas to Redo Star Wars in 3-D
- Microsoft Fails to Comply with EU Requrements
- Buying DRM-Free Songs from the iTMS
- Tracking GPL Violators
- Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 8.0
- McAfee flaw leaves users wide open
- 2D Sidescroller, SoldatUT, Released
- CliffyB on GDC
- Onliner gamer stabbed over 'stolen' cybersword
- Better Light's E-HS digital backs: 144 megapixels for $9,495
- Girl Calls 911 After Parents Killed
- Woman Challenges North Carolina's Cohabitation Law
- Cops Seek Two Women in Fetus Theft
- Wasp and Hornet Control
- Lithium ion battery recharges in one minute
- The State of 3D: ATI and NVIDIA, 1H 2005
- Chipmakers push ahead with new tech
- Interview with Mark Cuban About Grokster
- Firefox Hacks (book review)
- Wordpress stuns supports with unexpected fund raising practices
- Pop-up TiVo
- P2P v. Big Content: Opening arguments in the Supreme Court case to watch
- An interview with the creator of Scorched Earth, Wendell T. Hicken : Page 1
- IBM launches formal initiative to push Cell beyond gaming
- Windows 2003 SP1 released, 64-bit on its way, Exchange 12 next year
- World of Warcraft Performance Guide - Nebu on 3/31/05: The technology website Anandtech has posted an extensive hardware performance guide for World of Warcraft.
- Google Gulp!
- World of Bookkeeping
- iTreoPod
- Blizzard Teams with Pandaren Xpress - Indoflaven on 4/01/05: Blizzard Entertainment, in conjunction with the Pandaren Xpress® chain of quality restaurants, is proud to announce the /panda program! Don't let the inconvenience of eating impede you from reaching your Maximum Gaming Potential! Click here to read more!
- MGM Concedes Some Fair-Use Rights Exist
- IRC on the PSP
- San Francisco Attempts to Regulate Blogging
- Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.12 (Cat 5.2)
- E-mail worm graduates to IM
- DRIV3R Demo
- New Empire Earth 2 Demo
- Adobe Unveils Photoshop CS2, Entire New Creative Suite
- Black Holes 'Do Not Exist,' Contends Physicist
- Cartoon Network's 1st Original 'Toonami' Series
- Ruby on Rails Showdown with Java Spring/Hibernate
- New Technique for Tracking Web Site Visitors
- The Rocky TiVo-DirecTV Relationship
- Gigapixel Tapestries & Gigadecimal Pi
- BloodRayne bites into PSPs
- Hollenshead confirms Quake IV for QuakeCon X, talks next gen
- Microsoft Using Immersion to Undermine Sony? (shacknews.com)
- No Merit to 'Dumb' Suit, Court Says (bluesnews.com)
- Biologists Discover Why 10 Percent of Europeans are Safe from HIV Infection (bluesnews.com)
- What a Little Moon Dust can do (bluesnews.com)
- Feds Hack Wireless Network in 3 Minutes
- Firefox Improves Pop-Up Ad Blocking
- Jon Johansen Interviewed
- NVIDIA nForce 4 SLI Intel Edition Launched
- Google Adds Satellite Imagery to Maps
- Colorado May Allow Cities to Provide Wifi
- Linux + Sci-fi + Detroit = Penguicon
- Microsoft Using Immersion to Undermine Sony?
- Eidos unveils new Lara Croft
- flawed JavaScript engine: Firefox, Mozilla Exposes [random] Data
- Sony Patents Matrix-like Game Technology
- PSP Hacks and the Mainstream
- CherryOS Goes Open Source
- Daylight Savings Change Proposed
- Spy vs. Spy screens
- an interesting blog entry ... 'bow n*****' - you go dude
- ATI Catalyst 5.4 released
- Half a million PSP sold in first two days - or so they say.. depending how they figure it..
- Next Gen Oxyride Batteries Coming Soon
- Congress Ponders Opening up iTunes DRM - as one commenter pointed.. why (pick on) iTunes? why not (pick on) Windows Media DRM?
- Google Delivering Factual Answers
- Microsoft pays Gateway to go away
- VMWare Unveils Fifth Generation of Powerful Desktop Virtualization Software
- Media groups, ISPs side against Apple in dispute
- Painkiller: Gold Edition
- Xbox 2 to be Unveiled on MTV May 12
- Keyboards are Havens for Super Bugs
- EA Signs College Football License Deal (also on shacknews.com)
- Experimental Transistor Breaks 600 Gigahertz
- Book Review: Google Hacking for Penetration Testers
- Run Two 30" Apple Cinema Displays on PC
- ISPs in Argentina Must Log Everything
- Firefox and Opera fail Acid2 Test
- The Complicated Way to Turn on a Flashlight
- Mapping Google News
- Remote-Controlled Files
- Microsoft Research on Stopping Spam
- New York Computerizes Its Subway System
- ATI Proprietary Linux FireGL/Radeon Drivers 8.12.10 released (2005.04.07)
- IBM, Sanyo To Develop Fuel Cell System for Notebooks
- Miranda IM 0.4
- Need for Speed: Most Wanted announced
- Project: Snowblind demo
- Ghost Recon 2 for PC cancelled
- Psychonauts demo
- More In-game Ads
- Elder Scrolls IV Q&A
- Dungeon Siege 2 Previews
- FoxTrot try GOD_MODE ...
