Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category
… probably went like this, since I’m too poor to actually become an ARS subscriber, I’ll just guess at what he said and be happy.
So fast forward from 1999, ten years ago, and suddenly pretty much every big “RISC” ISA except POWER has gone extinct. Alpha, MIPS, and SPARC is only a matter of time. [...]
In traditional Sony fashion, each new iteration of their consoles has less features. First it was HDD support with the PS2 Slim, now it’s SACD, backwards compatibility, and Linux support on the PS3 Slim. What’s next, PS3 games support?
Also, there seems to be a lot of talk on the net about how the hackers are [...]
Only just recently, K-ON-boot was released.
OK, so that was kon-boot. I’m hosted on an anime centric domain, after all.
Through the wonders of x86 assembly, this program (or bootloader, perhaps) allows a user to boot up a Linux/Windows install on hard disk in root user. All you need is access to the BIOS to change the [...]
As you might have guessed, they aren’t the best of friends. Bored to bits with the 20kb/s download of KAA’s Seikai no Monshou, I fired up my Octane and went to #kickassanime on irc.rizon.net with the aim of downloading the episodes that utorrent had least finished.
My Octane is butt slow. 300MHz MIPS R12000 slow, to [...]
In other words, almost 8 million USD.
That’s a whole lot of money, but I’m sure it’s just being used to cover the legal fees incurred by the media companies’ assault. The company is Global Gaming Factory X. The plan?
Their grand, surprising plan for the Pirate Bay is to pay content providers. Seriously.
And the Pirate Bay [...]
