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 Monday Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 04:39 PM CEST - May,03 2004
  • Sasser Worm Strikes Hundreds of Thousands of PCs - A fast-spreading computer worm similar to last year's massive "Blaster" has struck hundreds of thousands of PCs globally and it remains unclear how many will be infected, a top computer security official said Monday. Data security firm F-Secure says the worm, which surfaced at the weekend and is known as "Sasser," automatically spreads via the Internet to computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system, especially Windows 2000 and XP.
  • Sasser.A and Sasser.B Worm Removal Tool (KB841720)  -  This tool will help remove the Sasser.A and Sasser.B worms from these systems. For systems with MS04-011 [KB835732], no further action is needed once this tool is installed. Install this tool to help remove this worm from your PC.
  • Independent Developer Releases Win98 SE Service Pack -  A service pack for Windows 98 Second Edition has been released. Big deal, right? It is if it doesn't come from Microsoft.  Last Friday, Windows enthusiast Alper Coskun posted something he dubbed "Service Pack 1.5" for Windows 98 SE on his Web site. Although clearly labeled as "Unofficial," the Service Pack uses updates and hot fixes Coskun collected from the Windows Update service site and Microsoft's Knowledge Base database. The service pack includes 70 hot fixes, a solution to the 512MB memory limit of Windows 98 SE, and better USB support, claimed Coskun on his Web site.
  • Microsoft unveils new antipiracy tools - Microsoft has released details of a long-delayed update to its content protection technology, offering new features aimed at bringing piracy-proof digital content to mobile devices and home networks. Originally expected as long as a year ago, the technology--internally code-named Janus--has been seen as a potential way to let subscription music services such as Napster and RealNetworks' Rhapsody move to portable MP3 players. Those services, which allow subscribers to listen to unlimited amounts of music in return for a single monthly fee, are typically tied to PCs today.
  • Cyberdetective's Handbook Issued - Discover a new worm? Uncover a previously unseen bug in Windows? Identify a malicious spammer? Where do you call the cybercops? The Department of Homeland Security, which considers cybersecurity among its duties, has issued an incident response handbook intended to answer all that. Called "The Incident Response and Reporting Guidelines," the publication should be available directly from the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Next generation MP3 format will track its owners - A new type of MP3 format being released in the next few months of 2004 will benefit audio enthusiasts with superb digital surround sound 5.1 playback, but will disturb the peer-to-peer file traders. Current MP3 files only use two channels, the "Super MP3", as I call it, will support four channel audio from a down-mixed 5.1 surround sound source.
  • Off-topic: Superglue gun could finger bomb suspects - When a bomb disposal robot destroys a suspicious package, crucial evidence that could trap the would-be bombers can be lost forever. But a device that lets the robot take fingerprints before blowing the package up would give police a much better chance of catching the culprits. Fingerprints are comprised of secretions of amino acids, fatty acids and proteins, and are normally made visible in one of two ways. At a crime scene where the prints are fresh and still moist, they can be revealed with a dusting powder. But if prints are old and have largely dried out, they can be disclosed by "fuming" suspect artefacts in a sealed cabinet with a vapour of cyanoacrylate - better known as superglue.
  • Off-topic: The fastest nanotube in the west - Stateside boffins have managed to make a high-speed, carbon nanotube transistor. This is the latest in a string of devices that can be made with nanotubes, and according to the researchers, is the next step towards replacing silicon in a variety of electronic applications. The device, built by Peter Burke and his team at the University of California at Irvine, is made from a carbon nanotube squeezed between two gold electrodes.
  • Off-topic: Quantum computers are a quantum leap closer - A new breed of faster, more powerful computers based on quantum mechanics may be a step closer to reality, report scientists. By linking a pair of tiny "puddles" of a few dozen electrons sandwiched inside a semiconductor, researchers have enabled these two so-called "quantum dots" to become parts of a transistor - the vital switching component in computer chips. Future computers that use quantum dots to store and process digital information might outperform conventional computer circuits because of both the new transistors' smaller size and their potential to solve problems that would take centuries on today's machines.
  • Off-topic: Gmail accounts go up for bid - Currently, 42 testers have listed their invitations on eBay, with one offering to sell an additional invitation outright--for a mere $199. Google, which last month announced it was testing a new e-mail system, invited 1,000 people to join the trial.
  • ATi's Temporal anti-aliasing investigated - After the interesting (and not to mention exciting) discovery earlier this week of a new form of anti-aliasing, known as Temporal Anti-Aliasing, that could be exposed via adding a registry key in ATi's latest drivers, it stuck out as something that warranted further nvestigation.
    So, for those of you interested in how to enable this feature, as well as learning about the concept, performance and image quality of this new technique, head over here to read this investigation into Temporal Anti-Aliasing
  • ATI adds "Pro" to 9100 IGP chipset  - AnandTech has posted one of the first review of ATI's new 9100 IGP Pro chipset. Another review can be found at THG.
  • AMD’s Athlon64 2800+ Processor review - The performance of the Athlon64 2800+ is impressive for an entry level processor - as despite its lower clock speed (and AMD PR / Quantispeed / Whatever rating) in comparison to the Athlon XP line, the A64 2800+ easily bests even the fastest Athlon XP chips in modern games.
  • SoundBlaster Wireless Music review - Sound Blaster Wireless Music doesn't send the music in realtime but uses available WLAN-technology to wirelessly transfer a sound file to an MP3-player in the receiver that then plays the music without any deteriorated quality. In short, it's a wireless network with an MP3-player in it, that together with the server software becomes a concept.
  • Level5 Soft-RAID Performance A matter of CPU Power? - Level5 RAID requires Exclusive OR calculations for every write to the disc array. Most advanced controllers employ a dedicated, specialized XOR processor to calculate the parity values within the close sub-environment of the controller configuration, moreover, the XOR processor is doing the calculations in hardware. Budget RAID cards are either not capable of supporting a RAID Level5 configuration, or else, they need to establish the parity values by resorting to the CPU for the necessary calculations in software emulation.
  • Partioning Hard Drives in Windows 2k/XP  - Digital Silence has posted a guide to Partitioning Hard Drives in Windows 2k/XP.
  • Nero Suite Update 2004-05-01 - The Nero Suite contains: Nero Burning Rom 6.3.1.6,  Nero Burning Rom 5.5.10.56 + languages, Nero Burning Rom WMA9 Plug-In 2.0.9.3, Nero Burning Rom WMP Plug-In 1.0.1.5, Nero Media Player 1.4.0.20, NeroMIX 1.4.0.20, NeroVision Express 2.1.2.9, Nero InCD 4.2.4.1, Nero InCDRegCheck 1.03, Nero SIPPS 2.0.45.21c, NeroNet 1.0.43.0 RC1, Nero SDK 1.04, Nero EasyWriteReader 4.0.0.19, Nero BurnRights 1.0, Nero Ping 1.07 and more.
  • FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 1-05-2004 - FFDSHOW is a DirectShow decoding filter for decompressing DivX, XviD, WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies. It uses libavcodec from ffmpeg project for video decompression, postprocessing code from mplayer to enhance visual quality of low bitrate movies, and is based on original DirectShow filter from XviD, which is GPL'ed educational implementation of MPEG4 encoder.
  • DJBCP Codec Pack 3.0.0 Final - The new final version 3.0.0 of the DJBCP Codec Pack is available for download.
  • Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 - Thunderbird (download) is a full-featured e-mail and newsgroup client that makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before more. More information about Thunderbird is available.
  • Style XP 2.04 - Style XP Beta can import, select, and manage Themes, Visual Styles, and Wallpaper. Future versions may support sounds, cursors, screensavers, logon UIs, and packages of all the above.
  • IrfanView 3.91 - IrfanView (download), made by Irfan Skiljan, is a fast and simple freeware image viewer, editor and converter that supports all major graphic formats.
  • DriverHeaven TuneXP 1.5 Final - TuneXP allows you to optimise your Windows XP install for better performance.

