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Gameguru Mania News - Nov,27 2003 -

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Microsoft Employee Gets Jail Time for Fraud - A former Microsoft employee was sentenced to 17 months in prison Tuesday after fraudulently ordering more than $6 million in software and then selling it to a third party. Kori Robin Brown, 31, was an administrative assistant in Microsoft's Xbox division when she used her work computer to order millions of dollars worth of high-end software from ClientLogic, a business providing warehouse facilities for Microsoft.
Cash machines infected with worm - Cash dispensing ATMs belonging to two US financial institutions were shut down when the computer worm Welchia invaded their embedded Windows XP operating systems in August. Diebold, the Ohio-based company that makes the machines, revealed the security breach on Tuesday. It is the first known case of a worm actually installing itself on individual ATM operating systems, says Peter Lind, a security expert at Spire Security in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Earlier in 2003, the Blaster worm shut down Bank of America ATMs, but only by causing a flood of traffic that clogged the network's bandwidth.
California Police Arrest Man in Bank PC Theft - Police have arrested a California man in connection to a burglary in which a computer with sensitive information about Wells Fargo & Co. customers was stolen, officials said on Wednesday. Edward Jonathan Krastof, 38, was arrested at his home late on Tuesday in Concord, California, the same town where the computer was stolen earlier this month, said Concord Police Sergeant Steve White. Krastof, who works at Home Depot, confessed to stealing the computer, as well as another computer and a laptop, after breaking into the office of an analyst for Wells Fargo, according to White. Police recovered the equipment at Krastof's home, along with equipment used for scanning identity cards and checks, he said.
Damaged undersea cable blamed for UK Net problems - A damaged undersea transatlantic cable is being blamed for causing havoc for Net and phone users in the UK last night. A number of ISPs are understood to have been hit by the problem, which surfaced (the problem, not the cable) yesterday afternoon at around 4pm
iPod's 'dirty secret' wins Web fans - Brothers Casey and Van Neistat, who collaborate on video projects using Mac editing software, said they were told by a technical support representative at Apple Computer that the cost to replace the dead battery in an 18-month-old iPod would be $255--comparable to the cost of a new device. Irked at what seemed to be the early obsolescence of the music player, the brothers trekked around New York City stenciling the words "iPod's unreplaceable battery lasts only 18 months" on all the iPod posters they could find. Now the Neistats claim that the video they created of their exploits is getting 50,000 hits a day on the Web site Ipodsdirtysecret.com. As of Wednesday afternoon, the site's traffic counter indicated it had seen more than 194,000 visitors.
DVD Forum approves portion of new format - An HD DVD format proposed by Toshiba Corp. and NEC Corp. as the next-generation DVD format was finally approved by the DVD Forum's steering committee during recent meetings in New York. The proposal includes both read-only and rewritable formats, but only the ROM format in its 0.9 version was approved by the committee during meetings last week by a vote of 8-6. The HD DVD format is a violet laser-based optical disk system with a capacity of 15-20 Gbyte per side using the same disk structure as current DVD disks.
"Stuffed" nanotubes could enable high-density storage - Scientists said they hope to use stuffed nanotubes to make nonvolatile memory. The small dimensions could theoretically allow a 1,000-fold increase in storage density compared to semiconductor based DRAM cells, said IFW's Albrecht Leonhard. Another application of these tubes would be as tiny magnets, he added.
MobileCore Project - Jacco Bikker announced the initial release of MobileCore, an open source project which aims to ease cross-platform development of games for mobile devices.
Sharp Actius AV18P First Look - The AV18P's competitors are few. Best known are the $2,199 Toshiba Portégé M100 and $1,599 Apple PowerBook G4 (12-inch), both with 12-inch displays and integrated optical drives. Sharp beats them on price ($1.449) but is weak on performance and battery life. PCMag test system, which ran only 2 hours 19 minutes, would likely not have played an entire 2-hour video, given the extra power consumed by constant DVD accesses. To get the 4:47 the Portégé M100 gave, you'd have to add a $200 clip-on battery.
Daily Gift Guide: Game On! Action Pack, Volume 1 - Aladdin Systems delivers a holiday treat for Mac gaming enthusiasts with the release of Game On! Action Pack, Volume 1. A $150 value, the package comprises six popular games for about $50. It includes Freedom Force, Incoming, SpyHunter, Star Trek: Voyager Elite Force, and Tomb Raider Chronicles.
Notebook roundup - ExtremeTech look at a couple of new mobile PCs that think beyond the box, including the first Athlon 64 notebook.
