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 Friday Tech Madness - tech
(hx) 12:21 PM CET - Jan,30 2004
  • Microsoft offers reward for MyDoom.B leads - Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will offer $250,000 for information (official PR) leading to the capture and conviction of the individual or group responsible for the release of MyDoom.B. The original MyDoom virus started spreading on Monday and quickly swamped the Internet. The MyDoom.B variant appeared on Wednesday and, among other things, prevents an infected PC from accessing some Microsoft Web sites and targets Microsoft's main Web site with a denial-of-service attack due to start on Feb. 1.
  • Dutch police arrest 52 email scammers - Dutch police have arrested 52 Nigerian email scammers at 23 locations in Amsterdam in what is believed to be the biggest raid of its kind. Several PCs, mobile phones, false documents and 50,000 Euro in cash were confiscated. Dutch police believes the criminals sent 100,000 messages to victims in Japan and the USA. More arrests may follow. The raid is remarkable not just for its size. For the first time Dutch police confirmed close ties between Nigerian email scammers and drug smugglers from the Dutch Antilles.
  • IE Update Will Block Some URLs - Responding to a wave of online scams, Microsoft said that it is fixing a flaw in its popular Internet Explorer that makes it easy to mask the real address of a Web page displayed on the browser. Microsoft will soon release a software update for IE that will end that browser's ability to accept Web URLs that hide the address of the Web page being displayed using the "@" symbol. The update will remove a feature that is being exploited in scams that use spoof Web sites to harvest personal information from unsuspecting Internet users, Microsoft said in a note posted on its Web page Tuesday.
  • Will the Internet Split in Half? - The Internet could split into a paid, controlled side and a free, "wild" alternative, says a British specialist. John Carr, who was a featured speaker at the Internet Safety Group's Auckland, New Zealand conference last year, forecasts a possible division in the Internet with tighter control and a consequent rise in cost for producers and consumers who want to stay safe and "respectable".
  • Off-topic: New form of matter created in lab  -  A long-sought new form of matter has been created for the first time. The matter, called a fermionic condensate, consists of atoms that are ordinarily forbidden to exist in the same quantum state but have been tricked into it by linking into pairs. It occupies the middle ground between loosely linked particles that form superconductors and tightly bound ones in Bose-Einstein condensates, another exotic form of matter produced fleetingly since 1995. The creation of the new condensate is considered the crucial first step toward producing superconductors that work at room temperatures.
  • Ctrl-Alt-Del inventor makes final reboot - David Bradley, one of the "dirty dozen" engineers who created the original IBM PC at Boca Raton, Florida, is to retire this week after 29 years with the company. Bradley's accomplishments are numerous - he wrote the BIOS code for the original PC and rose to become architecture manager at the PC group. But David's claim to fame is that he devised the most famous - and probably most used - three key combination in computer history: Ctrl-Alt-Del.
  • RealNetworks' Helix Player Project = The Best Open Source Project - RealNetworks, Inc today announced that the Helix Player, the first commercial grade, open source and multi-format digital media player, has been awarded top honors by the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Awards, as unveiled at LinuxWorld Conference & Expo 2004 held last week in New York. The Helix Player was recognized for being the 'Best Open Source Project'.
  • Intel shifts 64-bit emphasis - Intel plans to demonstrate a 64-bit revamp of its Xeon and Pentium processors in mid-February--an endorsement of a major rival's strategy and a troubling development for Intel's Itanium chip. The demo, which follows the AMD64 approach of Intel foe Advanced Micro Devices, is expected at the Intel developer conference, Feb. 17 through 19 in San Francisco, according to sources familiar with the plan. Intel had code-named the technology Yamhill but now calls it CT, sources said.
  • CMC Magnetics raising DVD speed to keep steady gross margin - As prices for blank DVD-R/+R discs fall with increasing supply, CMC Magnetics is hiking the speed of its products to maintain its gross margin at about 50%, according to company spokesperson Andria Wong. The price of 8x discs stands at about US$1 while that of 4x discs has dropped to US$0.70, according to Wong. CMC Magnetics plans to upgrade the speed of its DVD-R/+R discs to 12x in the third quarter and 16x in the fourth quarter, Wong said. The higher margins available at higher speeds will offset the decreasing profitability of DVD-R/+R discs at lower speeds, Wong explained.
  • Freecom releases 52x CD recorder with 7-in-1 card reader - The Freecom FC-1 52x32x52 CD-RW burner with 7-in-1 card-reader is the new flagship of the Internal range. The drive is available as an internal version for PCs, and is connected via the IDE and USB interface. This high-speed burner writes CD-Rs at 52x speed, and rewrites CD-RWs at 32x speed. With the ultra-fast Freecom CD burner, a complete 80-minute CD (700 MB) can therefore be written in approximately 1.5 minutes.
  • Limited XBOX in March  - Xbox fans may be in for a treat on the console's birthday this year. Several websites have suggested that Microsoft will be releasing a clear white Xbox with matching controllers to mark the machine's second anniversary on 14 March. The celebratory console is rumoured to house a huge 20Gb hard drive - a massive increase over the regular machine. However, as Microsoft claims that the hard drive is the most expensive part of the console, this does make the rumour look rather unlikely.
  • Samsung announces three new DDR2 products - Samsung Electronics announced it will add 1Gbit DDR2 chips, 2GB (512Mbit×32) DDR2 registered-DIMM and 1GB (512Mbit×16) DDR2 unbuffered-DIMM to its product lines, according to a company press statement on January 28. With the new products, Samsung’s DDR2 solutions now include 1Gbit, 512Mbit and 256Mbit DDR2 chips operating at 400, 533 or 677MHz and 19 DDR2-based module combinations. The three new products are in the sampling stage while the existing ones have been in mass production. Samsung also said it is transferring 0.10-micron 1Gbit DDR2 production to its 12-inch Fab 12 in Hwasung-kun, South Korea.
  • WinFS: Microsoft's Data Management Vision - Microsoft is revamping its NTFS data system. Microsoft's new system, WinFS, is designed to simplify and speed up management of very large data volumes. But does it deliver?
  • ATI Catalyst 4.1 vs DNA-DRIVERS 2.0.4.1 vs OMEGA DRIVERS 2.5.14 - A new battle has born with the new ATI Catalyst drivers. Both DNA and OMEGA released their new sets based on Catalyst 4.1. This time its very important to check out if there is any improvement in both DNA and OMEGA drivers.
  • W32.Novarg.A@mm Removal Tool 1.03 (MyDoom) -  The W32.Novarg.A@mm Removal Tool (download) does the following: Terminates the W32.Novarg.A@mm viral processes; Terminates the viral thread running under Explorer.exe; Deletes the W32.Novarg.A@mm files; Deletes the registry values added by the worm.
  • PCMark04 Patch 110 - Futuremark has released a new patch for PCMark04.
  • MetaBench 0.98 - MetaBench is a benchmarking program being developed by 7Byte. It is consisted of more than 55 different tests designed to benchmark high-end systems.Benchmarks are carefully designed in consideration with new CPUs and system architectures.
  • MAME 0.79b Beta - The first official release was MAME 0.1, which was released on the evening of February 5th, 1997 (23:32 +0100). Using a modular and portable driver oriented architecture with an open source philosophy, it soon grew into immense proportions. The current version (download beta) supports 4752 ROM sets, 2679 unique games.
  •  Outlook Express Tweaker 1.01 - Outlook Express Tweaker is a freeware utility program helping fine-tune your Outlook Express. It allows you to customize settings unavailable in the standard Options dialog. Besides, OETweaker provides an easy to use interface to the Blocked Senders list.
  • DVD Region-Free 3.31 - DVD Region-Free enables you to watch and copy DVD from any region on all DVD drives! It fully supports region-protected (RPC2) DVD drives, and does not require any firmware modifications. It will work, even if you can not change the DVD drive's region anymore.
  • TVTool 9.5.5.6 (SHW) - This version supports IR config files with non-standard characters. The toolbar-fix should work on all systems now and the option 'neg. H-Sync' should be enabled on GF4 cards if there are distortions in the image on the TV screen. An accurate list of all bugfixes and changes is available in the readme file. Also the help file is included in the download package now.
  • Easy CD-DA Extractor 6.5.2 (SHW) - This is an all-in-one tool for CD ripping, audio file format converter and burning your CD's. This new version fixes a bug in MP4, M4A, and AAC encoders. (the bug may have caused a crash when converting to these formats)
  • Philips HDD100/HDD120 EasyCopy - This program will let you copy music from you Philips HDD100 or HDD120 to your local harddrive. You can put this program on your HDD100/HDD120 and copy music to every computer you connect to. This program is not a replacement for the Philips DRM software. It will not copy files to your device. (I am working on a version now wich can). What are the requirements? A HDD100/HDD120 compatible PC (see the Philips website). You'll also need the .NET Framework installed, you can find it here.
  • VIA 4in1 v. 4.51 Pro Beta - VIA Hyperion 4 in 1 driver includes four system drivers to improve the performance and maintain the stability of systems using VIA chipsets. These four drivers are: VIA Registry (INF) Driver, VIA AGP GART driver, VIA ATAPI Vendor Support Driver and VIA PCI IRQ Miniport Driver. For Windows NT users, VIA IDE Bus Mastering driver is the only driver to be installed to your system. Remember, it's a beta, so install it only at your own risk!
  • Linksys WRT54G v2.02.2 Firmware - Linksys have released a new firmware for theWRT54G Wireless router.

