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 Nightly Tech Reading - tech
(hx) 03:36 AM CEST - May,07 2004
  • Sasser patching/clean up instructions - Instructions for patching and cleaning vulnerable Windows 2000 and Windows XP systems: Vulnerable Windows 2000 and Windows XP machines may have the LSASS.EXE process crash every time a malicious worm packet targets the vulnerable machine which can occur very shortly after the machine starts up and initializes the network stack. When cleaning a machine that is vulnerable to the Sasser worm it is necessary to first prevent the LSASS.EXE process from crashing, which in turn causes the machine to reboot after a 60 second delay. This reboot cannot be aborted on Windows 2000 platforms using the Shutdown.exe or psshutdown.exe utilities and can interfere with the downloading and installation of the patch as well as removal of the worm.
  • Microsoft Rethinks Security Plan - Microsoft is revisiting its Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB) security plan because enterprise users and software makers don't want to be forced to rewrite their code to take advantage of the technology, the company says. In response to feedback from users and software makers, Microsoft is retooling NGSCB so at least part of the security benefits will be available without the need to recode applications, Mario Juarez, a Microsoft product manager, says. He spoke in an interview at the Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this week. Another article can be found at CNN
  • Prison time for cyber stock swindler - A young investor with more wiles than trading luck was sentenced to 13 months in prison Wednesday for using a Trojan horse program and someone else's online brokerage account to sell thousands of worthless stock options to an unwilling buyer. Van T. Dinh, 20, was the first to be charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with a fraud involving both computer hacking and identity theft, according to the SEC. According to court records, last July, the then-teenaged Dinh was the unhappy owner of $90,000 in "put" options that could have delivered a hefty payoff if Cisco Systems Inc. stock drooped below $15.00 a share, but instead were close to expiring worthless.
  • Russian 5c MP3 site "unlicensed" - To recap, Allofmp3 is one of many Russian internet sites that are openly offering MP3 files from a central server. Other popular sites include club.mp3search.ru and www.mp3spy.ru. For either $14.95 a month (capped at 1000 tracks per month) or for individual tracks at one cent per megabyte, it's fantastically cheap. Unfortunately, the site is not licensed by any labels.
  • CDs, DVDs not so immortal - Dan Koster was unpacking some of his more than 2,000 CDs after a move when he noticed something strange. Some of the discs, which he always took good care of, wouldn't play properly. Koster, a Web and graphic designer for Queens University of Charlotte, North Carolina, took one that was skipping pretty badly and held it up to the light. "I was kind of shocked to see a constellation of pinpricks, little points where the light was coming through the aluminum layer," he says.
  • Off-topic: DNA robot takes its first steps  - A microscopic biped with legs just 10 nanometres long and fashioned from fragments of DNA has taken its first steps. The nanowalker is being hailed as a major breakthrough by nanotechnologists. The biped's inventors, chemists Nadrian Seeman and William Sherman of New York University, say that while many scientists have been trying to build nanoscale devices capable of bipedal motion, theirs is the first to succeed.
  • Off-topic: Particle no-show pans former find - The most powerful search yet for the Universe's missing matter has come up empty handed, contradicting an earlier study that claimed to have seen new particles. Researchers from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II (CDMSII) say they are pleased with their first results, which show that their detector is working and set new constraints on how the so-far undetected matter can behave, if it exists.
  • What Will 64-Bit Longhorn Look Like? - Microsoft plans to release a version of its next major operating system release, code-named Longhorn, for Itanium and 64-bit extended systems and will also release as a 32-bit edition, a company spokesperson says. Microsoft has said it will deliver server and client editions of Longhorn. A first beta of the client version is due early next year, and the final version is expected out in 2006.
  • ATI to promote 9100 PRO IGP chipset with aggressive pricing - ATI Technologies has adopted aggressive pricing to promote its new integrated graphics solution, the Radeon 9100 PRO IGP (RS350) chipset, according to sources at Taiwanese motherboard makers.
  • Sony DRU-700a dual-layer review - Sony has moved from a Sanyo chipset (used in the Plextor 708A) to the more widely used MediaTek MT1818E instead. To us, this implies two things. First, the MT1818E used in several burners including the LiteOn SHOW-812S and the TEAC DV-W58G-A may also support DVD+R DL with modified firmware - whether or not the pickup on those drives is capable of burning reliable error free DL media may be another issue. Second, the transition to DVDR-9 (DVD DL) may be "no big deal" at least as far as hardware is concerned. Remember, all DVD burners execute the necessary calibration techniques to read DVD-9; writing to DVDR-9 only requires the same strategies to the write laser. Could it be that all those rumors of firmware upgrade DVD DL capabilities were true?

