Topic: - on March 5, 2003 at 12:28:16 PM CET
Sony unveils new blue-laser DVD format in which each disc holds up to 23 gigs
Japan’s Sony Corp. said on Monday it would start sales next month of the world’s first DVD recorder that uses blue laser light and can pack a two-hour high-definition TV program onto a single disc. It won’t be cheap, with a retail list price of 450,000 yen ($3,800) while low-end DVD recorders using conventional red lasers go for as little as 50,000-70,000 yen.
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Topic: - on March 4, 2003 at 8:03:49 PM CET
Big Brother and your browser
The U.S. Justice Department is experimenting with an Internet crime-fighting technique that raises novel legal, technical and privacy concerns.
The tactic: domain name forfeiture. In two separate cases last week, the Justice Department seized domains for Web sites that it claimed were engaging in illegal activity.
The first set of domains were allegedly used to sell drug paraphernalia such as bongs and marijuana cigarette holders. Now visitors to PipesForYou.com, 420now.com, OmniLounge.com and ColorChangingGlass.com are greeted by this hair-raising alert: "By application of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, the Web site you are attempting to visit has been restrained by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania."
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Topic: - on March 4, 2003 at 7:30:56 PM CET
CERT® Advisory CA-2003-07
Remote Buffer Overflow in Sendmail
Original release date: March 3, 2003 Last revised: March 4, 2003 Source: CERT/CC
A complete revision history can be found at the end of this file.
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Topic: - on March 3, 2003 at 3:43:04 PM CET
Siakis fajny server :)
Filesystem /dev/lvm/site Size 1.8T Used 33M Avail 1.7T Use% 1% Mounted on /test
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Topic: - on February 25, 2003 at 12:49:09 PM CET
Mitnick hacked again
On Sunday the 23rd of February 2003 Kevin Mitnicks company site defensivethinking.com was publicly defaced for the second time this month. This time however the defacer replaced the homepage with his own political message.
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Topic: - on February 25, 2003 at 12:09:23 PM CET
Computer Made from DNA and Enzymes
Israeli scientists have devised a computer that can perform 330 trillion operations per second, more than 100,000 times the speed of the fastest PC. The secret: It runs on DNA.
A year ago, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, unveiled a programmable molecular computing machine composed of enzymes and DNA molecules instead of silicon microchips. Now the team has gone one step further. In the new device, the single DNA molecule that provides the computer with the input data also provides all the necessary fuel.
The design is considered a giant step in DNA computing. The Guinness World Records last week recognized the computer as "the smallest biological computing device" ever constructed. DNA computing is in its infancy, and its implications are only beginning to be explored. But it could transform the future of computers, especially in pharmaceutical and biomedical applications.
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Topic: - on February 25, 2003 at 10:43:27 AM CET
E-mails you wish you'd never sent
E-mail is a great tool of communication but sometimes just a click of the send button can spell disaster.
When Devon schoolgirl Claire McDonald logged on to check her e-mails she was taken aback to find an urgent missive from the Pentagon among the chatty greetings from her friends. It contained confidential information not intended for civilian eyes.
Claire replied to point out the error, but the e-mails kept coming, from the Pentagon, the Ministry of Defence and elsewhere. One detailed communications problems on British warships; another New Zealand's defence strategy.
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Topic: - on February 24, 2003 at 11:35:41 AM CET
Benchmark Marathon: 65 CPUs from 100 MHz to 3066 MHz
CPU Performance Check: AMD & Intel 1994 to 2003 Opinions on what constitutes "adequate computing speed" vary greatly from one user to the next. While one person may be perfectly content with an old Pentium 133 system that stores stamp club membership details in a DOS program in "real-time mode", there is another group at the other end of the scale - video fans who must have the latest and greatest and who will clamor for more and more Gigahertz and gigabytes.
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Topic: - on February 23, 2003 at 1:41:54 AM CET
Die 80er Jahre waren ein Jahrzehnt des Schlachtens in der Maschinenwelt
Vor Jahren, um genau zu sein: am 24. November 1983, kaufte ich mir eine Schreibmaschine für 1.100 Pfund. Es war eine Olympia Supertype, eine Büromaschine so groß wie ein Schreibtisch, das neueste Modell in der langen Folge von deutschen Schreibmaschinen, die wie Gewehre gebaut waren und ewig halten sollten. Natürlich kannte ich Computer für Textverarbeitung, aber ich benötigte eine wirkliche Schreibmaschine. Nebenbei war die Supertype keine alte Technik. Sie war eine Übergangsmaschine mit einem winzigen Bildschirm über der Tastatur, auf der die letzten 24 Buchstaben zu sehen waren, die ich getippt hatte. Das nannte man einen Buffer. Er ermöglichte es mir, meine Fehler zu korrigieren, bevor sie auf das Papier kamen. Kein Tipp-Ex mehr! Die Supertype besaß auch einen 8k-Speicher. Er konnte 16 unterschiedliche Geschäftsbriefe oder ein einziges Dokument mit 1000 Worten speichern.
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Topic: - on February 22, 2003 at 11:41:10 PM CET
Australia's Government looks to Linux
GOVERNMENT agencies are embracing the potential of Linux, but Australia's leaders in public sector deployments caution that the open source flagship still needs to prove itself.
The head of one of the biggest Australian government open source software projects said it was still too early to be sure that Linux would be cheaper and more reliable than commercial platforms.
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Topic: - on February 22, 2003 at 11:39:02 PM CET
AltaVista sold for $235m
Advertising-driven search engine Overture Services announced it will buy fallen Internet star AltaVista for $US140 million ($235.5 million), upping the stakes in a quest for search engine supremacy.
Overture will pay $60 million in cash and $80 million in stock for AltaVista, which introduced a pioneering search engine in 1995.
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Topic: - on February 22, 2003 at 11:17:54 PM CET
Smaller, smarter PC cards ahead
The days of having to open up your PC to fit a new card to improve its ability to handle graphics or produce sounds could soon be at an end. The cards will act as readers for smart media, storage systems in their own right, identification tokens as well as upgrading the memory or other capabilities of a laptop or desktop machine.
The first of the new add-on cards are due to be available in 2004.
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