Comments from Tomposted - 05:42 PM CET - Jan,30 2004
i been out of the MAME world for a long time...can someone save me some time and tell me where i can get ROM's.. my bookmarks are no longer present or sites are dead.. unless something has changed in the ROM world..

Comments from posted - 04:29 AM CET - Jan,31 2004
Lol if microsoft can't even defend itself agaisnt a simple virus then they have no hope agaisnt surviving network attacks in the future. This type of virus is small potato's in term of what can be done. Viruses will continue to get more deadly as time passes and you companies better smarten up and take security seriously otherwise your just continue to get your ass kicked. I mean 250000 of a mikey mouse virus. Also its my belief that the companies deserve to lose millions if they don't take security seriously. Fuck if you can't protect your customer data then all i can say is YOU DESERVE TO GET ATTACKED. That way your FORCED to take security serious or go bankrupt. All these people using technology these days without taking securit seriously its idiotic. All i can say is i hope these virus attacks continue to get worse so that the BLOODY COMPANIES will HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO get there ACT TOGHETHER SECURITY WISE. Internet security is so pathetic these days that im surprised nobody has shut down the internet yet.

Comments from posted - 04:30 AM CET - Jan,31 2004
The problem is not the internet hackers. The problem is the COMPANIES DON"T TAKE SECURITY SERIOUSLY.

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