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WASHINGTON – A solar flare erupted from the sun in an impressive display captured by NASA cameras, but scientists say the medium-sized event will have a minimal impact, if any, on Earth. The flare peaked early Tuesday and created a large cloud that appeared to cover almost half the surface of the sun, NASA said. A cloud of charged particles erupted from the sun's outer atmosphere and is expected to pass by Earth late Wednesday or early Thursday, causing a minor disruption to Earth's magnetic field, according to the National Weather Service's Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo. "This wasn't really such a big event," said Michael Hesse, chief of the space weather laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It was spectacular to watch, but not big in terms of hazards to the Earth." At most, the cloud that erupted from the sun may cause some brief interruptions to high-frequency radio communications, especially closer to the North and South poles, said Joe Kunches, a space scientist at SWPC. Some global positioning devices also may make tiny errors, he said. "It doesn't look like it's going to be a direct hit on the Earth," Kunches said. "It's going to be, if you use a baseball analogy, a little bit low and outside on the pitch." The aurora borealis also may be more visible Thursday or Friday night, he said. Images of the flare were recorded by an orbiting satellite called the Solar Dynamics Observatory. The photos and video were the most spectacular that the satellite has captured since it was launched last year, Hesse said. A much larger solar flare erupted Saturday, but NASA didn't capture images because it happened on the side of the sun opposite Earth, Hesse said. Scientists have been expecting an increase in solar activity because the sun is moving into a more volatile period of an 11-year cycle in which its magnetic field reverses its orientation. "The sun has woken up and is becoming more active as we approach the solar maximum," expected in 2013, Hesse said. Source: By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press -
NEW YORK – About 200,000 Citibank credit card customers in North America have had their names, account numbers and email addresses stolen by hackers who broke into Citi's online account site. Citigroup Inc. said it discovered that account information for about 1 percent of its credit card customers had been viewed by hackers. Citi has more than 21 million credit card customers in North America, according to its 2010 annual report. The New York-based bank, which discovered the problem during routine monitoring, didn't say exactly how many accounts were breached. Citi said it was contacting those customers. The bank said hackers weren't able to gain access to social security numbers, birth dates, card expiration dates or card security codes. That kind of information often leads to identity theft, where cyber criminals empty out bank accounts and apply for multiple credit cards. That can debilitate the finances and credit of victims. Citi customers could still be vulnerable other problems. Details about their bank accounts and financial information linked to them could be acquired using the email information and account numbers hackers stole. The Citi data breach was the latest in a series of recent high-profile data attacks against a number of major firms. --On June 1, Google Inc. said that the personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including senior U.S. government officials, military personnel and political activists, had been breached. --On May 30, broadcaster PBS confirmed that hackers cracked the network's website and posted a phony story claiming dead rapper Tupac Shakur was alive in New Zealand. --On May 28, defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. said it had detected a "significant and tenacious attack" against its computer networks. The company said it took swift and deliberate actions to protect the network and the systems remain secure. --In April, media and electronics company Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Network was shut down in April after a massive security breach that affected more than 100 million online accounts. --Also in April, hackers penetrated a network operated by a data marketing firm Epsilon. The company handles email communications for companies like Best Buy Co. and Target Corp. The number of data breaches in the last two months sets a "high water mark," said John Ottman, CEO of Application Security Inc., a New York-based firm that specializes in securing databases, the big repositories companies use to organize account information and other data. "Attackers have realized that most organizations have not properly protected databases," Ottman said. Cyber attackers have a variety of less-dangerous motivations, from mischief to online activism. For example, a group identifying itself as LulzSec claimed credit for the fake PBS article calling it retaliation for a documentary about WikiLeaks, the website that publishes classified documents. But often such data breaches are an attempt to steal personal data, which is likely the case with Citi. Hackers also will pose as legitimate companies in a tactic known as "phishing," where they try to get users to supply additional information like social security numbers and email or bank passwords to get access to their financial information. In an emailed statement, Sean Kevelighan, a spokesman for Citi said the bank is contacting affected customers and enhancing procedures to prevent a similar security breach from happening again. "For the security of these customers, we are not disclosing further details," he said. Source: PALLAVI GOGOI and KELVIN CHAN, AP Business Writers -
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Geoip goes in mod folder i.e. under /silent/ folder. Download from here means download from the attachment, attached to the post. You are welcome.
