Monthly Archives: September 2011

First kernel.org, now mysql.com hacked

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Scali

It was discovered that mysql.com was hacked, and was spreading malware. Shortly after kernel.org, this is another hack of a major distributor of open source software for the linux community (and also hosted on linux). I wonder how many more major … Continue reading →

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Some Bulldozer FX performance indication from AMD themselves

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Scali

During IDF, AMD was present in a nearby hotelroom, as usual. They demonstrated a Bulldozer FX system there: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.hardware.info%2Fnieuws%2F24619%2Feerste-officiele-benchmarks-amd-fx-processor First they showed a comparison between a new unspecified AMD FX processor and an unspecified Intel processor i5 Sandy Bridge, with … Continue reading →

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What people like caveman-jim still don’t get about tessellation…

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Scali

Today I read this post by caveman-jim on the Rage3D forums: “…NVIDIA have lots of smaller tessellators where AMD has a single unit (two in VLIW-4 Cayman). This works great for tessellation factors (the # of subdivision) between 4 and 16, … Continue reading →

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AMD Bulldozer Zambezi FX-8100 benchmarks from SiSoftware

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Scali

On September 3rd, SiSoftware published a review of AMD’s new Zambezi processor, based on the new Bulldozer architecture. After only about 4-5 hours, SiSoftware had to take it down again, but what goes on the internet, stays on the internet, it … Continue reading →

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Phoronix: FreeBSD: A Faster Platform For Linux Gaming Than Linux?

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Scali

Just noticed this article, benchmarking linux games running on Ubuntu against the same linux games running on PC-BSD with the linux ABI: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_games_bsd The results might surprise some. It would appear that FreeBSD is more efficient at driving the video … Continue reading →

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Porting BHM3DSample to iPhone: some Objective-C++ and OpenGL ES development

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Scali

I have been playing with some Java code recently, while working on C# support for BHM files. My old Java 3d engine used BHM, and I wanted to backport some of the new C# parsing magic to Java. It was … Continue reading →

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The kernel.org hack

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Scali

Kernel.org got hacked recently, the following text can be read on their frontpage: Security breach on kernel.org Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised.  We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that … Continue reading →

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