div align="center"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgethd.com/media/2008/11/11-18-08-macbook-pro.png" /br //div Now that you've had well over a month to toy with Apple's latest a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/21/macbook-and-macbook-pro-review/"MacBook and MacBook Pro/a, we're just dying to know what your impressions are. Has the glass trackpad turned you off (or just turned you off to every other trackpad on the planet)? Is the inability to order the MBP with a matte display still grating your nerves? Are you happy with the performance? Is your "S" key randomly popping off at the most inopportune times? You just spent a load of cash on what essentially amounts to a first-generation product -- you've every right to make your voice heard. Do just that in comments below.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/how-would-you-change-apples-unibody-macbook-macbook-pro/"How would you change Apple's unibody MacBook / MacBook Pro?/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:02:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/how-would-you-change-apples-unibody-macbook-macbook-pro/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1379585/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/how-would-you-change-apples-unibody-macbook-macbook-pro/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DC3QsPbzQ3fCutNhZ25Aaj4CPUs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/DC3QsPbzQ3fCutNhZ25Aaj4CPUs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=TESpd9i4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=TESpd9i4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=bGKMyjwk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=bGKMyjwk" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/9TJhD_aj2ps" height="1" width="1"/

Dell has been known to provide consumers with a delectable array of colorful options as far as their regular laptops are concerned, and it seems that they are bringing this same approach to their netbook line. Dell has just announced that they’re adding Cherry Red and Pretty Pink to the colored iterations for their Inspiron Mini 9 and Inspiron Mini 12, and they’ve likewise commissioned Tristan Eaton, avant garde toy designer, to create three exclusive designs for the Inspiron Mini line.

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While this added design option definitely provides more personalization to the common netbook, is it worth the additional $25 (pink and red) to $50 (Tristan Eaton designs) charge? Personally, I have no qualms regarding the more expensive price of the Tristan Eaton creations, but the additional $25 charge for the ordinary red and pink is utterly ridiculous.

centerimg title="Voodoo Envy 133 Review" style="MARGIN: 0px" alt="Voodoo Envy 133 Review" src="http://www.ubergizmo.com/photos/2008/11/voodoo-envy-133-468.jpg" border="0" //centerbr / pNow that I have used my Voodoo envy for a few weeks, it's time to share how it worked for me. Voodoo is a powerful name in PC Gaming hardware, but let's be clear: this is definitely *not* a gaming machine. The Voodoo envy is an ultra-light laptop that is really good at productivity tasks such as email, web browsing, excel and text editing. Think of it as the ultimate internet cafe machine: it is uber-light, will get you connected with the fastest WIFI, looks great on the table and is most likely a conversation starter even if conversations tend to be repetitive and start with "wow, what's that laptop?"./p pPermalink: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/voodoo_envy_133_review.html"Voodoo Envy 133 Review/a from a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com"Ubergizmo/a | a href="http://www.uberbargain.com/"Good deals/a | Hot: a href="http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/11/blackberry_storm_review.html"BlackBerry Storm/a/p pmap name="google_ad_map_081121150659" area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/081121150659?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28"/ area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23"//map img usemap="#google_ad_map_081121150659" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-7335032025195922amp;channel=9684588219amp;output=pngamp;cuid=081121150659amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ubergizmo.com%2F15%2Farchives%2F2008%2F11%2Fvoodoo_envy_133_review.html"//p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KXRH3rXtTDS9XxFBs6pfma8pXOM/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KXRH3rXtTDS9XxFBs6pfma8pXOM/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=1nOJzpf6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=g7B1HXD3"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=g7B1HXD3" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=zaU8ImuF"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=1qcG6Ogb"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=1qcG6Ogb" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?a=BvXJplN5"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/ubergizmo?i=BvXJplN5" border="0"/img/a /div

