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 Sunday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 11:59 PM CEST - Jul,11 2004
  • Mozilla Flaw Lets Links Run Arbitrary Programs - The reports indicate that links in a Web page using the "shell:" scheme can execute arbitrary programs on the user's system. The attacker would have to know the location in the file system of the program, but there are known programs in Windows with buffer overflows. The Mozilla Foundation has confirmed the problem and issued a fix, which is available here (or download FireFox 0.9.2 | Mozilla 1.7.1 | Thunderbird 0.7.2) It should also be noted that this flaw effects all browsers for the Windows operating system which take advantage of the "shell" function, not just Mozilla.
  • Movie studios load anti-piracy guns - Though studio executives are reluctant to discuss specifics, they are trying several new weapons to shut off DVD pirates' two main sources -- illegal downloads and illegal replication. New strategies include increased Internet policing, the planting of false files (known as spoofing) and the use of DVD encryption technology. The studios also are understood to be discussing possible relationships with peer-to-peer networks to offer legitimate downloads. These defenses are being complemented by a far-reaching education campaign spearheaded by the MPAA. The MPAA reports that in addition to the $3.5 billion lost to illegal replication last year, an unquantifiable amount was lost because of file sharing. A likely estimate is that 400,000-600,000 films are being illegally downloaded every day.
  • Suspect works at Microsoft - Man is accused of hacking AltaVista before changing jobs. A Kirkland man arrested last week on allegations that he stole proprietary technology from the AltaVista search engine two years ago is a Microsoft Corp. employee who has been working on the Redmond company's MSN Search initiative.
  • Grassroots hackers create file-swapping wireless iPod - Simeda recently introduced a small piece of file discovery software for wireless Pocket PCs which implemented Apple's Rendezvous service. Now they've gone a step further, and begun to make the iPod truly social. In a bundle that hooks a Pocket PC up to an iPod - with the iPod as a USB slave device - the entire contents of the yuppy's music hoard can now be shared with the rest of the world: via streaming or file transfer.
  • Dell stops shipping Windows on all its computers - After being berated by Microsoft for attempting to sell Linux on some of the company's desktop systems, Dell has decided to stop selling Windows altogether. CEO Michael Dell said, in a fictional conference call with reporters, "Microsoft is in no position to push us around. By selling Linux, we will save each customer nearly $200 per computer. If Microsoft would like to continue selling Windows through Dell, it will need to ask very nicely and accept that we have the right to sell other operating systems."
  • Off-topic: DNA duplication trick may lead to faster testing - By raiding nature's tool cabinet, researchers have developed a potentially faster and more practical version of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), itself a foundation of modern genetics. The breakthrough, called helicase-dependent amplification (HDA), could result in small, hand-held devices which enable doctors to test blood samples directly in the surgery and forensic teams to detect a suspect's DNA at a crime scene.
  • Off-topic: Hi-fi failure helps to brighten beer - Brighter, clearer beer could be on the way thanks to a superfine filter that owes its existence to the failure of a decade-old recording technology. In the early 1990s, Philips of the Netherlands developed the Digital Compact Cassette tape format, which was designed to give CD-quality sound on standard magnetic tapes. DCC used record/playback heads that could write or read magnetic data through holes just 70 micrometres wide. To make such small holes, Philips harnessed technology used in making microchips: it used a beam of hot fluorocarbon plasma to blast the holes in a metal film.
  • Off-topic: Tubes Vs. Transistors - Is There An Audible Difference? - Engineers and musicians have long debated the question of tube sound versus transistor sound. Previous attempts to measure this difference have always assumed linear operation of the test amplifier. This conventional method of frequency response, distortion and noise measurement has shown that no significant difference exists. This paper, however, points out that amplifiers are often severely overloaded by signal transients (THD 30% ). Under this condition there is a major difference in the harmonic distortion components of the amplified signal, with tubes, transistors, and operational amplifiers separating into distinct groups.
