Topic: COMPUTER - on October 4, 2004 at 10:17:00 AM CEST
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
This is an image of Mount St. Helens, taken from the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The Observatory and VolcanoCam are located at an elevation of approximately 4,500 feet, about five miles from the volcano. You are looking approximately south-southeast across the North Fork Toutle River Valley.
The USGS issued a Level III Volcano Alert today, which included the evacuation of the Johnston Ridge Observatory. The VolcanoCam is now the closest operating camera to Mount St. Helens. It continues to function with no problem.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 4, 2004 at 10:09:00 AM CEST
Bill Gates hat Spyware-Probleme
Selbst Microsoft-Gründer Bill Gates leidet an der Spyware-Epidemie - auch einige seiner Heimrechner seien betroffen gewesen. Deshalb werde sein Unternehmen nun Anti-Spyware schaffen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on October 2, 2004 at 11:24:00 AM CEST
Desktop Linux a vehicle for pirating Windows
PCs running Linux are growing in popularity in part because they can be loaded with a pirated copy of Windows, according to a study from analyst Gartner.
The consulting firm issued a report on Wednesday stating that about 40 percent of Linux PCs will be modified to run an illegal copy of Windows, a bait-and-switch maneuver that lowers the cost of obtaining a Windows PC.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 26, 2004 at 2:33:00 PM CEST
The magic 'Six' (6GHz) has been broken
P4 560 @ 6009MHz (333x18) / 1.6V Asus P5P800 (VAGP mod, cold water and 156W tec on NB, 2.05V) 2x HyperX 3200 256MB, 2-2-2-5-4, 3:2 LN2
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 25, 2004 at 4:11:00 PM CEST
Move over spam, make way for "spit"
A new plague of unwanted messages threatens internet users, according to a US company. Spam and spim - spam by instant messenger – are about to be joined by "spit" - spam over internet telephony. Qovia, based in Frederick, Maryland, have recently filed two patent applications for technology to thwart spit.
Internet telephony involves making phone calls using the internet instead of traditional phone lines. Also known as voice-over IP (VoIP), it is rapidly rising in popularity thanks to the fact that internet connections are becoming faster, and because it is cheap - it avoids the taxes levied on landline calls.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 25, 2004 at 1:20:00 PM CEST
JPEG exploit toolkit spotted online
A toolkit designed to exploit a recently-disclosed Microsoft JPEG vulnerability has been released onto the net. The toolkit (screen shot from AV firm F-Secure here) makes it trivially easy for maliciously-minded attackers, however unskilled they might be, to exploit unpatched Windows systems and run malicious code.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 25, 2004 at 11:21:00 AM CEST
Half Life 2-Release wegen Streit zwischen Entwickler und Publisher erst 2005?
Wie berichtet wird, herrscht zwischen den Entwicklern von Half Life 2 Valve Software und dem Publisher Vivendi Universal ein gewaltiger Streit.
Das kann dazu führen, dass der Actiontitel "HL2" erst in sechs Monaten in die Läden kommt, bis es Vivendi veröffentlicht.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 23, 2004 at 2:43:00 PM CEST
Internet junkies in chilling cold turkey experiment
If you've ever seen a smack-head handcuffed to a bed gibbering uncontrollably because he can't get a fix, then be afraid, because that's what you'll look like after two weeks of internet-free cold turkey.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 23, 2004 at 2:41:00 PM CEST
US credit card firm fights DDoS attack
US credit card processing firm Authorize.Net is fighting a sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that has left it struggling to stay online.
In a statement to users posted yesterday, Authorize.Net said it "continues to experience intermittent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Our system engineers have successfully minimised the impact of each attack and have quickly restored services to affected merchants. Industry experts are onsite and working with Authorize.Net to expedite a resolution. Please be aware that the stability and reliability of the Authorize.Net platform remains our top priority; and we are doing everything we can to restore and maintain secure transaction processing despite these unforeseen attacks."
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 22, 2004 at 10:59:00 PM CEST
Der Fahrplan für die E-Card steht
Nach einigen Verzögerungen ist die Chipkarte als elektronischer Krankenscheinersatz nun angeblich in Sichtweite. Ab 13. Dezember soll sie in einer Musterpraxis im Burgenland im Echtbetrieb getestet werden, im Laufe des Jahres 2005 sollen alle Österreicher ihre E-Card bekommen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 22, 2004 at 8:46:00 PM CEST
Microsoft Fixes VPN Flaw in XP SP2
Microsoft has issued a formal fix for a problem in Windows XP Service Pack 2 that appeared almost immediately after the update's release. The problem, which affected many VPN users, causes errors when programs attempt to connect to loop-back addresses other than 127.0.0.1. Service Pack 2 blocks all such addresses; users receive an error message saying that they cannot establish a connection.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 22, 2004 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Microsoft software caused air traffic shutdown
Someone forgot to reboot...
A bug in a Microsoft system compounded by human error was ultimately responsible for a three-hour radio breakdown that left hundreds of aircraft aloft without guidance on Tuesday, according to a report in the LA Times.
Nearly all of Southern California's airports were shut down and five incidents where aircraft broke separation guidelines were reported. In one case, a pilot had to take evasive action.
silicon.com Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up techworld
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