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(hx) 01:49 AM CET - Oct,29 2003
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- NGSCB, aka Palladium, in next generation of CPU, says Gates -
Microsoft's Next Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB, aka Palladium)
will be built into the next generation of CPUs, Bill Gates claimed
yesterday, effectively making security via hardware ID an integral part of the
Windows PC platform. And Microsoft is talking to the chip and PC companies
about the introduction of hardware ID, so we will likely be seeing some
decidedly NGSCB-like features well ahead of Longhorn
- Sober Sings the Praises of Sobig -
Kaspersky Labs warns about the start of a virus epidemic from the
Sober Internet worm. Sober was first detected this past Saturday, but is
now observed surging in activity in connection with the beginning of the
workweek. Sober is a classic Internet worm that spreads via e-mail. Infected
e-mail messages can have various body texts in English and in German;
additionally the infected file attachment can have one of several file
extensions (PIF, BAT, SCR, COM, EXE). All of this makes it significantly more
difficult to identify from outside appearances.
- Off-topic: Sun erupts in biggest storm in years - The outburst was
classified an X17.2 flare, the third largest on record, according to Paal
Brekke, a project scientist with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
(SOHO), a sun-watching satellite mission jointly run by NASA and the European
Space Agency. In comparison, two solar storms observed last week were
between X1 and X5, Brekke said. Solar flares are associated with coronal
mass ejections, or CMEs, eruptions from the sun that, if headed our way, can
disrupt communications satellites and power grids. As this particularly
fast-moving CME is aimed directly toward Earth, it is possible that
when it arrives midday Wednesday, the geomagnetic activity will be strong
enough to stir up electrical trouble.
- Microsoft adds Longhorn and WinFX details - Microsoft has fleshed
out details of the Longhorn version of its Windows operating system, and
unveiled its
next-generation Windows programming model, named WinFX. Microsoft said
WinFX, a development of the .Net Framework's programming model, could increase
developer productivity and application security and reliability
- Nokia's 7700 "media device" - Nokia today unveiled what looks
suspiciously like the first phases of its get PocketPC strategy. The tip of
the iceberg
is the 7700, which you could categorise as kind of the successor to the 9000
series, kind of a Sony-Ericsson P800 me-too and kind of a PDA, and which
Nokia categorises as a "media device", but there's enough of the rest of the
iceberg showing to be going on with.
- Dell unveils MP3 player -
The Dell
Digital Jukebox music player, or "Dell DJ," and accompanying software will
be available through Dell's online music store starting Tuesday, according to
the company. Dell says that the device, which comes with a capacity of either
15GB or 20GB, can play music continually for up to 16 hours. Dell's 15GB
MP3 player will sell for $249, while the 20GB version will sell for $329,
according to the company.
- AMD slashes Opteron prices by up to 40% - AMD yesterday trimmed its
prices, following on from the cuts Intel made to its Pentium 4 and Celeron
prices on Sunday. The Opteron line saw some of the biggest cuts, with
the price of the 844 falling 40 per cent, but the AMD's focus was its
32-bit Athlon chips.
- foobar2000 v0.7.2 Final -
A nice audio player made by
Peter Pawlowski with simple graphical user interface.
- WinAmp 5 Beta 2 -
Nullsoft Winamp
(download)
is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity media player for Windows. Winamp supports
playback of many audio (MP3, OGG, AAC, WAV, MOD, XM, S3M, IT, MIDI, etc) and
video types (AVI,ASF,MPEG,NSV).
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