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| (hx) 03:40 AM CEST - Sep,09 2003 |
- Hackers jump through holes in Microsoft patch - Security experts
are warning Microsoft customers about silent Internet attacks that exploit a
security flaw in the Internet Explorer Web browser, potentially allowing
remote attackers to run malicious code on vulnerable machines. The
vulnerability is similar in scope to those exploited by devastating worms such
as Nimda, Badtrans and Klez, according to one security company. And, to make
matters worse, the flaw is one Microsoft said it fixed weeks ago. The security
hole, known as the "Object Data vulnerability," affects Internet Explorer (IE)
versions 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0. It concerns the way that IE processes HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language) pages containing a special element called the
Object Data tag. If properly exploited, the vulnerability could enable an
attacker to place a malicious computer program on a user's machine. No user
actions would be required aside from opening an e-mail message or visiting a
Web page containing the attack.
- Police smash UK's biggest credit card fraud ring -
Three men are facing long jail sentences after pleading guilty, Friday
(Sept. 5) to running the UK's biggest ever credit card fraud at Middlesex
Guildhall Crown Court. The trio stole details of 847 cards of Heathrow Express
rail passengers who had paid for their journey by credit cards. They passed on
the infor a gang of forgers who cloned 8,790 credit cards for use in the UK
and on the Continent. The cloners were able to use only 10 per cent of the
numbers, pocketing L2m for the gang. Police estimate that the gang could have
gained L20m if all the credit card numbers had been used.
- RIAA sues 261 evil-doers - The RIAA has kicked off its new
revenue generating suing practice in style,
filing lawsuits against 261 file traders. The music label mob has
methodically reached this point. After filing over a thousand subpoenas, the
RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) is now going after the worst
of the bunch with good old fashioned lawsuits. The file traders could pay up
to $150,000 per illegal song swap, if they are found guilty.
- Off-topic: Soundless Music Shown to Produce Weird Sensations -
Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine
may
not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low
frequency sound that is inaudible to humans. British scientists have shown
in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound
produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme
sorrow and chills -- supporting popular suggestions of a link between
infrasound and strange sensations.
- Bugpower, the energy of the future - This sci-fi scenario may lie
in the not-too-distant future, thanks to a pair of US-based scientists who say
they have
invented the world's first efficient "bacterial battery." In a
Pentagon-backed project, University of Massachusetts researchers Swades
Chaudhuri, an Indian, and Derek Lovley, an American, say the battery's source
is an underground bacterium that gobbles up sugar and converts its energy into
electricity. Their prototype device ran flawlessly without refuelling for up
to 25 days and is cheap and stable.
- Intel Debuts Itanium 2 Pair For Dual-Processor Servers -
Intel on Monday released a pair of new Itanium 2 processors designed for
dual-processor servers. The low-power 1GHz Itanium, once code-named
'Deerfield,' consumes about half as much power as its predecessors, said
Intel, and aims for a home in entry-level, front-end enterprise systems. Intel
sees it as a competitive alternative to entry-level RISC-based systems. The
second CPU, out of the 'Madison' family, is a 1.4GHz Itanium with a smaller
cache and lower cost than its siblings, and targets dual-processor servers,
high-performance technical and scientific computing systems, and clusters,
according to Intel.
- Taiwan makers to begin white LED volume production by end of 2003 -
Taiwan's LED manufacturers will reportedly be able to start producing
white LEDs by year-end. They hope to benefit from increased demand created
as more mobile phone makers choose white LEDs for their backlight panels and
lighting sources, said industry insiders.
- Apple announced 40GB iPod, reports 10M sold tunes - Apple announced
today that its music store, iTunes, has now sold over 10 million songs. Apple
launched its store in May and the service is only available to American Mac
users, which makes the 10M sound even bigger figure. To squeeze everything out
from the Apple-worshipping music market, company launched yet another version
of its culture icon, iPod digital audio player.
The
new model has 40GB of storage space and comes with a price tag of $499.
- Historic Linux File Archive -
The files
include snapshots of the early Linux archives including sunsite.unc.edu
and tsx-11.mit.edu, and early distributions such as MCC (Manchester Computing
Center) and SLS (Softlanding Linux Systems), which were some of the first
attempts to make Linux easy to install and use. The early RedHat releases are
also included, as is early Suse, Debian, Slackware, and Blade. The early
distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these
could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware.
- Ahanix SilenX 350 PSU review - Simply put, the unit performs very
well for its humble looks. While it may not have the power to run hardcore
gaming machines, it should handle any average machine quite nicely. It offers
rock
solid performance with nearly no attributable noise.
- Gainward CoolFX detail shots - During the Cebit - Eurasia which
happened this week in Istanbul, the chaps over at DarkHardware managed to took
some detail photos of the Gainward's oncoming CoolFX 5900 Ultra product.
As far as we know, these are the first shots of the CoolFX showing the
underside of the card, as well as the water pump and the reservoir.
