In Rainbows downloads confirm: P2P attracts more, far more
Yet another case of stating the obvious by the majors: the statistical analyses on downloads of In Rainbows, the last album of the English band Radiohead which so much has been and continue to be talked about demonstrate the very strong trend among the users to download contents from file sharing, independently by the availability of legal alternatives even at zero price.
Ghostbusters and the Holy Ghost
Sunday afternoon, as usual I’ve eaten too much at dinner and my neurons are hard at carbureting. In TV there are the Olympic Games, Internet throws up to me the usual information overload and I’m in need of some touch of spirit to straighten myself out and to avoid to put my ass on the sofa snoring. In two words I need a comic, but a genial one 
Good Old Games betatesting broadens
Good news from the Good Old Games project, the on-line store that plans to change the retrogaming phenomenon into a business of DRM-free digital downloads. The message sent me via e-mail in these days talks about a success beyond the expectations for the closed beta program, therefore it has been decided to extend to anyone the opportunity to test the system.
Links & Suggestions # 1: Orwell, dumb majors and bogus software
It’s a very rich dish for this first time of “Links & Suggestions“, a category that according to my purpose should become a chest containing those valuable URL addresses that could have been sources for news, analysis and anything else if only I had have the opportunity, the time and the will to engage myself firsthand.
Diablo III loses its art director, but graphic style won’t change at all
Brian Morrisroe, the art director working on the design of Diablo III, has left Blizzard to establish its own startup outside of the videogame business. It has been confirmed by the American software house itself, which has also exhibited the will of proceeding on the artistic path already drawn by Morrisroe for the game in spite of the dissatisfaction it has bred and continues to breed among the hardcore fans of the hack’n slash saga par excellence.
MAME emulates the arcades from Perestroika
Just when you think you have seen emulated any sort of things, it is than that the guys of MAME Italian Forum amaze you with the announcement of a pretty odd addition to the endless heritage of the digital archive of MAME. This time the Borg-emulator created by doc. Nicola Salmoria re-creates S.O.S., a rare example of arcade built in Russia in the period between past and present better known as Perestroika.
The Pentagon “super cracker” will be extradited to the United States
Gary McKinnon, that is the 42 years old Englishman better known as Solo the Pentagon hacker, achieved notoriety in the first years of the new millennium with a series of unauthorized access operations to the most important American computer systems, by which he searched for - as he stated - the truth about the UFOs meanwhile installing backdoors, stealing military secrets and abusing of secret passwords supposedly far from being adequate to the security level of systems they was meant to protect.
Dreamcast on PSP, speaks the author of nullDC
He has recently opened one of the most burning debates in the emulation scene and now drkIIRaziel, maker of the awarded Sega Dreamcast emulator nullDC, steps in to establish some steady points for his last adventure, namely the conversion of the above said software originally developed on PC, for the Sony PlayStation Portable console.
AN Hosting - one month later
Far from wanting to autocelebrate myself for my first month on-line presence, I pin here some notes regarding the choice of the hosting plan that let Sir Arthur’s Den dirty the Web from the capable American servers of AN Hosting, in the hope that they can be useful for who are in search for their home on-line or simply for information about the quality of services offered by the web hosting companies.
A Dreamcast emulator on the PSP? Just a style exercise…
The news run fast, newbies begin to become excited and spread the happy tale: Sony PlayStation Portable is able to emulate the Sega Dreamcast! And the credit of this epochal event would go to the author of nullDC, an emulator that can already reproduce, with remarkable fidelity, the Japanese console on Wintel PCs. Obviously reality is very different, pretty unlikely nullDC will emulate Dreamcast on PSP and his author has ragged a great deal of gullible unable to reckon a bit before exalting themselves for nothing.
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