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img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/keescook.png alt= pThere#8217;s this great CPU feature called #8220;a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NX_bitnx/a#8221; #8212; it protects your computer from intrusion by blocking execution of memory regions that weren#8217;t expected to be executable (i.e. stack/heap data). You really want this enabled. Unfortunately for you, it seems some BIOSes default to disabling it. On Dell laptops, look under #8220;Security#8221; / #8220;CPU XD Support#8221;: you want it enabled. In an American Megatrends BIOS, I found it under #8220;CPU Features#8221; / #8220;Execute Disable Bit#8221;: you want it enabled./p pAs far as making use of the CPU feature once it#8217;s not disabled in the BIOS, you#8217;re already using it if you#8217;re running a 64bit kernel. And if you#8217;re using 32bit, you can start using it if you install the code-server/code flavor of the 32bit kernel. As a bonus, you get to a href=http://www.outflux.net/blog/archives/2007/09/27/stupid-bios-tricks-to-find-your-4g-of-ram/address all your physical RAM/a if you do this too (since -server#8217;s #8220;a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_ExtensionPAE/a#8221; mode is the kernel mode that allows #8220;nx#8221; to work). For Ubuntu Jaunty, I#8217;m hoping to get some element of the system (installer? jockey?) to a href=https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/use-pae-when-possiblemake the right kernel selection/a for a given system./p pIf #8220;pae#8221; is in your /proc/cpuinfo flags:br / code pre $ grep --color pae /proc/cpuinfo flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr strongpae/strong mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall emnx/em lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm /pre p/p/code(note the #8220;nx#8221; in there too, since my BIOS isn#8217;t set to disable it)/p pThen you almost certainly want to use code-server/code kernel flavor:br / code pre sudo apt-get install linux-server linux-restricted-modules-server /pre p/p/code/p

