Topic: COMPUTER - on March 12, 2005 at 8:38:00 AM CET
Building Your Home Theater Around the PC
We've all wished we had a screening room in our house at one time or another. And with the increasing popularity of digital photography, many of us are looking for a viable alternative to slide shows. But even though prices have dropped sharply, a traditional home theater installation is still not affordable for most of us. You need a video projector or a plasma TV, an audio/video sound system and a DVD read/write drive, preferably with a hard disk. The total bill for such a set up will likely run you $3000 (3,000 euros) just for entry-level equipment.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2005 at 6:18:00 PM CET
Firing up the fuel cell
Taiwan-based Antig Technology said it will launch this year a compact fuel cell for notebook PCs, shown here in prototype at CeBit in Hannover, Germany.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2005 at 5:49:00 PM CET
Using Bart’s PE Builder to Make an Anti-Spyware and Rescue CD
Sometimes a Windows install can get corrupted or compromised in such a way that it’s hard to correct without removing the hard drive and using another computer and Operating System to fix it. Bart’s PE Builder is a free tool that allows you to create a bootable Windows CD or DVD from an existing install CD of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003. This Windows boot CD runs a cut down version of XP, with network, gui and FAT/NTFS/CDFS file system support. Since you can run Windows applications from this boot CD it’s a useful tool for fixing various problems on Windows 2000/2003/XP/9x system that can not easily be fixed while booted from the copy of Windows on the hard drive. The company Winternals makes a similar tool called ERD Commander, but it costs $149 to $299 and lacks the third party plugin support that Bart’s PE Builder has. By using the PE Builder Plugins that others have created you can easily add software to your bootable CD to do all sorts of tasks.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2005 at 3:30:00 PM CET
Learn UNIX in 10 minutes. Version 1.2
This is something that I have given out to students (CAD user training) of mine for several years. The purpose is to have on one page the basics to get started using the UNIX command line (so that they don't call me asking what to do the first time someone gives them a tape or something).
This document is copyrighted but freely redistributable under the terms of the GFDL. Send me comments, corrections, and extra stuff that you think should absolutly must be included. I'll see what I can do.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2005 at 3:28:00 PM CET
World's Most Powerful Computer Doubles in Size
Blue Gene/L, already ranked as the fastest supercomputer on the planet, has been doubled in size, according to researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. Lawrence Livermore has been running a 32,000-processor system since December, but three weeks ago trucks began delivering the components that allowed it to add another 32,000-processors worth of power to the supercomputer, effectively doubling its processing power.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 11, 2005 at 10:49:00 AM CET
CherryOS Emulator Faces Licensing Problems
An emulation engine adds a layer that imitates a different architecture, to allow, for instance, someone running Windows XP to install Mac OS X. CherryOS's problems extend beyond the claims of the open-source community to its seeming violation of the Apple licensing agreement.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 9, 2005 at 9:51:00 AM CET
Paper-like display in two years, says Philips
Philips Polymer Vision, has announced more progress in the area of rollable displays for the mobile-device industry. The new 5-inch PV-QML5 rollable display has a decreased radius of curvature, improved operational and mechanical lifetime and paperlike viewing contrast. These are major steps forward compared to the world's first rollable display prototype introduced by Polymer Vision in February 2004.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 7, 2005 at 9:06:00 AM CET
Dualis is a plugin-based DS emulator for x86/Win32 computers
Dualis is not able to run dumps of NDS cartridges. Do not ask me if/when it will be able to run said dumps. Also, do not ask me how/where to get non-public material concerning the DS. If you didn't understand the last three sentences then get the f*** out.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2005 at 10:05:00 PM CET
Ehemann schaltete Computer nicht aus, müde Frau stach zu
Weil er nicht mit dem Computerspielen aufhörte und sie ohrfeigte und an den Haaren riss, als sie die Stromzufuhr unterbrach, stach eine 37-jährige Wienerin ihrem Ehemann ein 30 Zentimeter langes Küchenmesser in die Brust. Sie wurde am Freitag im Straflandesgericht rechtskräftig wegen schwerer Körperverletzung zu acht Monaten Haft verurteilt, die ihr Richter Thomas Kreuter bedingt nachsah.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2005 at 6:24:00 PM CET
Meinungsfreiheit für Blogger und Fansites vor Gericht
Vor einem US-Gericht versucht Apple, US-Websites, die Gerüchte über neue Apple-Produkte veröffentlichten, zur Preisgabe ihrer Informanten zu zwingen. Dabei geht es mittlerweile immer weniger um preisgegebene Firmengeheimnisse, sondern auch um die Rechte und Pflichten der online publizierenden Fansites.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2005 at 12:11:00 PM CET
eBay scrambles to fix phishing bug
eBay is fighting to repair a software glitch that opens the door to phishing attacks using one of its own legitimate URLs.
The online auction giant is working on a fix for the problem, and it hopes to distribute that fix among its Web pages in the next several days, a company representative said on Friday. The problem, described by the company as a "software bug," could be exploited by criminals to create an actual eBay link that redirects customers to a malicious site, the representative said.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 6, 2005 at 10:08:00 AM CET
Russisches Tool knackt EFS-Schutz
Bisher galt das Encrypted File System (EFS) von Windows XP als sicher. Mit Version 3 von "Advanced EFS Data Recovery" (AEFSDR) der russischen Software-Schmiede ElcomSoft hat sich das möglicherweise geändert. Die Software mit der man schon seit längerem unter Windows 2000 EFS-geschützte Dateien entschlüsseln konnte, soll in der neuen Ausgabe auch unter Windows XP und Windows Server 2003 funktionieren.
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