  • Take control of Internet searching with two new services - Two specialized search engines are sure to create a buzz. A9 (from the A9.com Inc. subsidiary of Amazon), and Ujiko (from KartOO) offer more than your standard Web search interface. Each service has tools to refine, organize, and save your results.
  • New e-mail service aims to wallop Gmail - Israeli Web portal provider Walla Communications Ltd. has launched WallaMail, a new service offering users tools such as in-box search, an e-mail filtering system, an antivirus application and, of course, a lot of space. It offers enough space, in fact, to archive 40,000 e-mails, 2,000 pictures and 50 one-minute video clips, the company said.
  • Will Intel Kill x86-64 By Supporting It? - By announcing support for AMD64, Intel, in the short term, handed AMD a tremendous PR boost. Software vendors and companies that were on the fence over supporting x86-64 might now decide to do so knowing that Intel is onboard. We wouldn't be surprised if AMD even sold a few more Opteron or Athlon 64 systems on the strength of Intel's announcement simply by being able to demonstrate that this wasn't "a fringe movement." Supposedly this should mean the death of Itanium, except...
  • Lite-On IT to begin volume production of 16x DVD Dual burners - Lite-On IT, Taiwan's largest manufacturer of optical disc drivers, will start volume production of 16x DVD Dual (+RW & -RW) burners for ODM/OEM clients by the end of this month, according to general manager of the company's Optical Disc Drive Business Unit, Michael Gong. The 16x DVD Dual burners are initially expected to sell at a retail price of about US$179, Gong indicated.
  • Logitech New Mouse Range Goes Back to the Future - Logitech has boosted accuracy, precision and response for its latest crop of gaming mice. Other standard "lifestyle" mice in the new range are a lot smarter. In addition to putting the devices through an exhaustive battery of tests, THG interviewed Logitech founder Daniel Borel to learn about Logitech's vision thing.
  • Samsung Yepp 55i MP3 Player review - Last but not least, since the Yepp works on a very simple drag and drop system, you can also use it for a file transport system, basically a USB key. The drag and drop concept makes for very easy file transfer and MP3 upload, but its a bit of a pain because the files seem to randomly arrange themselves, which is troublesome for me because I love listening to live CDs, and the continuity gets broken. Finally, because the Yepp only works on USB 1.1 it takes a good 5 minutes to fully load it.
  • Apple iPod 10GB (Mac Version) review - The 10 GB iPod (Mac version) is one solid product. It runs well in cold weather (the coldest I've been in is -5° F), but the sub-zero temperatures cause the LCD to slow down and also drastically reduce the otherwise impressive battery life.
  • AMD 90nm Benchmarks - Xtreme Systems.org have published some information on AMD's 90 nanometer Athlon 64 processors along with benchmarks.
  • Intel's Xeon 3.4 GHz vs. AMD's Opteron 250 - While Intel may be the choice for content creation types, the Opteron still wallops the Xeon in terms of memory bandwidth/latency, number crunching, webserver performance, and media encoding. In all honestly, the Opteron system felt much smoother during our testing in comparison to the new Xeons, which we would tend to attribute to the Opteron’s on-die memory controller feature. If pure performance was your main goal of buying a new dual processor system, the Opteron 250 would still be our processor choice.
  • AMD Athlon 64 3800+ review - The release of the socket 939 Athlon 64 line of CPU's signals the beginning of the end for the Athlon 64 on the socket 940 and socket 754 platforms. Dual channel memory that supports non-ECC memory for the Athlon 64 is here to stay, and from this testing, it is easy to see why people are getting so excited about AMD's new 939 pin CPU's.
  • Intel 925X & 915G Express Chipsets review - The 925X and 915G chipsets both proved to be high-end performers with a lot of upward potential. The combination of DDR2 memory and PCI Express x16 graphics and x1 peripherals really gives these new platforms the bandwidth needed for today, and into the future. While the new PCI Express chipsets do have an eye for the future, there's really not a noticeable performance advantage compared to current Socket 478 platforms, at least on an 800 MHz front-side bus.
  • nForce3 motheboard (939-pin) review - MSI K8N Neo2 nForce3 Ultra Motherboard | Gigabyte K8NSNXP-939
  • Kingston HyperX DDR400 review - The average computer user doesn't really need memory this fast. For most users, their front side bus will rarely, if ever, excede the stock 200MHz, so those in the "Mainstream user" catagory probably won't benefit from the potential boost (particularly when it comes with a price tag to the tune of $433). The exception to that of course is with those using lots of graphics or video intensive applications in which case I have not a hesitant bone in my body recommending 1GB of this RAM as it is both stable and fast. In these kind of situations though it could also be argued that quantity takes precedence to speed on balance.