  • ATI Tray Tools v1.0.0.290 - ATI Tray Tools is a small utility that can be found in the windows tray which then allows instant access to options and settings. Quite handy and quite a small download.

  • RadLinker 1.008 - RadLinker is new tweaker/linker for ATI Radeon based graphics cards.
  • Nvidia Omega Drivers 1.5303 - The long wait is over, the Nvidia Omega Drivers based on the Forceware 53.03 are available at last.
  • nVidia ForceWare 61.11 & 60.80  - This is ForceWare 61.11 for windows 2000 and XP, a reference ForceWare driver from NVIDIA. The files within the archive are dated 29th of April making this the absolute newest set available. If you use these drivers then remember, consider them highly beta thus you use them at your own risk.

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 05:06 PM CEST - May,03 2004
MS is offering $250,000 for the author of the Blaster worm. Should we dob HX in? =D

Comments from Bert~US~posted - 08:39 PM CEST - May,03 2004
Speaking of worms, look at this article "Next generation MP3 format will track its owners" I have no answer for this, but everytime they create a new fandangled file format, some idiot creates a virus to exploit the new wonderful features of the format and the Windows/MS apps that use it. Gone is the time of the simple file format with limited overhead and with no executable code. . Another update needed for virus ware.

Comments from asdposted - 09:04 PM CEST - May,03 2004
OMG WTF, fight terrorist not leechers n haxors

Comments from posted - 01:17 AM CEST - May,04 2004
lol stupid microsoft.. there gunna end up spending more in rewards then it it would have cost TO FIX TEH BLODEY FLOORS BEFORE RELEASING AN OPERATING SYSTEM... all these worms that are attacking windows is really destroying little if any trust consumers had in microsfts products..

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 07:42 AM CEST - May,04 2004
I give you my personal assurance that Microsoft products are the safest computer software you can install. Word.

Comments from Bobposted - 09:08 AM CEST - May,04 2004
You cant be upset with Microsoft over security issues, those kind of problems come out with any OS. Take a look at Linux, they used to think that was safe, but give a hacker time and bam they have a hole in the OS. So dont blame Microsoft, blame the hackers that have nothing better to do that try and find ways to hack your computer. lol They should take up a hobby like porn collecting instead.

Comments from natashaposted - 12:26 PM CEST - May,04 2004
Jesus, person with no name who posted before Bill Gates, learn to spell.

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 03:50 PM CEST - May,04 2004
The person who posted before me needed a spell checker. I can personally recommend MS-Word(tm) 2003 for such tasks.

Comments from smarter than youposted - 06:09 PM CEST - May,04 2004
who you calling stupid "teh blodey floor" guy? that post was almost as good as the time i saw some retard post "your a idiot" (sic) on some forum

Comments from fatposted - 06:42 PM CEST - May,04 2004
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Comments from billy boyposted - 01:28 AM CEST - May,05 2004
Great another idiot that has nothing better to do then bitch about peoples spelling. Get a life. Nobody actually cares

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