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(hx) 12:25 PM CET - Jan,25 2003
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- Internet worm causing major problems -
DriverHeaven is reporting that there appears to be a Microsoft SQL Monitor
worm spreading. Massive UDP traffic on port 1434 is affecting major internet
backbones, including UUNET. Of course, servers and home users are being
flooded as well. Many websites are currently inaccessible or slow, depending
on your location and ISP. Check out the Packet Loss and Reachability
graphs here.
- New SQL Worm? - About 9:30PM PST on January 25th, 2002,
some SQL Server 2000 installations were compromised by some sort of SQL
Server Worm. The compromised boxes/worms generated more than 80Mbit of
outgoing traffic (probably more if our connection could have handled it)
trying to compromise other boxes it seems. Those SQL Servers running Service
Pack 2 or Service Pack 3 (released Jan 17 with little/no notice from MS!) were
immune to the worm.
- What's in a name? Not Palladium - Microsoft has
dropped the code name of its controversial security technology, Palladium,
in favor of this buzzword-bloated tongue twister: "next-generation secure
computing base." On Friday, the company said that the name Palladium had
become tarnished by controversy surrounding some elements of Microsoft's
security push. In additional, it faced a potential legal battle with a small
firm over the Palladium name.
- Abit Announced first motherbord supporting 1200MHz RDRAM - ABIT
Computer Corporation
announced the SI7 motherboard featuring the SiS R658 chipset and Samsung
Electronics' 1200MHz RDRAM memory. The ABIT SI7 supports up to 4 GB
1200/1066MHz RDRAM memory capacity and fully supports AGP8X interface for
powerful graphics chips. In addition, the SiSR658/963 chipsets are also
equipped with powerful multimedia functions, including 5.1 Channel AC'97 2.2
Audio, 10/100MB Ethernet, Home PNA2.0 and Dual ATA133/100/66 IDE Channels, six
USB 2.0/1.1 ports, and three 1394a ports, which can fully meet the high end PC
requirement.
- The End Of ATi? -
This overview of allegations from the Ontario Securities Commission is the
complete list of allegations against ATi charging them with insider trading,
lying and conduct contrary to public interest. This could have an extremely
damaging effect on ATi as a company as well as damaging to employees and
shareholders if the company stock tanks. The effect a negative outcome in this
matter could have a huge impact on the industry as a whole. Here is a clip
from the long list of allegations against ATi. (source:
HardOCP)
- ATI R350 Plans -
The
Inquirer has gathered some info on the upcoming R350 from ATI: ATI's magic
goal is to achieve 400MHz/800 MHz for the card and memory while we know that
it can easily clock it to 375 MHz, which can be considered as the lowest
frequency of R350. The final silicon should be back from TSMC any day now, as
product is almost ready and when it does we will try to confirm the
information about the final clock. 400 to 425 MHz is a dream target. R350 is
likely to stay with the Radeon 9x00 branding name, where x will be replaced
with 8 or 9, so it may well be named the Radeon 9800 or 9900.
- Official GeforceFX Specs - Both
NVNews
and
GeForceZone have posted the official specs for the GeforceFX 5800 Ultra
and GeforceFX 5800. GeforceFX 5800 Ultra: 500MHz
core, 1GHz Memory clock, $399 preorders; GeforceFX 5800:
400MHz Core, 800MHz memory clock, lower pricepoint.
- DivX 5.03 - DivX
(changelog,
download free /
pro /
pro-adware)
is a package that includes all the DivX codec, player, utilities, and
documentation that you need to play DivX files. DivX codec is based on the
MPEG-4 compression standard. This codec can reduce an MPEG-2 video (DVD
format) to ten percent of its original size. DivX is a digital video
compression technology based on the ISO MPEG-4 standard.
- PowerStrip 3.31 Beta Build 372 -
PowerStrip provides
advanced, multi-monitor, programmable hardware support to a wide range of
graphics cards - from the venerable Matrox Millennium I to the latest SiS
Xabre and Radeon 9700.
- Rage3D Tweak v3.7 -
Rage3D
Tweak is a Radeon Tweaker designed to fit right in with the other ATI
option tabs in the Advanced Display Properties accessed through the Control
Panel. It allows access to Registry Tweak options, Custom Display Modes,
Refresh Rates, and Overclocking all through an easy to use interface.
- Leadtek Detonator 41.13 - Leadtek has released
a new
VGA driver for their K7NCR18-x nForce2 (mirror)
series mainboard which makes use of the GeForce4 MX GPU core. The .inf file
can however be manipulated to support all Nvidia cards. (thanks
Warp2Search)
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