PSP: The Reincarnation | Sony making a new Playstation Portable ?

After announcing the new PSP last Wednesday, Sony had told that the new PSP would be a clear winner in the handheld console segment, though it didn’t say why.

After waiting for nearly 72 hours, DailyTech has found out the following :

1. The new UMD drive has the caching feature which loads the game directly on-board.

2. The photos captured by Joystiq revevals that the UMD caching function is the new feature of the upcoming PSP. With the new UMD caching, the game titles will load faster. The firmware used at E3 was 3.6

3. You can charge the battery via the USB, as the previous PSP used only the USB for transferring data.

4. Sony also announced that the new PSP battery will last for 8-10 hrs.

OUR TAKE: The above points seems promising, lets wait and see.

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ORKUT: Most Popular among INDIANS

I was thinking for many days, even before PC WORLD gave its verdict in its July edition about Orkut, to write a worthy review of this Great hangout zone, which has, I think third biggest fan following, (of course after US and Brazil, the reason? we are not yet NET-WoRkeD !) in Inida, among all social networking sites.

Ok, enough of my pending plans, the cheerful thing for Orkut develpment community and all of us (Yes me also ! I am also a die hard member and fan of Orkut).

Prestigious PC WORLD Magazine in its July 2007 edition has given ORKUT,

PC World India’s Award for the “Best Social Networking Website

from among half a dozen competitors, who were nominated.

ORKUT new “What’s New” Blog says:

Thanks to our loyal and active orkut Indian community. We’re flattered and proud to have won, especially up against some stiff competition from a half dozen other great sites.

And the reason that PC WORLD gives is:

“The article explains that orkut’s simplicity won the judges over: “In terms of user experience it is the easiest to navigate, with its straightforward, uncomplicated and clean interface.”

Anyways, all die-hard fans who use Orkut, daily, hourly, every minute or so, will tell you what it is, apart from, of couse, dating and just casual networking.

I am using it to create an innovative network of students, of my college, which i am yet to join !, and it already is giving the outstanding results. I hope it doesn’t needs any more review, fact or evidence, to be the best if not anywhere, but in the countries where it has big fan following, INDIA for sure.

I don’t say all other competitors are of no use, but yes it is one of the biggest, most easy, simple interface, even an 8 year old can just sign and catch up, within minutes and hours.

And it is every now and then adding whole set of new and innovative features, like videos and now, Rss feeds and lots more, and all the hype that everyone and media is creating about its security and privacy issues are, not a issue, i mean if u join a social network, why won’t u ever want, that someone views your profile and contacts you?, you do the whole thing for this only.

And the best part, it is among the best-of-all Google services.

Our take: If you don’t care about what others say and use, and you don’t want to experiment with new networks, and want just your type, simple and working network, start ORKUTTING ! What are you waiting for?

 

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Google Hacked/Not hacked or DNS glitch …..full story

Yesterday around 12 or 1 pm ( IST ) I experienced a-not-so-common glitch, or whatever, in Google services.

Gmail just refused to open, orkut opened but login form was nowhere, then after testing many services like Firefox start page, i realized the problem was with Google itself or the Google authentication or whatever ( I am not that big geek to experience all these).

But after a day, i.e. today, i realized the problem did happened, and the most probable reasons behind it. I am giving here excerpts from engadget.com and gigaom.com :

engadget:

 

Not normally something we’d cover, but damn, is Google down? Is such a thing even possible? Anyone know what’s going on?

UPDATE: They’re back! Seriously, anyone have any idea what happened?

UPDATE 2: GigaOm has a screengrab of a site called SoGoSearch that Google.com was redirecting to for a little while there. Sounds like somebody got themselves hacked!

UPDATE 3: Ok, to be fair, no one knows for sure that Google got hacked, this story is still developing. But hacked or not, something pretty catastrophic must have happened for them to have a system-wide outage like that. Sounds like there may have been some sort of Denial of Service attack, whether that was combined with a redirect of some kind isn’t entirely clear. We’ll keep you posted.