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Hello, SilEnT manual can be found in download package or from our website here: 1. You can either keep it in etmain or silent mod folder. Both should work fine. 2. Correct. 3. In the download package under etmain folder there is config called silent.cfg. You can use that one and change command line on your windows server to execute it i.e. instead of +exec server.cfg use +exec silent.cfg 4. Yes. 5. U can enable punkbuster by adding pb_sv_enable in server.cfg or silent.cfg (whichever you decide to use) or by adding +set sv_punkbuster 1 in command line. 6. It should be. Give it a try. If it doesn't work, post your pk3 here and I can look into it. 7. Download it from here. In next build, we will add it in package itself or probably give it separately in download package. 8. .so extension doesn't apply for windows. You need to use lua5.1.dll provided in package. Even if you upload any files with extension .so it will not do anything on windows server. They are linux executables. Let us know if you have anymore questions. GeoIP.zip
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BERLIN/HAMBURG (Reuters) – German ministers on Wednesday defended their response to the E.coli outbreak that has killed 24 people and signaled possible changes in the way the country handles health crises in the future. The German government has been criticized at home and around Europe for failing so far to pin down the cause of the outbreak that has stricken more than 2,700 people in 12 countries. All cases have been traced back to near Hamburg in northern Germany. About one third of E.coli patients in the latest outbreak have developed a severe complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome affecting the blood, kidneys and nervous system."The E.coli and HUS outbreak in Germany is so severe that we have to react very quickly to announce these recommendations and we still can't give the all-clear," said Health Minister Daniel Bahr, referring to warnings not to eat certain raw vegetables, such as bean sprouts but also cucumbers, tomato and lettuce. Criticism has focused on Germany hastily blaming imported Spanish cucumbers for the outbreak -- which it later withdrew -- and the lack of conclusive evidence that German-grown bean sprouts are indeed the source. Excessive bureaucracy at federal and state level has also been blamed for slow crisis response. Bahr said federal and regional health and food safety bodies would undertake an "immediate evaluation" of how they cooperate in what has looks like the deadliest ever outbreak of E.coli. The Robert Koch Institute, Germany's disease control body, reported an additional 318 E.coli-related cases on Wednesday and raised the death toll by three. "There will be new cases and unfortunately we have to expect more deaths, but the number of new infections is dropping significantly," Bahr said. Speaking at a news conference with EU health chief John Dalli and German health officials, Bahr said that a slowdown in the number of new infections was cause for "cautious optimism." But he conceded that the source of the outbreak may never be positively identified, as scientists have warned. EYE OF THE STORM Analysis of samples from restaurants, canteens and kitchens which prepared food where patients ate has failed to yield conclusive evidence for the theory that organic sprouts from a farm in the state of Lower Saxony were to blame. Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said officials were still tracking more cases linked to the bean sprout farm, where at least one worker is known to have contracted the bacteria and had to have part of her intestine removed in surgery. Dalli said the European Commission was convinced that the German investigation into the cause of the outbreak was heading in the right direction and defended the decision to issue health warnings on some vegetables, despite the impact on farmers. "The advice and information reported to the public domain can stand up to rigorous scrutiny," he said, adding that only once the outbreak is over should Germany start looking at reforms to its crisis management. "It's very different in the eye of the crisis," he said. "EPIDEMIC POLICE?" With the critical spotlight on the German federal system which divides responsibility for crisis response between state and central authorities, Bahr rejected calls for a national "epidemic police" and called this a "typical German" response. "This is not the right time, at the height of the outbreak, to talk about structural (reforms)," Bahr said, adding that authorities needed to see through their current mandates. The EU faces compensation costs of more than 150 million euros ($220 million) for farmers hit by plummeting sales of raw vegetables, after Germany first blamed cucumbers from Spain and other salad vegetables, and then German bean sprouts. The economic damage to Europe's farming industry -- with organic producers singled out for suspicion because they use manure rather than chemical fertiliser, putting crops more at risk of contamination -- could reach half a billion euros. A German organic producers' association said it was not enough to compensate farmers for under a third of their losses. Dalli advised Berlin to use the experience of countries which have dealt with E.coli outbreaks before. The United States and Japan have had similar deadly outbreaks linked to sprouts while it was a Chinese laboratory that used DNA sequencing technology to identify this E.coli outbreak as a new and "highly infectious and toxic" strain. Credit: Christiaan Hetzner and Jon Boyle Click here to view the article
