Shattered Horizon Free Weekend 5th and 6th June.

NEWSFLASH!!!!!!
The largest format of Battlefield 2 gaming is back and its going to be bigger than ever. That’s right, Community Carnage 4 is here.

With Freewheelin and GameArena once more supporting the community by providing a sever to host the match on, it means that once more everyone in the community can get out there and enjoy Battlefield the way it’s meant to be played, large format 31 v 31.

netGameRadio, Australia’s premier casting organization, are taking part once again, providing complete shout casting coverage of the match and also the use of their ventrilo server for both sides.

Community Carnage 4 is going to be bursting with action, the previous 3 have provided some intense battles, and number 4 is going to top them all. Returning from CC3 is the bounty hunt, $50 if you are the first person to knife the targeted person on the opposing side. But as Tim Shaw used to say, “Wait there’s more.” That’s right not only is there the bounty hunt, but also a caster’s BF2 moments prize, $50 awarded by the casters to a player from each team, who provides the community with one of those special battlefield moments.
Not only are there prizes for the players on the night, there is also $200 up for grabs, to whoever can make the best video of the action from the match. You will need to include in the video, credit to GameArena and netGameRadio, as well as utilising the shout cast of the match as part of the audio component. To enter submit your video by the 11th of December on the netGameRadio forums, in the competition area. The winner will be announced on the 13th of December.

So to the business side, we need 10 clans/ groups of friends to make themselves available through posting here having your squad rep getting in touch with me through xfire. > whitey304
The match will be played on Operation Road Rage, Sunday 29th November on a 64 player map size, and there will be no unlocks.
Your squad will also need to have ventrilo installed and be in nGR vent and ready to go 20 minutes before the kick off time of 8:30 pm.
The squad list is a first in first served basis, and being able to be reachable on xfire is needed. So happy hunting, get your clan or your mates involved, and remember, it is about having fun.

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By Ubik Whitey

BERLIN — Sony set the stage for a new battle this week with the unveiling of a 3D television, hoping to get a technology currently confined to a few cinemas into living rooms next year.

The Bravia LCD TV, presented at the IFA consumer electronics fair, will not only enable people to watch programmes in three dimensions, it will be the “centerpiece of Sony’s 3D entertainment experience,” Sony promises.

Users will also be able to plug in their PlayStation games consoles, allowing them to play games in 3D, as well as Blu-Ray disc players and computers, the Japanese firm says.

And to back up what it hopes what will soon become a major cash cow for it, Sony also makes the equipment needed to make movies and television programmes to play on the TV, which can also be used for regular, two-dimensional viewing.

“It is the perfect moment for an announcement like this, even if its plans are ambitious,” Ralf Tanger, an expert on 3D technology at the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz research institute, told AFP.

3D movies have been around for some time, with the Lumiere brothers’ “L’arrivee du train” filmed back in 1903, according to Sensio, one of the many firms looking to get a piece of the future 3D pie.

In 1946, the Soviet Union made “Robinzon Cruzo”, the world’s first talkie in colour and 3D, and in the 1950s there were more than 60 others including Alfred Hitchcock’s “Dial M for Murder” before studios put 3D on the back burner.

In the 1970s and early 1980s studios tried with offerings like “Jaws 3D” and “Friday the 13th, Part 3″, with cinemas issuing cardboard glasses, but it was not until the 1986 invention of the IMAX format that 3D came into its own.

The Cannes film festival kicked off this year with a gala opening ceremony that saw goofy spectacles foisted on tuxedo-clad celebrities for Disney-Pixar’s 3D cartoon comedy “Up.”

This year sees the eagerly awaited release in December of “Avatar” by James Cameron, the director of “Titanic”. German director Wim Wenders is working on a film about choreographer Pina Bausch, who died earlier this year.

It is in the cinema that 3D has stayed, but Sony and its rivals are hoping that it will soon break out and one day replace 2D as the new standard.

“Now the target is the living room,” Tanger said.

This is helped by the fact that some firms are considering launching channels that will show 3D programmes.

“At the moment the big handicap is that we are lacking in material,” Joern Ostermann, head of the Laboratory for Information Technology at Leipniz University in the northern German city of Hanover, told AFP.

“But that is changing.”

However Sony is not the only show in town.

Other companies such as Japan’s Panasonic and South Korea’s Hyundai have also got in on the act, and there is the looming prospect of a so-called format war when rival technologies battle it out to become the industry norm.

Sony has a history in this area, and not always with a happy end. In the 1980s it bet on Betamax video tapes but lost out to JVC’s rival VHS format. Last year though Sony’s Blu-Ray format saw off Toshiba’s HD DVD.

Sony’s new TV alternates the image for the left and right eye, while special glasses open and shut in sync with the image on the screen, giving the impression of depth.

But the technology is moving so fast that the glasses may soon be a thing of the past.

From: http://www.afp.com/afpcom/en/

Filters powerless against IPREDator.

Virtual Private Network (VPN) service IPREDator has opened its doors to beta testers this week.

Operated by the developers of popular file sharing site The Pirate Bay, the service allows subscribers to access the Internet anonymously.

Web surfers typically connect to the Internet via an Internet Service Provider (ISP), which assigns each user a unique, identifying IP address.

The IP address is appended onto any network traffic to and from a user’s computer. Online transactions including banking, e-mail and search engine queries may thus be traceable.

With the principle that “the network is under our control, not theirs”, IPREDator grants online anonymity by substituting a user’s IP address with a new address.

Once connected to IPREDator via a 128-bit encrypted VPN tunnel, users’ network traffic is routed through the new address, so no further information is relayed to the ISP.

Besides providing anonymity, the new address also allows users to bypass ISP-defined limitations, which could include Senator Conroy’s proposed ISP-level Internet filter.

Other services such as Torrent Freedom, Perfect Privacy and Witopia also offer personal VPNs for users who require privacy, want to access overseas content, or who need access to information within censored areas such as China’s “Great Firewall”.

However because IPREDator is incorporated in Sweden, it expects to provide greater security than its competitors. Swedish law does not require the company to surrender its users’ information unless conviction is expected to result in at least two years imprisonment.

Furthermore, IPREDator claims to store no information about its subscribers’ Internet activity, so it can only surrender information that users provide during subscription.

In an e-mail to pre-registered beta testers, the company claimed:

“IPREDator does not store any personal details about its clients.

“IPREDator does not store any traffic habits you might have. IPREDator is the key to a free internet in the renaissance of censorship!”

The service currently is only offered to IPREDator’s 180,000 registered beta testers and costs 149 Swedish kronors (AUD$24) for a three-month subscription.

It is expected to accept new customers only when beta testing is completed but has not released information about when this is likely to happen.

Story from ITnews website: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/150881,pirate-bays-anonymity-service-enters-beta-testing.aspx

ubik Crabito has a dedicated box running some test servers which are open to the public. Feel free to jump on them and give them a flogging. We have an RTCW server, an ET server and a CSS server.

Here are the Details

RTCW SERVER

IP: 114.78.97.136:27961 | Running version: 1.4 | OSP 0.9 Required

ET SERVER

IP: 114.78.97.136:27960 | Running Ver: 2.6

CS:S SERVER

IP: 114.78.97.136:27017