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Wednesday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 07:45 PM CEST - May,19 2004 - Post a comment / read (7)
  • Microsoft Confident Reward System Will Lead To Arrest of Blaster, MyDoom Writers - Bulked up by a recent arrest in the Sasser worm case, Microsoft is confident that the creators of the infamous MyDoom and Blaster worms will be brought to justice. On Tuesday, Microsoft Deputy General Counsel Nancy Anderson said the software giant's $5 million reward program is beginning to pay off--and future arrests are likely. Anderson said Microsoft provided technical assistance to the FBI, Secret Service and German authorities that led to the arrest on Saturday of the teenager believed to be responsible for creating both the Sasser and Netsky worms that infected millions of PCs. Information leading to the arrest resulted in part from Microsoft's antivirus reward program.
  • FBI Probes Possible Cisco Software Theft - The FBI is investigating the possible theft of source code from networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc., the agency said on Tuesday. "We're aware of the situation and we're working with Cisco regarding the potential loss of proprietary data," said Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirming the probe.
  • Two new worms follow Sasser route - The W32/Bobax-A worm, which employs the same Microsoft security vulnerability as the Sasser worm to break into computers, uses port 5000 to identify Windows XP systems (the port used for "Universal Plug and Play"). According to the Sophos Web site, this new worm "is capable of turning infected computers into spam factories and launchpads for denial-of-service attacks against Web sites."
  • Lycos Europe Beats Google to Market with 1GB Email - Web portal Lycos Europe beat its larger rival Google to market with an e-mail service featuring one gigabyte of storage space, the company announced on Tuesday. Lycos Europe said the new service was going live in the United Kingdom on Tuesday with other European countries to follow.
  • MS chief reveals Xbox 2 development secrets - On the morning after Microsoft's exclusive E3 drinks reception in Hollywood, where the likes of Allard, Peter Moore, Shane Kim and the European Xbox team mixed with a handful of sweaty hacks, the Xbox creator was in an open mood when we spoke with him. He discussed the current state of play for the Xbox business and beyond, offering insights into next-gen software development and how it will change the way we experience videogames. When asked if, aside from the XNA demonstrations we've already seen, he had been privy to next-gen demonstrations, he said: 'There's some stuff that's just knocked my socks off."
  • DISCover and Infinium Labs Tout Plug-and-Play PC Gaming Consoles - The only way that Phantom will be able to compete is through marketing and pricing. At $199 per console, they are probably losing money each time they sell a console, with the hopes that subscription and premium content fees make up the difference. For most consumers, the DISCover consoles will be a better pick, as they play PC games while also giving you DVD playback and digital video recording. Since the DISCover technology is hardware independent, consumers can choose from a wide range of different consoles.
  • Dell Axim X30 first with Windows Mobile 2003 SE - With the fastest Intel PXA270 processors ever designed for a PDA, the Axim X30 will be available in three different models. The low end start version for $199 has no wireless capabilities an Intel 312MHz, 32MB Intel Flash and 32MB SDRAM, a $249 model with similar features to the $199 version but adding 64MB ROM, 64MB SDRAM, 802.11b and Bluetooth, then the powerhouse $349 model that has an Intel 624MHz processor, 64MB ROM, 64MB SDRAM, 802.11b, Bluetooth and cradle.
  • Twinhead to display new 14-inch AMD notebook at Computex - The notebook features a 14-inch XGA TFT LCD and is powered by the Mobile AMD Athlon XP-M processor 1800+ to 2400+. The efio! 14A supports up to 512MB DDR SDRAM, weighs 2.6 kg and includes three USB 2.0 ports, a PCMCIA slot, onboard 10/100M bit Ethernet, and a 56Kbps V.90 modem.
  • Lite-On IT launches 8x Dual DL and 12x Dual DVD burners - Lite-On IT will launch two new DVD burners today through its Taiwan general sales agent, Gish International, for sale on the domestic market. The products are an 8x DVD Dual DL (single-sided double-layer disc) burner and a 12x DVD Dual burner. According to Gish chairman Garry Chen, a few local makers already claim to offer 8x DVD+RW DL burner models, but Lite-ON IT’s 8x DVD Dual DL is also compatible with the –RW format, and will sell at prices of US$229-239 per burner. Lite-On IT also recently began selling the 12x DVD Dual burners in Japan, Chen indicated.
  • AMD's Opteron 150 and 250 processors  - These CPUs pack all the same goodness we've come to appreciate in the form of the Opteron 148, 248, and 848 models, plus 200 more megahertz, for a total of 2.4GHz.  Like all previous Opterons, the x50 series is built using AMD's 130nm fab process. Since this is just a speed bump for the Opteron series, we decided to throw a party and spice things up a bit by testing the new Opterons against over twenty different competitors.
  • Following in Intel's Naming Footsteps - FX-57 shows up on the AMD roadmaps, FX-55 wattages, and AMD's shift to product naming. If you thought AMD was surprisingly quiet lately wait till you see their most recent update. Oh, and RIP Duron 2000-2004.
  • Via reveals C5J processor details - VIA has revealed the first details of its C5J Esther processor core, created using IBM's 90 nanometre SOI (silicon on isolator) process. The core, claims Via, gives the processor an improved turn of speed and reduces power consumption to 3.5W at 1GHz. Via claims the core will allow unprecedented performance for demanding applications, like high compression video streaming and data encryption.
  • Intel 915 Chipset preview - The new Intel 915/ICH6 chipset supporting the upcoming Socket 755 is scheduled to debut in about a month’s time. Some information about this chipset has been making rounds on the Internet, like the lack of an AGP interface and Win 9X drivers. Today, we try to put together different pieces of information we have on this chipset- some of the technologies that this chipset will bring with itself. We know that Intel will offer this chipset in discreet as we well as their “G” flavor- with the integrated Intel Extreme Graphics 3 display technology.
  • Radeon X800 Pro Voltage Mod - The way of pencil voltage modding the Radeon X800 Pro is almost exactly the same as the Radeon 9800XT. I would suggest you to read through the previous guide done by Shamino first as it contains more information. You would need a 2B pencil, a soft eraser and a multimeter.
  • ATI responds to cheating allegations - TheInquirer received an official statement from Canadian graphics firm ATI about recent reports of optimising for its graphics cards. According to ATI, the differences in screenshots between the Radeon 9800 XT and X800 are the result of a new filtering algorithm, not application-specific cheats.
  • Fedora Core 2 - Fedora Core 2 x86 or x86-64 downloads are available from: fedora.redhat.com or from the network of mirrors in the Fedora Project distribution system
  • Wine-2004-05-05 Wine is an implementation of the Windows Win32 and Win16 APIs on top of X and Unix. Think of Wine as a Windows compatibility layer. Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing many unmodified Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/NT/W2K/XP binaries to run under Intel Unixes.
  • WineX 3.2.2 - TransGaming Technologies has announced their newest WineX, version 3.3.2. Not only does this latest release fix issues with copy protection in Battlefield 1942 but introduces, for the first time, support for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
  • K-Lite Codec Pack 2.26 - The K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codecs are required to encode and decode (play) audio and video.There are three versions of the K-Lite Codec Pack: The basic version, who fits on a single floppy disk, contains only the most essential codecs and related tools. The standard version contains everything what is needed to play all the commonly used formats. The full version contains even more codecs and also has encoding support.
  • K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.02 - The K-Lite Mega Codec Pack includes the K-Lite Codec Pack Full, QuickTime Alternative, Real Alternative and BSplayer
  • QuickTime Alternative 1.33 - QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime files (.mov, .qt and other extensions) without having to install QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The QuickTime plugins include iPIX and QuickTimeVR. The QuickTime Browser plugin supports Internet Explorer, Opera, Mozilla and Netscape.
  • Real Alternative 1.23 - Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install RealPlayer or RealOne Player. Supported are: RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealMedia (.rm .ram .rmvb .rpx .smi .smil), RealText (.rt), ReadPix (.rp). It also supports RealMedia content that is embedded in webpages.
  • OpenGL Extension Viewer v2.08 - This program displays the vendor name, the version implemented, the renderer name and the extensions of the current OpenGL 3D accelerator.
  • MemTest86+ 1.15 - MemTest86+ 1.15 has been released! New in this version: Bit Fade Test, support for A64 'NewCastle' core, support for Athlon 64 on Socket 939, support for Celeron Prescott, support for Pentium M with E75xx, bugfixes, etc.
  • AMD Athlon 64 Driver 11014 - AMD have released a newer revision of the CPU Driver for WinXP.
  • Intel P4 Prescott Driver 5.1.2600 - Station-Drivers has posted a new Intel P4 Prescott WinXP driver version 5.1.2600.1331.
  • Radeon Omega Drivers 2.5.44 - Omegadrive has released a new Radeon Omega Drivers for Win2k/XP based on the official Catalyst 4.5 ATI drivers
last 10 comments:
giGGlerposted - May, 19 2004 - 20:09
Invest that $5 million into better programming/debugging and we wont have to worry about silly little worms. Catching these kiddies wont do much good but if there are less holes in the operating system then we have less to worry about.