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ps3_video.jpg" width="800" height="494" style="display:block;float:none;" /If you're here reading Gizmodo, there's a good chance you have a hard drive full of video somewhere. And you also probably have a PS3, Xbox 360 or Wii. If those two things aren't working together for you in beautiful symbiosis, allowing you to watch all of your downloaded or ripped video on your TV instead of hunched over a laptop screen, well, this is the guide for you./p pNow there are two general strategies you can take: physically copying your files to a USB drive, memory card or CD/DVD, which is pretty straightforward, or streaming your video over the network, which is where things get more fun and interesting. So let's dive in./p pFirst things first, codecs. Now that you're all learn-ed on the ways of video encoding thanks to a href="http://gizmodo.com/5093670/giz-explains-every-video-format-you-need-to-know"Matt's Giz Explains from this week/a, the issue of codecs will make a lot more sense. Thankfully, it's not something you have to worry too much about here, because all three consoles can handle a large number of the codecs you will find commonly: AVI, MPEG (1, 2 and 4), H.264, DivX/XviD, and WMV—and if a particular format you want to play isn't supported, it's often possible to convert it to work on the fly. The PS3 also supports AVCHD, a format used by many HD camcorders. Not all formats are supported with every streaming method though, especially in the 360's case, which we'll get to in a second. Now, for getting all those files on the TV./p pNote: if you need to re-encode a video in a different format because it won't play, nothing beats VLC's transcoding wizard. a href="http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch02.html"Here's a guide./a/p pstrongXbox 360: Streaming (PC)/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297019303_tversity_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="403" style="display:block;" /In typical Microsoft fashion, there are tons of different ways to pull of streaming your video to the Xbox 360—and the only one that's truly comprehensive, in our opinion, comes from a third party. a href="http://tversity.com/"TVersity/a is a free UPnP media server that can manage your video and music files anywhere on your PC and stream them out to your 360 over the network. It will also kindly transcode just about any video you can throw at it into a codec your console can definitely read. You might have to install some additional codec packs here and there for Windows but for the most part, you can forget about worrying about codecs with TVersity. This also allows TVersity to handle files not officially supported by the 360, like MKV containers./p p1. Grab a href="http://tversity.com/"TVersity here/a and install it.br 2. Click the giant plus sign in the top left corner to "Add Your Media Source" - namely, the folder on your PC with all of your videos.br 3. Under advanced options, set your transcoding preferences: "When Needed" will make sure most all of your files play.br 4. In the main TVersity menu, select "Start Sharing"br 5. On the Xbox 360, TVersity will now appear as a source in the Media blade or under My Xbox -gt; Video Library in NXE./p pThe other three options via Microsoft's own various software solutions all have their own drawbacks, which we'll cover here briefly. Our advice? Use them only if you already use the Zune software, Windows Media Player or Windows Media Center to manage all of your video./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297041777_windowsmediaplayer_01.png" width="494" height="432" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Player 11/strong: WMP 11 can stream out to the Xbox 360 pretty easily. Here is an a href="http://paininthetech.com/2008/01/03/stream-video-to-xbox-360-with-windows-media-player-or-winamp-remote"in-depth guide/a. strongDrawbacks?/strong Somewhat clunky format support. In our tests we could not stream Quicktime video at all, and had inconsistent experiences with MP4 files. MPEG-4 and H.264 support are technically supported via third-party WMP codec add-ons, but even with those, we still had trouble—MP4 files tended to play fine on the WMP 11 end, but not show up as browsable on the 360. Somewhat unbelievably, the Xbox 360 team actually recommends you a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx"manually rename your unsupported MPEG-4 and H.264 files/a, adding the ".avi" container extension to fool WMP into playing them. This worked occasionally, but not for every file and was generally inconsistent.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297025800_zune_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="338" style="display:block;" /strongZune Software 3.0/strong: Zune offers a much nicer interface than WMP (Settings -gt; Sharing -gt; Add is the extent of the setup), and thankfully supports MPEG4 and H.264 much more consistently. strongDrawbacks?/strong No DivX or Xvid support, which means a huge chunk of your Torrented video probably won't work.br clear="all"/p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297876080_360_MCE.jpg" width="494" height="308" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Center Extender/strong: If you already have a Media Center setup honking on your network, there's a good chance you won't need this guide, but the Xbox 360 can of course stream your MCE content to your TV seamlessly (a a href="http://features.teamxbox.com/xbox/1392/Xbox-360-Windows-Media-Center-Setup-Guide/p1/"complete guide is here/a). The interface is really fantastic. strongDrawbacks?