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(hx) 08:10 AM CEST - Sep,25 2003
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- U.S. immigration system hit by virus - The U.S. Department of State
struggled Tuesday to quell an outbreak of
the W32.Welchia Internet worm on the department's computer systems. The
worm infestation slowed e-mail systems at the massive federal agency and
prompted technical staff to suspend network links between Washington, D.C.,
foreign embassies and consular offices for nine hours to halt the worm's
spread.
- OpenSSH patches second flaw - The open-source project for secure
communications technology, known as OpenSSH,
plugged a second security hole on Tuesday that affects only users who have
turned off a critical security feature. The flaw appears in an open-source
implementation of the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAMs), a technology
adopted by Sun Solaris, Linux and BSD systems to let system administrators
easily change the way users log into computers. The default login procedure
could be changed to a smart-card-based procedure using a PAM, for example.
- KaZaA sues RIAA for copyright infringement - Sharman Networks is
suing the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for distributing
replicas of its P2P file sharing software. Sharman says the RIAA has
distributed versions of
KaZaA Lite with warning messages to potential infringers, which it deems
"monopolistic and conspiratorial" behavior. In July a Judge nixed an attempt
by Sharman Networks to stop the distribution of RIAA-flavored KaZaA software
using Antitrust legislation. That failed, but this time it's trying again.
- California bans spam - California Gov. Gray Davis signed into law
a toughest measure in the United States to crack down on "spam," the
unsolicited e-mail increasingly clogging electronic mail boxes. The bill would
allow penalties of $1,000 per unsolicited e-mail and up to $1 million for spam
campaigns in a bid to deter e-mail marketing firms.
- Florida man is first convicted by jury under digital piracy law - A
Florida man has been
convicted of selling hardware to illegally tap into DirecTV satellite
broadcasts, becoming the first person to be found guilty by a jury under a
1998 federal law against digital piracy. Whitehead is scheduled to be
sentenced on Jan. 26. He faces a maximum sentence of 30 years in federal
prison and fines of up to $2.75 million.
- Anti-swap CD hits the racks - In his new album, Coming From Where
I'm From, Anthony Hamilton reflects on his roots and the directions in which
they have led him. His CD, meanwhile, offers a glimpse of the direction the
music industry is taking to prevent rampant piracy.
The disc has two sets of music tracks: one set of "encrypted" songs that
can be handled by CD players but cannot be ripped on computers, and a
duplicate set of tracks in the Windows Media format. These can be downloaded
from the CD to a computer and then transferred to portable devices or recorded
to home CDs.
- E-paper may offer video images -
A dramatically simple idea may finally make "electronic paper" displays a
realistic prospect. If so, animated versions of a newspaper could, one day, be
unfurled like a roller-blind on a flexible wireless display.
- Via Shows Smallest PC Processor - Small enough to fit on the end of
a finger,
the Nano-BGA (Ball Grid Array) version of Via's 1-GHz C3 processor
measures .6 inches by .6 inches. It was announced on Wednesday by the
company's chief executive officer, Wen-chi Chen, during a keynote speech at
the Via Technology Forum, which is being held here with the Computex
exhibition.
- GoForce ready for mobile market - Buried between a general
company overview and several product launches, Nvidia yesterday launched
the world's first graphic processor with megapixel camera support at
Computex Taipei 2003. The processor is the company's first step into the
handheld market. Company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang joined four other Nvidia
executives at the presentation. The vice president and general manager of
handheld products at Nvidia, Phil Carmack, introduced the GoForce 2150 chip
for the PDA and handset market. He explained how the new chip supports
handhelds equipped with high-resolution (up to 1.3-megapixel) digital cameras,
offers the broadest panel support and consumes the least power among competing
chips.
- BIOS Optimization Guide Updated - Adrian's Rojak Pot just
posted the Interim
Release 4 of the new REVISION 8.0 BIOS OPTIMIZATION GUIDE with 30 new BIOS
options.
- Outlook 2003 Add-in: Personal Folders Backup -
Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with
the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup
copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2000 and later
versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.
Each .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox,
Calendar, and Contacts. You can have a single .PST file (usually called
"Internet Folders" or "Personal Folders" in your Folder List), but you might
also have an additional .PST file that you use for archiving ("Archiving
Folders"). Personal Folders Backup lets you back up any or all of these .PST
files.
- Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility -
Windows 2000 Registry Repair Utility (Windows
XP Professional Utility: Setup Disks for Floppy Boot Install) can help to
repair some types of registry corruptions.
- KaZaA P2P 2.5.2 -
The KaZaa Media Desktop (download)
is a second-generation peer-to-peer file-sharing service with which you can
search and download media files from other KaZaa users. The new version
features Improved Privacy Protection, Search for audio/music, documents,
image, playlist, software and video files, etc.
- Samurize v0.93d -
Samurize is a program that with low resources (about CPU: <1.0% on a
Celeron 600) displays information from PerfMon and lots of other info, right
to your desktop. It's higly configurable to suit every need.
- News Interceptor 1.08 -
Version 1.08 of News Interceptor is now available.
- 1by1 1.39 -
1by1 is a very
small sized player which is not only small: It plays whole directories without
any playlist. Navigating through your tracks has never been so easy.
Available too:
1by1
command set for IRAssistant, a nice tool to control applications with an
IR remote controller,
mpglib.dll:
Decoding library for MPEG Layer III and Layer II. Needed if you don't use an
MP3 ACM or MP3 Plugin,
Compressor & Wider is a WinAmp DSP plugin of 1by1's audio enhancer (WinAmp
"Pimp"-Installer).
- WinZip 9.0 Beta 2 - Please remember that this is a beta test
version. It is possible that some of the new features in this version will not
be included in the final release. For details on the changes, please see the
What's New In
WinZip 9.0 Beta page.
- MAME v0.74 -
MAME stands
for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator, and currently runs 1800+ classic (and
even some not so classic) arcade games.
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