- NV40 Rectifications -
NV40
Rectifications: supports FP32, FP16 and FX16 natively. Whether there is
any performance difference between FP16 and FX16 is unknown, and whether there
are any truly non-FP32 units is also unknown. 175M transistors, 600Mhz core
clock, 1.5Ghz effective GDDR2 ( Samples already shipped to nV - 16 memory
chips per board ); Not taped-out yet, or if it did, tape-out failed. To
tape-out sometime this month.; 8 pipelines, Speculation: probably 8x2 and no
16 zixel trick ( not worth it with 4x+ AA, which is really a minimum with
48GB/s of bandwidth ) - Maybe such a bypass path for low-end models (
NV42/NV43 )
- Gainward Geforce FX 5900 Ultra 256mb golden sample Info -
A very thorough bundle is provided by Gainward, by buying the Ultra 1600
XP pack your mid range PC can be brought bang up to date with 5.1 sound and
firewire capability.
- Club3D RADEON 9800 PRO review - Our aristocratic guest,
Club3D RADEON 9800 PRO graphics accelerator, made a very favorable
impression, due to beautiful box and rich accessories set. The performance of
this solution also appeared very high, and the technology behind R350 chip
from ATI proved that this solution will suit for gaming experience not only
with the today’s games, but also with the games of tomorrow, which will be
rich in shader effects and complex geometry.
- Abit Siluro GeforceFX 5900 OTES review - HardAvenue check out
Abit's latest entry into the mid-high performing videocard market, with the
Abit 5900 128MB OTES videocard. There's no need to be confused here,
it is slower than a 5900Ultra, but better than a 5600Ultra, and presumably
better than both the 5800 and 5800Ultra, and should be better than a 5700Ultra
should it be released. Yep, no reason to get confused at all.
- Dual Channel OCZ Premier PC3700 2x256mb review - SubZeroTech has
posted
a review of Dual Channel OCZ Premier PC3700 2x256mb. "As things have been
developing here at the Subzerotech lab I have noticed that a few memory
manufacturers are selling PC3700 memory with chips that given the proper
environment can perform at and above PC4000/DDR500 speeds. This, of course, is
a good thing for consumers, since some of us can manage to purchase PC3700 and
then in our high end motherboards run it at much higher speeds and in some
cases lower CAS latencies as well."
- Sony VAIO PVR-W500GN1 review - Sony's latest VAIO desktop is
certainly not your typical home PC.
The Sony VAIO PCV-W500GN1 all-in-one PC ($1,999.99 list), billed as the
ultimate entertainment PC, is a powerful computer and full-blown entertainment
center in a sleek, metallic silver all-in-one package. Sony improved on an
already excellent design by upgrading to a 17.5-inch wide-screen display, a
more powerful processor, and a DVD recordable drive.
- ASUS A2H Notebook PC Review -
This is a very good business-type notebook. It has an almost ideal
arrangement of the components and nice appearance. The price is not that bad
as well - $1390 for the sample tested.
- Ximeta 80 GIG NetDisk review - You see, the
Ximeta NetDisk is not only an 80 GIG 7200 RPM, USB 2.0 external hard drive, it
is also an Ethernet drive.
- Jazz Hipster J9940W Surround Sound review - Altogether, this is one
of the best compact systems I've ever seen for home audio or PC audio. Now
given, you can't beat a set of two-12s and some huge speakers, but for the
consumer who wants to find a pre-built system or great quality speakers; this
is really the way to go. I can assure you that you will in no way whatsoever
be disappointed in this 5.1 Home Theater System,
it's worth every hefty penny out of your pocket, and trust me you're going
to need a lot of pennies to purchase this system!
- Samsung Syncmaster 172MP 17" MF LCD monitor review - Samsung has
done nothing but improve on a good product with the 172MP.
For ~US$700,
you don't only get a decent 17 inch LCD monitor, but also a mini-multimedia
center with full component and composite audio and video capabilities. All
that is needed is a 5.1 sound decoder onboard and you would be set. With a
press of a button, you can lean back in your office chair and turn your
workstation into essentially a livingroom to watch your favorite TV program or
watch a DVD.
- Alienware Mousepad Review -
Its the mouse mat surface that really makes the difference... The smooth
side of the mouse mat is ideal for surfing the net and basic computer
functions, but the rough textured side of the mat is ideal for gaming and
desktop publishing as it has a precise and solid feel to it.
- Polaroid PDC1050 Digital Camera Review -
The
Polaroid PDC1050 is a good camera for people entering the digital camera
world, parents and kids looking to learn and have fun for that matter. There
were some quirks such as the LCD screen that lags, and looks interlaced. What
I don't know about this camera if it's based on the CMOS or CCD design. Other
than that, the Polaroid PDC1050 is a good camera.
- i-Mate Smartphone 2002 Review - So, if a PDA means a handy
organizer, electronic library and mail in one you should definitely have a
look at smartphones. Fortunately, some of them (like Nokia 3650/7650) are not
dearer than a tandem of a budget phone with GPRS and an inexpensive PDA.