  • TEAC DV-W58G-A DVD±R/RW review - TEAC quickly released the DV-W58G-A DVD±R/RW, the upgraded version of the DV-W58G that burns both ± media at the same higher speed. Is the DV-W58G-A DVD±R/RW the epitome of TEAC perfection? It may well be, for at least a couple months as on the horizon are 12x DVD±R burners and then a bit later the highly anticipated Dual Layer burners. So as you can see, the DVD burner market is anything but stagnant.

  • VIA's K8T800 Pro chipset review - The chaps at Techreport found the K8T800 to be a fast, stable solution that outperformed its only real competition, the NVIDIA nForce3 150.

  • ATi's Radeon X800 XT, the new King of the Hill? - By looking at the benchmark results it is obvious that ATi and Nvidia are both contenders to the performance crown, however it is hard to declare a winner. On paper the GeForce 6800 Ultra still is the king of the hill. But although the GeForce 6800 Ultra has the best papers in terms of features and raw performance, ATi has a card that is small, draws far less power, generates very little heat, is a single slot solution and packs a mighty punch
  • nVidia Geforce 6800 Ultra Reference Videocard Review - For luscious gaming, with killer image quality at the highest resolutions, it's clear that the Geforce FX 5950 Ultra has been significantly surpassed by the new Geforce 6800 Ultra. The differences between the nVidia Geforce 6800 Ultra and the ATI Radeon X800 XT are closer, but it is apparent that nVidia's NV40 still has some catching up to do,
  • Alcohol v1.9.2.1705 - Alcohol Software has finally released new versions of Alcohol 120% and Alcohol 52%. Alcohol 120% is a combination of both Alcohol 52% and Alcohol 68%. It enables users to both copy and emulate real or virtual CDs & DVDs. Alcohol 120% can handle the creation of 31 virtual CD & DVD-ROMs, allowing the user to play discs whithout needing the physical disc. It also allows users to make copy CD & DVD to CD-R / CD-RW / DVD-R / DVD-RW / DVD-RAM / DVD+RW.
  • PCMark04 Patch 120 patch - The first patch for Futuremark's PCMark04 is available for download.
  • Fresh UI 7.08 - Fresh UI (download) is the fresh solution for configuring and optimizing Windows. Loaded with hundreds of useful hidden settings, this software covers the customizing and optimizing technique that you'll be glad to know: Customizing Windows User Interface, Optimizing system settings, Optimizing hardware settings, Customizing Windows application settings, and Control user environment with policies.

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 06:52 AM CEST - May,07 2004
There you have it! i tried to make Windows XP even more secure, but the developers don't want to cooperate. So now you'll just have to live with a buggy hackable crap OS until i release Longhorny. =)

Comments from johannes paulposted - 09:18 AM CEST - May,07 2004
Beware with the MS04-011 Patch. With some systems this Patch causes even more trouble then the worm itself. In some cases the system will stop at a bluescreen on startup (short before the splahscreen), giving you an interesting error-msg: INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR Only help then is to reinstall the system. So good luck with the patch - arpox. 10% have problems with it. :-)

Comments from NeoNSXposted - 06:30 PM CEST - May,07 2004
Where did you get this misinformation? I have over 200 computers at work that I've seen the patch installed on and not one of them had the problem you've described. I'm not saying your wrong, but you need proof.

Comments from NOTHINGposted - 12:54 AM CEST - May,08 2004
Agree with NeoNSX, haven't seen any problems with 400+ workstations. There is no way 10% would go un-noticed from April 13th when the patch was released. Proof required indeed.

Comments from Bill Gatesposted - 04:21 AM CEST - May,08 2004
Thank you for defending my products NeoNSX & Nothing. For that, feel free to download any of my microsoft products from here FREE: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads :-)

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