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  • Slim PS3

    Slim PS3 Revealed Via Chinese Factory Leak?: News from 1UP.com.

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  • Today, I just received my copy of the OpenSolaris Bible by Nicolas A. Solter, Gerald Jelinek, and David Miner. While the post office only dropped this off today, I’ve been frequenting my local bookstore to read this book several times over the past week. To be honest, I haven’t yet finished the book’s meaty 971 pages, but I’ve read enough that I feel confident in telling you: I love it.
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  • Battlefield 2

    Battlefield 2 has been updated again, Patch 1.50 Beta 2 brings these changes from Beta 1:

    • Consensus to revert to 0.3 second delay between jump and prone – Fixed
    • Mouse wheel acceleration on jeeps and APC’s – In Test
    • Mouse wheel acceleration on parachutes – In Test
    • Falcon controller prevents joystick controls being assigned to work especially on jets and helicopters. Falcon always acts as primary controller for pitch and roll. Resets to Falcon at the start of every round. – Fixed
    • The jets on Highway Tampa were replaced with attack choppers in 1.50 – Fixed, Highway Tampa is now as it was in 1.41
    • The graphics for Highway Tampa are the same as Mashtuur City on create a local match in the menu and load screen. – Fixed
    • Picking up the kit of a player who disconnected causes crashes – In Test
    • Audio settings do not always save after clicking APPLY – Fixed
    • Registry Version remains at 1.4 after Update 1.5 is installed – Fixed
    • BF2OpenAL.dll was version 1.1.1.0 – Fixed – Updated to version 2.1.8.1
    • ch_gas_station collision mesh on Dragon Valley was inconsistent with other gas station buildings – Fixed
    • MEC artillery piece on Operation Clean Sweep changes to the USMC’s control when they capture the Airfield flag – Fixed
    • Challenger2 HUD icon was incorrect showing M1A2 HUD icon instead – Fixed
    • Road to Jalalabad has PLA FAV spawn in place of a MEC FAV – Fixed
    • Dragon Valley Chinese artillery used default respawn time instead of 360 seconds as other artillery uses – Fixed
    • Bizon (PP-19) had no delay time after weapon switch – Fixed (this now has a delay of 0.666)
    • F35B had a lock delay of 1.5 compared to 1 second lock delay of other aircraft – Fixed
    • Incorrect camo Humvee was being spawned in Taraba Quarry – Fixed
    • UH-60 (Black Hawk) guns had 0.25 splash damage setting, down from 3 making it difficult to hit infantry. – Fixed (this is now set to 1.5 to improve the UH-60’s usefulness while not allowing it to dominate)
    • It was impossible to pass a claymore unless an engineer disarmed it first. – Fixed (players can now go prone to pass the claymore)
    • Allow BF2.exe to use more than 2Gb RAM on machines that support it – Fixed

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