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Archive for March 15th, 2005

KOTOR2: The Incompletion Controversy

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

It seems many people are angry because they feel that ‘Knights of The Old Republic 2′ (KOTOR2) was rushed out to have the game released before Christmas of 2004.
This pretty much sucks, since I’m more than half thru the game…

TheForce.Net - Video Games - KOTOR2: The Incompletion Controversy

Page Hijack: The 302 Exploit, Redirects and Google

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

An explanation of the page hijack exploit using 302 server redirects. This exploit allows any webmaster to have his own “virtual pages” rank for terms that pages belonging to another webmaster used to rank for. Succesfully employed, this technique will allow the offending webmaster (”the hijacker”) to displace the pages of the “target” in the Search Engine Results Pages (”SERPS”), and hence (a) cause search engine traffic to the target website to vanish, and/or (b) further redirect traffic to any other page of choice.

Page Hijack Exploit: 302, redirects and Google

Mobile Fever at CeBIT 2005

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

CeBIT 2005. All the materials from Mobile Review

New Bluetooth-headsets at CeBIT’2005 – Jabra, SouthWing and others

Trends and tendencies (Russian) (English)

Products by Alcatel

Products by Nokia

Products by Panasonic

Products by Golla

Products by Haier

Products by Motorola

Products by Pantech (Russian) (English)

Products by Sagem (Russian) (English)

Products by Samsung

Products by Siemens

Products by Sony Ericsson

Mobile-review.com CeBIT 2005. All the materials. Contents

3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

An anonymous slashsdot reader submits “As noted at heise.de Saarland University is showing a prototype of a 3D Raytracing Card at CeBIT2005. The FPGA is clocked at 90 MHz and is 3-5 times faster in raytracing then a Pentium4 CPU with 30 times more MHz. Besides game engines using raytracing there was a scene of a Boeing with 350 million polygons rendered in realtime.”

Slashdot | 3D Raytracing Chip Shown at CeBIT

Preview: GNU C Compiler 4.0

Tuesday, March 15th, 2005

Reducer2001 writes “News.com is running a story previewing GCC 4.0. A quote from the article says, ‘(included will be) technology to compile programs written in Fortran 95, an updated version of a decades-old programming language still popular for scientific and technical tasks, Henderson said. And software written in the C++ programming language should run faster — “shockingly better” in a few cases.’”

Slashdot | GCC 4.0 Preview