disillusionedposted - May, 20 2004 - 01:21
Wow giGGler - way to oversimplify everything :) Do you really think that a $5,000,000 investment be enough to fix all those silly little worms? Microsoft spends more money by actually dedicating a part of their workforce to specifically writing hotfixes. It's not a matter of 5 or even 10 million dollars. What needs to be understood is that every time you release software for a very wide consumer base, there might be bugs that may arise from people trying to exploit your software. Yes, you can spend more time to fix them all and making sure that everything is all patched up 100%. In the end it's a tradeoff. Wait more + make the price higher because of your investment and get less bugs or release earlier, make it cheaper and patch the bugs afterwards. I can see how either case can be argued for/against..

1posted - May, 20 2004 - 02:33
I did it.

Bill Gatesposted - May, 20 2004 - 07:26
giGGler - good points. I never thought of that. I'll mention it to the Windows Development team.

lucasposted - May, 20 2004 - 13:31
while its true that large software project will never be bug free, i cant see what MS think they will achieve by catching the MyDoom author. $5mil seems like a lot to waste just to punish someone. maybe they want to hire him :P

El_Coyoteposted - May, 20 2004 - 13:42
$5 mil was the total value of the program - not the bounty on the mydoom writer.

Bill Gatesposted - May, 20 2004 - 14:54
The reason we want to capture these virus writers is so they can come work for Microsoft. :-) In the future, Windows will self-install onto your system like a virus, then we'll sue you for using a pirated OS. I think this is a fantastic method of getting more of your money into my pockets. Also, we are hoping we can brainwash the virus writers into creating viruses against our competition... ie. Linux. So it's basically a win/win situation. =)

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