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Today is World IPv6 Day, the day where some of the major internet companies around the globe switch to IPv6 to test out the new protocol and to see how their network configurations fare. The internet is set to fully run out of IPv4 addresses very, very shortly, so World IPv6 Day is an easy way to test IPv6 connections with a huge test user base (the entire internet population) and evaluate the effects of the switch. Popular internet sources such as Google, Facebook, Bing, YouTube, Yahoo and more have switched to using IPv6 before IPv4 to connect its users today, meaning both protocols will be in use. Despite this fact, around 0.05% of internet users will have problems connecting to websites on World IPv6 Day due to misconfigured home networks, according to Sierra Madre Patch. They mention that despite the low sounding figure, it actually equates to around 150,000 North Americans and more than a million people worldwide. IPv6 has actually been around for more than a decade as engineers realized that IPv4 addresses will eventually come to a close, however companies have been slow to deploy proper IPv6 solutions as the situation hasn’t been particularly grave. Unlike IPv4, which only allows for around 4.3 billion addresses (232 to be specific), IPv6 supports 340 undecillion addresses (2128) for extreme flexibility – or around 50 octillion addresses per person. To accommodate this huge increase, IPv6 addresses are longer compared to IPv4 addresses and use hexadecimal characters; an example would be 2001:db8:1f70:999:de8:7648:6e8. You will most likely find your favourite internet sources participating in World IPv6 Day fully functional today, however if you are not, the day will end at 23:59 UTC where the sites will switch back to the standard IPv4 configuration. Are you already on IPv6? Let us know in the comments. Click here to view the article
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phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. Support for most MySQL features Browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes. Create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes. Maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server configuration. Execute, edit and bookmark any SQL-statement, even batch-queries. Manage MySQL users and privileges. Manage stored procedures and triggers. Import data from CSV and SQL. Export data to various formats: CSV, SQL, XML, PDF, ISO/IEC 26300 - OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet, Word, Excel, LATEX and others.Changelog: - [interface] Iconic table operations does not remove inline edit label - [interface] Unnecessary scrolling on Databases page - [setup] Define a label that was missing - [interface] Show all button wraps on privileges page - [config] Config for export compression not used - [interface] Table is dropped regardless of confirmation - [auth] Fixed error handling for signon auth method. - [core] Avoid caching of index.php. - [interface] Unnecessary Details slider - [interface] "Show all" not persistent after a sort - [auth] Version disclosure to anonymous visitors - [interface] pmahomme and table statistics Download: phpMyAdmin 3.4.2 | 3.5 MB (Freeware) View: phpMyAdmin Website Click here to view the article
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BERLIN/HAMBURG (Reuters) – German ministers on Wednesday defended their response to the E.coli outbreak that has killed 24 people and signaled possible changes in the way the country handles health crises in the future. The German government has been criticized at home and around Europe for failing so far to pin down the cause of the outbreak that has stricken more than 2,700 people in 12 countries. All cases have been traced back to near Hamburg in northern Germany. About one third of E.coli patients in the latest outbreak have developed a severe complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome affecting the blood, kidneys and nervous system."The E.coli and HUS outbreak in Germany is so severe that we have to react very quickly to announce these recommendations and we still can't give the all-clear," said Health Minister Daniel Bahr, referring to warnings not to eat certain raw vegetables, such as bean sprouts but also cucumbers, tomato and lettuce. Criticism has focused on Germany hastily blaming imported Spanish cucumbers for the outbreak -- which it later withdrew -- and the lack of conclusive evidence that German-grown bean sprouts are indeed the source. Excessive bureaucracy at federal and state level has also been blamed for slow crisis response. Bahr said federal and regional health and food safety bodies would undertake an "immediate evaluation" of how they cooperate in what has looks like the deadliest ever outbreak of E.coli. The Robert Koch Institute, Germany's disease control body, reported an additional 318 E.coli-related cases on Wednesday and raised the death toll by three. "There will be new cases and unfortunately we have to expect more deaths, but the number of new infections is dropping significantly," Bahr said. Speaking at a news conference with EU health chief John Dalli and German health officials, Bahr said that a slowdown in the number of new infections was cause for "cautious optimism." But he conceded that the source of the outbreak may never be positively identified, as scientists have warned. EYE OF THE STORM Analysis of samples from restaurants, canteens and kitchens which prepared food where patients ate has failed to yield conclusive evidence for the theory that organic sprouts from a farm in the state of Lower Saxony were to blame. Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said officials were still tracking more cases linked to the bean sprout farm, where at least one worker is known to have contracted the bacteria and had to have part of her intestine removed in surgery. Dalli said the European Commission was convinced that the German investigation into the cause of the outbreak was heading in the right direction and defended the decision to issue health warnings on some vegetables, despite the impact on farmers. "The advice and information reported to the public domain can stand up to rigorous scrutiny," he said, adding that only once the outbreak is over should Germany start looking at reforms to its crisis management. "It's very different in the eye of the crisis," he said. "EPIDEMIC POLICE?" With the critical spotlight on the German federal system which divides responsibility for crisis response between state and central authorities, Bahr rejected calls for a national "epidemic police" and called this a "typical German" response. "This is not the right time, at the height of the outbreak, to talk about structural (reforms)," Bahr said, adding that authorities needed to see through their current mandates. The EU faces compensation costs of more than 150 million euros ($220 million) for farmers hit by plummeting sales of raw vegetables, after Germany first blamed cucumbers from Spain and other salad vegetables, and then German bean sprouts. The economic damage to Europe's farming industry -- with organic producers singled out for suspicion because they use manure rather than chemical fertiliser, putting crops more at risk of contamination -- could reach half a billion euros. A German organic producers' association said it was not enough to compensate farmers for under a third of their losses. Dalli advised Berlin to use the experience of countries which have dealt with E.coli outbreaks before. The United States and Japan have had similar deadly outbreaks linked to sprouts while it was a Chinese laboratory that used DNA sequencing technology to identify this E.coli outbreak as a new and "highly infectious and toxic" strain. Credit: Christiaan Hetzner and Jon Boyle
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Today is World IPv6 Day, the day where some of the major internet companies around the globe switch to IPv6 to test out the new protocol and to see how their network configurations fare. The internet is set to fully run out of IPv4 addresses very, very shortly, so World IPv6 Day is an easy way to test IPv6 connections with a huge test user base (the entire internet population) and evaluate the effects of the switch. Popular internet sources such as Google, Facebook, Bing, YouTube, Yahoo and more have switched to using IPv6 before IPv4 to connect its users today, meaning both protocols will be in use. Despite this fact, around 0.05% of internet users will have problems connecting to websites on World IPv6 Day due to misconfigured home networks, according to Sierra Madre Patch. They mention that despite the low sounding figure, it actually equates to around 150,000 North Americans and more than a million people worldwide. IPv6 has actually been around for more than a decade as engineers realized that IPv4 addresses will eventually come to a close, however companies have been slow to deploy proper IPv6 solutions as the situation hasn’t been particularly grave. Unlike IPv4, which only allows for around 4.3 billion addresses (232 to be specific), IPv6 supports 340 undecillion addresses (2128) for extreme flexibility – or around 50 octillion addresses per person. To accommodate this huge increase, IPv6 addresses are longer compared to IPv4 addresses and use hexadecimal characters; an example would be 2001:db8:1f70:999:de8:7648:6e8. You will most likely find your favourite internet sources participating in World IPv6 Day fully functional today, however if you are not, the day will end at 23:59 UTC where the sites will switch back to the standard IPv4 configuration. Are you already on IPv6? Let us know in the comments. -
phpMyAdmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. Support for most MySQL features Browse and drop databases, tables, views, fields and indexes. Create, copy, drop, rename and alter databases, tables, fields and indexes. Maintenance server, databases and tables, with proposals on server configuration. Execute, edit and bookmark any SQL-statement, even batch-queries. Manage MySQL users and privileges. Manage stored procedures and triggers. Import data from CSV and SQL. Export data to various formats: CSV, SQL, XML, PDF, ISO/IEC 26300 - OpenDocument Text and Spreadsheet, Word, Excel, LATEX and others. Changelog: - [interface] Iconic table operations does not remove inline edit label - [interface] Unnecessary scrolling on Databases page - [setup] Define a label that was missing - [interface] Show all button wraps on privileges page - [config] Config for export compression not used - [interface] Table is dropped regardless of confirmation - [auth] Fixed error handling for signon auth method. - [core] Avoid caching of index.php. - [interface] Unnecessary Details slider - [interface] "Show all" not persistent after a sort - [auth] Version disclosure to anonymous visitors - [interface] pmahomme and table statistics Download: phpMyAdmin 3.4.2 | 3.5 MB (Freeware) View: phpMyAdmin Website
