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Looks like someone figured out the algorithm that Microsoft uses to generate unique codes for their alternative currency: Microsoft Points. We were always a bit baffled by the need to do this sort of thing (Disney dollars, tokens at arcades, etc.) but figured it's just a grift to get you to spend more dough. Looks like this time it may have come back to bite them in the ass with early loss … [Read more...]
With the Pre-CES Keynote made by [Steve Ballmer], the announcement came that the next iteration of their operating system being available in SOC specific form. This will lead to windows being able to run a very diverse hardware set in a much more efficient manner than it does right now. Microsoft displayed 4 different versions of what the next generation prototypes are from 4 different … [Read more...]
Adafruit Technologies has announced the winner of the Open Source Kinect contest. [Hector], who we mentioned yesterday has won, providing both RGB and depth access to the device. Some of you were asking at that time, why the contest was not over yet. Well, Adafruit had to verify. The image you see above are of another user[qdot], verifying the drivers on his machine. What is interesting is … [Read more...]
The competition for the first Open Source driver for the Kinect is heating up. [Marcan42] has released a driver that does video and depth. He was able to do this without an Xbox and you can see it in action after the break. [LadyAda] has been hard at work as well, recording and dumping the data, and even writing a "hello world" that utilizes the motors in the Kinect. We don't know for sure … [Read more...]
[Nathan Long] sent in two fairly simple mods he's been working on. The first is the control of Woot-off Lights via LPT port. A computer checks Woot for the Woot-off logo, and if the logo is spotted, on go the lights. It's really just a twist on the LED/Arduino email message system, but the creativity is nice. His other modification is the stuffing of a Microsoft Intellimouse inside of a … [Read more...]
We often hear people touting the evilness of DRM, but usually they are talking about the idea of ownership. In this case, DRM is actually causing harm. It turns out that Microsoft's msnetobj.dll, which is supposed to enforce DRM on your computer, stopping you from doing certain things like saving files you don't "own" is open to 3 attacks. Vulnerable to buffer overflow, integer overflow, and … [Read more...]
Looks like Microsoft has come up with a pretty slick little keyboard. It's very much like the Optimus, which has an OLED screen in every key, except that it doesn't have a screen in every key. Instead there's just one screen on the whole unit and they keys have been overlayed on top while allowing the image to show through. Brilliant really, since this should drastically reduce the $2400 price tag … [Read more...]
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