/strong The gimpiest codec support of the bunch: only MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and WMV are supported. So unless you're converting everything you have into those formats, you'll still need something like TVersity to play most files you'll find up for download.br clear="all"/p pSo, in the end, TVersity wins hands down as the easiest and most elegant streaming setup for the 360. But do keep in mind—if you're playing a format that your Xbox can't handle (MKV being the most common of these you'll find), TVersity will have to transcode, which means you will lose a bit of quality./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297010629_connect360_01.png" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" width="494" height="378" style="display:block;" /strongXbox 360: Streaming (Mac)/strong: UPnP support—the networking standard used by both the Xbox 360 and the PS3 in various flavors to play network-streamed video, music and photos—is not natively supported by OS X yet. And unfortunately, there isn't a stellar all-in-one free package like Windows' TVersity.br clear="all"/p pNullriver, however, makes an incredibly slick piece of software called a href="http://www.nullriver.com/products/connect360"Connect360/a, which easily streams all of your iLife libraries or any folder full of video on your Mac to the 360. Unfortunately, it'll cost you $20. There is a free trial version that supposedly shuts off after 30 minutes of sharing, but sometimes it seems to forget and lets you play longer. But even so, $20 isn't bad for the convenience factor here. No transcoding, but it will handle every codec the console itself can play back./p p1. Download and install the Connect360 preference pane.br 2. In System Preferences, start up Connect360 sharing. Here you can also add folders for more sharing.br 3. Access the Connect360 source on your Xbox in the usual way. Done./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227301048351_xbox_video.jpg" width="494" height="329" style="display:block;" /strongXbox 360: Physical Media/strongbr 1. If streaming isn't for you, and you don't mind hauling a storage device back and forth between your computer and Xbox, then this is super easy: Insert Flash disk/USB/CD/DVD and browse it with the Media blade or the Video Library section of NXE (under "My Xbox"). Enjoy.br clear="all"/p pstrongPlaystation 3: Streaming (PC)/strongbr strongTVersity/strong: Again, Tversity is your friend. It works just as well for the PS3 as it does for Xbox 360 (see above for setup)./p p1. With Tversity set up and sharing turned on, just browse to COMPUTERNAME: TVersity in the XMB and you'll see a listing of all your shared files./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/11/ps3_wmp11.png" width="500" height="371" style="display:block;" /strongWindows Media Player 11/strong: Just like for Xbox 360, you can use WMP11's built-in DLNA/UPnP serving capabilities to stream to the PS3, too—but with the same codec funkiness as noted above.br clear="all"/p p1. In the Media Sharing preference box with your PS3 powered on and connected to the network, select "Unknown Device"—that's your PS3.br 2. Your library should now show up in XMB./p pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/2008/11/custom_1227297942918_Picture_26.png" width="494" height="405" style="display:block;" /strongPlaystation 3: Streaming (MAC)/strongbr Mac: Nullriver didn't just hook up 360 owners—Media Link is the version especially for PS3. It costs 20 bucks, but will give you totally seamless and painless streaming of all of your iLife libraries (photos and music too) as well as files in any folder you can access with your Mac, whether it's on a network or local.br clear="all"/p p1. Operation is just like Connect360—with sharing enabled in the Media Link preference pane, just browse through all your files under the "Media Link" source in XMB./p pstrongPlaystation 3: Physical Media/strongbr 1. Easy as pie. If you're using a USB flash or hard disc or an SD or CF card, just dump all of your videos into a folder named VIDEO on the root of the drive and they'll show up automatically in the XMB.br 2. You can also browse the entire drive or disc by pressing triangle and choosing "Display All" to find videos that aren't in the VIDEO folder./p pstrongWii: Physical Media/strongbr img src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2008/10/wiihomebrew6.jpg" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" style="display:block;" /For playing video on your Wii, physical media is the way to go, which is easy to pull off with some a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"homebrew hacking/a. There are lots of services that will transcode your video and ouput it in a Flash player that you can view through the Wii's Opera browser (like a href="http://orb.com"Orb/a), but you'll take a hit quality-wise and it's not as easy as just playing the source files directly with Mplayer.br clear="all"/p p1. Install the Homebrew Channel and Mplayer on your Wii. We've got you covered here with our a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"complete Wii homebrew guide/a—but hopefully you haven't installed the latest System Menu update. In that case, you'll have to wait for a workaround, but it probably won't be long./p p2. Install Mplayer via the Homebrew Browser (also a href="http://gizmodo.com/5096150/a-complete-guide-to-playing-video-files-on-your-ps3-xbox-360-or-wii-/?op=postpreviewrefId=5096150"covered in our guide/a)./p p3. Now, you can use Mplayer to play files off or even an attached USB drive (as long as its formatted in FAT16 or FAT32, which most are). The interface is not nearly as nice, but it gets the job done./p p4. Mplayer for the Wii covers a ton of codecs, but sadly, the Wii's processor chokes on HD content. If you've got HD files, you'll need to transcode them into a lower resolution with VLC./p pAnd that's about it. Now, no more huddling around your laptop screen or fiddling with TV and audio-out cables. Welcome to the good life./p pemAdditional reporting and testing by Seung Lee. See more a href="http://gizmodo.com/tag/how_to"Giz how-to guides here/a. 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inside my parents house, there is broadband internet, netgear router, PCs, a mac, and a ps3. i have a mac at MY house. what i want to do is setup some sort of network so that any pc/mac/ps3 can access files,media, printers, etc. In addition to this,i want to be able to "dial in/ log in" from across the internet and thru the router connection at my house or from someones laptop.

