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- $1 films spook Hollywood - A Taiwanese Web site is offering hundreds of videos on
demand for just $1 each, trumping Hollywood's plans to deliver similar services and
raising the specter of a new round of international copyright battles. Despite claims that
their Movie88 site is following all
local copyright laws, the owners of this new venture are drawing scrutiny from a skeptical
Hollywood. Meanwhile, Web surfers drawn by free or cut-rate movies are flocking to the
site, overloading servers and clogging data pipes.
- Mac Office vulnerable to hacks - Microsoft warns Mac Office users
that hackers could use the product serial number as a weapon to shut down copies of Office
v. X on a network or connected to the Internet. (patch)
- New Twist On Web-Forms Hack Scarfs Browser Cookies - An
independent network security researcher has uncovered a new way to steal the secret
browser "cookies" of Web surfers with the help of Internet servers that were
never intended to communicate with browser software. In a demonstration of the exploit,
which Obscure calls the Extended HTML Form Attack, a POP3 (post office protocol) e-mail
server at Ebay was used to divulge the browser cookies of users who had visited the
auction giant's Web site.
- Teen Anarchist's Supporters Accuse FBI Of AIM Hack - The FBI declined to
comment Wednesday on allegations that federal agents have commandeered online chat
accounts belonging to the teen-aged operator of anti-government site Raisethefist.com.
However, the agency denies allegations that it has harassed associates of 18-year-old
self-proclaimed anarchist Sherman Martin Austin. According to several of Austin's
supporters, someone has repeatedly logged into the teen's accounts on America Online's AOL
Instant Messenger (AIM) real-time chat service while he was in police custody.
- How to hack unbreakable Oracle servers - Security researcher
David Litchfield has identified a vast number of attacks against Oracle application servers
and has written them up in a paper which includes defensive strategies as well. From this we
learn, contrary to Oracle President Larry Ellison's claims, that Oracle is vulnerable to
buffer overflow attacks, DoS attacks, and remote exploitation to name but a few
difficulties.
- NY sues NAI so you can say McAfee sucks - The State of New York has
filed suit against Network Associates over outrageous EULA terms forbidding users and
journalists to speak ill of the company's McAfee anti-virus product, Reuters reports. NAI
has the nerve to require the company's consent before anyone can publish reviews of its
products or disclosing with any third party the results of benchmarks comparing NAI
products against the competition, the wire service says.
- First MPEG-4 Decoder Card Announced - Sigma Designs announced
the first MPEG-4 client player add-in card for the PC. Marketed under the name
REALmagic XcardT, Sigma's newest MPEG-4 offering turns a PC into a home theatre solution,
providing TV playback of top entertainment content from DivX Networks, DVDs and new
Internet Streaming Media Alliance (ISMA) compliant video streams. Sigma's REALmagic Xcard
will retail for $99.95 and will be available initially from the company's REALmagic Online
store at www.buyrealmagic.com starting March 2002.
- GeForce 4 Cards Attack! - Elsa (Gladiac 925VIVO), PNY
(Verto GeForce4 Ti 4600), Leadtek (WinFast A250
Ultra TD, WinFast A170 DDR T), eVGA (GF4 MX, e-GeForce4 MX 440, Asymmetric
Cooling System, nView), ACS, Prolink
(GeForce4 MX PR), Asus (GeForce4 Ti & MX).
- ATI RADEON 7500 Review - Xbit-Labs reviewed ATI RADEON
7500, which is a very interesting card providing marvelous graphics quality, wholesome
support for dual-monitor configurations, TV and digital monitor output.
- GeForce4 interview - CVG has posted an
interview with nVidia's Dan Vivoli, regarding their just-announced GeForce 4.
- NV GF4 Launch Event Photo Mania - Hot Hardware has posted up a few photos from the NV
GF4 Launch Event hosted on Tuesday in San Francisco at the Palace of the Fine Arts.