- jedi knight: jedi academy final fantasy vii advent children weapons final mod
- Experimental Gameplay Project - I like Tower of Goo
- counter-strike: source de psp map
- GIMPshop
- Sanswire Networks, LLC
- DIY PSP USB charger cable
- GameSpy Review: The Matrix Online
- Computer games can slow aging of mind
- Ultimate Test of Recordable DVD Media Discs
- PSP processor capped
- Intel Intros Affordable WiMax Chip (also /.)
- THX and Microsoft Announce THX Best Practices Laboratory for Windows Media
- Adobe purchases Macromedia for 3.4B USD
- World: 50 Years After Einstein's Death, His Discoveries Still Matter
- Gene Therapy Corrects Hemophilia in Mice and Dogs
- hahaha, wow: PSP as Home Remote Control
- Gamestop buys EB
- Midnight Club 2: MODern Edition Released
- Skype spruces up with premium services
- It's Moore's Law, but another had the idea first
- Sirius nabs Martha Stewart ... whoopty freakin' doo
- AMD to star in Dreamworks' films
- Liquid-filled chips cool like mini-fridges
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience announced
- World of Warcraft 1.4.0 patch released today
- Bandai to Ship UMD and DVD Discs Together [in Japan ... and we'll wait and see]; while i think it's cool, that's mostly because I have a PSP and it would be nice not to have to do the conversion myself and copy it to MS Duo.. but what if you don't have a PSP? why would you want to pay extra? I shouldn't think they'd want to bother with making 2 diff't boxes (1 with UMD, 1 without; even more if they do things like fullscreen or widescreen or special platinum extended director's edition)
- Federal Grant Applications to Require Windows (for their stupid PureEdge viewer)
- DMCA Prevents Photoshop Support of Nikon [D2X] Camera
- Why Must You Destroy the Industry, PSP? -- somebody put waaay too much time into this :P
- ATI Launches Industry's Fastest Integrated DirectX 9 Chipset for Intel Notebook PCs (Radeon® Xpres™ 200M)
- Nvidia cards more popular for HL2
- Ballmer grins and bears Linux--a little
- Skeletons on your hard drive
- Verizon's salvo on cable TV
- Playboy offers free pics for your PSP, CNET, Playboy
- Serious Sam II announced
- You got game, Charlie Brown!, gamespot
- More Freedom for DVD Players?
- Gamespy: PC: Fighting Game Frenzy
- Namco collection coming to US PSPs; Screenshots
- Sims 2 coming to consoles, handhelds, and mobiles
- Prey confirmed, developer revealed
- shacknews: Sony's Station Exchange - Sony Online Entertainment has announced it is starting Station Exchange, an official auction service for EverQuest 2. ... More about why and how can be found here.
- shacknews: Creating the Language within Jade Empire
- shacknews: ATI to Launch New Mobile GPU (M28PRO)
- Hynix, DOJ reach memory price-fixing settlement; also /. -- nice, and this is the RAM that my laptop came with too
- Nikon's photo encryption reported broken (CNET)
- Sony, Toshiba discuss [next-gen] DVD standard (CNET, /.)
- Concert to be Performed from Beyond the Grave -- well, they signal processed a recording into a MIDI file and are having an expensive Yamaha piano play the file ...
- New Bill would Ban Public NOAA Weather Data
- Conan MMORPG in the works ... :P (screenshots on gamespy)
- More on IBM's Project Monterey and SCO
- AMD Dual-Core Performance Revealed
- Beyond Unreal: Unreal Championship 2 Concept Art
- shacknews: Empire Earth 2 Update Demo
- shacknews: Dungeon Siege II Hands-On Preview
- bluesnews: Gold - Guild Wars; also on gamespot, driverheaven, /., shacknews
- Graphics patent suit fires back at Microsoft
- C++ creator upbeat on its future
- Human Hibernation on the Horizon?
- Regulating the Sales of Videogames (CA)
- Deconstructing Stupidity - Why is IP Policy Bad?