my understanding of how this stuff works isn't zero but, i'm not exactly sure of everything i need 2 do in order 2 get this working the way i want....

also would BOTH routers need ports forwarded, or jus the parents router with the network?

btw, the host machine thats on all the time would be an XP machine, unless theres someway to host a network somewhere on the internet or something... but that sounds like a whole nother ball of wax

plenty of input would be GREAT! TIA

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ok first of all, thanks to icchansan for all his help. he showed me the osx86 project HCL which didnt have my laptop on it. So what are my options now?

i have a sager np2096

centrino 2 2.53
4GB DDR2
nvidia 9600MGT
intel pro wirless 100
9 cell battery
blue tooth
intel robson 1GB
sigmatel sound
and a clevo mobo with an ICH9m bridge

anyone have anything to say? im really fed up with vista and i want leopard really bad yet, seeing as i work at ralphs as a bagger, i lack the financial base nessecary to purchase a MacBook Pro and i got the same notebook basically for $1600 vs. $2700. :fail
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Hey guys!

Today I have finally received my unibody MacBook Pro and I love it! Every single cm of it!

After a very quick delivery (I ordered my laptop 36 hours ago) I got this beautiful beast: 2,53 Ghz, 512MB Nvidia Videocard etc.

This machine is amazing! It is soo fast, so well-made and so beautiful that I don't know how I could live without it.
I have not a single problem with it(knocking on the wood): no lose battery cover, no weird keys, no sleep issues, no bad fan noise.
Regarding that fan noise (I was worried about it the most) I should say that you cannot hear the laptop running if there are some ambient noises in the room. If the room is dead silent (as mine), you can hear the fans blowing air very gently and very quietly. From the distance of 1/2 - 1 m you cannot hear a thing. So, the MBP's are not SILENT, but amazingly QUIET!
A couple of months ago I had ordered an iMac and had to send it back because of the noise its fans made and the vibrations it produced standing on my desk (they were perfeclty normal, because those iMacs are huge things with powerful components).
I am so glad I waited till the release of the new unibody beauty and bought it.

Guys, these MBP's are so great. I am not an Apple fan, this is my first mac and my first mac experience (besides the iMac which I had for one day).
Mac OS is also so good.... Much better than any Windows system I have been using during the last years.

Guys, I am in love. :) Now, finally I have the machine I can peacefully work on and take with me to the uni!

And the speakers of it are so good and powerful that I think I am not going to buy extra speakers anymore - the sound quality is even better than that of my old PC with Logitech speakers (not a laptop). There is a clear lack of strong bass, but the noises are so clear and so nice to be heard that I cannot believe how Apple manage to put such high quality speakers in this little aluminuim beauty!!!!

That's it. Just my 5 cents after many months of living in doubt and uncertainty about Mac's and especially the new unibody MacBook Pro... :D

div align="center"a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-the-asus-eee-pc-1002ha"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/11/eeepc1000ha.jpg" //abr / div align="left"The folks over at Laptop have gotten some quality face time with a pre-production model of ASUS' 10-inch a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/27/asus-rolls-out-eee-pc-1002ha-still-mum-about-next-weeks-model/"Eee PC 1002 HA/a, and they seem to like a lot of what they're seeing. It boasts stylings reminiscent of both the Eee PC S101 (trackpad) and the 1000H (keyboard), and as such is basically a hybridized version of the two, though the test model "wouldn't power on" so we can't got much further than that. We do however, know that it'll house a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive, and that it'll have a two-cell battery which ASUS claims will give users five hours of juice (though that sounds pretty suspect to us). The Eee PC 1002 HA is expected to ready to roar on the first of December for $499, but if you simply can't wait until then to have a look at it, hit the read like for more photos and a really, really interesting video. /div /divpFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/asus-eee-pc-1002ha-hands-on-and-video-looks-a-lot-like-the-s101/"ASUS Eee PC 1002HA hands-on and video: looks a lot like the S101/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:10:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://blog.laptopmag.com/hands-on-with-the-asus-eee-pc-1002haRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/asus-eee-pc-1002ha-hands-on-and-video-looks-a-lot-like-the-s101/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1379566/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/asus-eee-pc-1002ha-hands-on-and-video-looks-a-lot-like-the-s101/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/pPsQbcs74XEkZ35ljLCjUvM3qXE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/pPsQbcs74XEkZ35ljLCjUvM3qXE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=pdszGHUu"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=pdszGHUu" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=tgJeU8fZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=tgJeU8fZ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/hfMUbU7idaY" height="1" width="1"/

