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The MAC Club!!!

shevchenco — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:37:21 GMT

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Welcome to the Awesome Mac World. if you have a question, go ahead. We'll try our best to help you :biggrin:.

Web Addresses to include non-latin Characters

Orion — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:54:40 GMT

Net gets set for alphabet changes

Users of scripts other than that in which English is written will soon have web addresses in their own language.

The net regulator Icann has invited countries to ask for "internationalised domain names" in non-Latin characters.

Egypt and Saudi Arabia have announced their intentions to apply for the first Arabic domains.

Countries can also apply for domains in other scripts, such as Chinese. The first official international web addresses are expected in 2010.

"The IDN [International Domain Names] program will encompass close to one hundred thousand characters, opening up the internet to billions of potential users around the globe," said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).

The regulator has described the introduction of IDNs as the "biggest change" to the net "since it was invented 40 years ago".

"Over half the internet users around the world don't use a Latin-based script as their native language," said Icann president Rod Beckstrom.

"IDNs are about making the internet more global and accessible for everyone."

He said Icann had "already received six applications from around the world for three different scripts.

These included a bid from Egypt's bid for .misr, meaning Egypt in Arabic, and one from Russia.

Plans for IDNs were approved at a meeting in June 2008. However, it has taken until now to make sure that the translation system needed to make it work functions correctly.

The changes have been made to the net's Domain Name System, which acts like a phone book, translating easily understood domain names such as bbc.co.uk into strings of computer readable numbers known as IP addresses.

The tweaks will allow this system to recognise and translate the non-Latin characters.

Some countries, such as China and Thailand, have already introduced workarounds that allow computer users to enter web addresses in their own language.

However, these were not internationally approved and do not necessarily work on all computers.

Icann has now invited registrations from countries to apply for internationalised country codes, such as .uk or .us.

It said that people will be able to apply for an entire web address at a later date through the body which wins the right to control a nation's internationalised country-code.

Source

Torrent ports in Lebanon

vegojimbo — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:56:33 GMT

It's well known that most lebanese ISPs block torrent ports to reduce the load on their networks & servers and to have better connection delivered to their customers. It's also a known fact that the lebanese infrastructure is not adapted for a high surge of download bandwidth in case torrent ports are unblocked.

- Since most cable providers have no download limit, it suits them to block these ports. But do they do it themselves or are they already blocked by their bandwidth providers? if not, do all cable providers block torrent ports or some don't? if so, who?

- Ogero and its secondary ISPs don't exactly need this limitation as they already have a bandwidth limitation set for each customer. But do they still block torrent ports?

- Is there any way to unblock torrent ports or it's impossible?

- Finally, just out of curiosity, do they block torrent ports in any western country? I ask since most downloaded stuff over torrent engines are illegal, so do they?

Project Natal

Zghertewe — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:18:02 GMT

Leaked: Project Natal Launch Date November 2010

Project Natal will be available worldwide November 2010, launch with 14 games, and sell for less than �50, or about 80 US dollars, according to games biz site MCV. Expect 5 million units for global ship at release, with at least two purchase configurations: As a solo upgrade, or bundled with the Xbox 360 console itself.
MCV says its sources for the information had access to a secret tour Microsoft's been conducting in the UK to demonstrate Natal's technology to certain publishers and studios. Apparently the tour was designed to drum up developer support for the device.
If $80 sounds cheap, a publisher told MCV Microsoft's trying to get it even lower, aiming for "impulse" territory that could drop the tag to as little as �30, or about 50 US dollars.
Microsoft unveiled Natal this summer at E3 in Los Angeles. The device uses various cameras and microphones to track player movement and audio, allowing for what the company calls a "controller-free" experience.
At the Tokyo Game Show last month, top-tier publishers and developers including Activision, Bethesda, Capcom, Disney, EA, Konami, MTV, Namco Bandai, Sega, Square Enix, THQ and Ubisoft committed to design games for the device.

Source

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The End of Video Game Console ?!!

Vampire — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:07:13 GMT

Pachter: This is the Last Console Generation
Wedbush Morgan analyst predicts we've seen the last of new gaming consoles.
By Sam Kennedy, 03/24/2009

At the GamesBeat 2009 Games Conference in San Francisco today, games industry analysts Michael Pachter (Wedbush Morgan), Colin Sebastian (Lazard Capital Markets), and David Cole (DFC Intelligence) delivered their thoughts on the next 10 years of the games industry. Most interesting are the analysts' predictions for the next console generation -- or lack thereof.

