Released: Android Source Code

Android is the first free, open source, and fully customizable mobile platform. Android offers a full stack: an operating system, middleware, and key mobile applications. It also contains a rich set of APIs that allows third-party developers to develop great applications.


To get started with the source code, see Get source.

If you are an application developer, visit the Android SDK site.

Link: http://source.android.com/

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Nehalem as 'Core i7' Processor

Intel has announced that the upcoming Nehalem processor will be officially known as the Core i7.

Nehalem has been the code name for Intel's upcoming processors first due in Q4 2008. Nehalem represents a major overhaul of Intel's processor technology and introduces a number of improvements over existing process bottlenecks.

Intel's choice of name seems to be arbitrary but will reportedly fit into the naming scheme for the full line of chips, as explained by TGDaily.com:

Intel told us that “i7” was simply chosen because it is “short and sweet”. The company showed some understanding for our confusion over this name choice and promised that i7 would make sense down the road when additional new identifiers are introduced.

Intel is expected to reveal more information about the Core i7 at the Intel Developer Forum on August 19th. At the conference, Intel will also detail a new energy saving technique in the i7:

Intel would not reveal the nature of the new energy efficiency feature in the Core i7 chips. A company spokesman said it is not a direct evolution of the Intel's SpeedStep technology that automates frequency scaling based on workloads.

While the first of the Core i7 processors will be introduced in Q4 2008, mainstream desktop and mobile versions of the processor will be delayed until well into 2009.

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Super Mario War 1.8 Beta 1 Released!

SMW is a fun, addicting open-source multiplayer game tribute to Nintendo.

Super Mario War is a Super Mario multiplayer game.
The goal is to stomp as many other Marios as possible to win the game.
It's a tribute to Nintendo and the game Mario War by Samuele Poletto.

The game uses artwork and sounds from Nintendo games. We hope that this noncommercial fangame qualifies as fair use work. We just wanted to create this game to show how much we adore Nintendo's characters and games.

It is finally here! Here is SMW 1.8 Beta 1 for PC:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/9/11/1425938/smw-1.8-beta1-bin.zip - Currently down.
http://srpgp.supersanctuary.net/smw-1.8-beta1-bin.zip

Mac OS X port:
http://www.mediafire.com/?biupixt4imy

Linux port:
http://srpgp.supersanctuary.net/smw-1.8 ... ary.tar.gz

The xbox build is available in the usual places...

Sourced: http://smw.72dpiarmy.com/

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Fix Virus Alert in System Clock

Open the registry and edit the ff:

1. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\International\sTimeFormat


2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductId

Close the registry and reboot the machine.

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Wine 1.0 RC3 Released

"What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Bug fixes only, we are in code freeze."

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Bugs fixed in 1.0-rc3:

2368 Wine loses its X-Window when switching to another virt. desktop in Fvwm
4468 advapi32: Fulltilt Poker hangs (GetCurrentHwProfileA is a stub)
4652 Adobe Dreamweaver MX 2004 installs well but does not run.
6206 riched20:Live Person crashes
7214 wine_dbg_vprintf: debugstr buffer overflow (contents: 'err:msvcrt:demangle_datatype Unknown type ')
7318 supertux 0.3 freezes (dsound bug)
7904 C&C 3 setup displays empty window
7979 S.t.a.l.k.e.r. - some objects appear over-bright or too dark
8043 Dreamfall: speech gets skipped in dialogues
8129 Acomba: Freezes after closing an unsaved invoice
8408 unimplemented function ntoskrnl.exe.memset
9799 Textures on vehicles are too dark in GTA Vice City!
10025 Cyrillic glyphs are missing in built-in Tahoma Bold
11248 fixme:winsock:WSASocketW Unsupported socket family -1!
11389 ABBYY FineReader 7.0 Professional Edition crashes at start
11822 All applications over VNC: Applications freeze for any letters input
11914 DestroyContext in dlls/wined3d/device.c causes regression in Everquest2
11929 Audiosurf: Questviewer.exe crashes with page fault.
11989 Arindal.exe Text-Windows not displayed correctly
11991 OpenGL regression in Hitman 2 and Hitman 3
12192 SupCom Addon: No units visible
12322 Sacrifice game crashes in full screen mode
12455 Warcraft III 1.21b - Crashes with Fatal Error on Switch Desktop
12540 Favourites menu doesn't work as expected
13102 WinterMute Engine drawing window bug
13120 dzh2 crashes on startup
13148 Guitar Pro 5 Crashes (maybe audio problem)
13154 Jedi Academy: launcher freezes when button clicked
13277 Return to Mysterious Island crashes
13342 Winedbg doesn't handle longlong's well
13372 Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 / Acrobat Reader 8 -- install fails
13395 Guild wars not start
13403 fcc hangs , unless using native dbghelp
13420 Hang on first keypress
13475 Sytray icon totally transparent
13476 SQLyog community edition : Cannot connect to a remote DB through gSTM tunnel

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for more information visit http://www.winehq.org/?announce=1.0-rc3

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Microsoft wants to buy FAST Search Engine for 1.2 billion

Microsoft offers 1.2 billion to buy FAST (Fast Search and Transfer) enterprise search engine last tuesday.

