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 Thursday Tech Reading Part #1 - tech
(hx) 12:37 PM CET - Dec,04 2003
  • Hacker gets 1 1/2 years in the Federal Pen for hacking former employer's retail website -  A former employee of American Eagle Outfitters was sentenced in a Pittsburgh court to 1 1/2 years in federal prison on Tuesday for posting passwords online to the retailer's Web site and orchestrating an Internet attack. Kenneth Patterson, 38, of Greensburg, must also pay more than $64,000 in restitution as part of his September guilty pleas to password trafficking and computer damage.
  • Web Virus Authors "Winning Battle" - Creators of computer viruses are winning the battle with law enforcers and getting away with crimes that cost the global economy some $13 billion this year, a Microsoft official said Wednesday. Counterfeit centers are shifting from California and Western Europe to countries including Paraguay, Colombia and Ukraine said David Finn, Microsoft's director of digital integrity for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In Asia, pirate plants have emerged in Vietnam, Macao, and Myanmar (Burma) in addition to more established facilities in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.
  • Yahoo Instant Messenger contains security flaw - Security researchers are warning of a security hole in Yahoo Inc.'s Messenger that could allow attackers to run their own code on computers using the instant messaging program. The buffer overrun vulnerability was discovered by researcher Tri Huynh in a file named "yauto.dll," which is an ActiveX component of Messenger software versions up to 5.6.0.1347, according to a security alert released Wednesday by Secunia Ltd. of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Banks to miss Chip-and-Pin goal - Programme Management Organisation (PMO) has said that the vast majority of the UK's 42 million cardholders should be using chip-and-Pin cards by the end of 2004. But as the deadline approaches, its goal is starting to look increasingly unlikely. Lloyds TSB and Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) have announced that most of their customers will be chip-and-Pin enabled by that time, but both have conceded that it will probably be mid-2005 before they can update all of their cardholders.
  • Tiscali shuts forums following "racist" complaints - Tiscali UK has closed its news forum after recieving complaints from a "small number" of users concerning the posting of allegedly racist comments. The ISP denies that pulling the plug was an overreaction.
  • Off-topic: Exploding black holes rain down on Earth  - Are mini black holes raining down through the Earth's atmosphere? It is possible, says a team of physicists. They think this could explain mysterious observations from mountain-top experiments over the past 30 years. Ordinary black holes form when stars explode at the end of their lives. The heavy stellar core can collapse into a superdense "singularity" whose gravity is so strong that nothing - not even light - can escape. These black holes would be invisibly small, with a mass of only 10 micrograms or so. And they would be so unstable that they would explode in a burst of particles within around a billion-billion-billionth of a second.
  • Your Next OS: Windows 2006? - In PCWorld's preview code (the official beta isn't due until the second half of 2004, and rumor has it that the upgrade may not ship until 2006), Windows Explorer routinely displayed much more information about files and computer resources than it does in Windows XP.Explorer's attractive displays of files and properties come courtesy of Longhorn's new graphics subsystem, code-named Avalon, which will hand much of its work to the PC's graphics subsystem. Minimum requirements for the preview call for an 800-MHz Pentium III processor, 256MB of memory, and a graphics card with 32MB of video RAM. Such specs are beefier than XP requires, but Longhorn-capable systems should be commonplace by the time the OS ships.
  • Intel accelerates its Celeron shift - The chipmaker has begun shipping a new 800MHz "ultra low voltage" Celeron chip to tablet PC manufacturers such as Motion Computing, a company spokesperson said. New mobile Celeron processors don't always make headlines, but the 800MHz chip marks the beginning of a transition for the Celeron line to a new generation of underlying technology--a few months earlier than expected. Unlike past mobile Celerons, which were based on the Pentium III-M or the Pentium 4, the ultra-low-voltage chip borrows its circuitry from Intel's more recent Pentium M. The company had been expected to make the circuitry transition in the first quarter of 2004.
  • AOL offers PCs for $299 - The move follows AOL's announcement that it plans to launch a new discount Internet access service to combat the growing threat from both cheaper alternatives and speedier broadband offerings. The stripped-down service is expected to launch in early 2004 for $9.95 a month and offer fewer of the bells and whistles found on AOL's $23.90 a month service, according to a source close to America Online.
  • 15-Inch LCD Prices Rising - If you've been holding off on that 15-inch flat-panel in hopes of a better deal, you may have waited too long. After years of falling prices, high demand is driving the costs of 15-inch LCDs up, and analysts say they're unlikely to drop anytime soon.
  • Asus Radeon 9800XT/TVD - As you might expect the Asus 9800XT produced some fantastic performance scores, beating the reference GeForce FX 5950 in most tests, if only by a small margin. In 3DMark03, at a resolution of 1024 x 768, it hit a score of 6024 to the 5950's 5912. In Unreal Tournament at 1600 x 1200 with 4x anti-aliasing and 4x anisotropic filtering enabled it won out with 75.2fps over the 5950's 70.2fps.

Comments from Mini-Gatesposted - 02:07 PM CET - Dec,04 2003
Whatever Microsoft suggests as the minimum specs for Longhorn, DOUBLE IT. So 1.6GHz/512MB RAM/64MB Video is a closer estimate. We live in a real world billy willy.

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