OK, it’s time to set up google apps via the HTC Hero.  It’s syncing everything right now.

Good buy.  w00t

OnLive Cloud Gaming Service to Launch in June

Matt Peckham

Mar 10, 2010 1:37 pm

For the price of a low-end PC plus a monthly fee you’ll soon be able to play ultra-high-end games like Borderlands, Mass Effect 2, Assassin’s Creed 2, and Crysis. According to VentureBeat, the service, dubbed OnLive, will launch in June after eight years of research and development, offer up to 720p-caliber high-def gameplay, and cost $14.95 a month.

Billed as a games-on-demand service, OnLive handles all the intensive game processing on the server side, so your local computer doesn’t have to. What you see is tantamount to a “screen-scrape” video feed send to your client device. All the intensive computing that might normally convert the insides of your homebrew rig into a mini-bake oven renders instead in the cloud.

It’s an ancient concept in computing terms–the model’s existed since mainframes and green-screens, in fact–but until recently, no one’s come up with a system to transfer high-bandwidth video with low enough latency to pass muster with gamers.

(for more, see the full article @ http://www.pcworld.com/article/191197/onlive_cloud_gaming_service_to_launch_in_june.html/)

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This is an interesting VPN concept, perhaps to allow you to run a home https web server, but to make your content available to users stuck behind the Great Firewall, etc.

https://blog.perfect-privacy.com/2009/06/30/perfect-privacy-remote-port-forwarding/

Though from long work in the security arena, keep in mind that “no solution is 100%” . . .

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PuSHPress: A PubSubHubbub Plugin For WordPress

PubSubHubbub, or PuSH, is now supported on all WordPress.com blogs. For those running sites using the WordPress.org software the PuSHPress plugin is available to do the same thing. The big difference in this plugin compared to the other PuSH WordPress plugins is that it includes a PuSH hub built in.

A little bit of PubSubHubbub background

Like rssCloud, PuSH adds a line to your feed to let clients know where they can send PuSH subscription requests. In the RSS2 feed this looks like . . .

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µTorrent for USB

a (very) tiny BitTorrent client on a (very) tiny USB

µTorrent for USB combines a special edition of the world’s most popular BitTorrent client on a tiny microSD powered USB for ultimate portability and convenience.

No installation required

μTorrent for USB is a pre-installed special edition of µTorrent that runs directly from the USB. There’s no installation or administrative privileges required to use the client.

Self contained downloads

All application files (µTorrent executable, configuration files, temporary files) and file downloads (torrents, data files) stay on the USB, not on the host PC. In addition, there are no leftovers on the local hard drive or the Windows registry.

Transportable

µTorrent for USB is a fully portable torrent client that enables torrenting anywhere you go. Stop your download at any time and take the USB with you. Next time you are at a PC, just insert the USB and pick up where you left off. With µTorrent for USB, take your torrents anywhere you go – home, school, cafe, work.

Available NOW in 8GB or 16GB

Choose the size of USB that fits your lifestyle. Each USB is fully functional as a traditional storage drive with the added convenience of microSD. Downloaded content can be copied or backed-up to other disk and USB flash memory or its microSD card is compatible with many TVs, STBs, and mobile phones.

Product contents

• USB Flash Memory drive adaptor
• microSD flash memory card (8GB or 16GB)
• Pre-installed µTorrent for USB application and configuration files

System Requirements

• Windows XP, Vista or 7
• For Macintosh, µTorrent will not work. You can use as USB memory.

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Good bits, highly recommended !  A 10g ramdisk did wonder for my transcoding, since it was i/o bound from Raid 5, under Win7 x64.

http://memory.dataram.com/products-and-services/software/ramdisk “From DataRam”

• Speed up Internet page load times
• Control what files and programs are stored into memory (loaded at boot time)
• Create temporary disks for added security
• Speed up disk-to-disk activities such as video encryption and audio ripping
• Accelerate databases
• Reduce compile times

RAMDisk features:

• Freeware version (up to 4 GB disk size). Please register with Dataram for larger disks (there is no charge).
• Universal version for WindowsXP/2000, Vista (32 and 64-bit) Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate, Windows Server 2003 Standard, Web and Enterprise Edition
• Up to 32 GB disk in Vista and Windows 2003, 2008 Server (registered mode)
• Save and load features allow RAMDisk to appear as persistent storage even through reboots
• Supports Windows 7

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(this next bit can affect everything from certain web transactions, to VoIP, to full disk encryption . . .)

AES-NI Performance Analyzed; Limited To 32nm Core i5 CPUs

Credit : Nicholas Fong,  who also has many other helpful articles at his site.

For the latest version of his accumulated guide / information, please see the authentic SFTP server under Cygwin article at http://pigtail.net/LRP/printsrv/cygwin-sshd.html )

It worked fine for me in Windows 7 on the first shot.  While I’d already been using Cygwin, the instructions were clear, though I did follow the Vista section at step 5.  The version I used was dated November 18, 2009.

Good luck!

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Pretty nifty use in javascript : http://point-at-infinity.org/jsaes/

Also nice : http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ and http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/ (also both crypto related . . .)

N.B.  I was sorely tempted to post an image relating to the futility of trying to contain crypto / ideas that was penned on flesh, in an image titled “howto-export-crypto-system-from-usa.jpg” (!)

But I resisted, as I try to keep this site friendly even to the most prudish families, etc.
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