Microsoft is likely to raise a ruckus in enterprise search and force consolidation among FAST’s rivals. Microsoft can bundle FAST with its Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and probably poach some features for its consumer search if warranted. And Microsoft will gladly take FAST’s search engineering talent. I did an overview of enterprise search last year and highlighted how long it takes to deploy. In a nutshell, enterprise search is more complicated than slapping in a search appliance because you have unstructured data.

In a statement, Jeff Raikes, president of Microsoft’s Business Division, said:

“Until now organizations have been forced to choose between powerful, high-end search technologies or more mainstream, infrastructure solutions. The combination of Microsoft and FAST gives customers a new choice: a single vendor with solutions that span the full range of customer needs.”

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Windows Update Problem (KB898461 - Package Installer)

Windows Update KB898461 (Package Installer) is not installing...

Windows Update KB898461 (Package Installer) is not installing. To fix the issue with installing KB898461 (Package Installer) simply rename the file: c:\windows\system32\spupdsvc.exe to c:\windows\system32\spupdsvc.old and then try the update again either through Windows Update or from the full installer which can be downloaded here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=50c334e1-9a67-4b99-a65a-069b79267856%26DisplayLang=en

It should now complete successfully and allow you to start getting other updates as well.

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Vista Transformation Pack 8.0.1 is out

Vista Transformation Pack 8 is now available. Makes your Windows XP look even more like Vista.
Later version of vista trans are lucking of the most Vista's eye candy, but now it's all grown up, with new features of Vista's eye candy is what you get.

Added new features:

-Added CPU Speed information in Welcome Center
-Added saving setup information file to save setup configuration for later uses with unattended transformation support
-Added installation background
-Added “System optimized” in Setup Configuration to configure the user account corresponding to machine’s spec
-Added TrueTransparency 0.8.5 (Glass border with ported AeroStyle skin)
-Added WinFlip 0.42 (Vista 3DFlip).

Note: create first a system restore, it's better you have a backup if something go wrong. :D

You can download it on the developer's website. http://www.windowsxlive.net

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How to reset/remove TrendMicro OfficeScan uninstall password

Edit Ofcscan.ini file.

**On Windows.95/98 machines it is usually in C:\Windows\Ofcscan.ini
**On Windows.NT/2K machines it is usually in C:\WINNT\Ofcscan.ini (May also be in C:\Program Files\...)

1) Open the Ofcscan.ini file using notepad search for the [INI_CLIENT_SECTION]
2) Find the line reading Uninstall_Pwd= and type a # at the beginning of the line to comment it out.
3) Insert a new line saying Uninstall_Pwd=70
4) Save the Ofcscan.ini file and retry the uninstall. When it prompts you for a password, enter a '1'.

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Running IE On Linux -- And Running Windows XP For Free (Sort Of)

Yes, I know the headline sounds like the fodder for a joke: "Run IE on Linux? Why would you want to?" But there are circumstances where it's unavoidable -- compatibility testing, or accessing IE-only sites without dual-booting -- and in the last few weeks I've come across a couple of interesting approaches to this issue.

The first approach is a script called IEs4Linux by Brazilian programmer Sérgio Luís Lopes Júnior, which is essentially a way to install IE from its original cabinet files and run it under Wine. Specific instructions are included for all the major distributions -- Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, SUSE, PCLinuxOS, and others -- and each step of the instructions are spelled out in clear detail. IE7 isn't fully supported, but a beta version of the script accomplishes a nifty trick -- it places the IE7 rendering engine inside the IE6 user interface. Keep in mind that in the disclaimer for the project notes, it's mentioned that you need to have at least one valid Windows license to install IE to be in full compliance with the EULA. (I also imagine it's now that much easier to pull all this off since IE7 no longer requires WGA to work.)

Another way to run IE on Linux comes courtesy of Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) itself, sort of. If you're running Microsoft Virtual PC or using VMWare (which can convert Microsoft's .VHD format) you can download a virtual machine image from Microsoft that contains a preactivated installation of Windows XP with Service Pack 2, preloaded with your choice of Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7, and use it in the VMWare Player. The image in question is timed to expire on Dec. 7, 2007, but I've seen previous editions of this VHD offered before, and each time it's about to expire Microsoft has offered a refreshed version which times out in about 4-6 months.

If you've got other approaches to this particular problem (sorry, "just use Firefox" doesn't count here), feel free to share them.

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