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(hx) 04:32 AM CET - Feb,19 2002
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- Hackers face US bombing - The US government has warned that it
could take military action
against any terrorists who launch attacks through the internet. In a move that could send
cruise missiles heading toward hackers' houses, a White House technology adviser says the
US "reserves the right to respond in any way appropriate" to tackle the growing
number of internet warriors. Advisor Richard Clarke says Iran, Iraq, North Korea, China,
Russia and other countries are already having people trained in internet warfare.
- Kickme.to wins BSA court search battle - The Business Software
Alliance (BSA) is vowing to fight on after the Swedish courts denied its request to
obtain a civil raid permit on international redirect service, kickme.to. The Appellate
Court in Skåne, Sweden upheld Landskrona District Court's decision not to grant a civil
raid permit (ex-parte) at the premises of Maximiliam Andersen, kickme.to's administrator.
- FBI lets anarchist web geek go free - The 18-year-old arrested
by the FBI for content published on his anarchist website was released without charge last
week. Sherman Martin Austin was released on 14 February after charges against him were
dropped. He had previously been flown to Oklahoma Federal Prison, in the custody of US
marshals, after details about bomb making techniques were posted on his anti-government
site, Raisethefist.com.
- Pirate's heaven in Vietnam - Combine a hardworking, gadget-happy
population with grinding poverty and you get an explosive combination. Western corporations:
Good luck. In the end, it took me about an hour, and I had to visit three stores. They
charged me 30,000 VN ($2) for "Harry Potter" and $2 more for "The Lord of
the Rings." The color is a bit bright on both films--the official DVDs aren't out
yet--but both work. LOL nice shopping ;)
- Microsoft XP Keygen the end for Microsoft? - "As of late
Neowin has become even more famous because they were one of the first sites to go into more
detail about the famed Microsoft XP keygen. The keygen as we all know does work albeit
it does take it a while to generate valid keys at times it does make them. This was all in
a matter of time if you ask me infact I'm somewhat surprised it did not happen sooner like
with Windows 98 or Me."
- MS bug busting tool is buggy - A design flaw in security tool
which comes with Microsoft's development could explain why itss applications continue to
be subject to buffer overflow attacks. Executable code built by using Microsoft's Visual
C++.NET and Visual C++ version 7 compiler is vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack,
software risk management firm Cigital reports.
- New Build 3604-SP1 of Windows XP Professional NOT! Released - It
seems that there is a rumor going around that a new build of Windows XP Professional is
going around... however, that is NOT the case! A new build of Windows XP for Tablet PC
Professional, instead, was released.
- Latest IE Patch Can Crash Browser - Microsoft's latest
security patch for Internet Explorer causes the Web browser to crash when viewing Web
pages that contain a certain VBScript directive, several IE users have found. Microsoft
acknowledges the problem and says Web site administrators will need to take action.
"This issue does not pose a security threat to users. This issue affects stability.
Normal operation can be restored by restarting IE," Microsoft said in a statement
Friday. "Microsoft Product Support Services has been working with customers to
implement a workaround that addresses a problem in which patched IE browsers could crash
when viewing certain pages containing a specific VBScript directive."
- Mobile Phones Morph Into Credit Cards - Beginning in March,
mobile-telecommunication company Vodafone Group will offer its U.K. customers the ability
to use their mobile phones as a type of mobile
credit card for making small purchases online. Users can use the m-pay bill service to
buy items priced from $0.07 to $7 over the Internet or using a WAP phone, Vodafone
spokesperson Janine Young says.
- Britney to Engage in TV "Sex" - The blond pop tart has
agreed to play a
man-eating temptress on the HBO series "Sex and the City." Britney - who
claims she's going to remain a virgin until marriage - has been lined up to play the
sex-mad niece of Samantha, portrayed by sultry Kim Catrall.
- Study Links 8 Hours' Sleep to Shorter Life Span - Contrary to
popular belief, people who sleep six to seven hours a night live
longer, and those who sleep eight hours or more die younger, according to the largest
study ever conducted on the subject.
- Excellent Hacks to the ReplayTV 4000 - Hit this
link to find links to assorted hacks done to the extremely cool ReplayTV 4000 PVR.
- Rambus Review - Tom's Hardware has posted a review
of Rambus memory.
- Logitech Wheel Mouse Optical Special Edition Review - This
red hot mouse utilizes the 2x optical technology which boosts the mouse with the
capability of 800dpi precision scanning instead of the 400dpi precision scanning by other
optical mouse. One way or another, you might say that 800dpi isn't much compared to the
Razer mouses, which is available in either 1000dpi or 2000dpi! In my opinion, this mouse
is well designed and the most important of all is it's cheap!