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If you’re having trouble connecting to Skype this morning, it’s not your computer. The company announced earlier today that its system has gone down once again, the second such outage in the past couple of weeks. “A small number of you may have problems signing in to Skype,” wrote the VoIP company on its Twitter page. “We’re investigating the cause, and hope to have more details to share soon.” About an hour after that Tweet was published, the company made a statement on its blog saying that it had discovered a “configuration proble” that “has meant some of you have been disconnected from Skype.” “We’ve identified the cause of the problem, and have begun to address it,” writes Skype’s Peter Parkes on the Skype blog. “If you’ve been affected, you should start to see improvement in the next hour or so. You shouldn’t need to manually sign back in to Skype – it should reconnect automatically when it’s able to do so.” That hour is now up, and Skype has issued the following fixes to the problem: Windows 1. Click Start, type run and press Enter. (On Windows XP: Click Start and then Run.) 2. Type the following and click OK. %appdata%\skype 3. Locate and delete the file shared.xml. 4. If you cannot find this file: 4a. Click Start, type run and press Enter. (On Windows XP: Click Start and then Run.) 4b. Type the following and click OK. control folders 4c. In the View tab, ensure that Show hidden files and folders is enabled. 4d. Repeat steps 1-3. 5. Restart Skype. Mac 1. Open Finder and locate the following folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Skype 2. Delete the file shared.xml. 3. Restart Skype. Please note that the ~ sign means your home folder. You can find your home folder by opening Finder and selecting Go > Home from the menu bar or pressing Command (Apple), Shift and H keys at the same time. Linux 1. Go to the following folder: /home/YourLinuxUserName/.Skype 2. Delete the file shared.xml. 3. Restart Skype. Remember: The Skype folder is a hidden folder – please check Show hidden files in your file browser to view and access it. It remains unclear what Skype means, exactly, by a “small number” of people. But a quick look at Twitter shows the outage has affected users from around the world. It remains unclear what Skype meant, exactly, by a “small number” of people. But a quick look at Twitter shows the outage affected users from around the world, which suggests that “small number” actually means “huge number,” or possibly even “everybody.” Click here to view the article
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Skype fix available after outage affects small number of users
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If you’re having trouble connecting to Skype this morning, it’s not your computer. The company announced earlier today that its system has gone down once again, the second such outage in the past couple of weeks. “A small number of you may have problems signing in to Skype,” wrote the VoIP company on its Twitter page. “We’re investigating the cause, and hope to have more details to share soon.” About an hour after that Tweet was published, the company made a statement on its blog saying that it had discovered a “configuration proble” that “has meant some of you have been disconnected from Skype.” “We’ve identified the cause of the problem, and have begun to address it,” writes Skype’s Peter Parkes on the Skype blog. “If you’ve been affected, you should start to see improvement in the next hour or so. You shouldn’t need to manually sign back in to Skype – it should reconnect automatically when it’s able to do so.” That hour is now up, and Skype has issued the following fixes to the problem: Windows 1. Click Start, type run and press Enter. (On Windows XP: Click Start and then Run.) 2. Type the following and click OK. %appdata%\skype 3. Locate and delete the file shared.xml. 4. If you cannot find this file: 4a. Click Start, type run and press Enter. (On Windows XP: Click Start and then Run.) 4b. Type the following and click OK. control folders 4c. In the View tab, ensure that Show hidden files and folders is enabled. 4d. Repeat steps 1-3. 5. Restart Skype. Mac 1. Open Finder and locate the following folder: ~/Library/Application Support/Skype 2. Delete the file shared.xml. 3. Restart Skype. Please note that the ~ sign means your home folder. You can find your home folder by opening Finder and selecting Go > Home from the menu bar or pressing Command (Apple), Shift and H keys at the same time. Linux 1. Go to the following folder: /home/YourLinuxUserName/.Skype 2. Delete the file shared.xml. 3. Restart Skype. Remember: The Skype folder is a hidden folder – please check Show hidden files in your file browser to view and access it. It remains unclear what Skype means, exactly, by a “small number” of people. But a quick look at Twitter shows the outage has affected users from around the world. It remains unclear what Skype meant, exactly, by a “small number” of people. But a quick look at Twitter shows the outage affected users from around the world, which suggests that “small number” actually means “huge number,” or possibly even “everybody.” -
