Topic: COMPUTER - on November 14, 2006 at 9:50:00 AM CET
TOP500 Supercomputer Sites For 2006
You need over 6.6 Tflop/s to make it into the top 100.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 13, 2006 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Sun open sources Java - Java Is Free
Sun Microsystems is today expected to give-in to years of pushing and open source major elements of Java while hinting at changes to the way Java is certified and tested for compatibility.
Sun is breaking open Java Standard Edition (SE), used on the desktop and a foundational element of Java 2 Enterprise Edition for servers, and Java Micro Edition (Java ME), which powers 1.5 million handsets worldwide.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 13, 2006 at 10:15:00 AM CET
Vista, Office 2007 cracked. Kind of.
The crack for Windows Vista (which is called "Vista BillGates") is not a true crack, as it replaces components from the final version of the operating system with those from earlier betas. This allows the would-be pirate to use a product key that worked with Beta 1, Beta 2, RC1, or RC2, with the Gold release of the operating system. This allows the OS to be activated normally over the Internet, but does not bypass the activation system itself. Microsoft had made these earlier betas available to the public on a limited basis.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 10, 2006 at 6:16:00 PM CET
Microsoft releases Windows Vista security guide
Microsoft published its Windows Vista Security Guide this week, aiming to help corporations lock down the security on desktops and laptops that run the operating system.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 10, 2006 at 6:10:00 PM CET
Outlook takes 136 years to sync email
Microsoft has again found itself at the heart of a time-related SNAFU.
The software behemoth has previously tried to assume control of the fourth dimension by turning the clocks back a week early, and turning the clocks forward a few thousand years to release its new operating system Windows Vista.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 10, 2006 at 9:36:00 AM CET
Acquisition Mashup: Google-Microsoft-Yahoo
Click on the image below to be taken to the mashup. Then, Click and Right-arrow on the pane or you can scroll with your mouse. Click on the Company names for more details on the deal.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 9, 2006 at 1:28:00 PM CET
SNOW-GLOBE MOUSE
Just in time for the holidays, Japan's Thanko is selling a SNOW-GLOBE MOUSE that changes colors.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 8, 2006 at 3:56:00 PM CET
Rainbow Tables and RainbowCrack
Caution: With tools such as these, we do not condone their use for anything but testing networks for which you have the authority and for implementing defensive measures. Have fun!
Rainbow tables reduce the difficulty in brute force cracking a single password by creating a large pre-generated data set of hashes from nearly every possible password. Rainbow Tables and RainbowCrack come from the work and subsequent paper by Philippe Oechsli. The method, known as the Faster Time-Memory Trade-Off Technique, is based on research by Martin Hellman & Ronald Rivest done in the early 1980’s on the performance trade-offs between processing time and the memory needed for cryptanalysis. In his paper published in 2003, Oechslin refined the techniques and showed that the attack could reduce the time to attack 99.9% of Microsoft's LAN Manager passwords (alpha characters only) to 13.6 seconds from 101 seconds. Further algorithm refinements also reduced the number of false positives produced by the system.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 8, 2006 at 3:41:00 PM CET
UK supercomputer sets faster pace
The UK's fastest-proven supercomputer used by the academic community has doubled in size and performance.
The HPCx machine, based in Warrington, is now capable of operating at speeds up to 15.4 teraflops, or 15.4 trillion calculations every second.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 8, 2006 at 12:27:00 PM CET
Microsoft to pay Novell $348 million under Linux pact
Software maker Novell Corp. (Nasdaq:NOVL - news) said on Tuesday Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) will make two separate up-front payments totaling $348 million to the company under an agreement to allow Novell's open-source Linux software to work with Windows.
Microsoft will pay Novell $240 million up front in subscription fees to allow the world's largest software maker to use its Linux software. Microsoft will pay an additional $108 million upfront for use of patents, Novell said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 7, 2006 at 10:23:00 AM CET
Microsoft launches Google Earth killer
Microsoft is about to upgrade its mapping product, Live Local, to Microsoft Virtual Earth, a competitor to Google Earth. We got a live preview of the product a few days ago and will have a hands-on review shortly. These impressions are based on the demo.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 6, 2006 at 3:49:00 PM CET
Windows 3.11 is still alive ;-)
One night i had this idea to install dos 6.22+windows 3.11. I've put some patches to windows 3.11, make 32bit tcp/ip working, install some new drivers for network, video card etc. and... it works. 16 bit windows 3.11 system can really work in 32/64 bits world. Check this video and say: we don't need vista ;-) (this video is a real video, but of course it's a joke, no one wants to use such an old system, but sentiment for old systems is still alive :))
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