The folks over at Laptop have gotten some quality face time with a pre-production model of ASUS' 10-inch Eee PC 1002 HA, and they seem to like a lot of what they're seeing. It boasts stylings reminiscent of both the Eee PC S101 (trackpad) and the 1000H (keyboard), and as such is basically a hybridized version of the two, though the test model "wouldn't power on" so we can't got much further than that. We do however, know that it'll house a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom CPU with 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard drive, and that it'll have a two-cell battery which ASUS claims will give users five hours of juice (though that sounds pretty suspect to us). The Eee PC 1002 HA is expected to ready to roar on the first of December for $499, but if you simply can't wait until then to have a look at it, hit the read like for more photos and a really, really interesting video.

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div align="center"a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/136921/2008/11/opencl.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/06/snow-leopard-1.jpg" alt="" //abr //div It's just taken a relatively short six months, but it looks like the team behind the Open Computing Language (or a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/opencl"OpenCL/a) have already delivered the final spec for the standard, which puts it right on track for inclusion in a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/apple-previews-os-x-snow-leopard-scheduled-to-ship-in-about-a/"OS X Snow Leopard/a. In fact, the team credits Apple with helping them meet the "impossible deadline," with Intel's Tim Mattson saying that Apple's decision to "support it in Snow Leopard was a huge plus to us," even if it forced them to "divorce our families" and left them "almost dead." The standard itself, which allows for greater leveraging of GPUs and other hardware, isn't quite ready to be implemented just yet, however, as it still has to go through the final stage of being vetted by all 20 partner companies for patent issues and whatnot. Once that's done, which will take a "minimum" of 30 days, they'll release the actual spec and begin the usual round demos.br /br /[Via a href="http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2008/11/20/opencl-team-delivers-spec-just-in-time-for-snow-leopard"Ars Technica/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/opencl-spec-gets-finalized-snow-leopard-says-purrrr/"OpenCL spec gets finalized, Snow Leopard says "purrrr"/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:09:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.macworld.com/article/136921/2008/11/opencl.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/opencl-spec-gets-finalized-snow-leopard-says-purrrr/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1379583/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/opencl-spec-gets-finalized-snow-leopard-says-purrrr/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_VQ9ajuvnKygSQg_ooSgP-4fKR0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_VQ9ajuvnKygSQg_ooSgP-4fKR0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=3zU6sAGN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=3zU6sAGN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Us8Rfxme"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Us8Rfxme" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/7a6Ch2gs3Ew" height="1" width="1"/