The smartphone reviewed is not cheap (about $900), but if you are an
absolute fan of the WindowsCE, the i-Mate is the only possible solution for
you.
- Nokia 6800 Review -
The
Nokia 6800 is a workhorse of a phone, which savvy business travelers will
fall in love with. If you read a lot of cell phone reviews, you will find that
Bluetooth connectivity is almost a must in most phones to get top praise, but
we have to ask if it is really necessary.
- How to remove IHS from the Pentium 4 CPU - The Madshrimps let us
know they have published
a
how-to for removing the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader) from the Pentium 4
processor.
- Turn your AMD Duron Into AMD Athlon XP CPU - If you take a closer
look on AMD Duron and AMD Athlon XP processors you will notice only tiny
difference:
the L2 bridge is not locked on the Duron processor. If you lock it again,
everything should work and the processor will have an L2 cache of 256KB!
- Athlon 64 Benchies -
The
results are really impressive, good work AMD! :)
- AMD Athlon 64 FX - Wondering how the AMD Athlon 64 FX performs?
Whether it is a match for Intel's Pentium 4? What clockspeed it runs at? Or
what socket and motherboard it uses? Hardware Analysis' daily column has
some more info and detailed photos of AMD's latest as they are in the
process of running a multitude of tests on the Athlon 64 FX they've just
received.
- Driver Comparison - 3DChip has published
a comparison article pitting various versions of NVIDIA's drivers against
each other on an nForce2 system equipped with a GeForce 5900 Ultra. The
versions tested are 44.03, 44.65, 44.90, 45.20 and 45.23.
- GIMP 1.3.20 -
The GIMP
(GNU/Image Manipulation Program) is a very nice graphics manipulation
application that works on many operating systems, in many languages, on many
file formats and is used for a variety of computer imagery purposes.
- OpenOffice 1.1 RC4 -
OpenOffice.org (Win32
~
Linux) is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is
releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite.
- Tweak FX 1.32 -
Tweak FX
is a configuration tool for Windows XP. It uses plugins- like XTeq X-Setup. Up
to now Tweak FX contains more than 35 plugins and you can add more from:
smilianov.dir.bg. In addition to that Tweak FX is licensed under the GNU
License, and source code is included into the installation.
- Trillian Pro 2.0 RC1 -
Trillian Pro
2.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing by members. This
version includes a lot of new features and functionality, as well as fixes
issues that people have been having with 1.0.
- Zoom Player Standard (Beta) 3.20 Beta 3 -
Zoom Player
Standard (download),
a flexible feature rich Media Player that for all its features and goodness
remains bloat-free. And Zoom Player Professional, which on top of being a
great Media Player, incorporates the most powerful DVD Front-End you could
imagine (and is even a few features you didn't think of imagining).
- Network Monitor -
Tembria Network Monitor
(download
demo)
is designed to help network administrators and IT staff to automate the
monitoring of network services for unexpected conditions. Whenever an
unexpected condition arises such as server or service becoming unavailable,
Tembria Network Monitor will detect the event and notify you using one or more
of its built-in notification mechanisms.
- Cpu-Z v1.19b -
CPU-Z is
a diagnostic tool that provides information on your CPU, including processor
name and vendor, core stepping and process, processor package, internal and
external clocks, etc.
- ATi RenderMonkey 1.0 Build 39 - RenderMonkey
is a suite of open, extensible shader development tools for both current and
future hardware that allows programmers and artists to collaborate on creating
realtime shader effects. (thanks
Warp2Search)
- Realtek RTL8139(A/B/C/D/8130)/810X series Drivers v6.06 - Realtek
has released a new Drivers for the RTL8139 (A/B/C/D/8130)/810X series, this
time
version 6.06.
- Voodoo4/5 Amigamerlin 3.0 XP Drivers Win2k/XP -
Amigamerlin v3.0 Final
Driver for 3dfx Voodoo4/5 Win2k/XP has been Released. Please note that
lite versione requires manual 3dfx tools add-on after archive unzipping on
hard disk. Clicking on Download button at the bottom of a page you may also
read Release note while on line help for both driver setup and setting is
available in Amigamerlin 3.0 XP installing procedure and Amigamerlin 3.0 XP
Best Settings sections of this site respectively.
- Omega Drivers Based On Catalyst 3.7 - A
new set of Omega Drivers, based on Catalyst 3.7 has been released. They
are based on the official Catalyst 3.7 ATI drivers. (9x/ME/2k/XP). The
9500->9700 and 9700->9800 hacks are now two separate files, this will fix some
incompatibility problems in 9500 cards not liking the 9800 optimizations.
(2k/XP). The 9x/ME drivers still don't have the hacked driver incorporated,
sorry. (9x/ME)
- Lite-On CD-RW Firmware - LiteOn have released
a few new CD-RW firmware updates for Lite-On LDW-401S, Lite-On LTC-48161H,
Lite-On LSC-24081MX, Lite-On LSC-24082KX.
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