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 Nightly Tech Reading - briefly
(hx) 03:29 AM CEST - Aug,13 2004
  • MSBlast suspect pleads guilty - A 19-year-old Minneapolis man pleaded guilty Wednesday to unleashing part of the MSBlast worm attack that wreaked havoc on the Internet last summer. Jeffrey Lee Parson admitted creating the MSBlast.B variant, also called teekids, by modifying the original version of the worm and adding a backdoor that granted him control of infected computers, federal prosecutors said. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 12 in Seattle before U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman. Parson could face between 18 and 37 months in prison on the charge of intentionally causing damage to a networked computer, plus possible restitution in the millions of dollars.
  • DVD Jon cracks Airport music streaming - Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen has decrypted and published the key that Apple's wireless hi-fi bridge, Airport Express, uses to protect music streams. He's also released the source code to a small Windows command-line tool he calls JustePort. In essence his crack opens the door for other applications to broadcast music to your hi-fi over a home WLAN network using Express, rather than just iTunes 4.6. For users on Linux machines, or with WMA or OGG format files, this could be a boon, as iTunes supports neither format out of the box.
  • ISS BlackIce Server Protect Unprivileged User Attack - On Aug 11, 2004 further analysis by Thomas Ryan found the vulnerability to affect blackice.ini, sigs.ini, protect.ini not just firewall.ini as originally reported. Furthermore research has shown BlackIce was vulnerable from any IP address listed in blackice.ini, not just local attacks.
  • Win XP SP2 turns Firewire 800 into Firewire 100 - The moderator of the RME forum has warned that installing Windows XP SP2 can lead to the bus speed being limited to 100Mbit/s. Matthias Carstens posted the message on the RME forum yesterday, but says it's not a problem particular to RME products. He said: It affects any Firewire 800 device. If you have a FW800 PCI card and an FW 800 hard disk, go see the bits come one by one through the Firewire cable. Microsoft, said La Cie, has included updates to FireWire drivers for improved compatability, stability and data integrity. La Cie's drives that use a Firewire 800 interface are affected by the update and need a firmware upgrade. But La Cie's Firewire 400 drives are just fine.  If you need to find out whether you need the firmware upgrade, there's a La Cie document here (thanks TheInquirer)
  • Windows XP SP2 Impressions -  Many, many users are reporting problems with SP2 limiting outbound TCP/IP connections. This appears to be nailing anyone who makes heavy network use of their machine, including especially users running P2P applications (thanks Slashdot.org)
  • Windows XP Starter's Edition release set for October - Microsoft announced it would offer a low-cost starter edition of its Windows XP operating system in Asia starting in October, as it strives to hold onto market share facing erosion from the open-source Linux system and software piracy.
  • Windows vs Linux - Will it always be a Microsoft Windows world? That's what I hoped to find out when I sliced open the box containing the new PC I'd ordered from WalMart.com. It had a respectable 1.6-gigahertz processor, a serviceable 40-gigabyte hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, an MP3 player, and enough other software to keep me occupied for life, though supporting it all was a barely adequate 128 megabytes of RAM. Okay, I knew this chunky black box wouldn't be the sexiest PC on my block. But that was fine, considering its paltry $278 price tag—and that I'd really ordered it for what it didn't have: any Microsoft software whatsoever. Rather than Windows and Office, it came with Linspire 4.5, one of the many commercial versions of the open-source Linux operating system that are now available, and a link to a website where I could download a variety of open-source applications.
  • America Online Launches Low-Cost PC - AOL is offering new subscribers a PC for $299.99 - as long as they sign up for at least a year of AOL dial-up service at 23.90 per month. Broadband customers can sign up for the $24.95/month AOL BYOA (Bring Your Own Access) plan, which includes unlimited access to AOL for Broadband features and unlimited dial-up access. (The high-speed connection must be procured from another provider.) Built by Systemax, the AOL Optimized PC includes a 2 GHz Intel Celeron Processor, a 40GB hard drive, 256 MB of RAM and a CD-ROM drive, a 17 monitor, a printer, speakers, a mouse and a keyboard.
  • SiS begins ramping PCIe-enabled chipsets - Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) has begun ramping production of its PCIe-enabled chipsets, including the SiS 656 and SiS 649, supporting Intel Pentium 4 CPUs, and the SiS 756, supporting Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64FX CPUs, according to company sources.
  • NVIDIA's GeForce 6600 preview - NVIDIA is stepping things up a gear, today launching a new set of NV43 products at QuakeCon, the 6600GT and 6600. Hexus.net let us know they have details on both cards. Another coverage can be found on TGH, Neoseeker, HotHardware
  • Kingston KHX3200K2/2G Hyper-X3200 2GB DDR400 review - The Hyper-X3200 modules run at a latency of CAS 2.5 3-3-6. To manufacture extremely low latency modules of this size would have been far too costly. A cost Kingston is unwilling to pass on to the consumer. Hyper-X modules most definitely represent high performance, regardless of kit size. As you will see in this review, this particular kit performs as if it were a whole other memory, which was the inspiration for my title.
  • NForce 3 Motherboard Roundup - We have the Chaintech with the staggering array of included extras, but lacking in any NForce 3 features such as onchip LAN and NV RAID. Gigabyte brings us the first ever incarnation of 1394b, 800Mbit Firewire with dual LAN and NV RAID included. MSI stay true to the chipset and leave out the box fillings, offering us the full NForce 3 suite of NV RAID and NV LAN / firewall.

  • eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition - It's one of the fastest overall video cards currently available for 3D gaming, and no other card is better equipped to handle Doom 3 at the moment - bar none. Image quality was excellent throughout all of our testing (both during benchmarks and while gaming), it's one of the few cards with dual-DVI outputs, and it ships with a complete version of an excellent game, namely FarCry. About the only drawbacks to the eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra Extreme Edition are price and availability.

  • Enermax UC-9FATR2 Review - The UC-9FATR2 fits in a standard 5.25 inch bay and offers a wide variety of features. One feature that you will not find on many, if any, other similar devices is serial ATA connectors, and this unit has two

  • Silverstone SST-FP54B LCD Display review - SilverStone brings us today the SST-FP54 VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display). It's an attractive device that fits in any available 5.25 bay, and displays 32 characters of text (2 lines, 16 characters each). That may not sound like a lot, but you'd be surprised what you can fit into that small amount of space-- Winamp info, network stats, and system info like memory/CPU utilization, just to name a few.

  • RCA HDLP50W151 review - To sum it up, the RCA Scenium HDLP50W151 is an excellent display device that is very attractive and reasonably priced for an integrated HDTV set. At a suggested retail price of $3,999 (probably less than $3,500 street), it offers new DLP display technology featuring integrated HDTV tuning. It’s also housed in an attractive cabinet that can easily fit sit onto a base with storage, or can be placed into a wall unit. It has all of the right connections presently needed for any upscale Home Theater and then some. Since it includes 2-way 1394, the set can easily be tethered to an HD-level DVHS VCR or HD PVR (such as RCA’s new DVR10) for the recording of pristine HD images. The HDLP50W151 (or its identical, but larger 61-in. sibling – HDLP61W151) is strongly recommended for repeated viewings.
  • HP dx6050 review - Even as a very basic machine, the dx6050 comes with a pretty good set of features, especially considering the target market. Although AMD has not traditionally been a choice for business PCs the dx6050 shows that there is no reason why you wouldn’t go for an AMD processor instead of one from Intel. What really impressed me were the benchmark scores, where the dx6050 managed to keep up very well with the Acer Veriton VT7600GT and in fact even outperformed it in both SYSmark 2004 and PCMark 2004.
  • Motorola V600 cell-phone review - Although Bluetooth gets rejected on every corner of every street, the Motorola V600 does have it. And I must say it's a very loveable feature. Sending/Receiving ringtones/pictures in a pub can always be fun for 9.5 seconds. When you have a laptop with Bleutooth or one of those Bleutooth stickies you can place your pictures you've taken with your camera anywhere you want. So no wires required. Texting, if that's your thing, is quite fun with this phone. You have up to 8 lines of text, so that means you can get more than 150 chars on one screen.
  • The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide - The Antivirus Defense-in-Depth Guide provides an easy to understand overview of the assorted types of malware, their risks, characteristics, means of replication and payloads. The solution also details the considerations for implementing a comprehensive antivirus defense for your network, servers and clients which goes beyond simply installing antivirus software into the related tools which will help reduce your risk of infection.
  • Boot.ini options reference - There are number of BOOT.INI switches that are useful for driver developers that wish to test their drivers under a variety of different system configurations without having to have a separate machine for every one.
  • SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2) - The Microsoft SQL Server Health and History Tool (SQLH2) allows you to collect information from instances of SQL Server, store this information, and run reports against the data in order to determine how SQL Server is being used.
  • Toolkit to Temporarily Block Delivery of Windows XP SP2 to a PC Through Automatic Updates and Windows - Please note that the mechanism to temporarily disable delivery of Windows XP SP2 will be available for a period of 120 days (4 months) from August 16. At the end of this period, Windows XP SP2 will be delivered to all Windows XP and Windows XP Service Pack 1 systems
  • dd_rescue recovery tool 0.1 (Linux) - dd_rescue (download) copies data from one file or block device (hard disk, cdrom, etc) to another, trying hard to rescue data in case of read errors. It does not truncate the output file if not asked to. So every time you run it on the same output file, it tries to fill in the gaps. The algorithmn will: read the non-damaged part of the disk, skipping the damaged areas; try to read the damaged areas, splitting them into smaller pieces and reading the non- damaged pieces, until the hardware block size is reached; try to read the damaged hardware blocks until the specified number of retries is reached, or until interrupted by the user.

  • Microsoft IntelliPoint 5.2 - IntelliPoint software gives your Microsoft mouse full functionality and lets you customize the mouse to fit your needs.

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xxxx(04:30 PM CEST - Aug,13 2004 )
hilarious actually, i haven't had a SINGLE problem with SP2. Divx works, all my games work, all my P2P software works as it did before. It's fantastic so far, hilarious to me to see all these problems but you don't know anything of the system it's running on. Likely the worst configured boxes around but it makes the news, gotta love it.

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