  • BFG GeForce 6800 GT OC - The price of the BFG 6800 GT OC is agreeable also - with a MSRP of 399$, it is 100$ less than the Ultra and the X800 XT PE. The price is on part with the X800 Pro and in our benchmarking, the GT OC is right up there with the XT PE in most cases. Performance is still being eeked out by the Nvidia driver team with fairly big gains from the initial debut in April till now and more expected in the short term. In my opinion, the 6800 GT OC is the most attractive next generation card to get. Faster than stock, 100$ less than the Ultra/PE XT, Shader Model 3 support, and the potential to get even faster. What more can you ask for?
  • MSI MEGA 865: Hi-Fi Barebone System review - X-bit labs take a look at the new MSI MEGA solution based on Intel 865 platform with enhanced features set and rich functionality, which will be an attractive buy for any home user.
  • Shuttle XPC SB81P - SFF Barebone System review - Shuttle is the grand daddy of SFF (small form factor) PCs in their current cube like incarnation. But recent models from Shuttle have all looked very similar to the previous units with a few minor tweaks here and there. The SB81P however, represents a major overhaul that goes a long way to put Shuttle back at the front of the SFF pack.
  • MSI's DVD Drive Gets The SATA Connection - MSI has gone where no other drive maker has gone before with its launch of the first DVD/CD-RW combo drive with an SATA interface. THG takes a look to see how the drive's transfer rate, read capabilities and other performance benchmarks measure up.
  • LiteOn 8x DVD±R/ 4X ±RW SOHW-812S - There's no support for DVD-RAM, no support for DVD+R DL (Dual Layer) and no support for Mount Rainier. The last item is the biggest surprise for me since I thought all new drives these days would support it.
  • Hitachi Brings 400GB to Desktops with the Deskstar 7K400 - There's not much to say about the performance of Hitachi's Deskstar 7K400 other than it's competitive with anything else out there today. What the 7K400 does offer today is the largest single drive capacity for a desktop hard drive, at 400GB.
  • Thermaltake TWV 480 Power Supply - The TWV 480 power supply offers plenty of power and control over fan noise. Add in the ability to monitor your systems total Watt consumption, makes this PSU a real winner. Pros: Total Watts Display, Fan controller, Extra case fan, Automatic fan controller option, Two PSU fans, Sleeved wirers, AMD and Pentium ready and -ATA serial ready.
  • ASUS Power Supply Units Roundup - X-bit Labs have tested three PSUs from ASUS: A-30F, A-30G and A-30H models.
  • Logitech Orbit webcam review -  The video performance when the color boost option and the low light filter are enabled is very bad. The video lags about 1/3 of a second behind what's actually being viewed. However, the effect isn't as noticeable when the audio functionality isn't used. What is noticeable however is the decreased rate of capture, which brings upon blurriness during movement.
  • Run Firefox from removable media - This advanced tip makes it possible to run Firefox from removable media, such as a USB memory stick. This will allow you to run Firefox with your personal settings from any computer, even those that don't have Firefox installed. It has only been tested on Windows XP/2000.
  • Windows XP Security Tweaking for the paranoid - This guide is intended for all of the people who believe tinfoil hats are fashionable. 99.5% of the people out there won't need or want these tweaks.
  • Office 2003/XP Add-in: Remove Hidden Data - With this add-in you can permanently remove hidden and collaboration data, such as change tracking and comments, from Word 2003/XP, Excel 2003/XP, and PowerPoint 2003/XP files.
  • Catalyst 4.7 performance report - check it out!
  • Windows XP SP2 RTM due within 2 weeks - According to reliable sources at Microsoft the scroll build (RTM) is due to be finished as early as next week or within the next 2 weeks. Current builds stand at 2161. After the RTM date OEMs have 90 days to ship SP2 pre-installed on their XP machines. Within those 90 days they're required to ship the XP SP2 update CD with machines. CDs will be made available at support outlets (PC World Support) and on frontpage magazine covers.
  • VSPlus 1.0.3 for Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 - VSPlus (download) is a tool to manage multiple virtual machines on different virtual servers over VS2005 COM interface. It's developed by Jin Mao, who followed whole Virtual Server 2005 beta program.
  • DVD Audio Extractor v1.2.2 (shw) - DVD Audio Extractor is a software DVD audio extracting/ripping tool. It can help you to extract sound tracks from your favorite DVDs and save them as OGG, MP3 or Wave files. This new version fixed a bug in OGG/Vorbis format that caused the result file be several seconds shorter than original audio.

