The Lost [Data] Files of Marvel [Heroic Role Playing]

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There is a quite active fan base of players and Narrators of the new Marvel Heroic Role Playing Game, that are filling in the gaps of Marvel Heroes and villains that MWP have not yet published.
Here\’s the link to the current list of missing heroes……
HEROES

kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero? What\’s that?

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Have you noticed this error in your console.log?

kernel: IOSurface: buffer allocation size is zero

There are several possible reasons for this:

  • It maybe a bug in the Hardware Acceleration that Adobe Flash is using (Disabling Hardware Acceleration, appears to stop the issue)
  • Caused by an Apple supplied framework that Adobe uses in Flash

This is a problem for both Adobe Flash 10 & 11 (See Adobe\’s Forum or the Adobe Bug Report).
This issue is  limited to 10.7 (Lion) only, Snow Leopard (10.6), and the Beta\’s of Mountain Lion (10.8) do not seem to suffer from this issue.
The only solution at this time, seems to be:

As far as I\’ve been able to discover, this bug is specific to WebKit browsers running (Chrome and Safari are based on WebKit).  Perhaps it is related to those browsers running plugins (like Flash) and using an IOSurface to pass the rendering data back from the plugin.  This issue was constant on my late 2010 MBP and would freeze the machine entirely once a day.  Having switched to using Firefox or Opera I no longer see ANY messages for \”IOSurface: Buffer allocation size is zero\”.  Thankfully, this also comes without any more freezing when time machine starts up or at any other time.
It looks like there are a lot of changes going on in WebKit relating to IOSurface usage (http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos/WEBKIT/search?logMessage=iosurfac e).  Hopefully this will be fixed very soon.

 

#DirtyLaundry

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I won\’t embed the video, since it\’s certainly Not Safe for Work, due to violence, and adult content…
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Question: What\’s the difference between justice and punishment? #DIRTYLAUNDRY
Follow the Dialogue:
https://twitter.com/thomasjane
https://twitter.com/adishankarbrand
https://twitter.com/chadstjohn
https://twitter.com/pjoanou
\”I wanted to make a fan film for a character I\’ve always loved and believed in – a love letter to Frank Castle & his fans. It was an incredible experience with everyone on the project throwing in their time just for the fun of it. It\’s been a blast to be a part of from start to finish — we hope the friends of Frank enjoy watching it as much as we did making it.\” — Thomas Jane
Watch the video here, at #DIRTYLAUNDRY.

HandBrakev v0.97 released!

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The handbrake team have  decided to release an update for 0.9.6 that fixes a couple of common issues and adds a new preset for the AppleTV 3 and tweaks the existing iPad preset to support up to 720P.
Check it out at Handbrake\’s Web site…
For those that are not familiar with Handbrake…
It is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows. Or in otherwords, it allows you to transform video & audio to different formats… For example, take a video you downloaded from the Internet and play it on your iPad… As well, as being able to make a DVD into a movie file…