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(hx) 12:43 AM CEST - Apr,10 2003
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- US mod chip retailer jailed and fined - A US man found guilty of
selling mod chips on his website in breach of the Digital Millenium Copyright
Act has been sentenced to
five months imprisonment and a $28,500 fine. David Rocci, who sold the
Enigmah mod chips for the Xbox from the site,
Isonews.com (the domain
was seized by the US Department of Justice last month, but the site is still
operating here), pleaded guilty to breaching the DMCA by selling illegal
copyright circumvention devices last December. His full sentence is five
months in prison, five months of home detention, three years of probation and
a $28,500 fine - that's L18,355 in real money.
- Microsoft Tracing Windows Server Code Leak - Microsoft Corp.
said it
is tracing a key piece of code from its Windows Server 2003 software that
was leaked onto the Internet, triggering concerns about piracy problems ahead
of the company's scheduled product release later this month. Reports say the
leaked code may be from a Microsoft corporate customer, which could be a
subscriber to one of the company's volume-licensing programs. Microsoft would
not confirm any details of its ongoing investigation, other than to say its
legal department is looking into the source of the leak, which could
reportedly work with three different versions of Windows Server 2003.
- Windows variants set for 64-bit AMD chips - Microsoft will release
a 64-bit version of
Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP for AMD's forthcoming Opteron and
Athlon64 processors, Microsoft announced Wednesday. Beta releases of the
operating systems are expected in the middle of 2003. Most versions of Windows
operating systems are written for the 32-bit x86 processor, so Microsoft
needed to recode the operating system for Opteron or Athlon64 for IT managers
that want to run Windows on computers with either chip.
- LCD Adds Built-In Scanner - Imagine if personalizing the wallpaper
on your computer or cell phone was as simple as holding your favorite photo
against the screen, pressing a button, and waiting a few seconds for the image
to appear on screen. Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology unveiled
a prototype LCD panel Wednesday that does just that. The display with a
built-in scanner was on show in Tokyo at the Electronic Display Expo. To make
the display, engineers at Toshiba began with a 3.5-inch polysilicon thin film
transistor LCD, similar to that found in devices such as consumer camcorders,
and added image sensors among the display pixels. The display has a resolution
of 320 pixels by 240 pixels (QVGA) and the scanner has a resolution of 960
pixels by 240 pixels, which means it can reproduce images of anything laid
flat on its surface, in actual size. Demonstrations at EDEX involved business
cards and photographs, and it took around 7 seconds for a scan to be
completed.
- Philips adds streaming to DVD recorder - The semiconductor division
of Royal Philips Electronics announced Tuesday that it has
enhanced its Nexperia DVD+RW reference design to include a media chip that
will aid in the processing of multiple media formats, such as MPEG-4 and DivX,
as well as adding the ability to connect to the Internet.
- Hush Mini-ITX Info & Prices -
The Hush Mini-ITX PC is the first of a family of products to be born of
this search. "Our research indicated that silence leads to increased
productivity, a better working environment, lower cost of ownership and longer
shelf-life. It is as much at home in the office or the living room." commented
Markus Kremer, General Manager of Hush Technologies."
- Chieftec Matrix Case Review - DeviantPC has just posted a
review of the new
Chieftec Matrix Case.
- HP PSC 1210 all-in-one Review - Hewlett-Packard says that the HP
PSC 1210 all-in-one ($150 street) is the smallest multifunction printer
available-an important advantage in the home and student market, where desktop
real estate is limited. Best described as a stylish box with a paper tray
sticking out of it, the unit has a footprint of only 16.8 by 14.0 inches (WD)
and overall measurements, including the paper tray, of 6.7 by 16.8 by 14.0
inches (HWD). With the paper tray pushed in, the depth is 10.2 inches. HP left
the automatic document feeder and fax features out of this small device, but
managed to shoehorn in a scanner and copier.
- Fairway Radeon 9000 PRO 64MB Review -
ATI's RV250 chipset is a derivative of the R200 -- from the R200's
(originally known as the Radeon 8500) configuration of 2 Vertex Shaders (VS)
and 4 pixel-pipes with 2 texture units each (commonly known as a 4x2
pixel-pipeline configuration), the RV250 has 1 VS and a 4x1 configuration. The
RV250 is clocked at 275/550 (DDR) MHz core/memory.
- Windows XP Embedded with SP1 Update -
This update addresses a potential problem when using system cloning and
FBRESEAL.EXE on Windows XP Embedded runtimes. When FBRESEAL.EXE is run on the
embedded runtime, certain information can be reset, including domain
membership, user-specific information such as start menu items, mounted
drives, and network information. This update allows the OEM to decide which
sets of information are retained or reset.
- Security Patch: Flaw In Microsoft VM Could Enable System Compromise -
The present Microsoft VM, which includes all previously released fixes to
the VM, has been updated to include a fix for the newly reported security
vulnerability. This new security vulnerability affects the ByteCode Verifier
component of the Microsoft VM, and results because the ByteCode verifier does
not correctly check for the presence of certain malicious code when a Java
applet is being loaded. The attack vector for this new security issue would
likely involve an attacker creating a malicious Java applet and inserting it
into a web page that when opened, would exploit the vulnerability. An attacker
could then host this malicious web page on a web site, or could send it to a
user in e-mail. The updated Microsoft VM is currently only available via
WindowsUpdate.
- HyperSnap-DX 5.10.00 -
HyperSnap-DX (download)
is a screen capture and image editing tool for MS Windows. It captures screens
from standard desktop programs and even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D,
3Dfx Voodoo and Glide mode games.
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