"I think we've seen the last generation of consoles," Pachter claims. He says Nintendo will likely upgrade the Wii at some point (perhaps with HD and more storage), but all three console makers will be reluctant to release any subsequent consoles -- in the future it'll be more about a standard delivery platfrom. Why? Because there's no money in it for them. And because the third party publishers simply won't allow it. "[Third party publishers] are not going to support a PS4 or Xbox 720," he says, pointing to the fact that they're already largely struggling with the cost of developing games today. "The content is not going to change in any meaningful ways because the publishers can't afford it," he continues, suggesting that the current crop of consoles will be the ones to last us well into the future.

Sebastian disagrees, instead saying the games industry will have one more console generation, which will hit in 2012. Cole agrees with him, saying that in 2012 the PS3 will be the leading platform for software sales and that both Microsoft and Nintendo will be forced to launch new platforms (Sony would likely wait a bit longer).

Pachter at least agrees that we wouldn't see another Sony platform for quite some time. "Sony is not going to put out a console until they make a profit on this generation, and my math puts that at around 2015."

Source: Pachter: This is the Last Console Generation

So what do you think? Is this the last console generation?

Lebanese Internet situation (only facts)

IA64 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:35:47 GMT

Teodor Georgiev has been working for several months on a project that shows/explains how easy,quick and cheap it is to bring a great relief to the Lebanese Internet situation. I am trying to show it to as much people as
possible in order to open their eyes and make them vulnerable to the lies of everyone. Here is the URL:

http://tg.spnet.net/Lebanon-Internet-project.doc

In 2006, VISP got 60 lines from Ogero and ran free dial-up access.

Yes, free dial-up access V90 56K, the first and only one in Lebanon. If you do not believe, or doubt this, please ask around, you will find people who know about it and even use it (I can give a list of 6000 phone numbers who have been used it at least once). Till now it is working and may be tested, the number is 1620, username: visp, password: demo. Stay as much as you want, it is unlimited, no requirements at all - no advertising, banners, restrictions, politics and stuff...

As you may guess, it is mostly used by very poor people, or people from very rural villages where no other access is available at all.

When Jubran Bassil came to power one of his first actions was to stop this. WHY - NO IDEA... He started to send "missionaries" from his ministry to explain that HIS WILL is to have these ports closed by us "You close, else..."

In order to prove the above words, just check the link of the Lebanese MPT with the list of all ISPs and their dial-up numbers:

Ministry Of Telecommunications

Check what stays against VISP --> not available yet

Here is a link from the VISP news:

Virtual ISP - Broadband Internet Provider

Here is a snapshot of the Lebanese MPT website from the time
when Bassil was not yet a minister (check the date):

Ministry Of Telecommunications

(yes, the phone 1620 is present, at least the phone)

Quoted from Teodor Georgiev website.

messenger 2009 stand alone installer

orange infection — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:28:30 GMT

hi , i need the windows live messenger 2009 stand alone installer , or ofline installer
ye3neh you don't need to connect to the internet in order to install
i've found one that didn't work , and other links for rapidshare , i cant download from rapidshare so i need a direct link dakhilkoun :biggrin:
i think the size is something close to 24 mb
can u find me a link ????
i am sure you will help a big number of ppl too
and iza 7adan is living outside lebanon and have a decent connection can he download from rapidshare and host on zshare or filefactory or ifile.it ????
this is the rapidshare link anyway
RapidShare: 1-CLICK Web hosting - Easy Filehosting

Unreal 3 Engine now for FREE

Red Phoenix — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:06:45 GMT

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

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UDK - Unreal Development Kit - Epic Games

this thing used to cost yesterday around 1 million

now all the other indie and pro engines and communities are just gonna go on a PANIC STREAK bcuz of this great news !!

Cosmos, Multiverse and things beyond your imagination

Osiris — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:41:12 GMT

I've been fascinated with the cosmos, Space and Time, the 4th dimension, string theory, the 11th dimension and some other freaky ideas for a while now.. Definitely ideas that makes you think, wonder and dream.

What are we? Where did we come from? Are we alone? What's up there? Whats the 4th dimension? What causes gravity? An infinite universe with with no boundaries!? Multiverse, what the heck!? String theory anyone? The theory of everything?