img class=face src=http://planet.ubuntu.com/heads/aanjhan.png alt= pLadies and Gentlemen, boys and girls!!!/p pIf you are still clueless as to what a href=http://foss.in/FOSS.IN/a is all about  (even after reading through this sentence) then it probably isn#8217;t for you img src=http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif alt=:-) class=wp-smiley / And the news is I will be saying #8220;Hola#8221;, #8220;Bonjour#8221;, #8220;Hi#8221;, #8220;Hallo#8221;, #8220;Nihao#8221;, #8220;Namaskara#8221;, #8220;Vanakkam#8221;, #8220;Namasthe#8221; to a lot of my friends this year too.  Apart from the #8220;scheduled#8221; talk on a href=https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraElectronicLab#8220;Fedora Electronics Laboratory#8221;/a on Friday (yes, my talks always coincide with a a href=http://foss.in/news/linux-kernel-hackers-gathering.htmlmore glamorous session/a *always*), I have planned to have some workouts (unofficial ones from those listed on the site). One such planned workout is the GNUSim8085 Workout./p pIf you are interested in taking part, please use a href=http://www.doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=tz7u7rfbnyikakm2this doodle link/a to give your preferred time and I will blog about the timings sometime around Sunday evening. The venue of the workout is most probably the terrace or corridor or some place which has a free power socket img src=http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif alt=:-P class=wp-smiley / .br / The Current agenda of the workout is as follows:/p ol liGet the Windows Version of the package released (long time pending and also means people with #8220;official#8221; laptops running Windows are welcome and wanted for testing)/li liFix lying around small bugs./li liBrainstorm on further development and maybe get a base framework done on one of a href=http://gnusim8085.wiki.sourceforge.net/Ideas_for_the_futurethese/a ideas./li /ol pLooking at the current state of things it could either happen on Wednesday or Thursday. This is just not it. Some Fedora and Debian work will also be done. Details in another blog. See you then./p pPS for Students: I believe this is a very apt small package to start contributing to Free software. You are the most welcome. This doesn#8217;t mean oldies are prohibited img src=http://www.tuxmaniac.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif alt=:P class=wp-smiley / . /p

Hello- I feel a bit like an interloper here. I don't own a Mac. But many of the Professors our Dept. at the University I work at do have them. Mostly Powerbook I think.

I also know this is a real long shot but here's the problem: Profs come in to one of about 80 rooms and display their laptops on data projectors. Seldom is there a problem there. But several of them have trouble getting audio to play when they insert the 3.5mm stereo plug we provide into the Mac's headphone jack. It's not that the mac doesn't play the sound- just that the contact between the plug (male) that we provide and the (female) headphone jack seems a bit dicey. We've replaced the cable/male connector 3 or 4 times and no-one with a PC has ever reported this problem. Our test equipment has no problem. It just seems to be Macs which appear to have just the tiniest bit of "play" in the headphone jack.

Have any of you Mac users experienced anything like this when plugging anything into the headphone jack? There'd be no contact or scratchy contact. If so, does Apple use a non-standard 3.5mm plug? Any insight woudl be welcome!
Thanks.

In October 2007, while most tech media attention was focused on the OiNK raid, another large site got police attention. TV-Links, which linked to videos on YouTube-like sites was raided and shutdown, with the admin arrested. A year later, we catch up with the ex-admin of TV-Links for the entire story.

When it became apparent that TV-Links.co.uk had been raided by police and the admin arrested, the news was met with some disbelief. TV-Links was a site that linked to videos that were hosted on video sharing sites like YouTube. It carried absolutely no illicit video content of its own.

Nevertheless, following an investigation by UK Trading Standards, the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) and the police, the admin was arrested. At the time, FACT claimed that he was detained due to “offenses relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the Internet.” Except there was a problem.

There is no criminal offense of ‘facilitation of copyright infringement’ under English law. There would have been at least a civil offense if TV-Links had hosted the videos themselves, but they did not. Sites like YouTube and Dailymotion did, but the police or anti-piracy groups didn’t go after these giants. Indeed, the police themselves seemed to disagree with FACT’s reasoning for the raid, saying that the admin had been arrested for “supplying property with a registered trade mark without permission.”

…which raised another problem. The Trade Marks Act 1994 (specifically section 92) was designed to deal with physical, real-world counterfeit goods. Supplying links, if anything, could only be considered a service - definitely not a sale of physical goods. Getting a conviction on these grounds would be tricky, if not impossible. Considering the problems highlighted above, it’s no surprise that the TV-Links case has disappeared from the news radar.

TorrentFreak tracked down the now ex-admin of the site, 26 year-old Dave Rock, for the lowdown on this important case which seems to ask two questions: Can someone be held responsible when 3rd parties merely link to copyright works that are hosted by someone else, and furthermore, does this constitute a criminal offense under an act designed to protect physical goods?

It all starts on the morning of 18th October, just five days before the police raided OiNK. Dave had some unwanted visitors. At 06:20, two police officers, three FACT members, and around five Trading Stand