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(hx) 03:05 AM CEST - Oct,08 2003
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- Hacker Wargame Research Project -
The
wargame is a specially designed internet connected network running
Microsoft Windows 2000 Servers with IIS, Exchange and MS-SQL. Each participant
(that's you) will have to complete 3 specific hacking goals on these Microsoft
based servers, so you gotta know how to hack a 'doze box to play our little
game. We will be studying how you complete the goals for our "cognitive
research" which is the study of how people think. If we select you to
participate in the wargame research project, and you are successful in
achieving the three project goals and follow the simple steps we outline, you
will be paid a minimum of US$250.
- Shift key breaks CD copy locks - In a paper published on his Web
site this week, Princeton Ph.D. student John Halderman explained how he
disabled a new kind of copy-protection technology, distributed as part of a
new album by BMG soul artist Anthony Hamilton. Under normal circumstances, the
antipiracy software is automatically loaded onto a Windows machine whenever
the Hamilton album is run in a computer's CD drive, making traditional copying
or MP3 ripping impossible. However,
simply holding down the Shift key prevents Windows' AutoRun feature from
loading the copy-protection software, leaving the music free to copy,
Halderman said
- Software drives users to crime - Instead of preventing piracy, the
current crop of software product activation schemes could actually encourage
it. Nice article,
check it out..
- Off-topic: Two Americans, Russian Win Nobel Prize in Physics -
Alexei A. Abrikosov, Anthony J. Leggett and Vitaly L. Ginzburg
were awarded the prize for their work concerning superconductivity and
superfluidity.
- Nokia Launches N-Gage Handset - Nokia on Tuesday launched
its much-hyped N-Gage game phone, taking on Japan's Nintendo in a bid to
break into the red-hot gaming market and offset its slowing growth in global
handset sales.
- First 2-Megapixel Camera Phone Debuts -
Casio Computer has become the first cellular telephone maker to announce a
handset that can capture still images at 2-megapixel resolution. The phone is
on show at the Ceatec Japan 2003 exhibition, which opened Tuesday just outside
of Tokyo.
- PSX Specs And Price Revealed - Sony Corp said on Tuesday
it would begin selling the "PSX," an all-in-one game console and
entertainment system, in Japan by the year-end. The PSX would feature a
satellite TV tuner, DVD recorder, hard disk drive (HDD) recorder and
PlayStation 2 game player. A version with a 160-gigabyte HDD will sell
for 79,800 yen ($719) and be able to record up to 204 hours of television, the
company said. It will also sell a 250-gigabyte version for 99,800 yen.
- Asus unveils DiGiMatrix PC that looks like a Hi-Fi separate - Asus
have introduced
its latest barebones PC, the DiGi Matrix, but looks like Hi-Fi separate
rather than a PC. It is designed to combine various Hi-Fi and Video separates
in one box including a CD player, TiVo style Personal video recorder, MP3
player, DVD player in a box, but while not looking 'out of place' under the
living room TV.
- TDK Shows Off Stylish MP3 Players - TDK on Tuesday announced an
expansion of its MOJO line to include several new portable MP3 players. TDK
also noted the Mac compatibility of three of the new units, which use USB to
connect to Macs or to Windows PCs.
The MOJO 256F ($190) sports a digital FM tuner, 256MB of internal memory,
and a slot for an MultiMediaCard or SD card flash memory expansion media. The
device can also record voice memos or FM radio streams to its internal memory.
It sports a backlit text display, seven equalizer presets for different
musical styles, a user-programmable EQ mode, and four playback modes. It
supports up to 20 programmable FM radio presets.
- New Discs Double DVD Storage - Pioneer, Koninklijke Philips
Electronics, and Mitsubishi Kagaku Media, the latter better known by its
Verbatim brand name, have said they have
developed prototype discs that can hold up to 8.5GGB of data and will show
them at Ceatec, according to statements from the companies.
- SiS unveils 16GB quad-channel Rambus chipset - The chipset provides
a quad-channel memory bus designed to take 1.2GHz RDRAM for 9.6GBps of memory
bandwidth. Up to 16GB of memory is supported. SiSR659
samples will be available in the fourth quarter, the company said.
- AMD Duron Applebred vs. Athlon XP Thoroughbred - Recently AMD
introduced its new durons. The chaps at MadShrimps bought one of them,
the 1.6GHz version. The most interesting part of this cpu is its core voltage,
only 1.5 V. This CPU begged to be compared with an Athlon XP, dlt3c (known for
reaching speeds up to 2700Mhz!). Is the new Duron an equally good overclocker
? Maybe even better ? Find out in
this review..
- ATI Overclocking Antiprotection -
The script
was tested and seems to work fine on RV350 based boards and Catalyst 3.7,
however it must function properly on the rest drivers and hardware too. Any
feedback from locked RV250/RV280/R300 owners is welcome.
- HyperSnap-DX 5.30.01 -
HyperSnap-DX 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, 3dfx, Voodoo and Glide mode games.
- nVidia Detonator 50.21 for Win2003 Unofficial - Station-Drivers
have posted an
unoffical new set of Nvidia Detonator Drivers 50.21 for windows server
2003.
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