As part of its E3 2011 announcements, publisher Activision has announced that it expects to start closed beta testing for Call of Duty Elite, the upcoming social networking and game stats service for players of the popular first person shooter series. The E3 2011 press release said that beta sign ups for Call of Duty Elite already surpassed 1 million registered users five days after the service was first announced. The service will be beta tested using the current game in the series, Call of Duty Black Ops, but will officially launch to the public with all of its features when the next game in the series, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, is released on November 8. The publisher recently sent out an FAQ with more info on what will be in the service for both free users and those who will choose to pay for access to "premium" features. The press release also quotes Bob McKenzie, a senior vice-president of game retailer GameStop, as saying, "Last year, Call of Duty: Black Ops became the most pre-ordered title in our history. Already, this year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is significantly ahead of that pace. Our customers' response to the reveal of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been amazing." Call of Duty Black Ops is now the single best selling game in US history with over 20 million copies sold. Activison will also show off a number of other games at E3 2011 including Prototype 2, the sequel to the open world action game from developer Radical Entertainment that's due out in 2012. You can sign up here. Click here to view the article
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Today at the annual WWDC event, Steve Jobs took the stage to announce the new flagship of software suites for Mac and iDevices. Apple recently announced the upcoming iOS 5.0 firmware, but today it finally unveiled what the company has been working on for over a year now. The company announced that to date, they have had more than 14 billion downloads, with over 90,000 iPad apps. They have paid developers more than $2.5 billion dollars so far. Apple started off the new feature list with notifications. Apple has removed the old notification popup system for a more inline notification system, making it less annoying when you're watching a video or playing a game. The 'notification center' will act similar to Android, where your menu swipes down, revealing alerts for all of your phone, messages, emails and more. The notification center is even on your lock screen too. The lock screen has received a major update, allowing for notifications from apps, messages, and even listening to voice mail without having to slide to unlock the phone. iOS 5.0 also comes with 'Newsstand', a new subscription-based application that has a ton of newspaper and magazine companies on board, including New York Times, SF Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, and more. Apple introduced a new Twitter integration for iOS 5.0, making it easier for users to post photos, maps, articles from Safari and attachments with a new 'Tweet' option. Safari also received a number of updates, including the new reader button for your documents. Safari in iOS 5.0 now comes with a "reading list" feature, so you can come back and read a bookmarked page later, without saving it to your bookmarks. Next up, mobile Safari now comes with tabs! No more annoying stacked option menu, but now it's located under your toolbar bookmark menu. The camera app finally received a much deserved update, to include some of the new updates from Apple. First up, is a camera button shortcut on your lockscreen, making it easier to quickly take a picture of events that just can't wait. If the moment can't wait that long, you can use your volume up button to take pictures now, bypassing your lockscreen - but don't worry, your existing photos will be secure. Apple also included a photo touch-up app. Apple is once again updating their mail app, adding new search, flag and spam and security options. There is even a built-in dictionary option, prompting the user with a popup when they click the "define" option. If you've ever typed on the iPad, you may notice that reaching the keys in the middle can sometimes be default. Apple has now changed up the layout of the keyboard. There will not be two floating keyboards on either side, allowing you to just type with your thumbs while holding it firmly in your hands. iOS 5.0 now does wireless syncing with iTunes. You'll be able to finally ditch the cable (other than charging) and sync and receive updates directly on your device, without having to connect to your PC or Mac. The Game Center also is now more social network friendly, to make sharing and playing games with friends easier. Last up, Apple introduced iMessage. The new instant messaging service allows any iDevice (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) to communicate with each other. The new application is very similar to the SMS application, but is completely free. Similar to BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), the application allows you and your friends to instant message one another, from anywhere in the world, without the added roaming charges. iMessage requires WiFi or 3G to send and receive. iOS 5.0 beta will be made available later today for the following iDevices: iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA) iPhone 3GS iPod touch (4th generation) iPod touch (3rd generation) iPad 2 (GSM, CDMA and WiFi) iPad (GSM and WiFi) Apple TV 2G iOS 5.0 will ship this fall to consumers. Click here to view the article