  • ATI Tray Tools v1.0.0.344 - ATI Tray Tools updated up to build 1.0.0344.

  • Tweak-XP Pro 3.0.5 (shw) - The original Tweak-XP Pro - unlike other tweaking utilities, Tweak-XP Pro bundles more than 48 different utilities in one.
  • Coolbits 2 - This tweak is intended for use with GeForce cards and forceware 55.xx - 6x.xx drivers. It gives many extra options to the control panel/driver, including but not limited to - overclocking, agp & hardware settings, fan control, troubleshooting dialog, and openGL 2.0 support.
  • XGI Reactor 1.05 - This driver is WHQL certified, fixes some bugs in Moto GP2 and significantly improves OpenGL performance.
  • Lite-On Firmware - LiteOn has released some new DVD Dual and CD-RW firmware updates for the following drives: Lite-On SOHW-1213S, Lite-On SOHW-832S, Lite-On LDW-851S, Lite-On LDW-851SX.

last 10 comments:
FISKER_Q(01:50 AM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
Just sucks that there's no other popular browser(that i know of) that supports that shell problem :lol:

Btw that dell report is a spoof not a real report :wink:

xxxx(06:44 AM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
no browser is safe. anyone can break anything, at least with ms you are almost assured that if they are found they are fixed asap.

Anonymous(01:48 PM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
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El_Coyote(02:50 PM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
too bad mozilla is faster.
there were a fix for firefox a few minutes after the previous security flaw was published (the frame target bug)
Opera is better than both however :P

maga(03:38 PM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
El_Coyote>
Opera is better than both however :P

Gimme five !! 8)

lucas(04:11 PM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
the mozilla "bug" is a windows problem. it doesnt affect mozilla on linux. the problem is mozilla handing off protocols it doesnt do (ie. shell:) to the system. on well written operating systems this isnt a problem, but on windows is it. ms promised to fix the shell hole long ago, apparent it'll be fixed in sp2

Anonymous(05:29 PM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
5th paragraph would tule but shame that its just a joke :(

madda(06:00 PM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
BI4dE> 5th paragraph would tule but shame that its just a joke :(

true true, it would never happen though!

xxxx(09:40 PM CEST - Jul,12 2004 )
har, as i had time to read the real story, BAD joke. i thus changed my response. i welcome all computer manufacturers to drop windows installation on their pc's. give people the ultimate choice, go to the store and voluntarily buy it or pay a surplus to have dell etc put it on your box. this alone would give linux etc more fighting chance and would also see the eventual end of the linux vs ms debate. dell, is crap anyhow so who cares. alienware gets my vote for best/quality pc's out there. dell is custom motherboards and odd parts.. SDRAM in a +2GHz machine... uh huh..alienware is proven and award winning parts. get what you pay for. i had to give the bad news to my cousin who bought a hunk of junk dell.

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