- Samsung 52x Max CD-ROM Review - IamNotaGeek.com has posted a
review of Samsung 52x Max CD-ROM.
- Intel Northwood 2.2GHz Preview - Hardware Mania has written a
preview of Intel Northwood 2.2GHz.
- Budget Video Shootout - ATi versus Nvidia - The Budget Video
Shootout: ATi versus Nvidia is an
article that rounds up nine sub-$100 ATi and Nvidia video cards and compares their
performance and features against each other. The last page rates each card based on its
price, performance, and feature set. These video cards are: ATi Radeon 7500, Radeon 7200,
Radeon 7000, Radeon SE, Radeon LE, MSI G2TiVX Pro-VT, Chaintech GeForce2Ti, Visiontek
Xtasy 5632, and Jaton 3Dforce2 MX-32TV. Who will be the winner?
- Linux On The NT Bootloader Guide - In this article I
will give you a simple step by step guide on adding an entry for linux on Windows
NT/2000/XP bootloader. This method has been tried on Mandrake Linux 8.1, Red Hat Linux
7.0/7.1/7.2 and SuSE Linux 7.3, it will probably work on most distributions that allow you
to choose where the bootloader is installed.
- Exchange 2000 System Attendant Incorrectly Sets Remote Registry
Permissions - download
patch.
- RivaTuner 2.0 RC 10 - RivaTuner
is a powerful tweaking utility for NVIDIA based cards and will help you to change all
undocumented registry entries.
- ZoneAlarm 3.0 Beta - ZoneAlarm makes
it easy. Unlike other personal firewalls, ZoneAlarm protects automatically from the moment
it's installed - no programming required.
- Cacheman 5.11 - A new version of Cacheman is out. The Cacheman utility
is designed to improve the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache,
memory and a number of other settings.
- miTweak XP 2.2 patch - This patch adds:
Some bug fixes, Added Window Logon Screen Random Selector.
- XP LogMod 2.0 - XP LogMod is a program designed to give your computer a more dynamic
feel. This is accomplished by changing your Logon screen that Windows XP comes equipped
with. It eliminates the tiresome and potentially unsafe task of manually editing certain
parts of the Operating System. XP LogMod provides fast and easy managementchanging of
multiple LogonUI screens to help your computer come to life!
- Opera 6.01 - Opera Software has released Opera
6.01 (with JAVA).
- CloneAD's CladDVD XP v1.2 - CladDVD XP is a FREE 'DVD Ripper', meaning it decrypts the encrypted
VOB files off the DVD and saves them to your hard drive. The files can be ripped in a
standard way preserving the original content along with the IFO, useful when you use or
need to use a 3rd party application to process the VOB files. CladDVD XP also allows you
to rip using 'IFO Parsing' which will allow you to select certain ProGram Chains like the
main movie or a certain version of the movie, this is definately the recommended option,
you can also rip extra features apart from the main movie.
- HyperSnap-DX 4.30.00 Beta 7 - HyperSnap-DX 4
is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. This new beta adds a new
function under File menu added: "Acquire Multiple Images..." and many more.
- VIA PCI RAID Patch 1.02 - VIA Area has released a new VIA PCI
RAID patch.
- Highpoint HPT 372 BIOS & Driver 2.31 - New BIOS&Driver
features improved perfomance, Fix BIOS compatibility issue with Adaptec SCSI, Show
capacity by 1G=1,000,000,000 Bytes, Fix BIOS bug "drive capacity incorrect
after deleting a broken array"
- ATI Radeon Drivers - These babies supports all radeon cards to
date also including support for R300. Download: ATi Radeon 5.13.01.6022 Windows 2000 driver dated 01/16/2002, ATi Radeon 6.13.10.6022 Windows XP driver dated 01/16/2002. ATi Radeon 4.3.3288 Windows NT driver dated 01/16/2002.
- NVIDIA 27.30 Detonators - I just saw them at WinXP, WinXP multilanguage, Win9x/ME (thanks MediaXplosion)
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