- Soul Calibur III screens
- E-mails hurt IQ more than pot
- More on PSP Capping News
- PSPworld: Battlefield 2 coming to the PSP, PSP-spot
- PSP Gets Screen Maginifier
- UMDs being dumped?
- Logitech PlayGear Pocket Case Review
- Half-Life 2 Korin Bikini Model on GameSpot DLX
- First Ever Serious Sam 2 Screenshot
- Star Wars Battlefront II First Screens
- buncha stuff on /. the other day... (20050424)
- AIM for PSP
- Guide to Using PSP for Online Play
- Wal-mart Offers Custom Music CDs (4.62 w/ 3 songs, 0.88 each additional up to 20 (19.58))
- Real's New Rhapsody Adds File Sharing
- RealNetworks Rekindles iPod Tech Tussle
- Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill Demo
- Hellgate: London Preview
- PSP Maze Generator
- PSP ad-hoc distance pic
- Gentlemen, Start Your Droids
- Room-temperature, Small-scale Fusion at UCLA; duped 2005.04.28
- GoDaddy Usurps Network Solutions
- Looking at the Psychology Behind Games
- Wal-Mart Parody Site Censored by DMCA
- The Darth Vader Blog; also Yoda's and Boba Fett's
- Tomb Raider: Legend trailer
- Pariah Trailer Part #1, Part #2
- Valve and Vivendi Universal Games Settle Lawsuit (driverheaven, gamespot, beyondunreal)
- Net-powered computer goes on show (computer powered via it's network cable connection)
- Microsoft SafeDisc Windows XP Fix for Microsoft Games 1.0 (betanews)
- UT2004 mod: Interceptor Shield Update
- PSP Cyber External Battery
- Alien Swarm: Infested Announced (to be on HL2/Source engine)
- Battlefield 2 demo mid-June
- X3: Reunion Q & A - Single-player, Dynamic Campaign, Economy
- Risk Management - A Cautionary Tale (re: Comair/Delta xmas 2004 meltdown)
- No Need for Trek Anymore (Orson Scott Card)
- The Future of Windows Graphic Technology
- Red Hat Founder Offers Help in Apple vs Tiger[Direct] Lawsuit
- Changes to Functionality in Microsoft WIndows XP Professional x64 Edition
- ABC News, AtomFilms Offer PSP video
- After the Fever's Gone - Sony PSP's ultimate showdown (a post-launch hype review)
- Logitech Playgear Pocket skins (more here)
- Breakdown of the EB/GameStop Merger (shacknews; actual story on 1UP)
- Dungeons & Dragons Online E3 2005 Preshow Report
- Pariah accepted by stores
- SOE quest for real-life EQII heroine
- Live for Speed demo
- Call of Duty 2 Q&A - Story, Characters, Weapons, Vehicles, AI
- S.C.A.R. Demo - A S.C.A.R. (Squadra Corse Alfa Romeo) demo is now available, offering the chance to test drive the racing sim. The demo offers the chance to drive one of three Alfa Romeos on the Valenciana circuit, a country track, and a city track. The 192 MB download is available on the BlackBean Games Website, and mirrored on 3D Gamers, Gameguru Mania, and Worthplaying.
Source: Blues News - Half-Life 2: Substance mod patch 1.1 - Half-Life²:SUBSTANCE enhances the hl2 single player experience,John Woo style: new action oriented gamestyle, deadly challenges and extra gorish killings make it the best choice for HL² veterans who hunger for more replay value. Welcome to the real Substance,what the action is made of! (source)
- Digital cameras--stop them before they shoot again
- Serious Sam II Details
- Californian violent games bill voted down; Illinois bill passes
- High-brow graffiti leads to Web
- Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.25 (Cat 5.4)
- GamePC - Mobile CPU Showdown : P4 vs. P4EE vs. PM. vs. Athlon64
- Nero Recode converts for PSP; tutorial
- PSP Hacker: Text Viewer v0.2
- BBC News | Sci/Tech | Insects use lesbian ruse
- Toshiba Developing 45GB HD-DVD Disc; lame betanews article - "The 45GB capacity would eliminate Blu-ray's size advantage." ?? Blu-ray according to this article holds 50GB ...
- Longhorn Surprise: 'Red Screen of Death'
- Flickr + Maps(.google.com)
- Sony releases PSP security update patch
- Creative announces X-Fi audio processor
- Questionable E3 Booth - ?? uh, ok; about as questionable as America's Army, Rainbow Six, SWAT 4 ... but there are some "peaceful" games there so.. wtf, mate.
- Windows for you car! I know you can't wait ... Philips and Microsoft Finalize Software Deal
- /. Cassini Confirms New Moon of Saturn
- /. Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings
- /. Dutch Academics Declare Research Free-For-All
- /. Firefox Updated to 1.0.4 (Mozilla Suite was also updated to 1.7.8)
- /. Google Acquires Dodgeball ... ok?