Let's discuss all that!!

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For now, watch this great interview about the idea of Multiverse.. and let loose your thoughts!

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Dr. Michio Kaku is one of the most respected physicist in the world.
Michio Kaku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Bomb detection rods" is useless

nuclearcat — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:27:19 GMT

The article about Iraq, but i notice this rods in Lebanon at airport, government buildings, ABC. Not surprising, that terrorists put bomb in some time ago ABC. Amazing that people still trust to this rods.
The only possible way to detect explosives - portable "sniffers", that embed inside spectrum analyzers for example.

BAGHDAD — Despite major bombings that have rattled the nation, and fears of rising violence as American troops withdraw, Iraq’s security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless.

The sensor device, known as the ADE 651, from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Iraq has bought more than 1,500 of the devices.

The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works “on the same principle as a Ouija board” — the power of suggestion — said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack, who described the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod.

Still, the Iraqi government has purchased more than 1,500 of the devices, known as the ADE 651, at costs from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Nearly every police checkpoint, and many Iraqi military checkpoints, have one of the devices, which are now normally used in place of physical inspections of vehicles.

With violence dropping in the past two years, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki has taken down blast walls along dozens of streets, and he contends that Iraqis will safeguard the nation as American troops leave.

But the recent bombings of government buildings here have underscored how precarious Iraq remains, especially with the coming parliamentary elections and the violence expected to accompany them.

The suicide bombers who managed to get two tons of explosives into downtown Baghdad on Oct. 25, killing 155 people and destroying three ministries, had to pass at least one checkpoint where the ADE 651 is typically deployed, judging from surveillance videos released by Baghdad’s provincial governor. The American military does not use the devices. “I don’t believe there’s a magic wand that can detect explosives,” said Maj. Gen. Richard J. Rowe Jr., who oversees Iraqi police training for the American military. “If there was, we would all be using it. I have no confidence that these work.”

The Iraqis, however, believe passionately in them. “Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” said Maj. Gen. Jehad al-Jabiri, head of the Ministry of the Interior’s General Directorate for Combating Explosives.

Dale Murray, head of the National Explosive Engineering Sciences Security Center at Sandia Labs, which does testing for the Department of Defense, said the center had “tested several devices in this category, and none have ever performed better than random chance.”

The Justice Department has warned against buying a variety of products that claim to detect explosives at a distance with a portable device. Normal remote explosives detection machinery, often employed in airports, weighs tons and costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. The ADE 651’s clients are mostly in developing countries; no major country’s military or police force is a customer, according to the manufacturer.

“I don’t care about Sandia or the Department of Justice or any of them,” General Jabiri said. “I know more about this issue than the Americans do. In fact, I know more about bombs than anyone in the world.”

He attributed the decrease in bombings in Baghdad since 2007 to the use of the wands at checkpoints. American military officials credit the surge in American forces, as well as the Awakening movement, in which Iraqi insurgents turned against Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, for the decrease.

Aqeel al-Turaihi, the inspector general for the Ministry of the Interior, reported that the ministry bought 800 of the devices from a company called ATSC (UK) Ltd. for $32 million in 2008, and an unspecified larger quantity for $53 million. Mr. Turaihi said Iraqi officials paid up to $60,000 apiece, when the wands could be purchased for as little as $18,500. He said he had begun an investigation into the no-bid contracts with ATSC.

Jim McCormick, the head of ATSC, based in London, did not return calls for comment.

The Baghdad Operations Command announced Tuesday that it had purchased an additional 100 detection devices, but General Rowe said five to eight bomb-sniffing dogs could be purchased for $60,000, with provable results.

Checking cars with dogs, however, is a slow process, whereas the wands take only a few seconds per vehicle. “Can you imagine dogs at all 400 checkpoints in Baghdad?” General Jabiri said. “The city would be a zoo.”

Speed is not the only issue. Colonel Bidlack said, “When they say they are selling you something that will save your son or daughter on a patrol, they’ve crossed an insupportable line into moral depravity.”

Last year, the James Randi Educational Foundation, an organization seeking to debunk claims of the paranormal, publicly offered ATSC $1 million if it could pass a scientific test proving that the device could detect explosives. Mr. Randi said no one from the company had taken up the offer.