- Creative GeForce 3 Ti200 with TV Output Review - Xtreme PC UK
has written a review of the Creative GeForce 3 Ti200 with TV output.
- ASUS GeForce4 MX440 Review - T-Break has posted a review
of the ASUS GeForce4 MX440 video card.
- Xbox DVD Compatibility List -ActiveWin.com has posted up a newly
updated Xbox DVD Compatibility list. This new update adds a few newer
titles that have been causing problems on the Xbox DVD player. Remember that this list
currently only contains information on Region 1 releases. If you have any other titles
causing you problems on your Xbox DVD player.
- AMD Athlon XP Unlock Guide - All
what we need for it is an liquid second-glue , Glue-band like Tesa (Tesa Strips),
dis-lacquer or Nitro , and Silver-conductive-lacquer. Helpfully is an magnifiying Glass
cause the bridges are very very small.
- Fix for "Data Invalid" error in WinXP - Here is a possible
fix for the 'Data Invalid' error which dogs some Windows XP users when installing and
swapping out some PCI cards. This error appears to be due to a protection problem in
the Windows registry and can occur with a variety of drivers (sound cards and SCSI drivers
have been reported). (thanks Rob).
- Windows 2000 & Windows XP Group Policy Object Tool -
Microsoft has released a tool that can be used by system administrators to stop the
SNMP service if it is running, and disable it so that it can not be run after stopping.
This tool is a logon script which can be used by the administrators to configure machines
joined to a domain to not have the SNMP service running. This script/tool runs on the
client only when they are started (booted).
- Clearmem - Free Microsofts's Memory Tool - This tool
clears out your current data sets in RAM. Clearmem (clearmem.exe)-Forces pages out of
physical memory and reduces the size of running processes' working sets to a minimum. When
you run this tool, the system pauses because of excessive high-priority activity
associated with trimming the working sets. To run this tool, your paging file must be at
least as large as physical memory. This program works great with all versions of Windows.
- PC Card Bus Voltage Level Update for Windows 2000 - This update
resolves the Toshiba PC Card Controller May Power 3.3-Volt R2 PC Card at 5 Volts issue
in Windows 2000 and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article Q265296.
Download now to ensure that the bus voltage handles both 3.3-volt and 5-volt PC Cards
appropriately.
- Pioneer DVD Utility - Pioneer has made a DVD
Utility program available for their DVD-106S, DVD-116 and DVD-AO6S for Windows
98/98SE/ME/2000/XP.
- DVD Decrypter v3.0.0.12 - DVD Decrypter is a free tool which enables you decrypt and copy a DVD
to your PC's hard disk.
- WMA Encoder/Decoder v1.4.2a - WMA Encoder Decoder
is an audio convertor that encodes AudioCD, MP3, OGG and WAV files to WMA files, and
decodes WMA files back to WAV files.
- CPUCooL v7.0.12 - CPUCooL is a
program that monitors temperature, fan speed, and voltages for many motherboards. It works
with all chipsets from Intel, ALI, VIA, AMD, and SIS 5595 motherboards.
- PowerStrip 3.14 Beta Build 252 - Designed to complement
the native Windows Display Properties sheet under Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT/2000, the PowerStrip combines
advanced, multi-monitor API support with extensive programmable hardware support.
- Adaptec ASPI drivers version 4.70 - ASPI drivers version 4.70 for Windows 98, NT 4, Me, 2000 and XP.
Includes ASPICHK version checking utility.
- ATI Refresh Rate Fixer 0.98 Beta - This programs main function
is to set refresh
rates under Windows 2000 and XP in OpenGL and Direct3D modes.
- OCPad 0.6 RC6 - There's a new version of OCpad for
you, the overclockers :)
- ATI Radeon Drivers - This is the official, fully released and
supported display driver for ATI Radeon Display Drivers. DirectX 8 and OpenGL
support are included. Download: ATI
Radeon Driver v5.13.01.6014 (Win2k), ATI Radeon
Driver v4.3.3288 (WinNT), ATI
Radeon Driver v6.13.10.6015 (WinXP).
- Terratec Sound Drivers - Terratec has released new sound drivers for EWS88 MT/D, EWX 24/96, and DMX 6fire.
- Leadtek Detonators - Leadtek have released new
Detonator drivers for their video cards from the GeForce TNT Ultra to the GeForce4 MX
card for Windows 9x/2K/XP.
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