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As part of its E3 2011 announcements, publisher Activision has announced that it expects to start closed beta testing for Call of Duty Elite, the upcoming social networking and game stats service for players of the popular first person shooter series. The E3 2011 press release said that beta sign ups for Call of Duty Elite already surpassed 1 million registered users five days after the service was first announced. The service will be beta tested using the current game in the series, Call of Duty Black Ops, but will officially launch to the public with all of its features when the next game in the series, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3, is released on November 8. The publisher recently sent out an FAQ with more info on what will be in the service for both free users and those who will choose to pay for access to "premium" features. The press release also quotes Bob McKenzie, a senior vice-president of game retailer GameStop, as saying, "Last year, Call of Duty: Black Ops became the most pre-ordered title in our history. Already, this year, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is significantly ahead of that pace. Our customers' response to the reveal of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 has been amazing." Call of Duty Black Ops is now the single best selling game in US history with over 20 million copies sold. Activison will also show off a number of other games at E3 2011 including Prototype 2, the sequel to the open world action game from developer Radical Entertainment that's due out in 2012. You can sign up here. -
Today at the annual WWDC event, Steve Jobs took the stage to announce the new flagship of software suites for Mac and iDevices. Apple recently announced the upcoming iOS 5.0 firmware, but today it finally unveiled what the company has been working on for over a year now. The company announced that to date, they have had more than 14 billion downloads, with over 90,000 iPad apps. They have paid developers more than $2.5 billion dollars so far. Apple started off the new feature list with notifications. Apple has removed the old notification popup system for a more inline notification system, making it less annoying when you're watching a video or playing a game. The 'notification center' will act similar to Android, where your menu swipes down, revealing alerts for all of your phone, messages, emails and more. The notification center is even on your lock screen too. The lock screen has received a major update, allowing for notifications from apps, messages, and even listening to voice mail without having to slide to unlock the phone. iOS 5.0 also comes with 'Newsstand', a new subscription-based application that has a ton of newspaper and magazine companies on board, including New York Times, SF Chronicle, Daily Telegraph, and more. Apple introduced a new Twitter integration for iOS 5.0, making it easier for users to post photos, maps, articles from Safari and attachments with a new 'Tweet' option. Safari also received a number of updates, including the new reader button for your documents. Safari in iOS 5.0 now comes with a "reading list" feature, so you can come back and read a bookmarked page later, without saving it to your bookmarks. Next up, mobile Safari now comes with tabs! No more annoying stacked option menu, but now it's located under your toolbar bookmark menu. The camera app finally received a much deserved update, to include some of the new updates from Apple. First up, is a camera button shortcut on your lockscreen, making it easier to quickly take a picture of events that just can't wait. If the moment can't wait that long, you can use your volume up button to take pictures now, bypassing your lockscreen - but don't worry, your existing photos will be secure. Apple also included a photo touch-up app. Apple is once again updating their mail app, adding new search, flag and spam and security options. There is even a built-in dictionary option, prompting the user with a popup when they click the "define" option. If you've ever typed on the iPad, you may notice that reaching the keys in the middle can sometimes be default. Apple has now changed up the layout of the keyboard. There will not be two floating keyboards on either side, allowing you to just type with your thumbs while holding it firmly in your hands. iOS 5.0 now does wireless syncing with iTunes. You'll be able to finally ditch the cable (other than charging) and sync and receive updates directly on your device, without having to connect to your PC or Mac. The Game Center also is now more social network friendly, to make sharing and playing games with friends easier. Last up, Apple introduced iMessage. The new instant messaging service allows any iDevice (iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) to communicate with each other. The new application is very similar to the SMS application, but is completely free. Similar to BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), the application allows you and your friends to instant message one another, from anywhere in the world, without the added roaming charges. iMessage requires WiFi or 3G to send and receive. iOS 5.0 beta will be made available later today for the following iDevices: iPhone 4 (GSM and CDMA) iPhone 3GS iPod touch (4th generation) iPod touch (3rd generation) iPad 2 (GSM, CDMA and WiFi) iPad (GSM and WiFi) Apple TV 2G iOS 5.0 will ship this fall to consumers. -
It is not every day of the week that you see fierce competitors team up to create a unified project. But exactly that has happened as Bing, Google and Yahoo have worked together to create schema.org. Schema.org is a new site intended to help site owners with using a common set of schemas. This new initiative is "aimed at creating and supporting a common set of schemas for structured data markup on Web pages." The search giants worked together to create a one-stop shop for website owners and developers. Microsoft states: While this new initiative is definitely for the technical user, it should help to create a more unified playing field now that Google, Bing, and Yahoo are all onboard. The goal is to help site owners and developers improve how their sites appear in search results. The collaboration is a positive sign that even though Google and Bing are fighting for marketshare, they are able to put aside differences to help out the average consumer.
