Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:50:18 AM CET
Violence Breaks out in Los Angeles Cyber Cafes
Los Angeles cyber youth are the subject of a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department following a yearlong streak of violence at citywide cyber cafes.
On Monday, Dec. 30, Los Angeles police reported a PC game-related dispute outside a cyber cafe called NetStreet in the Northridge area of the city that involved several teens using chairs and steel pipes as weapons. One teen was shot in the leg and another teen suffered a head wound, police said. Some reports said the brawl involved nearly 100 people.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 10:28:13 AM CET
IBM goes Lego with Ice Cube storage, server prototypes
The prototype was developed under the code-name Ice Cube at the Almaden facility, where IBM does research primarily related to storage, and is called Collective Intelligent Bricks for the outside world. While this is a boring name, the prototype has two aspects that may make it very appealing as a commercial product: it cuts costs a lot, and it looks cool.
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Topic: - on January 3, 2003 at 11:03:30 AM CET
Lindows founder offered Xbox Linux $200,000 prize
THE ANONYMOUS DONOR who offered two prizes of $100,000 to port Linux onto the Xbox has revealed his identity.
And he is Michael Robertson, the founder of the Lindows operating system, report the founders of the project.
¬><a href="rtnews.globetechnology.com"target="_blank">The Globe and Mail ¬><a href="news.com.com"target="_blank">cnn ¬><a href="www.theregister.co.uk"target="_blank">The Register
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Topic: - on January 2, 2003 at 2:34:14 PM CET
STREAMINGMEDIA - 2002 - Using water as an organic network between two computers
Overview StreamingMedia is an interactive data sculpture that employs a new Internet protocol (H20/IP) I developed that uses water to transmit information between computers. H20/IP functions in a similar way as TCP/IP but focuses on the inherent viscous properties of water that are not present in traditional packet networks. The StreamingMedia demonstration of H20/IP exists as an installation of two computers at different heights where one captures an image and transmits it to the second computer in the form of modulated water drops. The project attempts to show how digital information can be encoded and decoded into organic forms to create a physical network between digital devices.
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Topic: - on January 1, 2003 at 2:19:13 PM CET
Happy Birthday, Dear Internet
From its early days as a pet project in the Department of Defense to its infamous time nestled under Al Gore's wing, the history of the Internet is littered with dozens of so-called birthdays. But, as Gore can surely attest, not everyone agrees when they are. Wednesday is one of those days. Some historians claim the Internet was born in 1961, when Dr. Leonard Kleinrock first published a paper on packet-switching technology at MIT. Others cite 1969, when the Department of Defense commissioned the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, known as ARPANET, to research a communication and command network that could withstand a nuclear attack.
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Topic: - on December 31, 2002 at 12:38:38 PM CET
USA National Security Agency XP guide
Official : USA National Security Agency Guide to Securing Microsoft Windows XP
"The purpose of this document is to inform the reader about Windows XP Professional recommended security settings. These security settings include those that can be set via the Security Configuration Manager, through Group Policy, as well as manual settings."
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Topic: - on December 31, 2002 at 1:40:21 AM CET
So Many Holes, So Few Hacks
Experts who discover and report security holes seem to be far more industrious than the malicious hackers willing or able to exploit those holes. Despite the thousands of hackable holes that lurk in e-mail, on websites, in files and operating systems, most users' computers are never afflicted with more than the virtual version of a sniffle.
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Topic: - on December 30, 2002 at 11:55:46 AM CET
- Chaos Communication Congress: Hacker werden politisch
Wie üblich zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr fand auch 2002 wieder das größte Hacker-Treffen der Bundesrepublik statt: Im Berliner Stadtteil Mitte, ausgerichtet vom renommierte Chaos Computer Club (CCC). 2500 Besucher wurden erwartet - und die interessieren sich in diesem Jahr nicht nur für Technologie und Sicherheit, sondern zunehmend auch für Politik, denn der Druck auf das Netz wächst.
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Topic: - on December 29, 2002 at 1:10:06 PM CET
MacOS X86?
Ever since MacOS X emerged, there's been occasional rumors that it would be fitted to x86 machines. In other words, a Mac OS for your PC.
They seem to be more than rumors now: Mac OS X86, code-named Marklar.
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Topic: - on December 29, 2002 at 12:57:34 PM CET
Linux Kit for PlayStation®2
Linux enthusiasts and programmers can now use the same system they play their favorite PlayStation 2 formatted games on to run thousands of Linux applications! Combining the incredible technology of the PlayStation 2 computer entertainment with the endlessly versatile Linux operating system, Linux Kit (for PlayStation 2) allows you to use the PlayStation 2 system as a fully functional desktop computer. Download a wealth of Linux programs--HTML editors, multimedia players, programming environments, office solutions, and more--and open a new world with the power of the next generation in computer entertainment.
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Topic: - on December 28, 2002 at 12:06:13 PM CET
Axis Launches Complete Linux Computer on a Single Chip
- Axis Communications, a global leader in network technology, announced today the availability of the AXIS ETRAX 100LX MCM 2+8, a new generation system-on-a-chip that integrates 2MB Flash, 8MB SDRAM and an Ethernet transceiver into a single chip with a 27mm x 27mm footprint.
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Topic: - on December 27, 2002 at 1:00:10 PM CET
Former computer hacker granted radio license;
may go back online next month
A man the federal government once labeled ''the most wanted computer criminal in U.S. history'' has won a long fight to renew his ham radio license and next month can resume surfing the Internet. Kevin Mitnick, 39, of Thousand Oaks, Calif., served five years in federal prison for stealing software and altering data at Motorola, Novell, Nokia, Sun Microsystems and the University of Southern California. Prosecutors accused him of causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to corporate computer networks.
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