Geek Bazaar

Firefox Mobile Concept Video from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.

Seems like parallel programming is getting practical now. With 240 stream processors coming in new graphics cards… seems like programmers should start looking in this niche  programming as well.

More details: http://cudacontest.nvidia.com/index.cfm?action=contest.contest&contestid=2

http://www.slipperybrick.com/2008/05/iphone-runs-windows-vista-kinda/

Super Pii Pii Brothers of Japan have breached the gender barrier by introducing a new video game that allows anyone to strap on and control a never ending stream of urine with your Wii remote control.

Confused whether you’re gonna get a Wii or PS3? This will help you decide

Deputy Director of Homeland Security, Dr. Kenneth Shoto today announces a
call to cyber-ninjas everywhere to sign up for his annual fight-to-the-death
qualifying competition for the Defcon Capture the Flag (CtF) contest. The
qualifying competition will start at 10PM on Friday, May 30th and end at
10PM on Sunday, June 1st.

More here… http://kenshoto.com/

Hail to ubersmart packager, who thinks to know cryptography…
http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/05/13/1533212.shtml
“Debian package maintainers tend to very often modify the source code of the package they are maintaining so that it better fits into the distribution itself. However, most of the time, their changes are not sent back to upstream for validation, which might cause some tension between upstream developers and Debian packagers. Today, a critical security advisory has been released: a Debian packager modified the source code of OpenSSL back in 2006 so as to remove the seeding of OpenSSL random number generator, which in turns makes cryptographic key material generated on a Debian system guessable. The solution? Upgrade OpenSSL and re-generate all your SSH and SSL keys. This problem not only affects Debian, but also all its derivatives, such as Ubuntu.”

Remove RNG seeding! WTF was he thinking!

If you want a super-light laptop, you have to pay for it, and you have to use Windows. That’s been the (frustrating) conventional wisdom—at least until late last year, when the Taiwanese company Asus rolled out the Eee PC (pronounced as though it were a single long “e”), a two-pound, seven-inch laptop starting at a mere $300. The tradeoff: It comes with just two to eight gigabytes of flash memory instead of a conventional, larger hard drive, and a simplified Linux operating system that essentially is usable only for e-mail, Web browsing and typing.

<edit> forgot to mention that Logicpass is advertising it on Bay Radio (2Gb Model €385 (€323.40 with Government subsidy) weighs in less than 1Kg

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Take a look at this demo called Phun — damn, I wish we had these learning tools when I was doing my O-level. By the way its a free download… physics lessons the best way possible!

The sort of thing I really feel like playing atm !

Facebreakers

Tired of your family running behind you to fix their home pc problems? Because I deleted this, I deleted that and this is not working? GOS looks very cool and OS + PC are being sold for $199. Haven’t read much about it but it seems good for most of my cousins and co., perhaps one day I’ll get rid of them! Anyone ever heard of GOS or tried it out?

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirates-dilemma-080314/

I usually make use of Process Explorer by Sysinternals (now Microsoft) for this. Click on “System” which is under “System Idle Process” and make sure that the lower pane is showing dlls. This can be done by using the shortcut Ctrl+D. Then on the lower pane you get the drivers that were loaded by the system.

This can be especially useful when checking a machine that is thought to be infected by a Windows rootkit / backdoor.

Describes itself as “SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver for OS X and Windows that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. A haunting live soap opera.”

I’m the latest Mac OS X user Very interesting concept and on a dual screened mac you get to watch a different camera on each screen. voyeur w00t =)

Go get it

From this version (release candidate)

you can integrate web browser/html into this 3d world.

Sample from my land:

It still has its limitation but integration has been started!

Lets hope missing 2D(html) in 3D(SL) world will be done right.

Oh yes .. the code is out. (This is the firewire  hack)

More here.