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New Polish production of CD Projekt RED just came out some time ago. Western fantasy role-playing games have moved in different directions over the years. You have the European type of games like Two Worlds II, the Gothic series, and the original The Witcher. Games that tend to expect a lot of patience from the player while giving you a huge amount of things to do in an open, yet usually (or initially) buggy world. Then you have games like Dragon Age II that streamline the more hardcore elements to provide a more polished experience, but at the same time restrict your freedom in terms of customizability and things like crafting. Now it looks like we finally have a game that tries to do it all, and in doing so might blow anything away that we've grown to kind of accept in recent years. If you were one of those people that complained about Game X and said "I'll wait for Witcher 2 instead," then congratulations: you were right. Developed by CD Projekt RED and released in 2007, The Witcher had you take control of Geralt of Rivia, a "witcher" who excels at hunting monsters. The game was based on a book series of the same name by Polish fantasy author Andrzej Sapkowski and has since amassed a cult following of loyal fans. The game's sequel, The Witcher 2, is now upon us, and hot on the heels of its release we have a plethora of character-specific trailers to give you a who's who in the Witcher universe. Preview - Watch now! Review of the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTE6hArGChA
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I am not sure exactly but it requires new server and replacing your client.exe. http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24698
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Just days after Sony's PlayStation Network climbed back onto its feet from a hacker intrusion that halted the service in late April, a new exploit has emerged that once again put parts of the PlayStation Network in lockdown mode. Several sources have confirmed that a hole in the PlayStation Network password reset system allowed anyone with a user's birthdate and email address could access that person's account, also granting permission for password changes and access to a plethora of personal information. You may remember that tens of millions of users' email addresses, passwords, and birthdates were compromised in the original attack, making this new account exploit a simple affair for the perpetrators. Sony reacted by shuttering the websites that use PSN login information, but the PlayStation 3 and PSP portions of the network — which allow online play and messaging features — remain up and running. The official PlayStation site, as well as the very popular PlayStation forums, will not accept logins or any account activity until Sony resolves the issue, and users are instead greeted with an all-too-familiar "down for maintenance" notice. There is no word on a timeframe for the fix, but once this oversight is rectified, hopefully we can put Sony's security issues behind us, at least for a little while. Source: EuroGamer Click here to view the article
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daz2007 has released another update for his ET Gold mod for game Enemy Territory. Change log: Quote Improvements to the Console Code Alignments Fix to an obo bug in the console history recall code Fix to (static!) buffer overflow in renderer (from Thilo Schulz) Fix the Mouse Getting Stuck in ET when Minimizing or using the Task Manager Fix The engine does not truncate oversize servercommands. trap_SendServerCommand() to a client of over 1022 bytes will crash the client. Fix typo in the engine RTCW and W:ET engine source at \\win32\\qgl.c Fix wwwdl overflow exploit Fix confusion of cgame and renderer entity array bounds (Tr3B) Optimise VectorNormalize functions Source: Splash Damage Click here to view the article
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Just days after Sony's PlayStation Network climbed back onto its feet from a hacker intrusion that halted the service in late April, a new exploit has emerged that once again put parts of the PlayStation Network in lockdown mode. Several sources have confirmed that a hole in the PlayStation Network password reset system allowed anyone with a user's birthdate and email address could access that person's account, also granting permission for password changes and access to a plethora of personal information. You may remember that tens of millions of users' email addresses, passwords, and birthdates were compromised in the original attack, making this new account exploit a simple affair for the perpetrators. Sony reacted by shuttering the websites that use PSN login information, but the PlayStation 3 and PSP portions of the network — which allow online play and messaging features — remain up and running. The official PlayStation site, as well as the very popular PlayStation forums, will not accept logins or any account activity until Sony resolves the issue, and users are instead greeted with an all-too-familiar "down for maintenance" notice. There is no word on a timeframe for the fix, but once this oversight is rectified, hopefully we can put Sony's security issues behind us, at least for a little while. Source: EuroGamer -
daz2007 has released another update for his ET Gold mod for game Enemy Territory. Change log: Source: Splash Damage