UPDATE 4: Google is now saying it was a DNS issue. They haven’t said what the source of the issue was.

gigaom:

Recap: 6:13PM PST: Google was not hacked, but instead had a DNS problem. For some readers the site was redirecting to the SoGoSearch page. That continues to fox me, and I plan to investigate further. All services have been restored. I find it amazing: Google is now as integrated in our lives as a phone company, or heaven forbid, TV networks. Multiple experts say that the screen grab I got was result of broswers not being able to resolve to Google.com, and instead stumbled upon google.com.net (com.net is the SoGoSearch website, and they have a wildcard match). Once Google’s DNS was restored, browsers stopped the appending, and started functioning normally.

Update #6: Yet another screen shot And another one, plus looks like someone swiped the domain name. Larry Magid was on the local CBS radio talking about the Google’s great vanishing trick.

Update #5: Everything back to normal. All Google services are working. Though as an aside, Google has reached the full capacity for its Web Accelerator Beta.

Update # 4: More from Mr. Krane of Google: BTW, this was not the result of a hack or any kind of security issue. “Yes, it was a DNS issue. We’re seeing things as fully restored as of more than 30 min. ago. You’re the first to send such a screen shot and report this kind of issue. I’ll bounce it to the tech staff and will keep you posted.” I got another screenshot which was as of 5.08 PM PST. Not sure if I am having this problem in specific or others noticing the same issue. I use comcast as broadband provider. Any updates people?

Update #3: David Krane, the big cheese @ Google PR wrote back a few seconds ago and had this to add, “Google’s global properties were unavailable for a short period of time earlier today. We’ve remedied the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide.”

Update #2: Some people are saying in the comments here and over at Engadget, that Google might have been in middle of a DNS software switch. I still can’t believe that a strange image would just show up there.

Update #1: Some people say they have it back, but I am still having trouble logging in to my Gmail. And still not getting Google homepage. I have left voice mail and sent emails to Google’s PR people and their hotline. Not sure, what’s going on precisely but will be on the story. 03.11 PM, PST: Looks like we are having a Google outage - apparently someone has hijacked their Domain, and something called SoGoSearch is showing up instead. GMail was down as well. Google ads are not being served up as well. Am I the only one, or did you guys feel the webquake as well? Man if this is a hack, then we now know nothing - not even god, I mean Google is safe! Is this someone’s idea of teaching them a lesson? Or has the Web Accelerator shown its true colors? Lots of unanswered questions. Here is a screen grab by the way!

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Tutorial Installing Compilers (GCC,G++ and Java) on UBUNTU

Installing compilers is one of the easiest things there out at Linux. It may seem a bit tough and complicated in the beginning but apt-get and Synaptic Package Manager simplify your work a lot. As a newbie developer you would require a C/C++ and a Java compiler. Installing
them is a matter of few commands.

The GNU C and GNU C++ Compiler: The GNU C compiler is also called gcc and C++ is called g++. You may also require the GNU make utility. All of them can get installed by getting the build-essential package.

Just use this command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
The GNU Java Compiler: Firstly note that this compiler is not the one provided by Sun. The GNU Java compiler is named as gcj. Just install the package gcjTo install the GNU Java bytecode interpreter, install the gij package.

To have gcj compile to executables, install libgcj6-dev Use the command: sudo apt-get install gcj gij libgcj6-dev

this post is courtesy of: www.manishtech.info [aka Tech Hangout]

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Download md5 checksum generator for windows

 

Md5 is one of the widely used hash function. It can take any string or data to generate a 32 character hexadecimal hash output string. The randomness of this hash function is one of the superior features. Even if we change an ‘a’ with ‘b’ in the input it results in completely different output which makes the trend very difficult to guess. This has led to its widespread use. You might be noticing that when downloading files the checksum of the file has been given. If the checksum of the downloaded file matched with that provided, it means the download is proper.

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