Progressive Coder
DivX Shiny New Features
> We here at DivX like to spend our time making things work faster, better, and with some serious style. With that in mind we’ve just finished a whole bunch of work on the DivX decoder, including many performance quality enhancements that we know you’re going to love!
Got to say the sharpening [...]
:: Reviews : Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think
> I thought to myself, “Why not use this opportunity to try a fresh install of this ‘Windows XP’ I keep hearing so much about.” So I grabbed an all-in-one Intel board, and a spare 200GB IDE hard-drive we had kicking [...]
Security Fix – Brian Krebs on Computer and Internet Security – (washingtonpost.com)
> Finally, it’s worth a follow-up mention that — as promised — the IE patch bundle also removes a component left behind by a patch designed to remove some of the more dangerous features of anti-piracy software installed by Sony BMG music CDs.
Heh. [...]
Microsoft Touts Vista’s Restart Manager Feature
> Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.
About time, Unixen have had this since way back when. Rebooting is a horrible solution, [...]
Changelog, Download
Core support:
Internal strings handling is now UTF-8 based
New OSD system
Video output:
Fixed problems with OpenGL output
New –monitor-par (pixel aspect ratio) option
Fixed display problems with HDTV-1080 format
Input:
Improved DVB support for satellite bands other than Ku-band
IPv6 and Extended passive mode support for FTP
IPv6 Source Specific Multicast support
GnomeVFS [...]