By Shamly, on July 28th, 2010
This month ATI has released version 10.7 of the ATI catalyst driver. This is not a major update, but what caught my eye was the GPU acceleration feature for VLC media player. This update enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – enabling a better user experience by consuming less system resources with either a 4000 or 5000 series GPU.
h.264 (A.K.A Advanced Video Coding) is a standard for video compression and is supported by many of the big companies such as Apple, Microsoft and Google and this means that there are going to be more video content encoded using this codec.
Here is what is new in this month’s update!
New Windows Features
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 release for Microsoft Windows include:
ATI Eyefinity Technology – Enhancements for HydraVision™
- Maximizing a window across multiple displays will now take user defined bezel compensation into account
- Automatically adjusts window position when dragging and dropping windows to ensure title bar visibility
- Proper dialog box placement – dialogs do not cross displays, are not hidden behind bezels, and can be designated to be shown on the users “preferred” display
Enhanced Pull-down detection
- The Pull-down detection algorithm has been enhanced for higher visual quality on certain types of video content
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of GPUs
ATI CrossFireX™ technology – support for rotated displays
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ enables end users running supported ATI CrossFireX™ configurations to rotate their displays (single or ATI Eyefinity display configurations) and still enjoy the performance benefits of ATI CrossFireX™ technology
ATI Radeon™ GPU acceleration of VLC 1.1.1 Media Player
- Enables GPU acceleration of h.264 video content when using the VLC 1.1.1 Media Player – enabling a better user experience by consuming less system resources
- Supported on the ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 and ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series of GPU products
- Requires VLC version 1.1.1 and later
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux 10.7 release include:
Support for new Linux operating systems
- This release of ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
- Ubuntu 10.04 production support
ATI Eyefinity support
- ATI Catalyst™ driver for Linux 10.7 provides support for ATI Eyefinity technology under all supported Linux distributions
For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 release notes.
To download the driver, click here
By Shamly, on July 25th, 2010
Believe it or not, public IPv4 address space will be exhausted in less than a year, says John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). Only 4 billion internet addresses are possible under the current system and all but 6% have already been allocated.
Continue reading Running out of IPv4 addresses in less than one year
By Shamly, on July 23rd, 2010
Mozilla started the plugin check program to help users keep their plugins up to date. Outdated plugins are a major source of security and stability risk for web users.
Continue reading How to Check for Outdated Plugins
By Shamly, on July 22nd, 2010
Mozilla has shipped a mega patch for Firefox to fix a total of 14 moderate to critical security flaws that expose Web surfers to attacks by hackers.
Impact key:
- Critical: Vulnerability can be used to run attacker code and install software, requiring no user interaction beyond normal browsing.
- High: Vulnerability can be used to gather sensitive data from sites in other windows or inject data or code into those sites, requiring no more than normal browsing actions.
- Moderate: Vulnerabilities that would otherwise be High or Critical except they only work in uncommon non-default configurations or require the user to perform complicated and/or unlikely steps.
Below is a list of bugs fixed in the latest release:
- Cross-origin data leakage from script filename in error messages
- Cross-domain data theft using CSS
- Multiple location bar spoofing vulnerabilities
- Characters mapped to U+FFFD in 8 bit encodings cause subsequent character to vanish
- Same-origin bypass using canvas context
- Cross-origin data disclosure via Web Workers and importScripts
- Remote code execution using malformed PNG image
- nsTreeSelection dangling pointer remote code execution vulnerability
- nsCSSValue::Array index integer overflow
- Arbitrary code execution using SJOW and fast native function
- Plugin parameter EnsureCachedAttrParamArrays remote code execution vulnerability
- Use-after-free error in NodeIterator
- DOM attribute cloning remote code execution vulnerability
- Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:1.9.2.7/ 1.9.1.11)
By Shamly, on July 21st, 2010
In Web development, a mashup is a Web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services. Mashups have gained popularity in the last few years.
The term implies easy, fast integration, frequently using APIs and data sources to produce enriched results that were not necessarily the original reason for producing the raw source data. Early mashups took data from sources such as google, twitter, etc and combined them with other services to create visualizations of the data.
The mashup architecture is divided into three layers:
Continue reading Mashup
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