ATSC’s promotional material claims that its device can find guns, ammunition, drugs, truffles, human bodies and even contraband ivory at distances up to a kilometer, underground, through walls, underwater or even from airplanes three miles high. The device works on “electrostatic magnetic ion attraction,” ATSC says.

To detect materials, the operator puts an array of plastic-coated cardboard cards with bar codes into a holder connected to the wand by a cable. “It would be laughable,” Colonel Bidlack said, “except someone down the street from you is counting on this to keep bombs off the streets.”

Proponents of the wand often argue that errors stem from the human operator, who they say must be rested, with a steady pulse and body temperature, before using the device.

Then the operator must walk in place a few moments to “charge” the device, since it has no battery or other power source, and walk with the wand at right angles to the body. If there are explosives or drugs to the operator’s left, the wand is supposed to swivel to the operator’s left and point at them.

If, as often happens, no explosives or weapons are found, the police may blame a false positive on other things found in the car, like perfume, air fresheners or gold fillings in the driver’s teeth.

On Tuesday, a guard and a driver for The New York Times, both licensed to carry firearms, drove through nine police checkpoints that were using the device. None of the checkpoint guards detected the two AK-47 rifles and ammunition inside the vehicle.

During an interview on Tuesday, General Jabiri challenged a Times reporter to test the ADE 651, placing a grenade and a machine pistol in plain view in his office. Despite two attempts, the wand did not detect the weapons when used by the reporter but did so each time it was used by a policeman.

“You need more training,” the general said.

Riyadh Mohammed contributed reporting.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: November 5, 2009
An article on Wednesday about a bomb detection device used by the Iraqi security forces that is considered useless and costly by the American military misstated the surname of the leader of ATSC (UK) Ltd., the London-based company that has sold hundreds of the devices to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. He is Jim McCormick, not Mitchell.

PC vs PS3

Vampire — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:26:14 GMT

Personal Computer vs PlayStation 3 ! :AR15firing: :36:
Which is better for gaming?

Sateline ISP.

SputNik — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:27:55 GMT

Anyone tried them ?

INTERNET VIA SATELLITE for the Middle East

Experience amazing speed thanks to the Speed-Pipe TechnologyBased on DVB-S2, any internet data will be compressed right before they are sent to the customer with the new technology called Speed-Pipe Technology. The use of Speed-Pipe Technology will result in a lower price per data volume and at the same time the customer will benefit from a higher throughput of data.

Packages with speed upto 48.000 Kbps
Unlimited downloads 24/7
Priority control
Create and recharge your account through prepaid card or credit card
Start downloading music, movies, and large files in a matter of minutes.

Their website.

Your Favourite FIFA track of all Time!

F�hrer — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:14:44 GMT

I know there are awesome Fifa tracks since Fifa 98 but for the time being I vote for the best of the best, a Fifa 09 track:

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Preparations to launch broadband auction

IA64 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:38:03 GMT

Daily Star staff Saturday, October 31, 2009

BEIRUT: The project to launch an auction for broadband Internet licenses is being prepared, said the executive director of the telecommunication regulatory committee Kamal Shehadeh on Friday. Shehadeh spoke during the Fifth Middle East Network Operators Group meeting (MENOG 5) held at the Movenpick Hotel in Beirut. He said that the committee was dedicated to providing national and international broadband services in Lebanon in order to make the country a leader in broadband technology.

Shehadeh also said that Lebanon should adopt the sixth version of the Internet protocol because the fourth version it was currently adopting would no longer be useful in 2011 and 2012. He added that there was “no escape” from adopting the sixth version and that the Lebanese government, the Telecommunication Ministry and Internet providers should be responsible for executing the change. Shehadeh then said the committee would support the government during this step and stressed that collaboration was necessary for the project to succeed.

The Daily Star - Lebanon News - Preparations under way to launch broadband auction

Best motherboard for core i7 965 ?

IA64 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:35:46 GMT

Any suggestions guys what motherboard to get for the core i7 965 ?

- ASUS P6T6-WS-Revolution

- ASUS Rampage II GENE

- ASUS P6TD Deluxe

- ASUS P6T

- Gigabyte GA-EX58-EXTREME

- Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P

- EVGA X58

Looking for OC with top overall performance ( not gonna really use the 3x SLI )

I heard also bad stories about Jmicron microcontroller but some boards have Marvell. Still not sure what to pick..

Thanks.