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Open Graphic Card – An Alternative to Nvidia, ATI

I guess GNU/Linux users may have already familiar with the problem related to to 3d graphic cards available nowadays. While they work fine on your Linux operating system, their 3D hardware acceleration heavily depends on closed source binary-only driver.

This means that the driver bloats the system, taints the kernel, and even threat the stability of the operating system. Closed source driver means that we’ve to depend on the vendor for new releases of graphic card driver and bugfixes.

open graphic card

The open graphic card solves those problem by making all specification of the graphic card available under the terms of GNU General Public License. The open graphic card is 3D accelerated video card which is fully documented, free-licensed, and available as open source driver.

Though the open graphic card is not as powerful as the current latest ATI and NVIDIA graphic card, the project itself seems promising, with the prospect of supported free operating system such as GNU/Linux and BSD variant operating system.

According to its website, the PCI and AGP version of the graphic card is given priority first than PCI-express interface. Due to low production output, the estimated card will cost about USD 200, but it will support 3D hardware acceleration nevertheless.

Visit Open Graphics Card website for more information

graphic card,nvidia,ati,radeon,linux,opensource, open source,3d acceleration,agp,games,hardware

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This is my favourite chicken

For your information I’ve a chicken coop in my backyard, and this is my favorite chicken.

I found it while it was wandering around the backyard at 8pm, it’s chirping sounds alarmed me to look for it. After that i started to care for it in my house until it has grown up.

chicken,chicks,ayam,hen,birds,bantham

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How to get USB Drive for less than RM20 (USD 5)

o you own a mobile phone that uses RS-MMC, DV RS-MMC or mini-SD card?

Have you recently upgraded your phone’s memory card? What happened to the old memory card that came with the phone? Do you keep it in some drawer, give it to a friend? or just manage to lose it somehow?

Well today I would like to share with you something that I’ve done with an excess 64MB DV RS MMC card that I own.


  

All you need is to get portable memory card reader, I use the one produced by Edge (http://www.edge.net.my), you can get it from your local computer store or Lelong for RM12-18. The memory card supports RS MMC/DV RS MMC/SD/Mini SD card, and its surely flexible, the memory card didn’t fell off the slot even when I carried it everywhere.

      

Already bought one? Then insert the DV RS MMC (without adapter) to the card reader and voila! You’ve a USB drive for a cost less than RM20 (that’s USD 5 for comparison). Heh, It’s even supported on my Ubuntu Linux.

Portable Card Reader

So keep this in mind the next time you’re upgrading your mobile phone memory card.

memory card, mmc, flash memory, usb drive, ubuntu, linux, debian, card reader, rs-mmc,thumbdrive

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Debian Project’s machine has been compromised!

Debian Project machine gluck.debian.org has been compromised yesterday and the machine has been taken offline, meaning that the following services will be unavailable temporarily :
cvs, ddtp, lintian, people, popcon, planet, ports, release

source : Debian mailing list

My thoughts
Debian should audit their software more often. Although it’s clearly hard to maintain a distro that supports many platforms/processor as Debian, but at least they should do regular check on the security of their own machine to prevent this thing from happening again.

Btw, when the last time you heard Debian made a major release?

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ThinkAll free software CDs, becareful with them

Think All Publishing LL is one of many companies that make profits from distributing free CDs around the world.

If you ever gone to ThinkAll website or clicked on one of their advertisement, chances that you will get to order Free CD (4 to be exact) offer from them with minimal shipping cost (USD 2.95 or so).

Be warned, think twice before you request any Free CDs from them, because there’s a sleazy clause in their Terms of Use gave them permission to charge your credit card with USD21.95 each for 2 CD (the other two is given free).

Another thing that may suprised you is that you’re automatically ‘subscribed’ to their monthly 4 CD offer which you will be charged USD41.90 per month. So becarefull when dealing with Think All.

Should you’ve already ordered the “free” CD from Think All, the best you can do is to cancel your subscription by going to http://www.thinkall.com/freeCD.htm (which is randomly changed according to some) to avoid being billed further by the company.

You could also call their (carefully hidden) customer support line at +1800 4628 144 or +1902 462 6085 to cancel your free cds. Remember, think twice before ordering CDs from Thinkall.com

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