- /. Microsoft Under Attack - Part 2 - "Part 2 of BBC's report on Microsoft at its 'most vulnerable moment in history' ..."
- /. New Edition of the Daedalus Project - "The Daedalus Project is an ongoing survey study of MMORPG players. ..."
- /. Cisco Confirms Arrest in Theft of Its Code
- /. 3rd Season of Red vs. Blue Concludes
- /. Massachusetts Drops Hammer on Spam Gang
- /. Xbox Unveiling Tonight on MTV - cool, but whoopity freakin' do about the celebs' reactions
- /. Safari vs. KHTML
- /. Firefox Promo Videos
- /. The Feasibility of Star Wars Tech
- /. Reverse Engineering MineSweeper
- /. Using Email Networks as P2P Spam Filters
- /. Winelib Hobbled by Exception-Handling Patent
- /. ah.. well, look just about everything was interesting today
- US Wipeout Pure Finally Gets Update [May 18]
- PSPOMag.com - internet PSP browser friendly magazine
- Daxter for PSP Videos
- SNES Emulator with Sound
- NCSoft Licenses Unreal Engine 3
- HP Will Offer Customized Linux in Notebooks
- Exploring Superstrings in the Lab
- Human Blood for Electrical Power
- Next Step in Human Evolution
- Several Critical MSIE Flaws Uncovered
- How-to - Flying Snakes
- PSP: Tetris Portable v0.2
- PSP Emulator for PC First Ever?
- PSP: Street Fighter Alpha 3 (working title)
- Blizzard buys Swingin' Ape
- Get to Know Mach, the Kernel of Mac OS X
- Excursions at the Speed of Light
- HS Students Steal SSNs to Prove They Can
- Space Weather Warning [after the fact?, so how much of a warning is that]
- HDTV creates new reality for game developers (unless you're working on Nintendo)
- Intel Discontinues Family of Intel Pentium-M, Celeron Chips
- Gamespy: Wipeout Pure Gets Download
- PSP: Homebrew on Firmware 1.5 ?
- /.: Game Boy Micro Announced
- BitTorrent Goes Trackerless
- /.: Blu-Ray DVDs Hit 100GB [4 layers]
- Upcoming loader to work with v1.5
- SNES9X for PSP v1.5 Demo Attempts
- How Not to Get Best Buy to Fix Your Broken TV
- New Catalyst 5.6 to give big boost to PC Games
- Dual-Core Duel: AMD Beats Intel
- Orson Scott Card Talks Advent Rising
- Advent Rising for Xbox ships
- Garnet Hertz - Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver [Project Documentation]
- Mom hires stripper for 16 year-old son's birthday party
- Morpheus put to sleep
- PSP Homebrew Guide and FAQ
- Sony tests anti-CD burning technology (and on /.)
- The Diganostic 'Bugbot' (also on driverheaven)
- Wired: AI Seduces Standford Students -- if you can call mimicry AI (thanks to treu)
- E46Fanatics - Coolest thing ever, Half-life in real life (thanks to treu again)
- Halo v1.07 hot-fix
- Google's Summer of Code, get $4500 (driverheaven, also on /.)
- Ubisoft's Defense Against the Dark Arts --er.. EA
- Mark Rein on Next-Gen, Rising Costs, and More (from BeyondUnreal)
- Battlefield 2 goes Gold
- Porn-friendly '.xxx' Domains Approved
- HOWTO Change Windows XP Home to Windows XP Pro
- Mmm... doughnuts ..
- How the Secret Service Busted ShadowCrew
- Carmack on Game Patents
- Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy: Princess Leia Model
- Trust in a Bottle
- Basics of Modern Intel CPUs
Posted by kn0w1 at 20:16
2003.03.14
mozilla 1.3
and there was much rejoicing.. (well, rejoicing anyway)
1.3 Release Notes
Slashdot | Mozilla.org Launches Mozilla 1.3 ( /. )
Posted by kn0w1 at 11:36
2002.10.11
mozilla
well, i downloaded the lastest nightly build (2002100920) and what do i see as i surf around?
yes! mozilla can finally show the details of the cookies it's asking you about.
it also seems to use the OS's widgets instead of its own now. [pic]
![[pic]](/kn0w1/imgs/mozilla_navigator.png){kind=link}
unfortunately, they also seem to have added theme version checking i guess because themes need to be compatible with certain versions of mozilla (as things may change, move around, get added, etc. etc.) so now they check to head off any interface problems that aren't mozilla's fault, but the themes, but people may thing it's mozilla's fault.
Posted by kn0w1 at 13:47