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| (hx) 11:26 PM CEST - Apr,10 2004 |
- Service Pack 2 will close lot of holes in Windows XP - The
frustrating thing about XP is that many of the components you need for secure
computing are present. However, in its out-of-the-box form, they're hidden or
the default settings are insecure.
The new Service Pack reconfigures the way these features are presented,
strengthens them and adds new ones. While it doesn't make computer security
completely automatic - users still have to stay away from spyware and not
click on unexpected e-mail attachments to avoid viruses - it makes great
strides toward that goal.
- Germany moots jail for spammers - Germany's ruling Social
Democratic Party (SPD)
is mooting tough sanctions for spammers. These would include big fines for
spammers and the companies which use their services, and prison sentences for
the worst offenders. Ulrich Kelber, an SPD MP who is promoting the draft law,
says that small fines will not deter the top 50 spammers. "In the event of
repeated violation we need really hard sanctions." The law could be a signal
to other countries, too, he said. "And perhaps even spammers outside of
Germany would think twice if they know that they had to face these sentences
when they cross German borders."
- How Microsoft Is Clipping Longhorn - Never in its history has
Microsoft had to wait so long between Windows releases. When Windows XP
launched in October, 2001, researcher Gartner Inc. expected the software giant
to gin up a new version within two years. But Microsoft's ambitious follow-up
to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn, has bogged down in delays. The company
rarely discloses timelines for products, lest it miss its targets. But in
copies of two e-mail messages obtained by BusinessWeek, Microsoft lays out a
roadmap that shows Longhorn debuting
in the first six months of 2006. Another related article can be found at
TheRegister.
- DVD player to edit movies Technology allows viewer to bypass offensive
content -
Wal-Mart and Kmart are planning to sell a new DVD player that includes a
technology that has riled Hollywood-- a controversial program that can
automatically skip sexual content, graphically violent scenes and language
deemed offensive. The new DVD player, manufactured under the RCA brand
by Thomson Inc., comes as public debate is heating up over whether the media
have pushed the limits of decency, especially after too much of singer Janet
Jackson was bared during this year's Super Bowl halftime show. RCA plans to
start shipping the DVD player in the next few weeks. It is scheduled to be on
shelves at Wal-Mart and Kmart in the next two months at a suggested price of
$79, said Dave Arland, Thomson's vice president of U.S. corporate
communications and government relations. Wal-Mart's version will be black
while Kmart's will be silver.
- Off-topic: Photo recognition software gives location - For a small
fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where
you are, and
sends back directions that will get you to your destination. You are lost
in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your
meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone, photograph the nearest
building and press send.
- Off-topic: Nintendo Tops Japan Videogame Sales - Nintendo Co Ltd
pulled away from the competition and remained Japan's top game software maker
in the business year ended March 31, game magazine publisher Enterbrain Inc
said on Friday.
Nintendo sold nearly 6.5 million units, helped by hit titles such as
racing game "Mario Kart Double Dash" and "Mario Party 5."
- N-Gage 2 Pics? -
Pictures of the N-Gage 2 have been circulating the internet today, and the
first pictures of the unit have surfaced at a website called Howard Forums, a
forum dedicated to the mobile phone community. Apparently a user from this
forum has a friend working with Nokia to test the unit. The official details &
pics of the N-Gage 2 will reportedly be revealed on April 14.
- New protocol promises to smash Gigabit wireless impasse -
UWB, the future wireless standard that could see half-a-Gigabit wireless
links replacing USB and Bluetooth, could at last break out of its standards
purgatory. A new proposal by PulseLink suggests any number of UWB standards
could operate, if devices use an agreed low-speed signalling mode to
negotiate. To sidestep the standards snarl-up at the IEEE, the idea will be
put to the world's telecoms body, the ITU, in June.
- AMD Athlon 64 2800+ CPU review -
The 3000+, and the new 2800+, both only feature 512 KB of L2 cache, where
the initial release of the 3200+ and 3400+ models of the Athlon 64 line both
feature 1 MB of L2 cache. The new Athlon 64 processors brought up the talk of
the next core of the Athlon 64 processors, and it was later revealed that
indeed the next interation of the Athlon 64 processor (not including the FX
line) were going to only feature 512 KB of cache.
- Lexmark X422 MFP review -
High-speed printing and scanning, along with duplex capability for
printed, faxed, and copied output, are among the X422's attractions.
- Spider-Man 2 Full Length Theatrical Trailer - Here is
a new theatrical trailer (QuickTime format) for Columbia Pictures'
Spider-Man 2.
- Cacti 0.5.8a - When it comes to network monitoring/graphing,
Tobi Oetiker's
RRDTool (download)
does it best. It gives you the ability to put data into a database, then
represent that data on a graph as you see fit. One drawback to RRDTool, is
that by itself it is not a complete package for users wanting to graph their
own networks. This is where cacti's job comes in. Cacti brings the power of
RRDTool to a friendly web interface making it easy to graph anything using
RRDTool. Other frontends have been created in the past that simply emulate
MRTG using RRDTool as a backend. Cacti, on the other hand exploits RRDTool's
full potential; utilizing Round Robin Archives, CDEF's, Data Sources, and
Graphs. (thansk
SavageNews)
- Matroska Pack Full 1.0.2 -
The famous full pack, not only for playing matroska media files, but it
will also allow playback of most modern video formats on any DirectShow
player, even with WMP 6.4/7/8/9 ( Windows Mediaplayer ).
- Mesa gl 6.1 for voodoo2/3/4/5 -
This new dll (download)
contains a rewrited T&L ENGINE, with a good 5%-8% in speed improvement. The
package, as always,includes (in Voodoo2 dir) a specific file for Voodoo2
users: a Glide3x for Win9x/me - Win2k - WinXP and FXmemmap for win9x/ME user
only. Another Glide3x (in the root) should be used for voodoo 3/4/5 User.
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| Comments from GoldenBear | posted - 06:11 AM CEST - Apr,11 2004 | | Imprisoning and/or public stoning woudl be the best punishment for deterring spam. All for it. |
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| Comments from GoldenBear | posted - 06:12 AM CEST - Apr,11 2004 | | Oh and about the new nGage: Maybe Nokia learned that nobody wants to talk into a taco...PS: Go Nintendo |
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| Comments from Bill Gates | posted - 04:48 AM CEST - Apr,13 2004 | | Service Pack 2 will once again place Windows XP as the most secure and fun Operating System ever developed. Unless you find command prompts & debugging kernals "fun", then you should investigate Linux |
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| Comments from Bill Gates | posted - 05:01 AM CEST - Apr,13 2004 | | I forgot to explain, the reason Longhorn is taking so long to release is because we're forced remove certain components which are deemed as anti-competitive. Hence we're removing Media Player, Internet Explorer, MSN, Movie Maker, Zip Support, Defrag, chkdsk, MSTSC, Synchronize, wordpad, notepad, Calculator, Windows Explorer, the Driver Wizard, Network Connection Wizard, and finally the Start Menu. All these are to ensure fair competition with other software developers such as Norton, StyleXP, RealOne, Yahoo, etc.. You'll save ~$100 on the purchase of Longhorn, despite paying ~$400+ for alternative programs such as StyleXP just to get start button. =D |
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