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Linked List: August 13, 2005

Saturday, 13 August 2005

DrunkenBlog on Lux ★

DrunkenBlog’s paean to Lux, a cross-platform, customizable, networkable Risk game.

Synergy ★

Cross-platform TCP/IP-based software KVM switch; lets you share a single keyboard, mouse, and clipboard across multiple computers. It’s not yet fully-baked, but it’s open source, and some Mac OS X users are quite happy with it already. (Via Nat Irons, via email.)

Hollywood Controlling Parts of Windows Vista Design ★

Ed Felten on a new Microsoft white paper describing the “output content protection” in Windows Vista:

The document reveals that movie studios will have explicit veto power over what is included in some parts of Vista. For example, pages 22-24 describe the “High Bandwidth Cipher” which will be used to encrypt video data is it passes across the PC’s internal PCIe bus. Hollywood will allow the use of the AES cipher, but many PCs won’t be able to run AES fast enough, leading to stutter in the video.