Opteron 248 Review - The results of the 32-bit tests show the great potential of the Opterons - except the problem of overheating mentioned above all tests ran very stable. While the Athlon MP tried to catch up to the Intel XEON the Opteron sets a new point of reference unreachable even by the flagship XEON 3.2 GHz with L3 cache. On the other hand the tested XEON 2.8 GHz was a good competitor and a switch from a XEON 2.8 GHz to an Opteron 248 would make no sense at this time.
PC4000 HyperX Examined - While RST Pro2 testing the Extended and Base memory we found that after 5 loops on each set of modules that no errors were found! Memtest86 was used and again confirmed these results. No issues with either the Hynix or Samsung IC's used on the Kingston HyperX PC4000 memory were found during stability testing at all.
Gainward 5950 Ultra / 1800 XP Golden Sample review - NeoSeeker has posted a review of Gainward 5950 Ultra / 1800 XP Golden Sample.
Nu Tech DDW-081 8x DVD+R/RW review - CDRLabs.com have posted a review of a Nu Tech DVD recorder. Nu Tech is a new brand in the optical storage industry. Based on Philips' new "Nexperia" platform, this new drive features 8x DVD+R and 4x DVD+R writing speeds and a maximum DVD read speed of 12x. Needless to say, Nu Tech hasn't stopped there. The DDW-081 also offers 40x CD reading and writing speeds, 10x rewriting speeds and features like Seamless Link buffer underrun protection. Best of all, Nu Tech's new DVD+RW drive comes at a very reasonable price.
HP LJ1010 vs Samsung ML-1710 - HardwareZoom has posted a comparison review between the HP LJ1010 against the Samsung ML-1710 laser printer.
Professional Mouse Pad comparison - ZBNUK.com has posted a comparison of a handful of several professional mousing surfaces.
Watchguard Firebox SOHO 6tc Wireless - WatchGuard's Firebox SOHO 6 tc Wireless is one of the few available VPN wireless LAN routers. It's priced lower than competing products, but we found it to be a case of you get what you pay for.
Redirection Leads to Downloading EXE and Executing - I mentioned the nasty bug two days ago, but anyway for those who missed it.....A vulnerability in Internet Explorer is found: any attacker that can reach MYCOMPUTER security zone(a.k.a local zone) is able to download his EXE file and execute it. There is a harmless demo. Disable Active Scripting in INTERNET zone!
Rdesktop 1.3.0 review - Rdesktop is an open source RDP client for unix which enables linux, sun and other *nix users to connect to a Microsoft server with terminal services enabled. This way the desktop can run a (cheap) opensource OS such as Linux and still have give those users access to windows applications.
Setting up an FTP Server in WinXP - PCStats have posted a great guide that explains how to set up a FTP server on WindowsXP (tnx Russell).
Tomb Raider Benchmarking Guide - TweakFactor has posted a Tomb Raider Benchmarking Guide.
ATI Catalyst Driver Comparison 3.x - The Madshrimps put ATI's latest Catalyst 3.9 up against 5 previous driver revisions, showing you which one performs best.
NT4 tools for Windows 2003 - User Manager for Domains is a Windows Server 2003 tool you can use to manage security for Windows NT 4.0 domains, member servers, and workstations. For Windows Server 2003 domains, member servers, and Windows XP Professional computers, use Active Directory and the other Windows Server 2003 administrative tools instead.
COMDEX Microsoft Matrix Spoof -GeekNews has posted the clip (direct link) that was shown at after the COMDEX Keynote featuring Bill Gates as Morpheus and Steve Ballmer as Neo.
Personal Firewall 4.0.8 - Kerio Personal Firewall (download) represents smart, easy-to-use personal security technology that fully protects personal computers against hackers.
Gaim 0.74 - Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Download Accelerator Plus 7.0.1.0 - Download Accelerator Plus (download) is a download manager, allows you to download up to 300% faster (according to users and website reviews) with increased reliability, resume support and errors recovery.
MyIE2 v0.9.10 - MyIE2 (download) is a multi-tabbed browser based on the IE core (IE5.x or above required). It can open multiple web pages within one browser window, and uses little system resources.
Style XP 2.0 Beta - Style XP (download) is theming software that helps customize the way your Windows XP, Windows XP Service Pack 1, Tablet PC, or Server 2003 system looks. Style XP can manage and rotate themes, visual styles, backgrounds, and logons, which are freely available at ThemeXP.
Total Commander 6.01 Beta 2 - The second beta of Total Commnander 6.01 is now available for download. "This is the first time that I offer a beta version to the public, to allow all those who found a bug/problem in Total Commander 6.0 to check whether the bug/problem is gone or not. If you try the beta, I would appreciate your feedback here in the forum!"