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- Xbox and PS2 in online combat - Sony has looked to steal a march on
Microsoft's plans for online gaming with its Xbox console, to be launched next
Thursday [14 March]. Sony has said it will launch its own online services in the US this
August. It is currently trialling UK versions of the service with cable operator Telewest,
with additional trials due to start shortly. Sony will start selling a network adapter for
$39.99 in August. Microsoft's Xbox has a built-in Ethernet port and the software giant has
said it would begin to roll out online services later this year.
- First 3D Simulations of Complete Nuclear Detonations - The
National Nuclear Security Administration on Thursday issued a news release about the first
full-system 3D simulations of a nuclear weapon explosion, a significant
achievement for Los Alamos and Science Applications International Corp.
- MyLife worm tries to delete Windows files - MyLife
(w32.mylife@mm) is a 30,720-byte worm written in Visual Basic and compressed using UPX. If
executed, the worm will attempt to mail copies of itself to everyone in the user's address
book and will attempt
to delete critical Windows files. Fortunately, a bug in the current worm code prevents
MyLife from deleting any files.
- Sun to sue Microsoft for $1 billion - Sun Microsystems Inc. sued
rival Microsoft for
more than $1 billion Friday because the software giant made the Windows XP operating
system incompatible with Sun's Java programming language.
- Flaw is an OpenSSH case - Multiple Linux distributions released a security advisory yesterday
detailing a security flaw in the OpenSSH connectivity protocol. OpenSSH is a secure
encrypted suite of tools often used to replace Telnet, Rlogin and FTP, and is commonly
used for remote administration. But a security bug in versions 2.0 up to 3.0.2 can
be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the process under attack. This can mean the
local SSH client, userID of a connected client user, or a remote secure shell daemon that
has an authenticated user session running, attacking the root account of the remote
system.
- Pringles: the latest hacker tool - Security experts have
demonstrated that even an empty Pringles tin can be used to help hackers break into
insecure wireless networks. It has been a well documented fact that armed with a
wireless-equipped laptop and antenna, hackers have no shortage of victims around London.
But security firm I-sec recently demonstrated that using an empty Pringles tube as
an antenna could boost the hacker's chance of picking up a wireless signal by as much
as 15 per cent.
- Corel Calls on GRAPHICS SUITE Beta Testers - Corel GRAPHICS
SUITE includes a world-class vector illustration and page layout application, an intuitive
vector animation application, and a powerful image editing and painting application.
We are looking for individuals on both PC and Macintosh platforms,
with experience using CorelDRAW, Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, Adobe Photoshop,
Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and Micrografx Picture Publisher.
- Is Netscape 6 Spyware? - Anytime a Navigator user performs a
search by typing terms into the browser's URL bar and pressing the adjacent Search button,
or by using the Search tab on the browser's My Sidebar feature, the user data is sent to a server at
info.netscape.com using a uniform resource locator (URL) forwarding system.
- ITExpo 2002 Coverage - Join TweakTown as they determine if
ITExpo
has got what it takes to compete with the likes of Taiwan's Computex and USA's COMDEX.
- ATI TV Wonder USB Review - A good TV Tuner
should ultimately not only be a replacement for a television, but should also integrate
well with the PC to bring features that would not normally be available on a conventional
TV.
- Intel Northwood 2.4GHz Review - The main difference between the
Northwood core and the previous P4 core, Willamette, is that now Northwood is
built with 0.13µ (micron) production technology and has 512 KB L2 Cache. Moreover the
copper material enables the use of thinner wires compared to the aluminum used in
Willamette. (To help you get a better idea of the size, say that, hair has 60µ diameter).
- EVGA e-GeForce4 MX 440 Review - The Geforce4
MX series lacks one of the biggest features that differentiates between the Geforce3
and Geforce4 series of graphics cards, nVidia's new nfiniteFX II engine. The nfiniteFX II
engine is comprised of dual Vertex and pixel shaders. Without these two extra pipelines
the MX440 is being held back significantly. The MX 440 also misses on the DirectX mark by
failing to include full DX8.1 support.
- Inno3D Tornado Video Card Review - This card
sports a brownish-black PCB and equipped with a Silver Orb cooler. It is fitted with 4 x
16MB 4ns Samsung DDR memory which is above the memory specifications of the GF4 MX440 and
we have managed to overclocked the card from 270/400Mhz to 320/500Mhz. Check out its
performance against the GeForce3 Ti200.
- VIA KT133 & AMD 760 Chipset Tweaking Guides - Mods4ME has
published a KT133 and an AMD 760
Chipset Tweaking guides.
- Decode the Trillian Password - Trillian has a save password function. The save password function is
default and many users do not bother to untick it. I was shocked at how they store the
passwords. They store the passwords in a file with all the other users details. In any of
these .ini files, you will find something like this:
"password=9E5FF1A54AF5ACFD03C7" An easy way to get into someones MSN via
Trillian is to copy this and put it in your own .ini file and of course changing your
email address to their's, then sign in... But say you wanted to know what their MSN password was.
(thanks Ibellite.com)
- Antivirus Updates (March 08) - Kaspersky Anti-Virus (AVP)
Weekly Update, Norton
Antivirus 4.0/5.0/2000 Definition Update.
- PowerDVD XP 4.0 Patch 1329b - No words found on the Cyberlink
website what's new in this version - just download
it.
- Active@ Partition Recovery 1.0 - Active@ Partition
Recovery is a very small, easy to use DOS Program (only 150k in size) using which you
can: Recover deleted partitions (FAT and NTFS), Restore deleted FAT and NTFS Logical
Drives, Create Drive Image - for backup purposes, Scan hard drives and displays
deleted FAT and NTFS partitions and/or Logical Drives, Preview files and folders on
deleted partition or drive, to recover proper data, Do backup MBR (Master Boot Record),
Partition Table, Boot Sectors, Restore MBR, Partition Table and Boot Sectors from backup
if damaged.
- Kerio Personal Firewall 2.1 - Freeware
Kerio Personal Firewall (KPF) is a software agent that builds a barrier between your
personal computer and the Internet. KPF is designed to protect your PC against attacks
from both the Internet, and other computers in the local network.
- Radeonator 1.70/Radeonator 1.1 LE - Radeonator is a tool for tweaking
your ATI Radeon 8xxx/7xxx/64DDR/LE/VE/32DDR cards. This tweaker only works on Microsoft
Windows 2000/XP for now but there will be 9X/ME support soon. Radeonator 1.1 LE is simplified
version that allows you to overclock ATI cards - nothing more, nothing less.
- ATI Radeon 4.13.9021 Driver - It's dated 02/28/2002 and it
contains updated OpenGL ICD among other files thus expect a few bug fixes over the last
set and perhaps performance increases :) The following cards are listed as being
supported: Radeon 7200 / Radeon, Radeon 7000 / Radeon VE, Radeon 7500, Radeon 8500 leech it now
(Win98/ME).
- Sparkle Detonators 27.42 - Sparkle have posted their 27.XX
series of drivers v27.42 for 95/98/ME & 27.42 WHQL for 2000/XP.
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