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Windows8

Yesterday had Microsoft shown to us in their 3 hour long presentation what is Windows 8 about.

I was watching about 2 hours from that presentation and I did like some of the new cool features like ISO and VHD mounting, new awesome task manager, multi monitor settings and behaviour , the “up” button in directory structure etc…

There were also things I did not like at all, and that goes for the ribbon menu for the explorer (not talking about the IE) that you know from Office 2007 and newer. Also I am not a big fan of the Metro UI, even though I know that normal “user” will be happy with it  and it can be disabled. But Microsoft does really push the developers to develop apps for this UI.

There will be also alot of cloud services going on, you will be able to login to any PC with your Windows Live account and it will setup the way you like, and you will have access to all your files that are on the cloud and even on other computers or devices (phone, tablet etc.).

Generally, seems nice and usable. Anyways you can see for your self. 

Here are official links to download Windows 8 dev preview version.

Windows8 x64 64bit + dev tools DOWNLOAD  (4.8 GB)

Windows8 x64 64bit DOWNLOAD  (3.6 GB)

Windows8 x86 32bit DOWNLOAD  (2.8 GB)

For those who do not want to test it, here is the link for the presentation http://www.buildwindows.com/

[UPDATE]

I had finished testing both 32 and 64bit versions on virtual box. All worked well, except you need to set 128mb of VGA ram and intel network card to have network running. VGA drivers from the host additions are not functional yet. It did not work using MS Virtual PC at all … so , yeah… lol.

After I tested few things, and the boot-up is really 6-9 seconds long, wow … I must say, that I hate it… , mainly because of absence of START menu, inability to use desktop as it was in any other previous windows, and the Metro UI… only good for “non super users” , but do not take my words seriously try it by your self.

Sahara 2011

Sahara 2011 a gathering of modern and historical military technology.

Now I was at Sahara for the first time this year, and I was overwhelmed by the amount of vehicles and tanks that were present.

Some of them were not functional but most of them, like 90% was fully functional in excelent condition.

For everyone who is interested in military stuff and does live near Slovakia and town Senica this is a “can’t miss” event.

Shooting from old guns, machineguns, explosions and tank fire using live ammo, now that was real fun.

Can’t stand the silence :S

10 days without listening to my favorite radio station made me to rebuild the “new / old” kawaii-radio player …
The new player named : Kawaii Radio Player, obviously named after our beloved radio station does support almost any radio station, sadly all good known features like requesting, IRC and rating had to be removed bacause they were made only single purpose for the kawaii-radio.net radio station.
If you are previous user, the old player will prompt for update.

I already packed in to the player some anime related radio so it is not so plain.

You can download the player here : DOWNLOAD

Kawaii-radio.net gone forever?

It seems that kawaii-radio.net was shutdown for good, at first I thought that the domain expired and anoymous_object forgot to pay the invoice, but now after 6 days of “silence” it seems it will not get back any time soon. I was unable to get some explanation why did such thing happened and since kawaii-radio player which I made, became obsolete it was removed from the download section.

If I will have some more information about the issue I will report it here for sure.

UAC development progress update

Hi all,
We decided to speed things up so we did skip some tests and progressed already to next stage.

We have implemented all 8 scan systems which are functional, and now we are working on client/server communication. We had plenty of time to play with them so we optimized their CPU usage even more.

If all goes well, next UAC might get released in very short time, I am speaking of 1-2 months.

Stay tuned!

UAC development update (day 97)

Hello guys,
Today is the 97th day since work on the UAC3 successor has started.
We had many work to do regarding server move and optimizations, nevertheless we are still moving forward with the development.
Our alpha testing group will soon get their hands on another batch of tests that will focus on the detection accuracy.
I did had personal test today, and it did perform as expected with 100% positive results. The strain put on the CPU was lowered from 11% (UAC3) to 5% (UAC4) on my PC thus I expect much less lag on older computers in time of scanning.

Oh, and we want to get rid of the numbering convention of the Universal AntiCheat, it was a bit pain to register new domain for every new version users than must change their links on pages etc., so we made it a bit easy and we will stay at : www.uac.ac for good.

Stay tuned for more info next week after our tests.